That’s it, folks! According to its website, Ultra Music Festival 2012 is officially sold out with 73 days remaining until the first day of the festival. This breaks last year’s record, when tix sold out on February 18 with a full 34 days left before the fest.Of course, Ultra’s 2012…
Last month, we did a little retrospective of our ten best covers of 2011, which included everything from our sex issue to urging for you to vote for Uncle Luke in the Miami mayoral election. Now we have the stamp of approval from the Society of Publication Designers who agrees…
When last year’s edition of Winter Music Conference took place at the Miami Beach Convention Center, it added to an already confusing year due to the “misunderstanding” with Ultra Music Festival. Before that, it was held at mid-Beach resorts like Eden Roc in 2010 or the Miami Beach Resort &…
Well, I guess there’s one act you won’t be seeing at Ultra Music Festival 2012: Deadmau5. The EDM superstar posted a 12-minute rant on YouTube, slamming the electronic fest for ticket prices and exclusivity contracts. “Ultra to me is the definition of insanity: Doing the same fucking thing every year,…
Five of Miami’s most expensive New Year’s Eve 2011 celebrations
UPDATE Ultra Music Festival has finally announced its Phase 1 lineup. Check out Ultra 2012’s 92-act roster, headlined by Avicii, Tiësto, and David Guetta. MiamiMusicWeek.com has announced that Knife Party (a side project involving Pendulum’s Rob Swire and Gareth McGrillen) and British duo Chase & Status have been added to…
With all the talk of Occupy this and Occupy that, people have been a little hesitant to flaunt their wealth in 2011. Richer, please! It’s time to put that P.C. bullshit to bed and ring in the New Year as your great-grandfather, John D. Rockefeller, would have wanted. You know,…
Miami’s best albums, EPs, and mixtapes of 2011
You can call us a lot of things — mostly expletives — but you can’t accuse of failing to grab your attention. A lot of that has to do with the image we put out there, and I’m not talking about our sense of entitlement.While content is key, it’s our…
To close out the year, Crossfade is picking its favorite albums by 305 artists. Check out the full list of Miami’s Best Albums of 2011. Afrobeta Under the Streets (Do It Entertainment) This album was five years in the making. In 2006, Tony Smurphio and Cuci Amador joined forces as…
Last month, we gave four trucks the opportunity to compete to the sixteenth and final truck to be invited to park on the sands of Miami Beach for the South Beach Wine & Food Festival’s Trucks on the Beach event hosted by Andrew Zimmern on February 26.Mac’n Soul Food, Miso…
UPDATE Ultra Music Festival has finally announced its Phase 1 lineup. Check out Ultra 2012’s 92-act roster, headlined by Avicii, Tiësto, and David Guetta. Our sources at Ultra Music Festival have leaked some big news, telling us that an appearance by New Wave icons New Order at this year’s festival…
Hogzilla’s Inspired Barbeque wants to feed you, South Beach, so tonight at its grand opening party, the chow is on the house. From to 7 to 11 p.m. guests can enjoy bites and signature cocktails with just a simple RSVP to info@hogzillas.com.The man behind the restaurant is Ron Garcia (formerly…
UPDATE Ultra Music Festival has finally announced its Phase 1 lineup. Check out Ultra 2012’s 92-act roster, headlined by Avicii, Tiësto, and David Guetta. We’ve been snooping around the last few weeks, hoping someone would slip up and announce they are scheduled to perform at Ultra Music Festival 2012, scheduled…
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas — everywhere except South Florida. But who’s complaining? We’ll take mild temperatures over a snowstorm any day. But if there’s one thing that has always made us jealous of northern weather, it’s ice-skating on a frozen pond while the stars twinkle above…
What would Andy Warhol think of our society today if he were still alive? Through his work, Warhol explored our fascination with commercialism, blurring the lines between the iconic Coke can and Marilyn Monroe. Both were sellable commodities with little value beyond the superficial. It’s as if Warhol was warning…
Is Wynwood, Miami’s arts district and hipster mecca, ready for a full-fledged nightclub? Mark Lowe thinks so. Lowe, the man behind Fort Lauderdale’s Living Room, is poised to open a 9,000-square-foot party spot called House, which scheduled to open February 2012. “It’s definitely not a lounge, but I wouldn’t describe…
It took a lot of movie magic (mainly plywood, paint, and CGI) to turn Miami’s gritty 14th Street and North Miami Avenue intersection into Hollywood’s ideal Sunset Strip — you know, the place where homeless teenagers and crack cocaine users aren’t seen. And after seeing the trailer for Rock of…
This week, we have a New Times premiere: our very first interactive cover! This isn’t quite the magnitude of Esquire’s E Ink cover, but it’s pretty awesome if you are bored or just wanted to annoy someone.Though it might look a bit complicated, it’s pretty simple to fold up this…
Über-producer Diplo and noisy electro-rockers Sleigh Bells have a Valentine’s Day present for Miami. It comes in the form of their joint Paradise Lost tour, hitting the Magic City on February 14 at Grand Central. The local date is part of an eight-city Florida sprint that’ll take them to Tampa,…
“I received notification by phone from California the day before Thanksgiving,” Jillian Mayer tells us. “I heard that Sundance makes a tradition out of calling people around Thanksgiving to make the holidays a bit more joyous.”What a joyous Thanksgiving for Mayer it must have been, as her collaboration with Lucas…
That’s it, folks! The tenth edition of Art Basel Miami Beach and all the events and sideshows that surround it are done. Now we are left to pick up the discarded canvases and paint cans left behind.But Basel did leave something worthwhile behind — and we’re not talking about the…
