Set Times for Sweatstock 2012

See Crossfade’s Sweatstock 2012 miniguide to rocking out, buying records, and getting weird — plus our interview with Sweat Records’ Lolo, Jsin, and Emile about Record Store Day. Protect your ears and armpits. In less than 69 hours, the scene at Sweat Records and Churchill’s Pub will become a loud…

Rat Bastard and Scraping Teeth Are Back for The Worst Band in America Tour 2012

Hellish hiss and skull-splitting feedback explodes into a swirlingly atonal shit-cloud of expertly terrible guitar noise, erratic yet superprecise drum strikes, droning bass, garbled shrieks, and totally indecipherable lyrical chatter. That’s the sound of Scraping Teeth. And it’s the fucking worst. No, really. Almost 20 years ago, Spin Magazine launched…

Sweatstock 2012 Announces Complete 27-Act Lineup

Wanna perspire till you pass out? Try squeezing into a rubber suit, guzzling 32 ounces of java, and running some treadmill in the sauna. Or … Test the limits of dehydration and heat exhaustion at the 2012 edition of Sweatstock. Just a couple of weeks ago, this annual indie music…

Ultra Music Festival 2013 Dates Announced

Are you beat-freaking kidding me? We’re still uhntz-uhntz-ing around Ultra Music Festival 2012, waiting for EDM riot-starter Kaskade, David “The French Tickler” Guetta, and super-Dutch trance man Armin van Buuren to hump up onto the Main Stage and bring this sweaty, pheremone-soaked festival of dance to a furious, fist-pumping climax…

Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week 2012: A Daily Party Guide

Check out today’s top WMC and MMW parties — plus Crossfade’s fifteen best parties. Honestly, if you’re gonna survive 96 hours of Winter Music Conference, Miami Music Week, and Ultra Music Festival, then your emergency EDM supply kit will need to include a gas mask, goggles, a bikini and/or banana…

Top Twenty Photos From Day One of Ultra Music Festival 2012

If you’ve only ever raved and raged with Ultra Music Festival while totally naked and home alone with your laptop, a 12-inch glowstick, and the fest’s live YouTube stream, then it’s fucking time to physically visit Bayfront Park. Just think of everything that you’re missing by staying cloistered in your…

Set Times For Ultra Music Festival 2012

Even though Ultra Music Festival’s lineup and set times are conveniently and instantly available via the fest’s official app, we here at Crossfade wanna highlight three two reasons why all y’all beat freaks might need an easily printable, plain-text version of the UMF sked: 1. You can’t afford a fucking…