Maceo Plex is pretty much the biggest thing in underground dance music right now. He’s definitely one of the most highly anticipated acts playing next week for Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week 2013. You’ll get to catch him at several parties, not the least of which are his…

U.K. production duo Disclosure is a definite contender for biggest EDM success story of the new decade. There’s the matter of the pair’s precociousness: Wunderkind brothers Howard and Guy Lawrence started releasing music when they were only 15 and 18 years old. And what music! Their chops in the studio…

Among the legion of global superstars alighting in Miami for Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week 2013, one name carries some pretty serious weight at the moment: Maceo Plex. DJ/producer and Ellum label boss Eric Estornel’s rise to international stardom over the last couple of years has been nothing…

It isn’t easy straddling commercial success and underground credibility in the world of electronic dance music. But Swedish superstar DJ-producer Eric Prydz makes it seem effortless. Whether he’s topping the charts with feel-good dance pop under his own name or challenging even the most seasoned prog house and techno heads…

These days, Dirtybird Records is almost as famous for its grilled meats as its ass-clapping beats. Blame a successful ten-year run of the San Francisco crew’s infamous renegade Golden Gate BBQ parties, not to mention last year’s inaugural WMC installment which broke the party concept to Dirtybird’s legions of international…

EDM is a new music genre. And Skrillex invented bass music. Yeah, maybe if you’re a clueless American Gen Z glowstick raver. Because in the U.K., everyone and his grandmother knows electronic dance music has been going strong for more than three decades. Music historians even have a name for…

“Before Adam and Eve, God created disco and cats — God was Spanish, of course,” say the Young Hearts. Sounds like the kind of God who could have created Miami — America’s tropical, hedonistic disco Garden of Eden.Disco cats are the concept behind Gato y Disco, Young Hearts’ exclusive WMC…

There will be an epic DJ battle during Winter Music Conference 2013. But this one won’t be fought behind the decks. It’s going down on the basketball court. Yes, the Red Blue Classic on March 19 is WMC’s inaugural DJ basketball game — a chance for enthusiasts of the sport…

Now going on its sixth year, Flying Circus has emerged as one of the foremost mid-week Winter Music Conference parties. Back in 2011, Luca Saporito of UK DJ-production duo Audiofly reminisced with Crossfade about the fateful day in 2008 when he teamed up with SAFE Miami to launch the party…

With Made Event’s longstanding Sunday School party going kaput before Winter Music Conference 2012, revelers were deprived of a properly epic closing party. But then SAFE Miami, Embrace Miami, and Liaison Artists came to the rescue with their first annual installment of Last Resort at Villa 221, the most buzzed-about…

The northern English city of Leeds is a real hotbed of electronic dance music. A few talented natives we’ve chatted with in the past include Simon Baker, Paul Woolford and Death on the Balcony. And another illustrious act hailing from Leeds is Audiojack, the DJ-production duo of Jamie Rial and Rich…

Last year, we here at Crossfade had a chat with Crosstown Rebels kingpin Damian Lazarus about the underground musical ethos behind his label and global party brand. “As our artists grow from strength to strength on a global scale, our sound becomes more popular,” he told us. “But this was…

Last month, we here at Crossfade gave you a heads up about Massive Wednesdays at The Stage and the live electronic music performances they are serving up each week. Well, Massive Ideas, the folks behind the night, show no signs of slowing down their bookings, and not just on Wednesdays…

French EDM icon Miss Kittin (AKA Caroline Hervé) has been rocking the scene since the ’90s. But so far, her discography has consisted exclusively of records written in collaboration with producers like The Hacker, Tobi Neumann, and Golden Boy. In 2013, however, we’ll finally see Miss Kittin come into her…