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…
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…
It’s that time of year again. And no, we’re not exactly talking about Ultra Music Festival, Winter Music Conference, and Miami Music Week. We here at Crossfade are actually referring to the receipt of Louis Puig’s incredibly detailed semi-annual “tell-it-like-it-is letter regarding EDM.” His latest screed touches upon many subjects,…
“A little sun can bring out your dark side.” And that’s nothing we don’t know. But it’s also the tag line of Harmony Korine’s upcoming teen-flick-gone-mad Spring Breakers. You know, the one starring a gangster James Franco and a barely dressed Selena Gomez, hitting theaters Friday, March 22. Korine, who…
Every March, Miami is seized by total EDM insanity, reverberating with bass, techno, house, trance, and everything electronic. With Ultra Music Festival (this year expanding to two weekends), Winter Music Conference, and Miami Music Week all falling within the same ten-day span, the uhntz-uhntz will be (almost) inexhaustible. See also:…
From jamming with funk forefathers to helping break New Jack Swing and cofounding legendary ’90s R&B label LaFace Records with partner Antonio “L.A.” Reid, the man known as Babyface has spent three decades creating and shaping pop music. Now 53, Kenneth Edmonds is working on a new album by Aretha…
Winter Music Conference used to be a whole week of industry insiders schmoozing it up and trading records, but now it’s all about the pool parties. And does that really bother anyone? If so, you’ve probably never actually oiled up for one of these sexy things. So stop being a…
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…
If, like Crossfade, you’ve ever tried to tweetcast a trip to the Port-a-Potty while waiting all weekend in line to take a pee at Ultra Music Festival … Or attempted YouTube-ing a video of some guy making out with a pile of trash behind the dubstep tent … Or even…
Nightclubs? Boring. Music festivals? Too landlocked. Yacht parties? Now you’re talking! Every year during the month of March, South Florida’s private yacht rental business booms as electronic dance music fanatics flock to the region for Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week’s EDM cruises. Check out New Times’ full Winter…
Calle Ocho is America’s largest Latin block party, where people from all over the world gather along 27 blocks to celebrate Hispanic heritage with music, food, and entertainment. Although Willy Chirino, DJ Laz, and Elvis Crespo were the ones putting on a show, the main source of entertainment was the…
Seizure music, death electro, and derpstep. Those are the extreme EDM genres Knife Party’s Rob Swire and Gareth McGrillen use to describe their music, which reveals a couple of things about these Australian dudes: (1) they don’t take themselves too seriously and (2) they dig dangerous fun. After bumrushing the…
We’d brushed it off as witty banter when Tenacious D’s Jack Black (JB) yelled at band mate Kyle Gass (Kage) for “heavy breathing into the phone” during our interview last week. “Sorry, I wasn’t aware that I was,” Gass admitted, sounding rather embarrassed and deflated before Black could answer a…
Miami is filled with interesting characters, to say the least. There’s that guy who rides around on a motorized bicycle, that man riding the Metrorail jammin’ on his violin, that dude who walks around Hialeah carrying a banjo and wearing a Stetson hat — the list goes on. As always,…
Like some kind of rabid half-human, half-beaver freakshow cooked up in the laboratory of Dr. Moreau, Of Montreal is plowing through the second decade of the new millennium with a psychedelic skill set that employs the best of seemingly disparate gene pools. Of course, the crux of the band’s genetic…
