Ultra Music Festival’s 20th edition hasn’t even wrapped up, and the festival has already quietly announced the dates for its 2019 event. The dance music festival will be returning March 29, 30, and 31, 2019, at Bayfront Park — that’s according to the festival guides handed out to attendees Friday…
So you aren’t going to Ultra Music Festival this year. Maybe the cost of flying to Miami, securing lodging, and buying a ticket was too high, or perhaps your idea of a fun weekend is simply staying in bed.
Ready for the Ultra Music Festival mayhem set to take over Bayfront Park this weekend? You have your festival-approved clear bag stocked up with essentials, you’ve carefully selected the crew you plan on PLUR’ing out with, and you’ve figured out how the hell you’ll get to Bayfront Park (Metrorail, please). Now…
Today Ultra Music Festival marketing manager Albert Berdellans announced the festival’s acquisition of Winter Music Conference during a news conference aboard the yacht SeaFair, docked next to the festival site at Bayfront Park.
This weekend, Ultra Music Festival will kick off a three-day exercise in all forms of dance music. House, techno, bass, EDM, dubstep, trance, and other styles will be well represented by acts from all over the world. It’s something Ultra has been able to do extraordinarily well for the past 20 years.
Choosing where to go on a regular Miami weekend is hard enough. Miami Music Week turns that conundrum into a Sophie’s choice. Allow this writer, an MMW veteran, to impart some sage advice: Don’t try to make it to every party. Unless you can fast-track Elon Musk’s Hyperloop within the…
After much speculation, Winter Music Conference has announced it will indeed return this year. The storied industry gathering will be a three-day conference at the Faena Forum in Miami Beach. It’s smaller in scale than past editions. Last year’s conference spanned four days, and it ran six days in 2011.
If you visit Winter Music Conference’s website, you’ll notice something is off. Miami Music Week is only a few weeks away, yet the site is still thanking last year’s attendees “for making WMC 2017 a big success.” Notably absent is any information about how to register this year, while its social channels don’t make any mention of whether or Miami’s groundbreaking EDM conference will return.
Miami Music Week, AKA Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers come to life, is almost here. It’s the week when every superstar DJ/producer descends on the Magic City for seven days of nonstop partying. The parties, of course, are just the leadup to Ultra Music Festival, which is set to return to Bayfront Park March 23 through 25. But before that, there’s plenty to enjoy.
If you waited to buy tickets until Ultra Music Festival announced the Phase 2 acts for the 2018 edition, well, you might have waited too long. Last week, the festival sold out of general-admission tickets. Only VIP tickets remain for $1,499.95.
If you were hoping to celebrate Ultra Music Festival’s 20th anniversary along with Eric Prydz, Carl Cox, Axwell & Ingrosso, and Jamie Jones, it just got a lot more expensive. That’s because general-admission tickets to the EDM bacchanal have sold out. Those hoping to attend can still purchase three-day VIP tickets for $1,499.95.
Acoustic shows are rare in Miami. The DJ is king, and jazz nights are plentiful. But performances with just a musician and his or her instrument of choice are hard to come by.
Irv Gotti’s musical climax is still the unforgettable “What’s Luv?” which saw Terror Squad leader Fat Joe pair up with Murder Inc.’s R&B princess, Ashanti.
A decade ago, friends Loren Granich and Gregory Alexander were searching the Los Angeles nightclub scene for a party where they could feel comfortable. Even in the City of Angels, clubs were divided by sexual preference, and that was a problem for Granich, who is straight, and Alexander, who is gay. They…
After a controversial yet successful third edition at Bayfront Park, Rolling Loud announced today that this year’s festival will take place Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, far from the NIMBYs who’ve taken up residence in the über-expensive condos along the downtown Miami stretch of Biscayne Boulevard.
With less than two months to go until Miami Music Week, the party announcements are beginning to drip out. Highlights already include Above & Beyond’s return to the RC Cola Plant, Adam Beyer and Cirez D’s Soho Studios takeover, and the Rapture Music Festival in Virginia Key Beach Park.
Acting as a sort of festival within a festival, Ultra Music Festival’s Resistance will return next month to take over two stages at Bayfront Park: the Carl Cox Megastructure and the Arcadia Spider. Yesterday, Ultra announced the Resistance lineup, which includes a mixture of acts that were previously announced in the Phase 1 lineup and a few surprises.
Miami will be able to finally enjoy Mikey Ramirez’s expertise when he opens Technique Records at 853 NE 79th St. on the Upper Eastside.
Nobody is sad to see 2017 go. It was a chaotic year of political anxiety, social change, and warmongering. If there’s one bright spot, it’s that music seems to be rebuking the call for nationalism. In fact, music has never been more diverse, and it can thank Miami for that…
With 2017 winding down, an important decision needs to be made: How will you ring in 2018? This being Miami, that choice won’t be hard. There’s a plethora of parties happening all around the city, and venues and nightclubs are quickly booking acts and offering the promise of a free…
It was almost 20 years ago that Ultra Music Festival began as a one-day party on the sands of Miami Beach. Located in the present-day Collins Park area, the festival brought together acts such as Josh Wink, Baby Anne, and Paul van Dyk as a way to cap off the Winter Music Conference events that took over the city every March.
Did Björk just dab? Going into Mana Wynwood Tuesday night, I wasn’t sure what to expect from Björk’s DJ set. She’s not known as a DJ in the traditional sense of the word, and her live shows can feel frenetic on their own.
