New Times has rounded up all of this year’s Miami Music Week yacht parties to help get your sea legs dancing. Just be sure to plan ahead (some of these parties have cash-only bars) and arrive at the dock with time to spare. You wouldn’t want the party to set sail without you.
Every year, Miami Music Week boasts an unfathomable number of pool parties, warehouse raves, and all-night club showcases promising a utopia of beats and beautiful people – for a price. But everyone loves a free party, and just like previous editions, Miami Music Week 2019 brings a fresh batch of bashes…
South Beach is having another nightlife renaissance, and this time, it’s understated over garish and excessive, inclusive over pretentious, and laid-back but with an undeniable edge. Perhaps no venue better embodies the world-famous party mecca’s breezy new attitude than Sophie’s, a South of Fifth gem that’s been steadily drawing Miami’s…
She’s shiny, she’s sleek, and, at 50 years young, she’s getting a whole new lease on life. Her name is Rosie, and she’s the 1969 Airstream Globetrotter trailer helping take Miami’s Klangbox.FM mobile. When Laura Sutnick and Patrick Walsh launched Klangbox in the summer of 2013, the longtime friends had…
Florida is closer than ever to legalizing recreational, adult-use marijuana. That’s according to State Sen. Randolph Bracy and State Rep. Michael Grieco, who have introduced new measures aimed at placing the legalization of recreational pot in voters’ hands in the November 2020 general election.
At a holiday party this winter, Miami musicians Nick County and Juan Ledesma commiserated over the city’s lack of multimedia platforms for live performances. They longed for the kind of sleek, curated web content produced by beloved indie institutions such as Seattle’s KEXP and NPR’s Tiny Desk, but for Miami. “Nick…
A tiny, smoke-filled dive bar inauspiciously christened the Club has gained a steady following of South Florida’s young, alternative, and arts-inclined.
When 62-year-old cancer survivor Jer Valentino set out to obtain his medical marijuana card, the Naples, Florida, resident had to wait two weeks before he could even see a doctor. Another three months and several hundred dollars later, he finally had the pot he needed to treat the…
That’s a wrap on the sixth edition of III Points. So was the 16-month wait worth it? In short, yes. The new February date proved to be a smart move. Temperatures were much milder, and any worry that the festival would suffer crowd shortages during the busy Presidents’ Day weekend…
Showing no real signs of slowing, III Points continued on a balmy Sunday evening. At this point, you’d think the crowds would be running on fumes thanks to the 5 a.m. closing time, but the energy remained high going into the third and final day of the festival. Despite a…
As with most festivals, the second day of III Points brought a much larger crowd. Still, thanks to its boutique nature, the festival grounds never felt overwhelmed with people. However, for those hoping to take part in experiences such as the Skate Space or the decommissioned Gravitron ride with a…
Miami has anticipated the sixth edition of III Points for the past 16 months, but it looks like the wait was worth it. The move from October to February brings milder temperatures, and even though the three-day festival is taking place over the busy Presidents’ Day weekend — Art Wynwood, Coconut Grove Arts Festival, and the Miami International Boat Show also are happening — III Points is still able to cut through all the noise and make its presence known.
Last week, Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried — the only Democrat elected statewide in the 2018 midterms — shook up her 4,000-employee agency by appointing Holly Bell the state’s first-ever cannabis director. While Fried campaigned on a promise to increase medical marijuana access, both she and the new…
Love bites; love is bliss. Especially in Miami, a notoriously rough scene for dating, it can be tough finding that magic formula for making a romantic relationship work, let alone finding someone willing to slide from your DMs into real life. That’s why it’s a little surprising Miami has so…
Earlier this year, J. Cole and his label Dreamville embarked on a project more than a decade in the making: “Revenge of the Dreamers III.” Conceived as a recording session for the ages, it would bring together a who’s who of hip-hop producers, rappers, singers, and other creatives in a studio in Atlanta…
III Points and Miami Music Week are gearing up to show off the city as a global hotbed for dance music, so it’s the perfect time to tout some of Miami’s brightest local DJ talent. Whether they’re spinning at an undisclosed warehouse, a daytime rooftop disco, or a dark, smoky nightclub, these dedicated selectors and producers grind it out week after week to make a name for themselves and keep the 305 on the map as a year-round party mecca. Here are Miami’s best DJs right now.
OK, we’re just gonna put it to you straight: Getting a medical marijuana card in Florida isn’t exactly the quickest or most affordable process. In all, it can take several weeks and run you $200 to $300 in initial fees before your ID card arrives in the…
When it’s time to gather your girls for one last hurrah before “I do,” there’s perhaps no better city for letting your guard down, donning your gaudy bride-to-be flair, and waving your freak flag than Miami. Here are our tried-and-true picks for the ultimate Magic City bachelorette day-to-night adventure.
“Everybody’s always talking about L.A. and New York, but Miami’s got some cute shit too,” says Gami, DJ and founder of the “ultra-femme/trans” creative collective Internet Friends. Along with fellow DJ and cofounder Keanu Orange, Internet Friends is on a mission to draw more visibility to the city’s ongoing queer, underground music scene while being a “platform for artists to express themselves.”
Sometimes you reach a point where you’re pretty convinced you’ve seen it all. But in Miami, we’re always looking for new ways to reinvent the party wheel. Rather than become jaded by the same old nightlife offerings week after week, creative collective Late for Work came together this past October with one mission: to create unique experiences.
New Order has a bit of a crush on Miami, and based on the response at last night’s sold-out show at the Fillmore, the feeling is mutual. The influential British New Wave group responsible for enduring dance-rock masterpieces such as “Blue Monday” and “Bizarre Love Triangle” announced a Miami stop on the heels of a rescheduled Chile tour date in early December. Within days of going on sale, tickets to the January 12 show had sold out.
Jacuzzi Boys drummer and Las Rosas mainstay DJ Diego Monasterios weighs in on Miami’s rock bands to watch in 2019.
