A really great party is like science. If things go well, you’ve got to repeat the experiment. Hard’s Gary Richards (AKA Destructo) knows this to be true. So he’s brought three editions of his HARD Miami shindigs for Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week 2013. And last night, Destructo…
For belonging to a popular music genre — progressive rock — often derided as pretentious, violinist and keyboardist Eddie Jobson seems humble about where he and his music have ended up: on a cruise ship. “I can’t believe my career has gone down to playing cruise ships,” the English musician…
Punks and skinheads, get your boots up! Inspecter 7 have been playing ska out of New Jersey since 1992. Later, they broke up and transformed into Hub City Stompers. But now they’re back. They have a new album called Escapes and Illusions. And they are barreling down I-95 in a…
In Miami to announce SFX Entertainment’s near $100 million acquisition of the producer of TomorrowLand and Sensation White, ID&T Worldwide, Robert F.X. Sillerman held court Thursday afternoon in the shade of a cabana at the Delano Hotel. So we here at Crossfade sat down with Sillerman to discuss what drives…
Jamaica is one of the world’s greatest contributors to DJ culture. The original mobile sound systems found in the trenches of Kingston in the 1960s packed megawatt speaker stacks in the back of moving trucks, parked them at various party locations, and battled other crews doing the same to see…
Last night, all of Miami went hard as fuck. But only Grand Central was goin’ Hard Miami, shakin’ our rumps till early morning. And the beat freaks at this bass-filled, trap-moombah-dub night didn’t give a damn if the floor was dirty, they were gonna make their asses touch the ground…
Anything goes in the wild. Especially when beer is involved. An unlimited supply of more than 100 domestic, international, and microbrew beers, to be exact. And live appearances by Miami’s own booty pioneer and a Grammy-winning hip-hop group. At least that is what will go down in the wild of…
Leonard Cohen’s Old Ideas Tour James L. Knight Center, Miami Wednesday, March 20, 2013 Now 78, Leonard Cohen almost certainly wouldn’t be pounding the tour trail, if his finances were still flush. Circa 2004, though, fate intervened. (Or rather, a personal manager did, ripping him off to the tune of…
Where is TomorrowWorld? Last night at the Mondrian South Beach, European electronic dance music promotions power ID&T answered that riddle, revealing that the inaugural American edition of Belgium’s TomorrowLand will be held in Chattahoochee Hills, Georgia. See Also: -Why the Corporate Takeover of EDM Was Inevitable: The Straight Bros are…
Michale Graves got his big break after nailing an audition for the role of Not Glenn Danzig in Jerry Only’s 1995 re-boot of campy pop-punk rock crew the Misfits. And ever since, his musical career has been on a singular and vertiginous path that makes his story one of the…
BBC Radio 1 DJ and chief global EDM tastemaker Pete Tong’s All Gone: Miami compilation series has become a definite staple of WMC and Miami Music Week. The double-disc mix album, with a disc each mixed by Tong and a guest artist, serves as a yearly snapshot of the international…
The ravin’ and ragin’ life isn’t all epicness. Sometimes, stuff sucks. Like “free water!!!” and “free Wi-Fi!!!” Or Yeasayer’s Chris Keating talking all kinds of mad shit about Ultra Music Festival 2013’s happy, half-naked, supernice party people. We here at Crossfade just enumerated the five best moments from weekend one…
It seems only fitting that the rising kingpin of electronic dance music, Robert F.X. Sillerman, is using Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week as a platform to make some still-secret announcement regarding his recent acquisition of ID&T North America, the U.S division of the Netherlands-based company that produces the…
Welcome to Ultra land. The weather is perfect. The kids are nice. There are “No Guns Allowed.” But famous lady rapper side-boob is plentiful. So are the naked dancing dudes. And even 70-year-old ravers feel totally at home. Quite honestly, Ultra Music Festival is paradise, if you’re into fist-pumping and…
Sure, Ultra Music Festival is happening this weekend. But why party with everyone else, when you can party with the electronic dance music VIPs? The Motorola Music Lounge, presented by Sol Republic and hosted by Sirius XM, will return to an undisclosed location for the fourth consecutive year to serve…
There is EDM and then there is electronic dance music. What’s the difference? The former has been co-opted by the U.S. media to describe any electronic music that’s popular these days — from Swedish House Mafia to David Guetta to Skrillex — with little, if any, distinction between acts. But…
Flume is an Australian kid signed to Mom + Pop Records who’s been lighting up the sales charts with his chilled-out electronica. This week, he’s in town for Hard Miami, a show at Bardot, and a few days off before a North American tour. Here’s what he has to say…
If, homie, you’re sweating the possibility that Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr.’s recent Rasta conversion (and Snoop Lion name change) might mean that he’s no longer a gangsta… Check that shit at the Ultra Music Festival gates. Because Snoop might love Jah, feel like “Bob Marley reincarnated,” and prefer ganja to…
What’s the one place on Earth so magical that you can see titties, butt cheeks, and creepy man-horses, all while wearing the contents of a sixth-grade girl’s friendship bracelet box? That’s right! Ultra Music Festival, the land to which people from all over the world travel to show off their…
The status quo, namely the prudish American population’s stance on public nudity, has never favored the exhibitionist. At Ultra Music Festival, however, the status quo is tossed out the beat-freaking window, along with its attendees’ sense of shame. And while it may seem that the men were wearing the least…
As the name suggests, it’s quite a melting pot of international artists at the Foreign Exchange party. Among other countries, there’s Mexico, represented by Balcazar & Sordo, Venezuela by Fur Coat, Spain by El_Txef_A, and Italy by Lula Circus. But the artist who’s scoring the most frequent-flier miles on his…
As we rode an eerily empty Metromover towards Government Center last night, the unlikely quiet allowed for some deep reflection. After all, we’d seen and heard a lot of weird shit over the weekend. There were tons of nearly naked raver bros and an actual naked dude, 75 leprechauns, six…
