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…
“I had been in various bands since 1987 and the last band I was in, Killer Kane, showed early signs of the direction I wanted to go in musically. I wanted to emphasize rawness, heavy guitars, feedback and distortion. At that time, I was listening to bands like the Laughing…
Move over magic clowns, Trick Daddy Dollars is about to take over the birthday game. True Miami boy and avid music lover Eric Faden is turning 24. That’s why on Friday, April 10, he will be turning Wynwood’s LMNT into a 305 free-for-all of music, food, and entertainment. There’s gonna…
Although he’s played a critical role in dozens of high profile projects over the 30 years, Frank Simes is hardly what one would consider a household name. Yet he also claims one of the greatest dream jobs any musician could imagine. As the Who’s musical director, band leader and participating…
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…
It’s hard to imagine how the founders of Miami Beach envisioned their island paradise a century in the future. It’s unlikely that they foresaw Miami Beach residents in 2015 using selfie sticks or drones. They also probably could not see Flo Rida coming. But Flo, along with fellow 305 superstar…
Much like music, noise is everywhere. “People are so used to listening to noise that they’ll sit for hours and see it [on film],” Frank Falestra AKA Rat Bastard claims. “Take away the picture, and it’s just noise.” Sitting in the living room of his South Beach apartment-turned-recording studio, the…
The 305’s Telekinetic Walrus and the Pride of Ions may have started their Magic City voyage in 2009. But according to legend, their journey actually began galaxies away and eons ago when the Prime Primordial Walrus was placed at the center of the ancient universe to lead the Primordial Pride…
Ten years ago in 2005, I went to my first Ultra Music Festival. Back then, it lasted merely a day. Moby played, but he played with a full band and did nothing but original material. The Carl Cox & Friends tent was still actually a tent. No one yet knew…
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…
Another year, another Ultra, another man-on-the-street video starring you, the Ultra attendee. You braved a lot this year to have a good time. You roared in the face of torrential downpour, you struggled (or maybe breezed) through heightened security, and you toiled hours composing the world’s sexiest and most vibrant…
Any veteran of Ultra Music Festival who attended this year’s three-day event was pleasantly surprised by the increased organization and overall maturity of the audience. Certain seemingly simple measures, like significantly improved perimeter security and an 18-and-over age policy, taken following 2014’s trampling of security guard Erica Mack and the…
Sure, the rain washed out a lot of acts on Friday and Krewella spent Sunday getting trolled by Deadmau5, but for the most part Ultra Music Festival 2015 was a success. The most positive feedback we heard all week was how much more enjoyable the festival was without the under-18…
The United Nations could learn a thing or two from Ultra. Imagine how much more effective Ban Ki-moon would be in bright pink booty shorts that said Slut across the butt. Hold up, Iran, before we drop these sanctions on your ass, allow me to drop the beat. The people…
Still recovering from the uhntz-uhntz buzz of Winter Music Conference, Miami Music Week, and Ultra Music Festival? Luckily for you, there’s a cure for that: even more music. And while the kandi masks, neon pasties, and flower crowns have long been put away, the tuneage never ends in the Magic…
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…
Deadmau5 isn’t at Ultra Music Festival this year, but that’s not going to stop the loudmouth Canadian DJ-producer from taking away the spotlight from what’s happening in Bayfront Park. Krewella, who are now just consists of sisters Jahan Yousaf and Yasmine Yousaf after producer Kristopher “Rain Man” Trindl resigned from the…
Yesterday, we at New Times told you Ultra “blew its surprise superstar load” when Usher crashed Martin Garrix’ headline set on the Main Stage. We have to apologize a bit to Ultra. They have more loaded in their star-power canon than we thought. Arianna Grande blind-sided the Ultra World Stage…
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…
There have been a lot of changes at Ultra Music Festival. The audience is over 18 now. And many of rave culture’s familiar accoutrements — finger gloves, glow sticks, rage totems, etc. — have been banned under the fest’s new Prohibited Items policy. There are still those of adult age…
When I wrote back in January that I found Ultra Music Festival’s 2015 underwhelming, honest to God I wasn’t doing it do be contrarian or clickbait-y. EDM is big and there’s a lot of money to be made. No one is going to argue that headliners like Avicii and Tiësto…
