Miami Music Week, which culminates with the deafening, glitter-and-neon bacchanalia that is Ultra Music Festival, is almost all about the DJs. It is as preoccupied with electronic music as Dr. Seuss was with cats, hats, green eggs, and ham. There are parties around pools/There are parties before school/You’ll find parties…
Whenever Floridians see Trick Daddy’s name on a playbill or flyer, they run to the stage. Jamming out to Trick’s classic songs and hearing what he has to say is an undeniable benefit of life in the 305. And within the past year, Trick Daddy Dollars has had a lot…
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…
Dallas Green was born with an interesting story to his name. “That’s true,” the Canadian singer-songwriter says of the origin of his moniker. “My mom wanted to name me something else, I guess a plainer name, and my dad wasn’t going for it.” Instead, his parents named their son after…
You don’t have to be a model heiress or a startup millionaire to have a great time at Miami Music Week. Sure, having a table at LIV is fun, but it’s incredibly overpriced. There’s plenty of good music and good times to be had with just a few dollars in…
In 1993, Cypress Hill dropped what would be its biggest hit and a portal into the mainstream consciousness, “Insane in the Brain.” Perhaps what’s more insane is how little time the West Coast rap outfit of B-Real, Sen Dog, DJ Muggs, and Eric Bobo has spent in South Florida over…
It’s 8:30 p.m. Saturday night, and Westchester is relatively quiet. Somewhere in Brickell, a group of scantily dressed girls are doing shots in preparation for a wild night out, but 15 minutes west, in the grassy armpit of the Dolphin and Palmetto Expressways, leathery Cuban men gather on sun-bleached porches…
“Jazz in the Gardens” is the wrong name for this festival. The two-day event held at the home of the Miami Dolphins, Hard Rock Stadium, is now in its 12th year. But there is no garden, at least not in the typical, backyard sense of the word, and, more important, the music isn’t strictly jazz.
Right along with being guaranteed the last entry in any alphabetical list of history’s greatest rock ‘n’ roll bands, ZZ Top has one other quality that makes it stand out from the pack: longevity. And, no, that’s not a reference to the size of their beards.
As Ultra Music Festival inches toward two full decades as the premier dance-music event in the nation, in 2017 the festival doesn’t have a single woman among its headliners and only a handful in the rest of the lineup. Though it would be nice for the events surrounding Miami Music…
Amid all the house, bass, techno, and beyond at Miami Music Week, it can be easy to forget about trance — unless, of course, you’re a devoted member of the #TranceFamily. Trance has been an integral part of Miami dance music; residencies such as George Acosta at Shadow Lounge and…
Spring break is officially here. With all the college students flooding Miami to party hard in downtown and get reckless on the beach, it’ll be hard to drown out all the mind-splitting EDM that will boom from every club in Dade County for the next month. Are you hip-hop heads looking for an easy escape route? Then search no further.
That thump in the air isn’t just the incoming EDM bpm; it’s your excited heartbeat about to burst from your chest. The best and brightest of the entire dance community are on their way to Miami, and they want nothing more than to party with you.
Imagine yourself tilted at a music festival this summer. It’s pouring, your cell service is spotty, and hours ago you let some dude with cool hair use your set sheet as a rolling paper. Now what? Easy. You stare at your forearm for a couple of seconds, point to the main stage, and elbow your way there. The who, what, when, and where are all right there on your skin, because you tattooed the entire festival lineup on your body at home.
If you asked what song best describes the state of EDM in 2017, it wouldn’t be electronic. It wouldn’t have a drop or a simple synth melody or a four-on-the-floor beat. It would be “After the Gold Rush” by Neil Young. The singer-songwriter wrote “After the Gold Rush” while the…
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.
Deaf Poets return with a new album, Lost in the Magic City, and video for “Celestine.”
Last September, more than 12,000 trance fans filed into the Ziggo Dome in Amsterdam. That night, Above & Beyond’s Paavo Siljamäki randomly selected Ciarán Smyth, a cop from Belfast, and Xenia Lee, a graduate student from New York, to take the stage and ceremoniously “press the button.” The group’s Jono…
A rundown of the ten best dive bars in Miami: Churchill’s, Bougainvillea’s, Kill Your Idol, Grove Bay Grill, Sandbar, Taberna Las Rosas, Mac’s Club Deuce, Lost Weekend, Seven Seas, and Irish Times.
By many standards, Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival is a resounding success. Since its inaugural edition in 2016, the South Florida festival has sold out twice — no easy feat for a fest without a reputation to precede it. Besides being financially solvent, Okeechobee has garnered acclaim from critics and audiences. It also has a well-populated subreddit and a cute shortened name that fits comfortably alongside that of ‘Roo and Lolla: Chobee.
World music often gets shafted in popular music discourse. Despite encompassing, well, the breadth of what the world offers musically, it often isn’t treated with the same reverence and passion Americans reserve for today’s electronic and rock acts. But if that fact bothers Simrit Kaur, known simply as Simrit, it…
Brace yourself. Winter is coming. Like all pop culture phenomena, Game of Thrones will not allow itself to be bound to one medium. What began as A Song of Ice and Fire — a series of fantasy books written by George R.R. Martin — Game of Thrones was unleashed onto…
