With more work, maybe Dave Grohl (seated on drums) can finally find success in the music business. Being a successful musician really has to be a slice of heaven. And of course the chicks are great. It’s why from the beginning of time, men (and women) have taken up instruments…
The fight for Dada Land has stalled. Yesterday, Olle Corneer and Stefan Engblom of absurdist Swedish electronic dance music duo Dada Life had their IDs seized by customs while trying to board an airplane to Miami. They weren’t slated for sets at Ultra Music Festival 2013. But lately, Corneer and…
Back when most of us were only concerned with what kind of Underoos we were going to wear that day, Carl Cox was already peddling dance music. And while DJs today enjoy playing atop enormous stages with seizure-inducing light shows, it’s safe to say that in the late ’80s, Cox…
“Luxury and white-glove service.” That’s what South Beach socialites and club wreckers alike should expect from the new SET. In early January, we here at Crossfade reported that the Opium Group club would be closing for renovations in order to become the Miami nightlife spot “where true VIPs pop champagne.”…
Before the world was struck with EDM madness, there was old-school hip-hop. From Afrika Bambaataa to DJ Red Alert and Jazzy Jay, these guys were practically the first mainstream DJs. Somewhere in between those giants was Louie Vega, one-half of legendary house duo Masters at Work. As the nephew of…
The Ultra Music Festival 2013 stage looks epic. Unfortunately, according to eyewitness reports and a statement from UMF reps, “a section of an LED screen fell and injured two workers.” The accident apparently took place at about 8 p.m. this evening, while Ultra organizers and workers were prepping for tomorrow’s…
The $1-billion EDM pledge. That’s what has most recently made SFX Entertainment mogul Robert F.X. Sillerman famous. During the summer of 2012, the New York billionaire, who built his fortune throughout the 1990s by consolidating regional rock promoters into the company that eventually became Live Nation, announced his intention to…
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…
