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.
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.
Face it — you’re not 22 anymore. However, you aren’t looking to give up your party-hard attitude just yet. You just wish there was a place where you could imbibe and dance without having to be surrounded by a bunch of weekend warriors. That’s where Ora hopes to come in.
One big problem the diverse city of Miami faces during the holidays: How do you include all your friends — regardless of religious background — into the celebrations? Well, Miami/Brooklyn duo Basside has a solution: getting “Lit” for the holidays, whether it’s Christmas or Hanukkah. Yes, the rapping duo has…
Your complete guide to the New Year’s Eve 2017 parties happening in Miami.
Perhaps the smartest move Ultra Music Festival has made recently was the creation of the Resistance stage. What began as a single stage in 2015 has become a brand in and of itself. Resistance has grown so much that the festival’s organizers have spun it off into its own standalone event.
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…
From Pablo Picasso’s Guernica to the “degenerate art” of Otto Dix, art has always been a way to place political and social unease into context. With the specter of a Trump presidency looming over America for the next four years, rest assured that plenty of the works at Art Basel…
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,…
In Virgo’s first music video, “Disappear,” she sings just as the sun begins to break on the horizon, and later she submerges herself in the Atlantic Ocean as the folds of her white dress dance in the water. It’s the perfect image for an enigmatic songwriter who’s transformed herself in…
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…
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…
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…
While Hurricane Matthew threw an obvious speed bump into Friday night’s festivities, there would be no excuse for not pulling things off on day two. Luckily, that’s exactly what III Points did. With ever stage up and operational — and with only slightly amended set times — Saturday night showcased…
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…
We get it. You’re bummed out that LCD Soundsystem pulled out of this year’s III Points. However, if you are thinking there’s nothing else worth your time on the first day of the festival, you’re wrong. Let us introduce you to Sophie, the reclusive British producer who, over the past…
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…
In 2008, the nascent EDM machine was still a couple of years away from dominating the charts. In Miami, any form of dance music was still relegated to the clubs and stayed away from radio and record executives. It was also the era of Hipster Runoff-approved DJ names and glitchy…
Common myth would have you believe that a person uses either the right side or the left side of the brain, and that alone determines whether the individual is creative or logical, as if the two are mutually exclusive. “I don’t believe it,” Manchester native Sam Shepherd says over the…
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…
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…
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…
