Since 2000, Damon Albarn of Blur fame and illustrator Jamie Hewlett, best known for co-creating the comic book Tank Girl, have been shaping their own alternative rock/hip-hop/what-have-you act with Gorillaz. And in 17 years, the virtual band has never set foot in Florida. That will change this fall when Albarn and…
You’ve been dancing all night, drinking, and perhaps sampling some mild recreational drugs, but now it’s time to catch a rideshare and go home. So as you gather yourself together to request a ride, you start feeling around for them. Your house keys. Where are my keys? you ask yourself…
This morning, the Bayfront Park Management Trust voted in favor of allowing the third edition of Rolling Loud to move forward. The vote comes after a city commissioner balked at the hip-hop festival over claims it was too close to Ultra and that he hadn’t been properly informed…
Music has always been a way to escape, and dance music embodies this mission more than any other genre. Following the “disco sucks” movement of 1979, marginalized groups — black, Latino, and gay — were once again pushed outside the mainstream. Genres like house and techno were born in the warehouses in which these groups sought refuge.
Sunday night, Ultra Music Festival let downtown know that its three-day party was over with a fireworks display at the end of DJ Snake’s set on the main stage. Condo dwellers breathed a sigh of relief knowing they would finally be free once again to roam the city.
This time of year is supposed to be Miami’s dry season. That definitely wasn’t the case the second day of Ultra Music Festival 2017. Gray clouds hung over Bayfront Park and eventually drenched the festival. However, it wasn’t exactly like last year’s storm. In 2016, several performances were scrapped. This year, the show went on.
Thanks to Ultra Music Festival, the rest of the world gets to thaw out in the Magic City while jerking their bodies to the latest EDM hits. It’s becoming a spring equinox celebration of sorts — just with a lot of more neon and very little clothing. Friday launched the…
Wonder why half-naked people in neon tights are wandering the streets of downtown Miami? Welcome! You are obviously new here. Every March, Ultra Music Festival and its satellite events, both official and unofficial — the whole mess is dubbed Miami Music Week — take over Miami and, to some extent, Miami Beach.
Geronimo doesn’t agree that dance music — EDM, in particular — is dying. “I think the genre has never been healthier,” he says. “I think we are pulling from places we’ve never pulled before as far as new artists. Young and emerging producers from every corner of the globe are…
Disappointed you weren’t able to snag a ticket to Ultra Music Festival this weekend? Or is the astronomical expense to spend the first days of spring in Miami just out of reach? Ultra Music Festival doesn’t plan to leave you out in the cold. The festival announced plans to stream 26…
If there’s one complaint you hear often about Ultra Music Festival, it’s that the acts all seem to be the same year after year. Some of that criticism seems valid, but if you’re looking for something new among the headliners, perhaps you’re looking in the wrong place. Acts such as…
There’s no denying that acts like Swedish House Mafia, Avicii, Martin Garrix, and Afrojack help Ultra Music Festival sell tickets. But before EDM became a marketing buzzword, Ultra was putting dance music at the forefront every March with a lineup that always seemed to carefully balance popular, if flash-in-the-pan, trends…
You’ve probably already noticed the scaffolding and LED lights beginning to rise in Bayfront Park. That’s because Ultra Music Festival is only a few weeks away. If that weren’t reason enough to get excited, Ultra announced today that the set times and Phase 3 lineup are available on its official app.
Miami Music Week, Winter Music Conference, and Ultra Music Festival will attract DJs, electronic musicians, and producers from all over the world. There will be everything from easily digestible EDM to heady techno. If Art Basel is the art world’s cultural apex in the Americas, then MMW is Mecca for dance…
For the past two years, Steve Aoki and the Dim Mak crew have held an epic Miami Music Week bash at Nikki Beach. Last year was a particularly huge milestone for Aoki’s label. It celebrated its 20th anniversary with a mega-lineup that performed for 17 hours.
All that anyone could talk after Sunday night’s Grammys was James Hetfield’s microphone issues or Laverne Cox forgetting to namedrop the band in the introduction. But in metal circles, the real controversy was Metallica sharing the stage with Lady Gaga for a performance of “Moth Into Flame.” Setting aside that cries of…
It might have been short-lived, but the downtown Miami bar Libertine was an interesting experiment. In 2015, a first-floor room of the megaclub Space was walled off. Owners created a separate entrance and delivered something different.
Now that general-admission tickets are sold out and all you can get are the more expensive VIP passes, Ultra Music Festival has revealed its Phase 2 lineup.
This past September, Red Bull Sound Select took over the Hangar in downtown Miami for three days of music headlined by A$AP Ferg, AlunaGeorge, and Cashmere Cat. The mission of the event was to showcase both established acts and relative newcomers, all at an affordable $15 per show. Things must have…
Mild temperatures and cloudy skies greeted the crowds Saturday afternoon as they walked onto the sand adjacent to the North Beach Bandshell. By the entrance, a large tent held about a dozen stalls offering food and drinks from top Miami purveyors. About 500 feet south of the large tent…
This weekend, Miami will welcome yet another new music festival to its shores. And we’re not complaining. For a while, it seemed Miami would never have more than Ultra and 9 Mile. However, over the past few years, new endeavors have begun to pop up, with events like III Points and Rolling Loud hitting their stride. And then, last year, House of Creatives seemed to appear out of nowhere to give the city an early Christmas present.
Radiohead fans were already excited that the English rock band will headline this year’s Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in mid-April. Now the band has announced an 11-date U.S. tour scheduled to kick off March 30 at the American Airlines Arena in downtown Miami.
