South Beach can be a dangerous place. Everyone is too sexy. The rich VIPs run the clubs. And even though electronic dance music is currently the biggest thing in pop culture, famous DJs still get kicked off the decks. Obviously, though, clubbing in Miami isn’t as hazardous as grappling with…
Suffering from uhntz-uhntz withdrawal? Well, your BFFs at Ultra Music Festival are hurting too. They’re just wracked with the painful physical and psychological symptoms of craving the lost companionship of 330,000 beat freaks. Even tweeting, “We miss you guys so much ;(” Desperate to alleviate the pain of silence and…
Listen … When Rick Ross raps, “Put molly all in her champagne, she ain’t even know it/I took her home and I enjoyed that, she ain’t even know it,” he actually means, “We were just two consenting, not-unconscious adults, enjoying some intimacy-inducing drugs, fine champagne, and mutually enjoyable sexual intercourse.”…
What’s the best way to spend a Monday in Miami? Hurling bricks of cold, hard American cash at fistfighting strippers. As a member of Rick Ross’s Maybach Music Group and an adopted 305-er, Meek Mill is a big fan of this particularly Floridian recreational activity. So it’s only obvious that…
So Microsoft hasn’t been cool since Windows 95 went obsolete on December 31, 2001, right? All the hip kids have been buying Macs and MacBooks and Mac OS and iPods and iPads for over a decade. Basically, ever since Steve Jobs (RIP) and company started building desktops that looked like…
“For me,” Ricochet mastermind Alan Roth tells Crossfade, “the nightlife business has been an incredible ride. “What I’ve been able to see and do and the life it’s given me, I’m grateful,” he says. “I’ve been able to buy the houses that I own because of nightlife.” But now he’s…
How did the Stage suddenly become the best rap club in downtown Miami? Over the next month, this two-and-a-half-year-old Design District bunker that’s built its rep on roots, rock, and reggae will serve as the staging place for classic-era shows by former LOX member Styles P, booty bass pioneer Uncle…
“Give me a Borgasm!” No doubt, the youth of America are just a bunch of desperate beat freaks begging for the kinda “bass makes bitches cum.” And Israeli dubstepper Borgore is the dude with the deep rumble. After attracting ratchet pussy, doing jumpkicks, and climbing speakers at Ultra Music Festival…
“This Spring is your chance to witness the legend himself.” That’s the official hype for DJ Shadow’s All Basses Covered 2013 tour, a 15-city U.S. trek that’s set to snub Miami (and Mansion Nightclub), where the Cali selektor was kicked off the decks for being “too future.” “As opposed to…
It’s the Boshman’s b-day. Actually, the six-foot, 11-inch NBA superstar (born March 24, 1984) turned 29 last week. “Had a Mariachi Band for my Birthday,” the self-professed “coolest dude alive” tweeted. But he’s a pro baller. And their b-day bashes last a minimum of 11 days. So this Wednesday (after…
Sitting in a car with two unidentified men near NW 152nd Street and Sixth Avenue in the parking lot of an apartment complex, Kenneth “Nu Money” Casilla was murdered. According to Miami-Dade Police Department (via NY1), the Brooklyn-bred, Miami-based rapper and Rich Mafia crew member was shot and killed at…
“It is true,” longtime downtown Miami don Louis Puig admitted last month. “I sold Club Space.” Writing in his semi-annual “tell-it-like-it-is letter regarding EDM,” Puig also confirmed that Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week 2013 would be his last with the NE 11th Street party institution. But the ex-owner…
Usually when C. Breezy visits a morning talk show for a lil’ chit-chat about domestic violence, all the windows get smashed. This morning, though, an uncharacteristically sedate Chris Brown visited with NBC’s Matt Lauer on the set of the Today Show to discuss a new single, “the Quincy Jones approach,”…
When Kendrick Lamar throws a college kegger, there’s gonna be “Swimming Pools” filled to the brim with drank. Everybody’ll be wilding out like they’re “A.D.H.D.” And Karmaloop, eMuze, and Neff Headwear will be footing the bill. This Thursday, Kendrick and Karmaloop’s Verge Campus Tour 2013 kicks off at Florida Atlantic…
What gets EDM-ers excited? Sometimes “bass makes bitches cum.” (Just ask these rumble-humping raver chicks.) Other times, a human chicken might be the thang that’ll get the party people hot. And at Ultra Music Festival, the beat freaks are undoubtedly the kinkiest. Just make the jump for Crossfade’s 15-photo recap…
Holy Effing Ship!!! Those three exclamation points signify three years for electronic dance music’s raddest four-day party cruise. (It ain’t just bad grammar or Internet-y hyperbole.) Coincidentally, though, we’re exactly that beat-freaking excited about the 2014 edition of Hard Events’ EDM humpfest at sea. Especially since it’s finally floating outta…
The uhntz-uhntz hasn’t even died down. But just minutes after wrapping its six-day 2013 edition with Swedish House Mafia’s last show ever, Ultra Music Festival has already announced a plan for next year’s insane EDM extravaganza. “See you all next year at Ultra Music Festival 2014!” the fest’s organizers tweeted,…
Wanna prove your dedication to the EDM scene? Try a “Basshead” lip tattoo. Or dressing up like a grinning reptilian member of the “Pookie Monster Mafia.” Or stripping down on a daily basis to go swimming in a writhing sea of 150,000 sweaty human bodies. Even just surviving this UMF…
After going all country music on Ultra 2013 this weekend, Avicii’s taking vacay for a day. (At least until it’s time to return to UMF tonight and “come, rave, love” one last time with his countrymen in SHM.) And it’s totally obvious where the Swede is sleeping and showering …..
What are the odds of electro-mechanical machines (manufactured in France) descending upon Ultra Music Festival 2013 to enslave the EDM generation? We’d say the chances of a sudden and unsuspected robot invasion at UMF probably hover around 13 percent. Oh … You mean the likelihood of notoriously secretive and borderline…
We here at Crossfade are still praying to the gods of robot music for a miraculous Daft Punk cameo at Ultra Music Festival 2013. But as YouTube user Deniz Korkmaz just ecstastically commented via UMFTV: “OMFG SLASHHH.” Of course, not everybody’s superstoked about the former Guns N’ Roses axe slinger…
No, normie. Your water bottle didn’t get secretly dosed with lysergic acid diethylamide. This is Ultra Music Festival, a trippy-ass EDM encampment in downtown Miami that’s just overflowing with robot ravers and (almost) naked beat freaks of both sexes — not to mention wacky party props like inflatable animals and…
