Leonard Cohen’s Old Ideas Tour James L. Knight Center, Miami Wednesday, March 20, 2013 Now 78, Leonard Cohen almost certainly wouldn’t be pounding the tour trail, if his finances were still flush. Circa 2004, though, fate intervened. (Or rather, a personal manager did, ripping him off to the tune of…
Where is TomorrowWorld? Last night at the Mondrian South Beach, European electronic dance music promotions power ID&T answered that riddle, revealing that the inaugural American edition of Belgium’s TomorrowLand will be held in Chattahoochee Hills, Georgia. See Also: -Why the Corporate Takeover of EDM Was Inevitable: The Straight Bros are…
It’s been less than a week since Lil Wayne was reported to be dying, on life support, and awaiting last rites. And it’s been about a month since he was the human target of a Miami-Dade County-wide “Fuck Wayne” campaign for beefing with the Miami Heat and snarling: “Fuck LeBron!…
If, homie, you’re sweating the possibility that Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr.’s recent Rasta conversion (and Snoop Lion name change) might mean that he’s no longer a gangsta… Check that shit at the Ultra Music Festival gates. Because Snoop might love Jah, feel like “Bob Marley reincarnated,” and prefer ganja to…
Mr. Moonlight’s been caught. Two weeks ago, Peter Murphy announced a tour “celebrating 35 years of Bauhaus,” for which he will be traveling to Miami’s Grand Central, as well as 51 other North American and European cities. Over the weekend, though, he was cruising through Glendale, California, in his Subaru…
Lil Wayne is alive. Despite reports from TMZ last week, claiming he was dying, on life support, and awaiting last rites, the YMCMB rapper has apparently been discharged from the intensive-care unit at Los Angeles’s Cedars-Sinai Hospital. His six-day stay in the hospital and ICU was allegedly caused by a…
Ever get caught in the midst of a 150,000-person uhntz orgy while a plushie penis presses against your thigh and a redheaded, dreadlocked killer clown leers at the action with a menacing, dagger-toothed grin splattered across his face? Well, then you’ve probably never been to Ultra Music Festival. Make the…
Let’s get fucking weird. Indeed, that’s among the Beat Freak Generation’s fave mottos. But sometimes shit can get so weird that you end up praying face-down in a public park, slapping your own ass, and bounding around to a sweet beat while the cops slowly encircle your nude uhntz-uhntz-ing self…
In Ultra land, even the gnomes get stoned. And all the EDM princesses slap a UMF tramp stamp just above their ass cracks. It’s a beautiful place full of PLUR people. Honestly, we’ve never been to a 150,000-person music festival where the raver robots, Super Marios, bad bitches, unicorn bros,…
Will Ultra Music Festival 2013 descend into chaos? Probably not. The UMF peeps run a very tight operation. The kids have got access to lots of free water and wi-fi. There are cops all over the streets. And the vibe is almost universally pleasant. But there have been bad omens:…
Ultra Music Festival is a weird and wonderful place, where strange and spectacular creatures roam free and freaky — humping, fist-pumping, and just generally upending the natural order of shit. Take this human banana. A total anomaly of evolution. He’s about 100 times bigger than the average banana. He speaks…
What’s the most epic come-on in the history of Scandinavian EDM? Duh. “We’re gonna fuck this party in the pussy!,” as uttered by Swedish House Mafia, when Sebastian Ingrosso, Steve Angello, and Axwell were still young, up-and-coming electronic dance music studs. Today, though, the SHM dudes are superfamous. A little…
Lil Wayne (born Dwayne Michael Carter Jr.) is reportedly near death. Earlier this week on Tuesday, the 30-year-old rapper was admitted to Los Angeles’s Cedars-Sinai Hospital. He was released the next day. But just hours later, one of Carter’s bodyguards discovered him, unconscious on the floor of his room. He…
Electronic dance music has conquered Miami. And America. And the world. For more than three decades, it had remained a mostly underground phenomenon, epitomized by illegal raves held beneath highway overpasses in the UK or after-hours parties thrown in downtown Detroit’s abandoned warehouses. But over the past few years, EDM…
Too broke to uhntz-uhntz at Ultra? Stuck in Boise, Idaho? Well, no worries. ‘Cause UMF organizers have hooked up free, live broadcasts on both YouTube and online radio network Digitally Imported. So you can even rave and rage at home alone! And it’ll cost you absolutely nothing! Just like last…
Under normal circumstances, Ultra Music Festival has pushed even the most seasoned EDM addicts to the very brink of physical and emotional collapse. But now UMF has expanded to two entire weekends (AKA six whole days), which just might turn certain (weaker) members of the Crossfade team into pathetic victims…
Yes, Ultra Music Festival 2013 will still start tonight. Even though approximately 16 hours ago “a section of an LED screen fell” from the Ultra main stage “and injured three workers,” the EDM fest fully intends to stick with its two-weekend, six-day plan. According to Crossfade’s communications with Ultra reps…
The fight for Dada Land has stalled. Yesterday, Olle Corneer and Stefan Engblom of absurdist Swedish electronic dance music duo Dada Life had their IDs seized by customs while trying to board an airplane to Miami. They weren’t slated for sets at Ultra Music Festival 2013. But lately, Corneer and…
“Luxury and white-glove service.” That’s what South Beach socialites and club wreckers alike should expect from the new SET. In early January, we here at Crossfade reported that the Opium Group club would be closing for renovations in order to become the Miami nightlife spot “where true VIPs pop champagne.”…
The Ultra Music Festival 2013 stage looks epic. Unfortunately, according to eyewitness reports and a statement from UMF reps, “a section of an LED screen fell and injured two workers.” The accident apparently took place at about 8 p.m. this evening, while Ultra organizers and workers were prepping for tomorrow’s…
The $1-billion EDM pledge. That’s what has most recently made SFX Entertainment mogul Robert F.X. Sillerman famous. During the summer of 2012, the New York billionaire, who built his fortune throughout the 1990s by consolidating regional rock promoters into the company that eventually became Live Nation, announced his intention to…
Get Hard! ‘Cause the Destructo (AKA Gary Richards) and his Los Angeles party promotions enterprise have just announced the set times for all three of their Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week 2013 ragers. From Nadastrom, Dirtybird Boys, and Destructo at the annual two-night Grand Central throwdown to Felix…
