The weather was beautiful, the music was awesome, and the bullshit level was rather high at this past weekend’s Ultra. Following a great New Times tradition, we rate what worked and what didn’t. Winner: The Resistance Arcadia Spider Stage. This stage has been bringing the heat – literally and…

The final day of Ultra included shows by original headliners Rabbit in the Moon and a live show — that’s right, a live show — by the Wailers, strange as it may seem. On the Arcadia Resistance Stage Sunday night, Jackmaster, Eats Everything, Skream, and Seth Troxler did amazing work as…

And on the second day, the dance music gods sent down a constellation of pop stars. Yes, Ultra Music Festival kept pumping out the beats on Saturday, March 24. While there were no major surprises on Day Two (Daft Punk isn’t coming, people), festivalgoers still got a few guest appearances,…

Unlike the last few editions, the dance music gods gave Ultra Music Festival a break this year and blessed the festival with clear skies and cool weather. And despite all the commotion about extra security, things seemed to go relatively smoothly on the first day. Even if you aren’t lucky…

Today Ultra Music Festival marketing manager Albert Berdellans announced the festival’s acquisition of Winter Music Conference during a news conference aboard the yacht SeaFair, docked next to the festival site at Bayfront Park.

In a public info session for downtown residents, MPD and Ultra detailed their plans for responding to a “mass casualty” situation.

Do you ever go to a concert and find yourself wishing the band wouldn’t play the hits, that it would dispose of the popular classics that everyone wants to hear and unleash its most experimental, unsung material?

Most of us don’t do very interesting things with our time off. We might watch TV or read a book or just sit around and do absolutely nothing. Robin Pecknold, however, decided to do something a bit more adventurous: visit Mount Everest. “I just did a trek to base camp,”…

In the wake of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the city of Parkland has been engulfed by sorrow and anger, but also support from both within and outside of the community. Now the local music scene has pitched in by setting up a concert to benefit the victims and their families.

This year’s edition of III Joints will also include a set by DJ Earl and a live kung fu movie score from RZA.

For some millennials, attending a Tyler the Creator show is either a rite of passage or a bucket list item. They remember the raucous Odd Future shows on Adult Swim’s Loiter Squad, when Tyler and other members of the massive hip-hop group would launch off the stage into the crowd.

Last summer, Tyler the Creator seemingly made a startling personal admission on his latest album, Flower Boy. It came in the exact middle, the seventh song of 14 tracks, “Garden Shed.” “Them feelings that I was guardin’/Heavy on my mind/All my friends lost/They couldn’t see the signs,” he writes. “Truth…

The 15-person boy band represents no less than the total future of American pop music.

The Atlanta rapper has a distinct voice in a crowded hip-hop ecosystem.