Recent years have marked the resurgence of the broken beat in electronic dance music. (Not that breaks ever went away, but they did stay on the fringe for a good decade.) Now, with the rise of dubstep and ’90s UK garage/two-step nostalgia, producers across the international scene are breaking the…
Ultra Music Festival! It’s the final countdown. Listen .. Can you hear it? Uhhntz, uhhntz, uhhntz . . . It’s almost showtime. Yet many people don’t have tickets. What do you do? Should you hit up Stubhub or Craigslist and pay over four hundred dollars? Is it time to sell…
Yeah, it’s easy to feel like a freaking superhero when you’re rolling fast, hard, and free. You might even look pretty awesome. But just wait till the next morning. Last night, Dutch DJ and crazy rave-y ringmaster Laidback Luke brought his Super You & Me party to LIV — not…
He combed his hair, bought a week’s supply of Binaca, rented a tux, scored a corsage, and blew up a giant freaking balloon. And now dapper DJ, experimental electronic producer, and avowed Sunday Schooler Frivolous (AKA Daniel Gardner) would like to celebrate Ultra week and the release of his new…
After this initially funny article in the New York Times, parties continue to roll on in South Beach at World’s Fanciest Parking Garage — i.e. the Herzog & de Meuron-designed 1111 building at the corner of Lincoln and Alton Roads. To be fair, for a parking garage, it’s pretty beautiful.Yesterday…
Amid the deep woofs of Miami bass and the resonating pitch of piercing house, one New York duo plans to make sweet love to the sound systems at Ultra Music Festival’s Live Stage. Meet Holy Ghost!, the pair responsible for your favorite slow-dance disco track, “Hold On.” And this Friday,…
It’s been only about three months since beloved local quirk-pop queen Rachel Goodrich left you, me, and the Magic City for the big, bright floodlights of La La Land. And already we miss her so much. We watched helplessly as Rachel picked out her favorite records, stuffed her suitcase, and…
This weekend, Bicentennial Park will be flooded by an international wave of beatmakers and pookie heads for Ultra Music Festival. But just a half-mile west of downtown’s loudest outdoor fiesta, Shit Robot will pop his Miami cherry Friday at the Vagabond, two days before hitting Ultra’s Heineken Dome. Marcus Lambkin,…
Miami Chum Bucket grand opening March 26
Peter Murphy is the pale, skeletal baritone whose career fronting Bauhaus in the late ’70s and early ’80s jump-started a movement toward darkness and beautiful pain in rock music. Bauhaus’s hit single “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” is the template for much modern goth, while the band’s cameo in the 1983 vampire…
Critical condemnation and popular adulation go alarmingly hand-in-hand in the world of rock music. Often, the same qualities lead those opposing camps to their positions, and such is certainly the case for ’70s and ’80s progressive rock stalwart Rush. Fond of science fiction and Ayn Rand, the group often worked…
You’ve slept. You’ve showered. You’ve done a little bit of pre-drinking while dancing naked around your apartment. You’ve finally slipped into some clean clothes. And now you’re starting to feel like the time is right to strip down again and sacrifice your Ultra week virginity. So why not head to…
Last night at Mansion, Italian electro-house DJ Benny Benassi warmed up his turntables — and our town — for his performance at the Ultra Music Festival. The world-renowned musician, maybe still best known for his 2002 hit “Satisfaction,” counts British singer Gary Go and the infamous Chris Brown among his…
Once upon a time, Chicago-bred, L.A.-based DJ/producer Johnny Love was best known on underground dance floors as half of Guns and Bombs. That project, as the name implies, was all about going hard and going big, full of searing chainsaw basslines and “subtlety” turned into a four-letter word. At the…
Let’s be prepared, beat freaks. There is absolutely no reason to wait till we’re trapped at the bottom of a 1000-foot k-hole to start planning our Ultra Music Festival itinerary. So before digging out our dosage, stripping down to our rubber underwear, and temporarily leaving behind these human husks we…
Giacomo Gates is undoubtedly one the most exciting and articulate male jazz vocalists on the scene right now. He is a cool cat who embodies the eternal swagger of jazz. However, for the first forty years of his life, Giacomo Gates couldn’t have been farther from hep life. As a…
Earlier this week, we previewed the upcoming Visionquest label showcase at the Shelborne this Friday. The label/production quartet of illustrious Detroit DJ-masterminds Ryan Crosson, Lee Curtiss, Shaun Reeves, and Seth Troxler owns the international hot tip right now, having put out Benoit & Sergio’s chart-topping Where The Freaks Have No…
There are several parts to the Duran Duran saga. The first found the Brit New Wave band conquering America, providing fodder for MTV, and turning songs such as “Hungry Like The Wolf,” “Save A Prayer,” “Union of the Snake,” “The Reflex” and “Wild Boys” into rallying cries for a new…
This weekend, Bicentennial Park will be flooded by an international wave of beat-makers and pookie heads for Ultra Music Festival. But just a half-mile west of downtown’s loudest outdoor fiesta, Shit Robot will pop his Miami cherry on Friday at the Vagabond, two days before hitting Ultra’s Heineken Dome. Marcus…
Benoit & Sergio’s rep on the international EDM scene rised slowly and surreptitiously, thanks in part to word-of-mouth praise from inner-circle luminaries like Seth Troxler and Bruno Pronsato. The release in question was a two-track gem of an EP called Full Grown Man which Pronsato put out on his small…
You were lazy. You were broke. You were stupid. And now you’re standing ticketless and bereft outside Bicentennial Park, peering enviously at all those beaded, drooling pookie heads as they bask in the Day Glo wonder of this year’s totally sold-out Ultra Music Festival. Sure, in a desperate, last-ditch stab…
Behind Bayside Marketplace’s Hard Rock Café, the Biscayne Lady enjoys a mid-afternoon hosing under the hot Florida sun. As cold water trickles down her sleek frame, we board the vessel to meet the ship’s captain and Biscayne Bay legend, James Cho. Since joining the Biscayne Lady team, Cho has skippered…
