If you live in Miami, you might think you live in the most dance-music-saturated place on Earth — unless, of course, you’ve spend a lot of time in the U.K. Dance music is part of the pop fabric here, with synth sounds regularly charting on pop radio. It’s a phenomenon…

If you’ve only ever heard debut album Attack Decay Sustain Release, you might think otherwise. But Simian Mobile Disco was never just a killer indie-dance crew. Sophomore record Temporary Pleasure had its fair share thudding, tech-y moments, not the least on sparkling, climactic “10,000 Horses Can’t Be Wrong” and the…

After several years of complete absence from Miami, Norwegian duo Röyksopp more than made up for it last night. The pair’s pulsing, tripped-out nighttime set on the live stage is already a contender for one of the best shows at the festival.Though their latest album, Senior, was mostly instrumental, slightly…

​Adding dance-rock originators Erasure and Duran Duran was a smart move for Ultra organizers. The performances should have bridged the psychic gap between old synth work and the newer acts on the live stage — and anyways, who doesn’t love some good ’80s jams?Well, thousands of Benny Benassi fans, apparently…

Where will you be this evening at approximately 8:15 p.m.? Well, if you’ve got a ticket (and even if you don’t), make plans to go stand at the foot of Ultra Music Festival’s Live Stage. It’s definitely where you’ll find Crossfade, because synth-y Norwegian duo Röyksopp will be prepping its…

Ultra Week, or Miami Music Week, or the Week Formerly Known as Winter Music Conference, is amazing in that on any given night, there are a number of world-class lineups from which to choose. That can be a bad thing too, though, because with so many competing events, some deserving…

After this initially funny article in the New York Times, parties continue to roll on in South Beach at World’s Fanciest Parking Garage — i.e. the Herzog & de Meuron-designed 1111 building at the corner of Lincoln and Alton Roads. To be fair, for a parking garage, it’s pretty beautiful.Yesterday…

Once upon a time, Chicago-bred, L.A.-based DJ/producer Johnny Love was best known on underground dance floors as half of Guns and Bombs. That project, as the name implies, was all about going hard and going big, full of searing chainsaw basslines and “subtlety” turned into a four-letter word. At the…

By the mid 2000s, Simian Mobile Disco was among the leaders of the indie-dance crossover pack. Its in-your-face, heavily vocal pump-ups were largely responsible for getting rock kids out on the floor again, thanks to the infectious sass of monster tracks such as “Hustler,” off 2007 debut Attack Decay Sustain…

Röyksopp albums, like all good things in life, come to those who wait. The duo of Svein Berge and Torbjørn Brundtland first began experimenting with synthesizers together as kids in their small, sub-Arctic hometown of Tromsø, Norway. “I remember seeing this documentary when I was seven, I think, about robots…

By the spring of 2010, parties thrown by local creative collective the Overthrow were already legendary. The now-defunct Black Sundays series at Bella Rose became, possibly, the only weekly party on South Beach to regularly stage faux murders, scoring a few Best of Miami nods from New Times. Its one-offs…