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Music Festivals

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2012

    Ultra Music Festival Announces Miami Music Week Pre-Parties, Afterparties, and Pool Parties

    ​UPDATE Check out the lineup, date, and location for Ultra Music Festival's launch of its Ultra Live concert series. Less than two weeks after announcing its Phase One lineup (Avicii! Tiësto! David Guetta! Kraftwerk! New Order! Skrillex! 86 others!), Ultra Music Festival 2012 was already shoutin ... More >>

  • Music

    January 5, 2012

    LA Riots at Arkadia January 6

    ​UPDATE Check out the lineup, date, and location for Ultra Music Festival's launch of its Ultra Live concert series. Less than two weeks after announcing its Phase One lineup (Avicii! Tiësto! David Guetta! Kraftwerk! New Order! Skrillex! 86 others!), Ultra Music Festival 2012 was already shoutin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 27, 2011

    LA Riots Erupt at Arkadia on January 6

    Via facebook.com/LARiotsOfficial​Often associated with violent street crime, urban decay, and N.W.A., South Central Los Angeles is generally considered a residential wasteland, the type of gritty, big-city neighborhood where dreams die and poverty prevails. During the early '90s, it was the epic ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 21, 2011

    Blond:ish Gets Ambitious at Arkadia June 24

    ​Alfred Hitchcock populated his films with blonde women, believing that film audiences would be more suspicious of brunettes. But when you see two platinum manes bouncing up and down behind Arkadia's decks this Friday, you should suspect that this fair-headed DJ duo is conspiring to do evil thin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 26, 2011

    Lollapalooza 2011 Announces Lineup With Eminem, Girl Talk, DFA 1979, and 122 Others

    ​It's time to start planning your road trip to Lollapalooza land 'cause King Perry Farrell just released his 125-name guestlist for this August's three-day Grant Park extravaganza. And if you don't wanna be left at the gate, crying and clawing the dirt like a pauper, you better buy a full-weekend ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2011

    Ultra Cofounder Russell Faibisch Talks Expansion Plans and Making Peace With WMC

    Photo by Ian Witlen​After 13 years, Ultra Music Festival has managed to push aside the week that helped create it. Ballsy as the move may have been, we all knew Ultra had long overshadowed Winter Music Conference. With the conference's attendance at just 3,763 last year, the festival managed to se ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 10, 2011

    Banging Royalty

    Photo by Ian Witlen​After 13 years, Ultra Music Festival has managed to push aside the week that helped create it. Ballsy as the move may have been, we all knew Ultra had long overshadowed Winter Music Conference. With the conference's attendance at just 3,763 last year, the festival managed to se ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2011

    What Are We Gonna Call the Week of Ultra Music Festival?

    Photo by Ian WitlenHelp us help the confused Ultra ravers.​As conference approaches, if someone is "winning" the battle of the dueling electronic music weeks in March, it's definitely Ultra Music Festival. That's not to say Winter Music Conference will be a total dud. In the coming weeks, though, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 10, 2011

    Major Lazer and the Marley Family Headline Nine Mile Music Festival March 12

    Major Lazer's Switch and Diplo.​Man, Winter Music Conference is only two months away. But while your club kid cousins are off doing the WMC thing, getting loopy on funny drugs and dancing away their inhibitions, you're gonna be sucking on sweet sticky ish and nodding your dreaded head to righteo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2010

    Poll: Will You Be Attending Winter Music Conference or Ultra Music Festival?

    ​Now that the lines have been drawn between Winter Music Conference and Ultra Music Festival, we are interested in finding out what you, our readers, think about this whole debacle. Will you be attending WMC or Ultra? We've set up a nifty poll to gauge your response.

