Geronimo doesn’t agree that dance music — EDM, in particular — is dying. “I think the genre has never been healthier,” he says. “I think we are pulling from places we’ve never pulled before as far as new artists. Young and emerging producers from every corner of the globe are…
Disappointed you weren’t able to snag a ticket to Ultra Music Festival this weekend? Or is the astronomical expense to spend the first days of spring in Miami just out of reach? Ultra Music Festival doesn’t plan to leave you out in the cold. The festival announced plans to stream 26…
If there’s one complaint you hear often about Ultra Music Festival, it’s that the acts all seem to be the same year after year. Some of that criticism seems valid, but if you’re looking for something new among the headliners, perhaps you’re looking in the wrong place. Acts such as…
There’s no denying that acts like Swedish House Mafia, Avicii, Martin Garrix, and Afrojack help Ultra Music Festival sell tickets. But before EDM became a marketing buzzword, Ultra was putting dance music at the forefront every March with a lineup that always seemed to carefully balance popular, if flash-in-the-pan, trends…
You’ve probably already noticed the scaffolding and LED lights beginning to rise in Bayfront Park. That’s because Ultra Music Festival is only a few weeks away. If that weren’t reason enough to get excited, Ultra announced today that the set times and Phase 3 lineup are available on its official app.
Miami Music Week, Winter Music Conference, and Ultra Music Festival will attract DJs, electronic musicians, and producers from all over the world. There will be everything from easily digestible EDM to heady techno. If Art Basel is the art world’s cultural apex in the Americas, then MMW is Mecca for dance…
For the past two years, Steve Aoki and the Dim Mak crew have held an epic Miami Music Week bash at Nikki Beach. Last year was a particularly huge milestone for Aoki’s label. It celebrated its 20th anniversary with a mega-lineup that performed for 17 hours.
All that anyone could talk after Sunday night’s Grammys was James Hetfield’s microphone issues or Laverne Cox forgetting to namedrop the band in the introduction. But in metal circles, the real controversy was Metallica sharing the stage with Lady Gaga for a performance of “Moth Into Flame.” Setting aside that cries of…
It might have been short-lived, but the downtown Miami bar Libertine was an interesting experiment. In 2015, a first-floor room of the megaclub Space was walled off. Owners created a separate entrance and delivered something different.
Now that general-admission tickets are sold out and all you can get are the more expensive VIP passes, Ultra Music Festival has revealed its Phase 2 lineup.
This past September, Red Bull Sound Select took over the Hangar in downtown Miami for three days of music headlined by A$AP Ferg, AlunaGeorge, and Cashmere Cat. The mission of the event was to showcase both established acts and relative newcomers, all at an affordable $15 per show. Things must have…
Mild temperatures and cloudy skies greeted the crowds Saturday afternoon as they walked onto the sand adjacent to the North Beach Bandshell. By the entrance, a large tent held about a dozen stalls offering food and drinks from top Miami purveyors. About 500 feet south of the large tent…
This weekend, Miami will welcome yet another new music festival to its shores. And we’re not complaining. For a while, it seemed Miami would never have more than Ultra and 9 Mile. However, over the past few years, new endeavors have begun to pop up, with events like III Points and Rolling Loud hitting their stride. And then, last year, House of Creatives seemed to appear out of nowhere to give the city an early Christmas present.
Radiohead fans were already excited that the English rock band will headline this year’s Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in mid-April. Now the band has announced an 11-date U.S. tour scheduled to kick off March 30 at the American Airlines Arena in downtown Miami.
For all the awful stuff that happened this year, rest assured of one thing: Miami’s music scene is alive and well. Whether it’s dance, hip-hop, rock, metal, or everything in between, 305’s artists made themselves heard with an amazing body of work that had listeners in awe. If your knowledge of Miami music goes only as far as Pitbull and Rick Ross, now is the time to get to know the acts who actually made the most of 2016.
Food at music festivals usually consists of barely warm pizza, questionable kebabs, and greasy arepas. And the fact that your meal costs twice as much as what you would have paid for it elsewhere adds insult to injury. However, there is hope for music-festival munchies. The appropriately named F+M Festival, the brainchild of local party purveyor Poplife, aims to make festival food the star of the show alongside a stacked musical lineup January 28 and 29 on the sand adjacent to the North Beach Bandshell.
Face it — you’re not 22 anymore. However, you aren’t looking to give up your party-hard attitude just yet. You just wish there was a place where you could imbibe and dance without having to be surrounded by a bunch of weekend warriors. That’s where Ora hopes to come in.
One big problem the diverse city of Miami faces during the holidays: How do you include all your friends — regardless of religious background — into the celebrations? Well, Miami/Brooklyn duo Basside has a solution: getting “Lit” for the holidays, whether it’s Christmas or Hanukkah. Yes, the rapping duo has…
Your complete guide to the New Year’s Eve 2017 parties happening in Miami.
Perhaps the smartest move Ultra Music Festival has made recently was the creation of the Resistance stage. What began as a single stage in 2015 has become a brand in and of itself. Resistance has grown so much that the festival’s organizers have spun it off into its own standalone event.
Today, November 9, it’s tough for a massive slice of America to feel optimistic about anything. But if there is a reason to get out of bed eventually, it’s the stacked lineups coming our way this Art Basel. Though the 2016 edition of Art Basel Miami Beach will have its…
From Pablo Picasso’s Guernica to the “degenerate art” of Otto Dix, art has always been a way to place political and social unease into context. With the specter of a Trump presidency looming over America for the next four years, rest assured that plenty of the works at Art Basel…
