Check out Crossfade’s daily party guide — plus WMC and MMW’s fifteen best parties. Are you ready to spend the next three days penned inside the gates of Bayfront Park like some kinda wild, half-naked, EDM-addled party animal? With just 18,000 seconds till Ultra Music Festival starts uhntz-uhntz-ing like a…
Who’s straight fiending for some beats? Well, with just 31 hours, 29 minutes, and 55 seconds till it’s time for you and 150,000 other furry-booted beat freaks to crash the gates at Ultra Music Festival, you will soon be overdosing on the uhntz-uhntz. In the meantime, though, there’s no reason…
Daily party plan for Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week, March 22 to 25
Check out today’s top WMC and MMW parties — plus Crossfade’s daily party guide. Maybe you’re planning to spend the entire weekend performing glowstick tricks at Ultra Music Festival. Or enjoying the lavish amenities at Swedish House Mafia’s Masquerade Hotel. Or bleep-bloop-ing around Biscayne Bay aboard the Biscayne Lady. But…
After spending the past three days getting wasted and shaking ass all over SoBe, uhntz-uhntz-ing around Biscayne Bay aboard the Tikki Beach, and getting pruney in the Shelborne’s pool, you’re fucking pooped on partying. And like EDM quirkmeister Riva Starr’s mustachioed clubber baby, you’re whining, “Last night, I was drunk…
It’s Winter Music Conference. So for the last 24 hours, we here at Crossfade have been raving and raging with a gang of incurable beat freaks, hardcore partiers, Junior Boys, sun junkies, and Miami nightlife legends. But we’ve taken a 45-minute nap on the dance floor, slugged a Red Bull…
Tiesto as part of Ultra Music Festival 2012 at Bayfront Park March 23
Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week’s 15 best parties March 22 to 25
Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week pool party guide, March 17 to 23
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Paul Van Dyk’s Evolution Album Launch at Ice Palace Film Studios March 24
Mary J. Blige as part of Jazz in the Gardens at Sun Life Stadium March 17 and 18
Did you know that Tiësto (AKA the Led Zepplin of EDM) considers Miami to be his second home? It’s true. When the Dutch superproducer isn’t slaving away in his pimped-out studio, doing the uhntz-uhntz on the sands of Ibiza, or partying with Swedish House Mafia on a plane while getting…
Are you among the legions of sad, ticketless beat freaks who failed to score three-day Ultra Music Festival passes before the big sellout of 2012? Well, real-life raves are overrated. And we here at Crossfade suggest that you forget about furry boots, caffeinated booze, babes of both sexes, pep pills,…
If you’ve ever gotten so high off guarapo that you stripped down to your g-string, draped your nakedness in a giant Puerto Rican flag, and streaked up the middle of SW Eighth Street while screaming “Tu tienes la boca grande! Dale ponte a jugar!” … Then you might be the…
Fierce, strong, independent — Mary J. Blige is now a full-grown, 41-year-old diva, known as The Queen of Hip-Hop Soul. But like so many enormously talented young women in the music business, she’s endured seriously hard times. Throughout her teens and 20s, she struggled with drugs, alcohol, herself. And fame…
Everybody “Vogue”! It’s been approximately four weeks and three days since we here at Crossfade totally wet our panties over the news that Ms. Louise Ciccone (AKA our favorite quinquagenarian pop dominatrix) would be bringing her “Girl Gone Wild” act to the MIA for a “Gang Bang” as part of…
Ostensibly, Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week provide thousands of very serious electronic dance music fans with an annual opportunity to meet, mingle, and discuss the current state of EDM.But c’mon, that’s bullshit. The truth: Both WMC and MMW are just excuses for totally out-of-control beat freaks to strip…
Miami New Times’ Artopia 2012 with Otto von Schirach at Villa 221 March 8
Who leads a sexy life of million-dollar beats, limitless bottles, sweaty groupies, massive megaclubs, rooftop condos, famous friends, and international travel aboard personally branded private jets? Well, we certainly don’t. But Tiësto does. And as usual, the Dutch electronic dance music superstar’s gonna be returning to his second home –…
The ever-rolling bass waves created by the tectonic booty claps of Miami in the 80s have tsunamied through space-time and crashed across Canadian borders. Low-end marauder and fresh-coast connoiseur Ill Gates is proof. And for his first-ever Miami show at The Vagabond on March 15, the Toronto native (who recently…
Wanna lead a blessed existence full of irie vibes? Simply abide by these nine Rasta-approved rules of conduct and you shall bask in the radiant glory of the Zion Lion: (1) Grow that ganja; (2) get dreaded; (3) praise Jah; (4) start an Ital diet; (5) smoke that ganja; (6)…
