“It’s all about the art of DJing and showing people what the beauty of this art form is,” Markus Schulz tells Crossfade about his mission as an EDM star. “I hope that it’s not lost because music is evolving to a popular commercial standard right now. There has to be…
Burnt out from too much fist-pumping at all those Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week parties you crashed this weekend? Well, take a cafecito shot and put on your game face ’cause the WMC/MMW rage has just begun. Just check out the five best concerts going down this week,…
The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller A live documentary by Sam Green and Yo La Tengo The Colony Theatre, Miami Beach Saturday, March 22, 2014 Better Than: Any movie playing in the multiplex (except maybe The Grand Budapest Hotel). Even in this multitasking day and age when people respond…
Big Beat Miami Pool Party? “I love it,” say Icona Pop’s Caroline Hjelt and Aino Jawo. And of course, you do, ladies. You’re headlining the thing, alongside fellow fans of water-based festivities like Flux Pavilion, Cash Cash, Chainsmokers, Chocolate Puma, Hook n Sling, Sick Individuals, Walden, and Big Beat’s own…
Go, raver. Go, raver. Go. Chug a Red Bull. Down a vial of Five-Hour elixir. Pop a packet of Jelly Belly energy beans. The Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week marathon starts now. And it doesn’t end till next month. Here are the 20 best parties during WMC and…
Hundreds of international DJs will soon be in town to provide the soundtrack for the world’s most massive hedonist orgy, also known as Miami Music Week. But one of them is here on a decidedly nobler mission than making molly-addled ravers gurn. Canadian DJ-producer and DV8 label boss Daniel Dubb…
Rise and shine, beat freaks … It’s the first day of Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week! That means the next nine days will be loaded with non-stop uhntz-uhntz from sunset to sunrise and over 300 pool parties, EDM cruises, and celebrity bashes to crash. Before you start making…
Mo’ murder, mo’ murder, come come again. It’s the first of the month. Man, I miss my uncle Charles, y’all. This weekend, Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, one of the top-selling hip-hop groups of all time is coming to The Stage in Miami. The group was discovered by Easy E via “Thuggish Ruggish…
UPDATE Ultra 2015 just revealed its Phase Two lineup and the fest’s set times. Get to party plannin’, raver. In just one week, Ultra Music Festival 2014 begins at downtown Miami’s Bayfront Park. Arrive unprepared … And you will be screwed. Of course, we mean: “Do not forget your cellphone…
When it comes to reckless, speedin’, boozin’, fightin’ Boston hardcore, Gang Green’s Chris Doherty and crew are the kings. Their songs, like “Alcohol” (covered by Metallica), “Skate to Hell,” and “Another Wasted Night,” are fireballs of poetic aggression. And the album cover for their 1984 seven-inch single “Sold Out” features…
Julieta Venegas and Los Amigos Invisibles Sala Siete Concert Series, Presented by Jack Daniel’s With Mr. Pauer and Domino Saints Grand Central, Miami Wednesday, March 19, 2014 It was the middle of the week. But it felt like a Saturday night in Miami. Doors opened at Grand Central by 8:00…
Sure, you could spend your entire Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week in landlocked clubs. You could also rage away the next ten days with thousands of like-minded PLUR junkies in fluorescent bikinis, pink tutus, and neon shades at South Beach’s never-ending pool parties. But why not don a…
No matter what you tell yourself, there is absolutely no way to catch every act you want to see at Ultra Music Festival. Our advice: Find a stage (or two) with lineups that you like and hang ’round till you’re ready to call it a night. Another piece of advice:…
Go, raver. Go, raver. Go. Chug a Red Bull. Down a vial of Five-Hour elixir. Pop a packet of Jelly Belly energy beans. The Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week marathon starts now. And it doesn’t end till next month. Here are the 20 best parties during WMC and…
With the mayhem of Ultra Music Festival and the endless parties at local nightclubs, it’s easy to forget that none of Miami’s March EDM madness would be happening if weren’t for Winter Music Conference. This year, the WMC list of events includes a Q&A with Hardwell, a panel on the…
You don’t have to be an EDM junkie to know that Ultra Music Festival brings some of the best DJs on the planet to the Magic City every year. (Eric Prydz, Carl Cox, and David Guetta sound familiar?) But one thing that’s got us beyond ecstatic about the 2014 fest…
Hey, you party people. Yeah, you. It’s time for Ultra Music Festival again. And guess who’s back to blow our minds. It’s our favorite Aussies, Empire of the Sun’s Luke Steele and Nick Littlemore. They dazzled the Ultra crowd in 2011, playing tracks off their debut album, Walking on a…
As the esteemed host of BBC Radio 1’s Essential Mix and Essential Selection, Pete Tong has kept a finger pressed on the pulse of global dance music for the better part of two decades. Though broadcasting from Europe, where electronic dance music dominates the mainstream airwaves, Tong has seen his…
Ever wondered why Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week is held every March in the Magic City? Well, because it’s warm and sunny in the MIA while the rest of the country is digging out from under yet another late-winter snowfall. As we shake sand out of our pockets…
Meet your new sifu. His name is Laidback Luke. And though he may be most famous as an EDM megastar, this friendly Dutch dude also happens to be a kick-ass kung fu fighter. At last year’s “Olympics of kung fu,” as Luke describes the world championships in Hong Kong, he…
Sure, you could spend your entire Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week in landlocked clubs. But why not don a kandi mask, a “Keep Calm and Rave On” muscle tee, and an LED lifesaver in the middle of beat-freaking Biscayne Bay! All aboard the party boat! Found at Sea…
For true 305ers, Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week can seem like tourist hour. Oh, so you wanna come to South Beach, watch a bunch of national acts, and then go home to the shitty snow and talk about how much you “love Miami”? But if you’re lookin’ for…