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2010

    Miami Beach Will Grant Permits to Parties Outside of WMC, MTV News Report Inaccurate

    Club Space owner Louis Puig.​In an interview with MTV News today, Club Space owner Louis Puig claimed, "The [City of Miami Beach] will not give out weekly permits for pool or beach parties outside of WMC [week], which means that there will not be Pool Parties the week of Ultra. What is Miami witho ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2010

    Winter Music Conference 2011 Happening March 8-12 at Miami Beach Convention Center [UPDATE]

    ​Big news! Winter Music Conference is moving from its end of March week-long marathon -- usually, after SXSW -- to mid-March. We spoke to director of operations Kirk Pascal who said that the dates of March 8 to 12 at the Miami Beach Convention Center are locked down. The news was also confirmed in ... More >>

  • Music

    June 17, 2010

    Christopher Lawrence

    ​Big news! Winter Music Conference is moving from its end of March week-long marathon -- usually, after SXSW -- to mid-March. We spoke to director of operations Kirk Pascal who said that the dates of March 8 to 12 at the Miami Beach Convention Center are locked down. The news was also confirmed in ... More >>

  • News

    June 17, 2010

    City Life Readers' Poll Winners

    ​Big news! Winter Music Conference is moving from its end of March week-long marathon -- usually, after SXSW -- to mid-March. We spoke to director of operations Kirk Pascal who said that the dates of March 8 to 12 at the Miami Beach Convention Center are locked down. The news was also confirmed in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2010

    Can't Make it to Bonnaroo This Weekend? Catch the Action Live on YouTube and NPR

    If a trek to Tennessee for Bonnaroo just wasn't in the cards this year, we have two ways for you to catch the Music and Arts fest from the comfort of your South Florida digs. First, the three-day arts and music festival is hosting a YouTube page with exclusive live webcasts from June 11 thr ... More >>

  • Music

    April 15, 2010

    Steve Angello

    If a trek to Tennessee for Bonnaroo just wasn't in the cards this year, we have two ways for you to catch the Music and Arts fest from the comfort of your South Florida digs. First, the three-day arts and music festival is hosting a YouTube page with exclusive live webcasts from June 11 thr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2010

    Video: Afrobeta "Play House" Live at Ultra Music Festival 2010

    We probably promised a few posts back that we wouldn't talk about Winter Music Conference or Ultra Music Festival anymore, but we just stumbled across this great video of Afrobeta performing live at last month's festival. The duo got an awesome late-evening slot on the Bayfront Live Stage, which sou ... More >>

  • Music

    March 18, 2010

    Ultra Music Festival grows again in 2010

    We probably promised a few posts back that we wouldn't talk about Winter Music Conference or Ultra Music Festival anymore, but we just stumbled across this great video of Afrobeta performing live at last month's festival. The duo got an awesome late-evening slot on the Bayfront Live Stage, which sou ... More >>

  • Music

    March 18, 2010

    What quarter-century crisis? WMC celebrates its 25th birthday bigger and better than ever

    We probably promised a few posts back that we wouldn't talk about Winter Music Conference or Ultra Music Festival anymore, but we just stumbled across this great video of Afrobeta performing live at last month's festival. The duo got an awesome late-evening slot on the Bayfront Live Stage, which sou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 17, 2010

    WMC 2010: Nightlyfe.com Launches WMC App

    ​With every imaginable type of iPhone app out there these days, from drunk texting apps, to X-rated vibrator apps (no joke) it's hardly surprising that even our beloved annual Winter Music Conference would get its own app. The folks at Nightlyfe.com have announced the launch of their WMC Mobile ... More >>

  • Music

    December 17, 2009

    Concert review: Stonefox wins, the inaugural Miami Music Festival fails

    ​With every imaginable type of iPhone app out there these days, from drunk texting apps, to X-rated vibrator apps (no joke) it's hardly surprising that even our beloved annual Winter Music Conference would get its own app. The folks at Nightlyfe.com have announced the launch of their WMC Mobile ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2009

    The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: A Recap of Saturday Night at the Miami Music Festival

    Photo by Ian WitlenStonefox bassist Ross FuentesClick here to view a full slideshow of pictures from Saturday night at the Miami Music Festival.If a few artists' performances really shone at the Miami Music Festival this past weekend, it only served to underscore the amateurish quality of much of th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 6, 2009

    Ultra Early-Bird Tickets Sold Out

    Photo by Ian WitlenMSTRKRFT at 2009's Ultra Music Festival.​If there is one guarantee in life is that Ultra Music Festival's lineup is always one of the best in the country. Need proof? Early-bird, two-day tickets to the festival, which sold for $99.95, are gone. What's impressive is that it happe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 30, 2009

