Concerts

Last night, walking into the lobby of the decadent Fontainebleau Miami Beach as Laidback Luke’s Super You & Me got underway, I had to remind myself … It’s only Wednesday…

Check out the full lineup and set times for Ultra 2012. Ultra Music Festival sold out months ago. So unless you’re wiling to drop $7,500 on a VIP package or purchase ridiculously marked-up General Admission scalper tickets, quit bitching and accept the fact that you’re not going to catch Tiësto…

Even though Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week have turned into a nine days of EDM, we’ve keep it pretty low key. Until last night. First stop: The world premiere of Ultra Music Festival’s Can U Feel It concert documentary. Standing there on the red carpet was sort of…

Last night’s debut of Can U Feel It: The UMF Experience, a new 45-minute concert documentary about last year’s Ultra Music Festival, served as a sort of coronation of both Ultra and dance music in general. For one thing, there was the red carpet. Just a decade ago, the thought…

Admittedly, we’re all a little giddy ’round the New Times office. Rumor has it that Madonna’s going to drop by for a special in-house performance and breathe new life into our defunct Sectional Sofa Series. What sparked the rumor? One writer suggesting that, “we should totally get Madonna on our…

Who’s straight fiending for some beats? Well, with just 31 hours, 29 minutes, and 55 seconds till it’s time for you and 150,000 other furry-booted beat freaks to crash the gates at Ultra Music Festival, you will soon be overdosing on the uhntz-uhntz. In the meantime, though, there’s no reason…

See the full 35-photo Hard Miami Moombahton Massive at Grand Central slideshow. Hard Miami and Mad Decent’s Moombahton Massive With Diplo, Dillon Francis, Nadastrom, and others Grand Central, Miami Wednesday, March 21, 2012 Better Than: Seven hours of reggaeton and sirens. Back in the fall of 2010, Dave Nada played…

Tango Conspiracy at PAX Miami March 23

Beethoven’s Pastoral at the Knight Concert Hall March 23 and 24

Get Physical Nacht at Treehouse March 24

Blondie at Hard Rock Live March 25

Black Lips at Grand Central March 25

Occupy Miami Fundraiser at Churchill’s Pub March 27

Check out today’s top WMC and MMW parties — plus Crossfade’s daily party guide. Maybe you’re planning to spend the entire weekend performing glowstick tricks at Ultra Music Festival. Or enjoying the lavish amenities at Swedish House Mafia’s Masquerade Hotel. Or bleep-bloop-ing around Biscayne Bay aboard the Biscayne Lady. But…

San Francisco’s Samuel Doylestien, Ryan Williams, and Michael Tello are all accomplished DJ-producers. But as PillowTalk, they’ve been making even bigger waves. This year alone has seen the threesome signed to some of the most hotly tipped labels in the international house and techno scene: Visionquest, Life and Death, and…

When he’s not pushing Dr Pepper or exposing his Family Jewels on A&E, Gene Simmons rocks silly makeup and platform shoes as the legendary lead singer of Kiss. Similarly, when he’s not dubstepping aboard Holy Ship! or steering megayachts with his penis, Tommy Lee beats the skins for arena rock…

You can go to a hundred clubs in Miami with half-naked party people sweating it out to a world-class DJ.But last night, the Standard flipped the script on that template, hosting a free, life-affirming meditative journey led by Donna D’Cruz on the (CDJ) wheels of steel in the hotel’s hamam…

​Super Music Group Label Party With J. Paul Getto, Louis La Roche, and Amtrac The Well, South Beach Tuesday, March 20, 2012 Better Than: Paying to party. Last night was the official start of Miami Music Week. So local funky boys Super Music Group kicked the festivities off right with…

Music Loves Fashion has been putting on events that combine music (duh!), fashion (duh!), beautiful people, celebrities, and great locations near Los Angeles and Montreal for a while now. It’s best known events are the ones at the Riviera Hotel in Palm Springs, California, which coincide with Coachella.Now the party…

Check out the full lineup and set times for Ultra 2012. Normally, in year’s past Ultra Music Festival’s organizers send us a photo version of the artist set times the day before the festival takes place. But in keeping with this year’s bigger-and-better approach, you don’t have wait until then…

This past September, the world of dance music lost Mehdi Favéris-Essadi, an amazing DJ and producer at the age of 34. Of course, Mehdi was no stranger to Winter Music Conference and Ultra Music Festival, having made several Miami appearances. And 2012 will mark the first time in several years…

Back in December, superpopular LARPer, international DJ, and dance music producer Deadmau5 announced that he would not be attending this year’s Ultra Music Festival. Laying out his grievances in a 12-minute YouTube video, the producer cited exorbitant ticket prices, exclusivity contracts, and repetitious lineups as chief motivations for his absence…