You know that time in middle school when you and your dipshit 13-year-old friends bought weed from the intimidating high schooler with the black Sharpie-painted fingernails, but when you got home, your older sister told you dweebs it was just a bunch of oregano? That just happened to emerging R&B star Summer Walker right here in the Magic City.
Even as the last ten years saw Miami’s music and nightlife scenes undergo a series of seismic shifts, the city still made time to host a number of incredible shows. Although the DJ reigns supreme here, a number of live acts also left their mark on the minds and memories…
From ridiculous behavior by promoters and DJs to the countless venues that opened and closed, here are the ten developments that shaped Miami nightlife over the past decade.
Miami rap’s prodigal son, Denzel Curry, will fight for his city in a five-round lyrical boxing match against Atlanta’s J.I.D. next month. The ringside showdown is set to take place in the Magic City Innovation District during a new event called Red Bull Zeltron World Wide, which takes its name from one of Curry’s alter egos…
The dubstep producer’s show at the Venue this Sunday is shaping up to be a display of disgusting visuals and filthy, positively nasty bass music.
From Boys Noize at Club Space to the Matzoball at LIV, this holiday season offers no shortage of opportunities to get festive in the Magic City.
The celebrated musician and writer will be at the Adrienne Arsht Center on Tuesday, December 17 to discuss her latest book, Year of the Monkey.
Who says you have to calm down with age? Madonna has pissed off someone or other for the entirety of her multidecade career.
Start practicing your brrrs and your aahhhooowwws, because Cardi B is coming to Miami. The 27-year-old, Bronx-born bad bitch is the first announced performer for the forthcoming two-day Vewtopia Music Festival, slated to take place at Marlins Park Friday, January 31, and Saturday, February 1, just in time for Super Bowl LIV the following Sunday.
The second edition of the Super Bowl-centric festival is sure to be a pop cultural explosion.
During Miami Art Week, Richie Hawtin, one of the foremost masters of techno music, is collaborating with deadmau5 under his Testpilot alias to celebrate their shared Canadian and techno-heavy upbringings.
South Korea-born and Berlin-based DJ/producer Peggy Gou will make a repeat appearance at Club Space on Friday, November 22, alongside German techno maven Sven Väth.
We can fight it all we want, but nothing will change Miami’s identity as a party city. As long as it’s pumping out great nightclubs like candy, the 305 will be known as one of the best places in the world to get wasted.
It’s a frigid 22 degrees Fahrenheit in downtown Toronto. Gray sky hangs low over snow-slushed sidewalks, turning everything a dismal shade of urban slate. People are masses of jacket cloth hunched against the cold as they duck in and out of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s heavy glass doors. The lobby…
Life can be hard for a Miami club kid. It’s not all champagne and bathroom-stall snow showers. Sometimes your favorite place is marked by developers and reduced to rubble overnight. Sometimes you love a place but no one else seems to care, and it slowly fades into nothingness, prompting half-hearted queries like, “Is that place even still open?”
The days of Madonna sightings and Versace parties are gone, but the South Beach nightclub scene rages on. The players change and institutions come and go. Velvet ropes line the street, then vanish, only to return under new blinking signs. The music shifts, styles evolve, but the energy and excitement remain.
In today’s world of status updates, fake news, and follower counts, it’s easy to blur the boundaries of truth and illusion. We draw battle lines in the digital sand, but it’s our relationship with ourselves that often takes the hardest hits. “Whether it’s reading the news or being on Facebook…
And on the second day, the dance music gods sent down a constellation of pop stars. Yes, Ultra Music Festival kept pumping out the beats on Saturday, March 24. While there were no major surprises on Day Two (Daft Punk isn’t coming, people), festivalgoers still got a few guest appearances,…
From South Beach to Bayfront to Bicentennial and then back to Bayfront, Ultra Music Festival has lived many lives. From simple stages to foggy tents to massive structural wonders, Ultra has grown from a bright idea to a monolithic temple of electronic dance. It was one of the first music…
It’s been about a decade since Shaq donned the Heat jersey, but he misses Miami so much he’s coming back in the biggest way possible. Shaq’s Fun House is an invite-only, all-night dance-music throwdown that will be held during Miami Music Week at a secret warehouse in the heart of Wynwood.
Blackbear is a dichotomy, the perfect anti-pop antihero for the murky space between the millennial and Z generations. He capitalizes on overindulgence in sex, drugs, money, and fame, but there’s an ever-present darkness in his trap-influenced beats and lyrical content. Blackbear oozes confidence tempered by vulnerability and sensitivity. He’s the…
Two young women sit pretty in leggings and long sleeves. They eat Froot Loops in water and wash it down with Sunkist soda on the hood of a candy-purple Cadillac. They pay no attention to the dudes hollering while playing dice on the sidewalk. Soon the two will ride through the streets of Miami…
