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Deadmau5 at Ultra Music Festival 2013

By Victor Gonzalez

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…

Snoop Lion at Ultra Music Festival 2013

By Natalie Gallagher

Over the summer, Snoop Dogg (born Calvin Broadus) announced he was tired of rap. Even more bizarre, the superstar — best known for hits such as “Drop It Like It’s Hot” and “Gin & Juice” — revealed he’d change his name and go in a new artistic direction: reggae. Turns…

Knife Party at Ultra Music Festival 2013

By Kat Bein

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 bum-rushing the…