Amid all the house, bass, techno, and beyond at Miami Music Week, it can be easy to forget about trance — unless, of course, you’re a devoted member of the #TranceFamily. Trance has been an integral part of Miami dance music; residencies such as George Acosta at Shadow Lounge and…
Spring break is officially here. With all the college students flooding Miami to party hard in downtown and get reckless on the beach, it’ll be hard to drown out all the mind-splitting EDM that will boom from every club in Dade County for the next month. Are you hip-hop heads looking for an easy escape route? Then search no further.
That thump in the air isn’t just the incoming EDM bpm; it’s your excited heartbeat about to burst from your chest. The best and brightest of the entire dance community are on their way to Miami, and they want nothing more than to party with you.
Imagine yourself tilted at a music festival this summer. It’s pouring, your cell service is spotty, and hours ago you let some dude with cool hair use your set sheet as a rolling paper. Now what? Easy. You stare at your forearm for a couple of seconds, point to the main stage, and elbow your way there. The who, what, when, and where are all right there on your skin, because you tattooed the entire festival lineup on your body at home.
If you asked what song best describes the state of EDM in 2017, it wouldn’t be electronic. It wouldn’t have a drop or a simple synth melody or a four-on-the-floor beat. It would be “After the Gold Rush” by Neil Young. The singer-songwriter wrote “After the Gold Rush” while the…
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.
Deaf Poets return with a new album, Lost in the Magic City, and video for “Celestine.”
Last September, more than 12,000 trance fans filed into the Ziggo Dome in Amsterdam. That night, Above & Beyond’s Paavo Siljamäki randomly selected Ciarán Smyth, a cop from Belfast, and Xenia Lee, a graduate student from New York, to take the stage and ceremoniously “press the button.” The group’s Jono…
A rundown of the ten best dive bars in Miami: Churchill’s, Bougainvillea’s, Kill Your Idol, Grove Bay Grill, Sandbar, Taberna Las Rosas, Mac’s Club Deuce, Lost Weekend, Seven Seas, and Irish Times.
By many standards, Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival is a resounding success. Since its inaugural edition in 2016, the South Florida festival has sold out twice — no easy feat for a fest without a reputation to precede it. Besides being financially solvent, Okeechobee has garnered acclaim from critics and audiences. It also has a well-populated subreddit and a cute shortened name that fits comfortably alongside that of ‘Roo and Lolla: Chobee.
World music often gets shafted in popular music discourse. Despite encompassing, well, the breadth of what the world offers musically, it often isn’t treated with the same reverence and passion Americans reserve for today’s electronic and rock acts. But if that fact bothers Simrit Kaur, known simply as Simrit, it…
Brace yourself. Winter is coming. Like all pop culture phenomena, Game of Thrones will not allow itself to be bound to one medium. What began as A Song of Ice and Fire — a series of fantasy books written by George R.R. Martin — Game of Thrones was unleashed onto…
On January 20, a misogynist Cheeto took the oath of the president of the United States. Just as important, the next day, millions of women took to the streets to protest his plans. Around the world, women marched to show their strength and made their voices heard. A trio of…
“A lot of DJ documentaries have a glossier perspective of what we do. I wanted a warts-and-all perspective,” Dubfire says of his aim for the new documentary, Dubfire: Above Ground Level. The 77-minute movie, which will screen at the Miami Film Festival Wednesday night, begins with a career retrospective showing Dubfire’s first snippets of fame…
Folk music and punk rock don’t seem to go hand in hand. One is slow; the other is fast. One conjures images of flowing dresses and acoustic guitars; the other makes you think of ripped jeans and safety-pin piercings. But because both genres stem from protest, they often find a…
In its first year, everything went wrong at the Rolling Loud festival — driving rain, a flooded venue, a smoke alarm that rang throughout the entire festival, all sorts of sound issues, and the unfortunate placement of a barbecue smoker that caused everyone inside to smell like brisket. During the hip-hop festival’s second year, we learned it had been charging young rappers anywhere from $500 to $5,000 for what ended up being a disappointing 15 minutes of stage time for some. Then, this past February 25, TMZ published a story claiming Danielle Bregoli — or the “Cash Me Ousside” Girl, as she’s known in the world of internet memes — was being paid more than $40,000 to do a meet-and-greet at the fest in May.
When DMX takes the stage at the 9 Mile Music Festival this Saturday, some audience members might experience a little cognitive dissonance. 9 Mile is historically a peace-and-love-friendly affair, a festival that requires attendees to donate canned goods to charity just to get through the gates. Meanwhile, DMX doesn’t exactly…
As underground personalities go, Damian Lazarus qualifies as royalty. He’s a DJ, a producer, a label boss, and frontman for the Ancient Moons. But during Miami Music Week, his most important skill is that of epic party planner.
At times, Okeechobee Music and Arts Festival felt like the tale of two worlds. You had your relatively-clean VIP and artists, and then you had your smelly, dirt-rotting GA camping hoards. You had your shoe gazing, indie darling, folk music hipsters, and then you had your rebel rousing, totem-touting professional…
The weirdos were out in full force at Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival. Minds were pushed as far to the edge of sanity as socially acceptable. In festie land, anything goes. George Clinton and his legendary Parliament Funkadelic lit the fuse on Okeechobee’s rocket ship Saturday with a funkdafied performance on the Now stage.
For 24 years, the 9 Mile Music Festival has been the premier reggae event in Miami. Since its inception in 1993, the event, better known by its unofficial title, Marley Fest, is a yearly party with the Marley family. It honors their patriarch’s legacy.
Dirty ankles, warm beer, tank-top sunburns, and never-ending groove. Yes, Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival is in full swing. Once again, the quiet community of Sunshine Grove is filled with tens of thousands of hip-hop heads, beat freaks, rock jocks, and all manner of folks looking for a good time.
