Despite bouts of rain, III Points 2017 continued last night with a slew of pounding performances. Here’s what went down: Virgo 6:20 p.m. on the Mind Melt stage As the sun began setting behind the giant Mind Melt stage disco ball, alien water creature Virgo welcomed early stragglers with siren…
Halfway through his set, Damon Albarn started musing about his time in Miami so far. “I’m recording new music, and I record in every city. I’m staying at a hotel on the beach,” he told the crowd gathered at the Main Frame stage Friday night at III Points. “It’s a…
While Miami has pretty much moved on from the chaos caused by Hurricane Irma, it’s important to remember that our nearby neighbors in the Caribbean continue to struggle to return to a normal life. Needless to say, this hurricane season has been one of the most active in recent memory…
Believe it or not, there’s more to III Points than just the festival at Mana Wynwood. Whether it’s starting your morning with the Daybreaker party at Space or learning about the history of Wynwood’s graffiti culture, III Points hopes to take over your entire weekend.
The festival has always given local acts a chance to share the stage with the top billing. What began at least partially as a cost-saving measure has turned into one of III Points’ best features. No other music festival on this scale gives local acts a chance to perform to large crowds.
In 2018, Ultra Music Festival will no longer be a teenager. Not that anyone is expecting the festival to grow up. For two decades it’s been a winter escape for thsoe in search of a dance-music bacchanal in warmer climes. It’s gone through three different locations, plenty of political posturing,…
Longtime promoter Aramis Lorie is used to hurricanes. He’s been through Andrew, Wilma, and Katrina. But Irma definitely threw him for a loop. He couldn’t leave his aging parents behind, and he was afraid of abandoning his bar, 1306, located in the quickly gentrifying but still somewhat industrial part of North Miami Avenue just north of the I-195 overpass.
Five bars offer to help. You should attend.
This weekend, the effects of Hurricane Irma stormed into South Florida, threatening coastal areas with a storm surge that blew refrigerators clear out into the road in the Keys and turned Brickell streets into Venetian canals. Also within the storm’s targets: the array of nightclubs that have made Miami famous…
Hurricane Irma may be over, but the cleanup has just begun. If you are in desperate need of supplies, some supermarkets are reopening their doors quickly. However, it’s important to remember that if you don’t have to be on the streets, you should stay home and keep roads clear for…
You’ve got water, canned provisions, flashlights, and generator — but do you have the necessary apps loaded into your smartphone? If there’s anything South Floridians can learn from Hurricane Harvey, which caused catastrophic floods in the Houston area, it’s that the right app could potentially save your life. Now is…
With Gorillaz, the XX, Nicolas Jaar, and Richie Hawtin already on III Points’ 2017 lineup, you’d think the festival would be done adding big names. Well, you’d be wrong. Festival organizers have announced Swedish producer Jonas Rathsman, German multi-instrumentalist Monolink, British indie-rock outfit Pumarosa, and Colombian DJ Julio Victoria…
If there ever was a band destined to inherit the synth-pop crown from Depeche Mode and New Order, it’s Aussie outfit Cut Copy.
The 1990s was perhaps the last great decade to be a woman in the music industry. That’s not to say we don’t have amazing women making music now — we do. But the ’90s gave us the riot grrrl, Lilith Fair, and a plethora of female-fronted acts. Today,…
The mid-’90s was a period of transition for rock music. The grunge subgenre that exploded at the beginning of the decade was in decline after its reluctant leader, Kurt Cobain, died.
Even when it was open, the only indication of Bardot’s existence were the hordes of people gathering under the small red awning in the parking lot behind the North Miami Avenue strip mall that houses a furniture store and the late-night eatery Gigi.
A city full of immigrants like Miami still has plenty of reasons to party on the Fourth of July.
Hip-hop has a long history of social and political commentary, but the genre has been slow to embrace artists who don’t fit neatly into its hypermasculine mold. After all, hip-hop coined the phrases “pause” and “no homo” to deflect criticism of behavior that might be perceived as queer.
Will Rolling Loud ascend to the pantheon of great Miami music festivals when it takes over Bayfront Park this weekend? Audiences will be the judge. There’s no doubt the event has one of the most impressive hip-hop lineups of any festival in the country. A$AP Rocky, Mac Miller, Lil Wayne,…
What started as a small beach party in 1999 that took advantage of all the DJ’s visiting Miami during Winter Music Conference has become a global brand with editions in Brazil, China, Croatia, Korea, Japan, Australia, and more. But Ultra Music Festival’s Miami party in March is still the crown…
If you were holding off on deciding whether to attend Rolling Loud, start looking for a scalper. Festival organizers announced today that tickets for the third edition of the hip-hop festival, taking place May 5 through 7 at Bayfront Park, have sold out. Perhaps organizers can thank the publicity they received after…
Every year, Record Store Day invites vinyl fanatics, collectors, and even casual music fans to visit their local independent record store to shop for exclusive releases from acts across all genres and from all over the world. This year, if you can find them, you can nab limited releases by…
