So you didn’t get a ticket to Ultra Miami this year? We’re sorry to hear that. But you’ll still be able to experience UMF 2016 from afar. This year, like last year and the year before that, Ultra will be live streaming the action across the interwebs. Live from from an…
About three-quarters of the way through the show, Rihanna took a moment in between songs to thank her band and crew. Pointing towards the ceiling, she gave a shout out to the folks working the lights. “They haven’t taken a shit for two hours,” she explained with a smirk. The…
DJ Khaled’s career has always been a bit of an anomaly. From the outside, his rise to fame has been a confusing ordeal that is both fun to watch and hard to explain. And over the last year, his success on Snapchat has allowed him to reach a national fame…
So you’re going to Ultra this year. Maybe you’re a first-timer, or perhaps you’re a veteran. Maybe you’re going for the music, or maybe you’re going for the atmosphere. The point is, you’re going. And so are somewhere north of 50,000 other people. When you get that many bodies together…
It was bound to happen eventually. The fact that it took Miami this long to invent a champagne machine gun is actually quite surprising considering that both items played an essential role in the formation of this great city. But it’s finally here. And it can be yours for only…
Each year, for six-straight days in March, our city gets a little louder. Its known as Miami Music Week, and it has become one of the world’s greatest migrations of dance music lovers. Like thirsty buffalo in search of water, both tourists and locals alike will brave the dangers of…
Last year was my first time at Ultra, and when I close my eyes and think about it, one image in particular keeps popping up. It was the final night and Eric Prydz was playing at the Carl Cox & Friends Arena. The arena was an open-air semicircular enclosure and…
We first learned of Major Lazer’s plans to throw a Havana concert back in January of this year. And just last week, the Rolling Stones told the world that it planned to do the same. With time, each big leap in American and Cuban relations becomes less jarring. Even news…
If, like Mitt Romney once said, corporations are people, then why can’t one make a music video? Well, that’s exactly what LIV just did. Miami’s most successful nightclub has released a three and a half minute-long music video that is both a thoughtful critique on social injustice as well as…
Just over a month after it was announced that Major Lazer would be giving Cuba its first major EDM show, another massive concert is coming to Cuba. On Friday, March 25, 2016, British rock legends the Rolling Stones will play a free, outdoor concert at the Ciudad Deportiva de la…
Last year marked the third installation of our homegrown little festival known as III Points. “Everyone wants it to work,” cofounder David Sinopoli told us in the months leading up to last year’s III Points. “There are no real obstacles. After the first year, a lot of people came to…
Trina has long been the self-proclaimed baddest bitch in the 305. Rumor has it, as a toddler, she once spent six months in time out. Sure, that’s a false rumor we just made up, but the fact remains: Trina is a bad bitch. And you don’t earn the title of…
Back in December, Ultra dropped its phase one 2016 lineup on us with all the names you’d expect Avicii, David Guetta, Carl Cox, as well as some acts that caught fans off guard, like an the unexpected Rabbit in the Moon reunion. Today, Ultra is rolling out phase two with, again, some…
Elizabeth, if you’re listening, Warren has something he’d like to tell you. “Elizabeth, I’ve screwed up in the past. I’m very sorry, but I love you more than I can tell you. I’m talking to my friend, a reporter, who I don’t really know, but I’m almost crying because I…
Today, your Facebook and Twitter feeds will be flooded with all the post-Grammys coverage you expect: Can you believe Taylor said that? Kendrick Lamar [insert here]. Is that hat surgically attached to LL Cool J’s head at this point? But one of the evening’s biggest snubs probably won’t get much…
A few weeks ago, we teased out the initial announcement for Dim Mak’s 20th anniversary party during Miami Music Week. Details were sparse, but the Steve Aoki-run label promised big surprises to come. Now Dim Mak is ready to reveal those surprises. Well, some of them, at least. Phase two…
Look we don’t like this either. We don’t. But whenever we post something about Stitches, the comments, shares, views — it all goes through the roof and you people, despite your protest, eat it up. There’s a dark pit inside each of us — the one that secretly cares who…
We’ve got a tough decision to face Miami: Beyoncé or Adele? With ticket prices in the triple digits, chances are you can only afford one. Unless you are Beyoncé or Adele, in which case not only can you afford a ticket, you can afford several thousand, fashion them all into…
It’s only February and we have no shortage of concerts to look forward to this year, but we can go ahead and add another to the list. It was just announced that Duran Duran will be stopping by Bayfront Park Amphitheater on Friday, April 1, with special guest Nile Rodgers,…
To the surprise of absolutely no one, Beyoncé knocked it out of the park last night at the Super Bowl Halftime show. Alongside Coldplay and Bruno Mars, Queen B provided us with the some much needed comfort after Doritos forced us to watch a baby Superman his way out of…
In 2006, James “J Dilla” Dewitt Yancey, just 32-years-old, passed away from a rare blood disease called thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura. But before he succumbed to the illness, Dilla was known as one of the most important producers in hip-hop. A rapper himself (he was a founding member of Slum Village),…
Bun B is an authority on all things hip-hop, a professor of its culture on both a national and local scale. In Houston, where he is from, Bun helped invent the sound of the city alongside Pimp C as part of UGK, and in the process influenced Southern rap music…
