The 20 Best Miami Songs of 2016

For all the awful stuff that happened this year, rest assured of one thing: Miami’s music scene is alive and well. Whether it’s dance, hip-hop, rock, metal, or everything in between, 305’s artists made themselves heard with an amazing body of work that had listeners in awe. If your knowledge of Miami music goes only as far as Pitbull and Rick Ross, now is the time to get to know the acts who actually made the most of 2016.

Hot Chip, Bomba Estereo, Ghostface Killah Headline F+M Festival 2017

Food at music festivals usually consists of barely warm pizza, questionable kebabs, and greasy arepas. And the fact that your meal costs twice as much as what you would have paid for it elsewhere adds insult to injury. However, there is hope for music-festival munchies. The appropriately named F+M Festival, the brainchild of local party purveyor Poplife, aims to make festival food the star of the show alongside a stacked musical lineup January 28 and 29 on the sand adjacent to the North Beach Bandshell.

Art Basel Miami Beach 2016 Party Guide

Today, November 9, it’s tough for a massive slice of America to feel optimistic about anything. But if there is a reason to get out of bed eventually, it’s the stacked lineups coming our way this Art Basel. Though the 2016 edition of Art Basel Miami Beach will have its…

Art Basel Miami Beach 2016 and Satellite Fairs Guide

Art Basel is almost upon us. However, if you think the art hubbub stays contained to the Miami Beach Convention Center, you couldn’t be more wrong. In addition to the prestigious Swiss import, Miami and Miami Beach will host over 20 satellite fairs including stalwart like Art Miami, Design Miami,…

Aileen Quintana’s Performance Art Brings Miami Neon to the Stage

As she sits at a table inside a Wynwood coffee shop, Aileen Quintana projects an otherworldliness. Though she’s dressed mostly in black, she seems to radiate the colors that characterize her vibrant art projects, such as her vaporwave mall installation, Sunset @ Noon, which recently showed at this year’s III…

Halloween 2016 Party Guide in Miami

Impending hurricanes, minor federal holidays, Tuesdays — Miami never needs much of an excuse to party. So it’s no shock that for an actual, A-list fiesta like Halloween, the Magic City doesn’t play. Our costumes are more elaborate than Donald Trump’s latest conspiracy theory, and our parties — from packed…

Does III Points Owe LCD Soundsystem Fans a Refund?

I won’t keep you waiting in suspense to the question asked in this headline: No. Why? Because you didn’t buy a ticket for an LCD Soundsystem show; you bought a ticket for a music festival that happened to feature LCD Soundsystem on the bill. All weekend long, New Times received…

III Points 2016, Day One: Complications Linger, but the Show Goes On

Down its biggest headliner and plagued by last-minute hiccups, III Points limped into day one, badly wounded. The forces of god, nature, and misfortune had seemingly unloaded their entire arsenal on the Wynwood festival this year in the form of wind, mosquitoes, and cancelled flights.  Year four would be the…

Ten Can’t-Miss Local Acts of III Points 2016

In just four years, III Points has grown at a staggering pace. Year one, the festival seemed to have been slapped together in a matter of months. Yet despite the rush job, 2013’s inaugural edition was electric thanks to the headliners, which included DJ Shadow, Jamie xx, and James Murphy…

AlunaGeorge Is Reinventing the Way We Think of R&B

In 2012, Aluna Francis and George Reid released their first single, “You Know You Like It.” And though the duo’s first album, Body Music, was still more than a year away, that debut track proved to be a fantastic piece of future-pop-meets-R&B with a hint of garage, a perfect introduction…

Virgo Releases Her First-Ever Music Video, “Disappear”

From the start, Elizabeth Ann Clark, AKA Virgo, has taken care to craft herself visually as well as sonically. First through the self-portraits that presented her as an extraterrestrial siren, and later through her Water Planet video game. Virgo is as much as something to listen to as it is to…

Poorgrrrl Invites You to a Pitiparti With Her New EP

If you thought Tara Long’s music-cum-performance art project Poorgrrrl was just a temporary thing, Long is back to prove you wrong. Not that she ever really went away. After a buzzy — and busy — Art Basel this past December, Long opened for rising queer rapper Le1f at Bardot back…