Blurb. Wanee 2015’s Set Times Wednesday, April 15 11:00 p.m. Melvin Seals & JGB 8:30 p.m. Crazy Fingers 6:30 p.m. Cope 4:45 p.m. Parker Urban Band 3:00 p.m. Bonnie Blue Thursday, April 16 Mushroom Stage 11:30 p.m. Pink Talking Fish 9:30 p.m. Hot Tuna Electric 7:30 p.m. Raw Oyster Cult…
It isn’t a crossover. More than maybe any other Latin pop act, Maná represents what the Top 40 charts could look like in a couple of decades, as the U.S.’s Spanish-speaking population continues to explode. The Mexican rock band sings only en español. Unlike Shakira, Ricky Martin, Enrique Iglesias, and…
It’s been seven decades since anyone actually stepped into the Buena Vista Social Club, a members-only hangout in Havana, where some of the island’s most skillful singers and musicians pioneered a distinctively Afro-Cuban mezla of jazz, mambo, charanga, cha-cha-cha, rumba, and son. The club closed in the 1940s, long before…
Blurb. DJ Windows 98 (Arcade Fire’s Win Butler) at Bardot Miami Giveaway 1. Head over to Miami New Times Music’s Facebook page. 2. Find the DJ Windows 98 update and leave a comment. 3. From the pool of commenters, we’ll randomly select a winner for this show at Bardot. So…
Edwin Farnham Butler III is a son, brother, husband, father, and bandmate. Born to a family with deep musical roots, he is also the heir to a century-old tradition of artistic pursuit that began with his grandparents: Alvino Rey, a pioneering jazzman known as the Father of the Pedal Steel…
Ultra Music Festival is 36 solid hours of EDM-themed overstimulation. Superfamous DJs! Pop-star cameos! Half-naked ladies! Oiled-up beefcakes! Dancing robots! Human tacos! Toothpaste Man! Pyrotechnics! Cryo cannons! Fireworks! Everything at Ultra deserves an exclamation point. Or maybe ten. And there’s never less than 120 decibels rumbling through your already stimuli-flooded…
“Thank you, South Beach.” Those are the words currently tacked to the famous Cameo marquee. Built in 1936, it was originally a movie theater. In the ’80s, it became a punk and hardcore venue where Black Flag, Circle Jerks, Dead Kennedys, D.O.A., Bad Brains, and even the Red Hot Chili…
Ultra 2015 just might go down in history as the most cameo-crazy edition of the festival ever. Last night, Usher showed up for Martin Garrix’s set on the Main Stage to perform their new single, “Don’t Look Down.” And honestly, even though we joked about the possibility of a Bieber…
It’s become an annual Ultra Music Festival tradition. Even before party people, DJs, and downtown Miami condo residents have recovered from their latest romp through Ultraland, the fest springs the news that next year’s 200,000-strong EDM extravaganza is only 365 days away. At Ultra 2013, it only took organizers 17…
“I need to know now, can you love me again?” That was the opening line of Avicii’s set on Ultra Music Festival 2015’s main stage last night. Sure, they weren’t his words. (He isn’t an especially chatty DJ, only occasionally reaching for the mic to express his affection for the…
Only 48 hours left. Don’t cry. Don’t hyperventilate. Don’t despair. We know it seems Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week is oh-so-quickly coming to an end. But there’s still plenty of party time to go. You will realize your wildest WMC and MMW dreams. You will fist-pump underwater. You…
Even our “Eat Me” bikini bottoms and weed-leaf knee socks are soaked. Ultra Music Festival 2015’s opening day was wet. Very wet. And the drizzles, showers, and storms eventually led to five of the fest’s seven stages being temporarily shut down. At about 6 p.m., the rain started falling. It…
Sad ’cause you’re stuck at home while 60,000 half-naked party people stampede toward downtown Miami’s Bayfront Park for the ceremonial bass drop that signals the start of Ultra Music Festival? Shake off those negi vibes. There’s a solution to your problem. Even if you don’t have tix for this weekend’s…
Contrary to what your physician may suggest, after three straight days of partying, you do not need a dark room, a warm bed, some rest, a good cry, and an IV dose of 1000 milliliters of normal saline. All you need is more partying. Lots more partying. And even more…
Are you ready to rave? Maybe not. It’s actually quite likely you just can’t wait for that 200,000-person traffic snarl, noise nuisance, and neon eyesore — otherwise known as Ultra Music Festival — to clear outta downtown Miami. Well, chill, bro. The fest doesn’t even swing open the gates to…
Good morning, party people. You’re probably the super-serious sort of nightlifers. And that means you will have already been celebrating that weeklong holiday known as Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week for about 46 hours now. There has been no sleep. (Except for five-minute power naps in VIP poolside…
Do not stop dancing. Maybe you haven’t heard (and maybe you live in a padded, soundproof room with no internet, a busted TV set, and boarded-up windows), but that annual 144-hour dance marathon known as Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week is about to swarm South Beach, downtown, Wynwood,…
White sands. Neon. Bikini bottoms on babes of both sexes. This is Miami Beach, a land of sun and fun, late nights and megaclubs, humble coconut vendors, and princelings of excess, where the waves roll forever, the mojitos are always cold, and it’s perfectly acceptable to stroll through the streets…
Firebeatz & Friends. With Crespo, Dubvision, Jay Hardaway, Julian Jordan, Kenneth G, and special guests. 11 p.m. Tuesday, March 24, at FDR at the Delano, 1685 Collins Ave., Miami Beach; 305-674-5752; delano-hotel.com. Tickets cost $15 plus fees via wantickets.com. Ages 21 and up. Octopus Recordings Showcase. In the club’s Room…
Who’s feelin’ Jazzy? We at New Times certainly got a tingle in our booty. So do Erykah Badu, Run-D.M.C.’s Joseph “Run” Simmons, and Darryl “D.M.C.” McDaniels, R. Kelly, Toni Braxton, Maxwell, Sheila E, D.L. Hughley, Rickey Smiley, and even Celine Dion duet partner Peabo Bryson of “Beauty and the Beast”…
“On March 12, 2005,” marvels Lolo Reskin, “Sweat Records first opened its doors to the public!” Whoa, we can’t believe it’s been a whole decade since Little Haiti’s little music shop started selling vintage vinyl, new pressings, limited-editon CDs, and many other fine collectible items with the talismanic power to…
Eight days and 40 minutes. That’s exactly the waiting time left till Ultra Music Festival 2015, party people. Too long? Getting antsy? Getting dancey? Well, the fest’s got just the thing to keep your uhntz-uhntz-ing asses pleasantly preoccupied for the next week and a day and a little less than…
