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…
Nothing’s worse than being broke in the Magic City… Especially during the epic uhntz-uhntz madness that is Winter Music Conference, Miami Music Week, and Ultra Music Festival. And if you’ve already blown that stack of emergency party cash on some of the year’s best ragers, you can still rock that sequence…
We are going to pose a question for you: does anything go together better than a hard night out and delicious greasy food? No, it doesn’t. No one knows that better than South Beach hotspot, Cheeseburger Baby. Owner Stephanie Vitori has been serving up noms like bacon cheeseburgers, chili cheese…
George Clinton is one of the God particles of hip-hop. Like James Brown before him, his crucial contributions to the world of funk form the basis of rap as we know it. Not just the samples, the breaks, the ripoffs, and the re-writes, but the classics. From De La Soul’s…
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…
Ever since joining Major Lazer, Walshy Fire has been circling the globe, dropping bass, and inciting international party crowds into wild, explosive, and twerkelated versions of themselves. It’s the logical progression for a Jamaican kid from Carol City who picked up on music early and never let it go. First…
Splish, splash, and uhntz-uhntz. Every year, when Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week come ’round, picking the right H2O bash to show off that cute “I’m in Miami, Bitch!” bikini and matching shades can be a daunting task. Luckily, we at New Times have taken many trips to the…
Legendary EDM duo Deep Dish quit working together in 2007, much to the disappointment of music fans around the world who’d grown up on their trend-setting studio work and massive skills at murdering a party crowd. Early last year, Sharam and Dubfire, having established themselves as individuals capable of twice…
George Clinton has fought so many lawyers, he can smoke a spliff rolled in a Habeas Corpus and still know every word printed on it. For decades he has fought for legal and monetary justice over song copyrights he says were fraudulently signed out from under him and then exploited…
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…
Straight outta Harlem, Dipset is in the house, they’ve got Diplomatic Immunity, and they’re going to rock Grand Central like straight drop in pyrex. Fresh from a headline set at Austin’s SXSW. Jim Jones, Cam’ron, Freekey Zekey, and Juelz Santana are setting the hip hop world on fire with their…
Watching Ultra Music Festival’s idyllic official after-movies, you might get the impression that UMF is some kind of utopian music-based society where the young and beautiful run only in slow motion, where everyone is welcome and everything is pleasant. In some ways, this is true. You’re more likely to have…
Dutch DJ-producer Joris Voorn blew up on an international level in 2010, thanks in no small part to the exuberant tech-house remix of Nalin & Kane’s “Beachball,” which he broke during that year’s Miami Music Week. Fast-forward to 2015 and Voorn is returning to Miami not only as one of…
Mekka, the longstanding Park West nightclub, will close its doors after Winter Music Conference 2015. Owner Michael Slyder confirmed the news to New Times this morning via email, saying, “Our landlord, Miami Worldcenter, is set to begin construction in April or May and our building, along with many others, will…
It’s been nearly 38 years since Fleetwood Mac appeared in Miami with Christine McVie, whose smooth vocals and strident keyboards were so essential to the sound of the hybrid UK/US band. That was at the long-gone Miami Stadium for the band’s hit album Rumours. Now, all these decades later, the…
Underground house music, tacos, and tequila. That’s what you’ll find at Coyo Taco when Oscar G and the Murk crew take over the Wynwood taqueria’s secret bar for Murk Mondays. “First, we ate there, which probably helped the matter,” Oscar jokes. “I think more so than anything, we just really…
Bring out your kandi masks and raver gear — the 305’s Winter Music Conference, Miami Music Week, and Ultra Music Festival madness has officially begun. While we know you can’t get enough of that uhntz-uhntz, the key to getting through seven days of non-stop fist pumping is a healthy balance…
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…
“Hod is not an acronym. It is not H.O.D. It is Hod. Can we all get it straight now? Hod is creating what the world needs and fears the most; REAL FUCKING METAL!!!” So says Hod’s Facebook bio page and as we’d find out, there is some meaning to the…