    Ultra 2010 Early-Bird Tickets on Sale Today at Noon -- Seriously

    ​I have a personal pledge not to think about Winter Music Conference until, shit, at least Art Basel Miami Beach, and, ideally New Year's are both over. Still, if you are absolutely, totally positive you will be attending both days of the Ultra Music Festival in 2010, this early-bird ticket specia ... More >>

  • Music

    September 10, 2009

    Future Classic Festival

    ​I have a personal pledge not to think about Winter Music Conference until, shit, at least Art Basel Miami Beach, and, ideally New Year's are both over. Still, if you are absolutely, totally positive you will be attending both days of the Ultra Music Festival in 2010, this early-bird ticket specia ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 19, 2009

    N.E.R.D Headlining Future Classic Festival at Soho Studios

    via MySpaceN.E.R.D​It seemed for a while that Miami could play host to multiple music festivals. But after the rapid demise of Bang! (we hardly knew ye) and the sudden cancellation of Langerado, it seems like nobody will be able to match the success of Ultra, so far the city's only music festival ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 30, 2009

    WMC 2009: Late of the Pier, Rye Rye at The Vagabond

    So after wrapping up a couple of feel-good stories about a female inmate being sexually assaulted by prison guards and the ridiculous shenanigans by some cops in a tiny place called Biscayne Park, I stepped out this past Friday to The Vagabond for a little Winter Music Conference R&R.  ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2009

    WMC Preview: Q&A With Booka Shade

    The international dance floor domination of the German electro-house duo Booka Shade, as well as that of the record label they co-founded, Get Physical, came serendipitously. "The plan was not to have a plan," says Arno Kammermeier, half of the twosome, of Get Physical's heady early days. It was aro ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 31, 2008

    Madonna's "Four Minutes" Release Party

    The international dance floor domination of the German electro-house duo Booka Shade, as well as that of the record label they co-founded, Get Physical, came serendipitously. "The plan was not to have a plan," says Arno Kammermeier, half of the twosome, of Get Physical's heady early days. It was aro ... More >>

  • Music

    March 20, 2008

    Ryan Morales

    The international dance floor domination of the German electro-house duo Booka Shade, as well as that of the record label they co-founded, Get Physical, came serendipitously. "The plan was not to have a plan," says Arno Kammermeier, half of the twosome, of Get Physical's heady early days. It was aro ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 7, 2007

    Bands! Win a chance to perform at SPIN mag's legendary SXSW party next February...

    The international dance floor domination of the German electro-house duo Booka Shade, as well as that of the record label they co-founded, Get Physical, came serendipitously. "The plan was not to have a plan," says Arno Kammermeier, half of the twosome, of Get Physical's heady early days. It was aro ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 15, 2007

    Red-Eyed Soul

    A refuge from WMC hoopla

  • Music

    March 16, 2006

    Dance, Dance Evolution

    Conference flexes its gene pool

  • Music

    April 14, 2005

    Basshead

    Around the Beach

  • Diversions

    May 13, 2004

    BEST ART CINEMA

    Miami Beach Cinematheque

  • Music

    March 25, 2004

    Underworld

    Basshead searches for Murs at SXSW in the midst of a race-fueled controversy

  • Music

    May 24, 2001

    Playing It Safe

    This was the JVC Jazz Festival's first year here, but the sounds were nothing new

  • News

    March 29, 2001

    Austin Chronicles

    Tales from the Texas music fest: Rock barely survives, honky-tonk rules, and Miami may yet host the Latin Grammys -- but no bombs, please

  • Calendar

    July 27, 2000

    Punk for Sale

    The Warped Tour

  • Music

    March 11, 1999
  • Music

    July 23, 1998
  • Music

    March 26, 1998
  • Calendar

    March 5, 1998

    Calendar for the week

    The Warped Tour

  • Music

    December 11, 1997

    Some Girls

    The Warped Tour

  • Music

    August 21, 1997

    The Unexplored Horde

    The Warped Tour

  • Music

    June 19, 1997

    HellFest

    The Warped Tour

  • Music

    July 25, 1996

    Lollapaloser

    The Warped Tour

  • Music

    July 18, 1996

    All the Young Dudes

    The Warped Tour

  • News

    February 22, 1996
  • Music

    August 19, 1992

    If Ya Snooza, Ya 'Looza

    An indispensable guide for those attending the biggest rock and roll event since 1991!

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