It’s time to wrap up 2018. How will you celebrate the end of the year that brought us Kanye West rapping, “Poopity scoop”? It won’t be an easy choice, because few cities can match Miami’s New Year’s Eve prowess. Great weather and party excess come together perfectly to create…
With 2018 quickly coming to an end, it’s time to look forward to what 2019 will bring — including the music festival season. Leading the charge will be III Points, which switched dates from October to February, skipping 2018 altogether. The date change should help the sixth edition of the festival avoid…
Aqua Art Miami. Wednesday, December 5, through Sunday, December 9, at the Aqua Hotel, 1530 Collins Ave., Miami Beach; 800-376-5850; aquaartmiami.com. Tickets cost $20 to $275. Art Africa Miami Arts Fair. Wednesday, December 5 to Sunday, December 9 at the 920 Building, 920 NW Second Ave., Miami; artafricamiamifair.com. Tickets cost…
Guy Gerber, Kaskade, Richie Hawtin, Zhu. It’s not preposterous to say Miami Art Week has turned into a Miami Music Week 2.0 of sorts. The city usually expects an influx of dance music’s heavy hitters to land on its sunny shores in March.
Are you still pretending you’re coming to Miami during Art Basel and the satellite events for the cultural experience? If you really want to get familiar with the local culture, there’s really no better way to experience it than at night. Miami might not be the best at many things,…
It’s an unusually cool August night in downtown Miami, and the hum of cars racing past on the nearby MacArthur Causeway is muted by a boisterous crowd wearing sky-high platform shoes, glitter, and heavy eyeliner. Close to 1 a.m., as the horde cracks hand fans, Jupiter Velvet, bathed in a…
Gami dreams of one day spinning at Space. The 23-year-old Miami native wants to hoist her city out of its tech-house and EDM rut and explore new ideas bubbling up in dance music. “There’s not a huge interest in the music that I’m bringing into the city yet,” Gami laments…
It all came down to money. Commissioners Joe Carollo and Keon Hardemon basically wanted Ultra Music Festival to pay a much higher fee to use Miami Marine Stadium and Virginia Key Beach Park for its 2019 edition. The festival agreed to pay $2 million, and Hardemon insisted a large part of that money go to the struggling Virginia Key Beach Park Trust.
Over the weekend, the Village of Key Biscayne released a video concerning Ultra Music Festival’s possible move to Virginia Key. In it, Mayor-elect Mike Davey resorted to scaremongering to warn that Ultra was “evicted” from Bayfront Park because of “environmental destruction, noise, and increase in alcohol- and drug-related violence.”
Two weeks ago, local promoter Blnk Cnvs announced its foray into Miami Art Week madness with a series of concerts. The lineup includes South African duo Die Antwoord Wednesday, December 5; lovable rapper Action Bronson Thursday, December 6; and Chicago SoundCloud rapper Juice Wrld Friday, December 7. However, Blnk Cnvs promised another…
After the City of Miami effectively denied Ultra Music Festival a permit to return to its longtime home at Bayfront Park in downtown Miami, the question has been where will the festival go? Well, it seems since the September 27 refusal, festival organizers have been devising a plan to move Ultra to Virginia Key Beach Park and Miami Marine Stadium.
Sure, Miami Art Week is about art. But it has also turned into one of the best weeks for music. As with Miami Music Week, acts from across the globe flock to the 305 to enjoy the mild December weather and take advantage of the buzz surrounding Art Basel.
In the past few years, New Times has been critical of the direction the once-revered Winter Music Conference was headed. The issues went beyond the squabble organizers had with Ultra Music Festival in 2010. The problems with WMC stemmed from its failure to evolve and stay ahead of dance-music trends…
Since New Year’s Eve 2016, Charly’s Vegan Tacos has been slinging meatless versions of Mexican classics to the hungry vacationers in Tulum, Mexico. Chef Charly Garcia’s plant-based ethos is a perfect fit for the typical Tulum visitor: the stylish boho traveler that wouldn’t be caught dead among the unwashed spring-break masses in nearby Cancun.
What began as Dayglow, a club party that debuted at Mekka nightclub in downtown Miami, has morphed into the EDM equivalent of the Color Run. Life in Color events take place all over the world, but LIC’s Miami festival remains the gold-standard orgy of neon paint and fat beats.
Juliet Budet is enjoying the warm weather in her hometown in Brittany, located on the northwest coast of France, which is usually cool even throughout the summer thanks to its maritime climate. “We are having an Indian summer. It’s really nice,” Budet says over the phone. But soon she’ll leave…
You’re probably familiar with Record Store Day. However, did you know there’s also a day celebrating every ’80s and ’90s child’s favorite musical medium: Cassette Store Day? Technique Records, the only South Florida outlet known to be participating in Cassette Store Day, will have some fun with the other analog medium this Saturday, October 13.
Sorry, Miami. Unfortunately, it’s one of those years when Halloween falls right in the middle of the week. That means if you plan on partying hard October 31, the chances of you rolling into work hung-over Thursday are high. The good news: In an effort not to let Halloween completely go to waste…
Perhaps everyone should look on the positive side of Ultra’s potential move: It could open a new era for the festival.
After 18 years of EDM in downtown Miami, Ultra Music Festival will have to find a new home next year. The City of Miami Commission voted this afternoon to deny a new five-year agreement for the festival to remain at Bayfront Park.
Ultra Music Festival has just announced that tickets for its 2019 edition are on sale. The festival had limited sales earlier this year that gave fans an opportunity to buy tickets at the lowest price possible. However, beginning today, tickets will sell until they are gone or the date of the festival arrives — whichever comes first.
III Points, the festival that for the past half-decade has kicked off the season when music gets interesting in Miami, won’t take place next month. This past in May, promoters announced they would forgo the fall event for new dates in February. The change came after a multitude of obstacles hampered III Points in its first five years.
