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…
Miami’s Major Lazer at Ultra Music Festival 2013
Eric Prydz at WMC, Miami Music Week, and Ultra Music Festival 2013
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…
It’s been less than a week since Lil Wayne was reported to be dying, on life support, and awaiting last rites. And it’s been about a month since he was the human target of a Miami-Dade County-wide “Fuck Wayne” campaign for beefing with the Miami Heat and snarling: “Fuck LeBron!…
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…
Mr. Moonlight’s been caught. Two weeks ago, Peter Murphy announced a tour “celebrating 35 years of Bauhaus,” for which he will be traveling to Miami’s Grand Central, as well as 51 other North American and European cities. Over the weekend, though, he was cruising through Glendale, California, in his Subaru…
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…
Lil Wayne is alive. Despite reports from TMZ last week, claiming he was dying, on life support, and awaiting last rites, the YMCMB rapper has apparently been discharged from the intensive-care unit at Los Angeles’s Cedars-Sinai Hospital. His six-day stay in the hospital and ICU was allegedly caused by a…
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…
At $299.95 before taxes, a three-day general admission pass to Ultra Music Festival is an absolute bargain if you’re using papi’s credit card. And when you consider the fact that UMF introduced free Wi-Fi this year (presumably to make it easier to FaceTime from the fest), how could you not…
Ever get caught in the midst of a 150,000-person uhntz orgy while a plushie penis presses against your thigh and a redheaded, dreadlocked killer clown leers at the action with a menacing, dagger-toothed grin splattered across his face? Well, then you’ve probably never been to Ultra Music Festival. Make the…
Diplo is undeniably a superstar now. He is well known beyond the confines of EDM. He is producing music for pop stars. And he’s got a face that brands want to use to hawk products. So, as expected, his side project, Major Lazer, is changing with him. And plenty has…
