Mokai Holding You Ransom on Mondays

Need an excuse to keep partying well after the weekend is over? Leave it to the Opium Group and Mokai (235 23rd Street, Miami Beach) to give you a solution to your problem with Ransom, the Monday night party at the recently renovated Collins Park lounge.The party, hosted by Mark…

The Two Sides of Johnny the Boy

If you’ve partied on South Beach, you’ve heard of Johnny the Boy or at least have heard him spin. The man is everywhere: Rokbar, Shore Club, Florida Room, Mokai — really we could go on forever. He got his start in Miami’s underground dance scene at parties like Revolver and…

DiscoTech Releases Devastating EP

If you aren’t aware of DiscoTech, the production trio is compromised of Midwesterns Joe Maz (who relocated here recently) and Gigamesh, along with local boy Danny Daze. Together they’ve produced remixed from Classixx, Kanye West, Britney Spears, Lykke Li, and more.Well now the group is also releasing their own material,…

Pass the Courvoisier

Six years is nothing to scoff at in clubland. It’s a world where things come and go quicker than that Swedish tourist you slept with last week, or the burning sensation in your jock a few days later. Places that are hot one day, quickly become yesterday’s news. It’s a…

A Ransom Note

Need an excuse to keep partying well after the weekend is over? Leave it to the Opium Group and Mokai to give you a solution to your problem with Ransom, the Monday-night party at the recently renovated Collins Park lounge. The party, hosted by Mark Lehmkuhl, sort of takes now-defunct…

Time to Hobnob

South Beach isn’t shy about separating the haves from the have-nots. In fact, it relishes in its power to make things inaccessible to most. Take, for example, the Florida Room at the Delano, the Lenny Kravitz-designed space that transformed the hotel’s basement into old Florida glamour with a modern twist…

More Info on Sweatstock 2010, Sweat Records’ Record Store Day

Earlier, we let you know that Sub Pop’s No Age was scheduled to perform at this year’s Record Store Day at Sweat Records, also known as Sweatstock, but more details have finally been released. The all-ages events, taking place Saturday, April 17, will feature performances by Awesome New Republic, The…

WMC 2010: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

We are sort of stretching this since Winter Music Conference wrapped up Sunday, but it just took a while to finally sit down and process everything we did over the course of last week. But here it is, our final call on all the great and not-so-great things that we…

Concert Review: Major Lazer at Ultra Music Festival Day 2

Major LazerUltra Music Festival at Bicentennial Park, MiamiSaturday, March 27, 2009Better than: Ninety-nine percent of the acts at Ultra.Making fun, party music is a difficult thing to do. No, seriously. You can either go the obviously route and create straight-up track about partying (i.e. most of LMFAO’s catalog), but where’s…

Ultra Music Festival 2010 Set Times

Before you head over to Bicentennial Park today for Day 1 of Ultra Music Festival, you may want to check out the set times for the entire festival, which is available online.We’ll be there covering the entire festival starting today, so be on the look out for our reports. Also,…

WMC 2010: Drop the Lime at Bar (Video)

Exhaustion is setting in, but we here at Crossfade are trying to keep up the pace. So we are going to make this quick so we can go back to bed in order to rest up for Day 1 of Ultra Music Festival.Here is a video we shot Wednesday at…

Paul Van Dyk

Grammy nominations, superstar collaborations, amazing headlining gigs — it’s easy to be in awe of all the things Paul Van Dyk has accomplished in his long and illustrious career. The man is the envy of dance music scenesters, and who can blame them? Well, he’ll fuel the fire when he…