Remember when Eminem was all “nobody listens to techno”? Lolz. Guess Moby won that battle. “Without Me” topped charts just ten years ago. But in the past decade, pop culture has made a complete 180-degree turn. It’s like Tommie Sunshine told us: “You could go outside right now into a…
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…
To really understand Kenny Millions’ My Hoe Wants to Paint project — performed once, this evening, at Electric Lunch, the new outpost of nomadic art collective The End/Spring Break — would require a semester’s worth of lectures, PowerPoint presentations, and in-depth research on both Pierre Scaruffi’s History of Avantgarde Music…
Tickets to Ultra Music Festival: $299.95. Winter Music Conference passes: $475. Seeing all your favorite DJs and producers: priceless. No, it literally won’t cost you anything. The best-kept secret of the whole WMC and Miami Music Week party train: You can catch some of the hottest names in the game…
Forward-thinking EDM nerds (we here at Crossfade included) are totally geeking out about the Hotflush label’s exclusive Winter Music Conference 2013 showcase at the Electric Pickle on March 23. And one of the artists we’re most psyched to see is U.K. DJ/producer George FitzGerald, making his Miami debut. Like his…
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A Steve Aoki performance is one of the better, faster, stronger sets in electronic dance music. To a world once dominated by heads-down, booth-enveloped DJs, Aoki has introduced punk-rock antics: He showers crowds with Champagne, voyages into the liquid masses crowd-surfing on an inflatable boat, and even sprained his neck…
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He’s admittedly “more tech than Mozart or whatever the hell,” and he has “never really felt like a musician.” Yet Joel Zimmerman — the chart-topping, 32-year-old computer geek otherwise known as Deadmau5 — will still coheadline two consecutive weekends of Ultra Music Festival, one of the world’s most massive electronic…
Over the summer, Snoop Dogg (born Calvin Broadus) announced he was tired of rap. Even more bizarre, the superstar — best known for hits such as “Drop It Like It’s Hot” and “Gin & Juice” — revealed he’d change his name and go in a new artistic direction: reggae. Turns…
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