Ultra Week, or Miami Music Week, or the Week Formerly Known as Winter Music Conference, is amazing in that on any given night, there are a number of world-class lineups from which to choose. That can be a bad thing too, though, because with so many competing events, some deserving…
Jump around! House of Pain’s touring again. And on April 1, Everlast and Danny Boy are going to jump up, jump up, and get down with you at LIV. Earlier this month, two-thirds of Pain’s original lineup (DJ Lethal’s out working on a new Limp Bizkit record) kicked off a cross-country…
WTF! The 2011 edition of Ultra Music Festival hasn’t even started but the festival’s organizers have already announced dates for next year’s date. Mark it down, because the three-day electronic music gathering will return to Miami on March 23 to 25, 2012.Early artwork also indicate the week during the festival…
Tomorrow’s the day! And finally, Ultra Music Festival’s organizers have released the entire list of set times for the massive three-day gathering.It really helps a lot knowing beforehand what to expect when attending a festival the size of Ultra. You are going to have to possible make some tough choices,…
More than two decades of Miami’s best is available today on our new Best Of… app for iPhone. That’s right. You can check out categories like Best Dance Club, Best New Restaurant, Best Bar, Best Hotel, and many others.The app lets you check out not only current winners — this…
Recent years have marked the resurgence of the broken beat in electronic dance music. (Not that breaks ever went away, but they did stay on the fringe for a good decade.) Now, with the rise of dubstep and ’90s UK garage/two-step nostalgia, producers across the international scene are breaking the…
Ultra Music Festival! It’s the final countdown. Listen .. Can you hear it? Uhhntz, uhhntz, uhhntz . . . It’s almost showtime. Yet many people don’t have tickets. What do you do? Should you hit up Stubhub or Craigslist and pay over four hundred dollars? Is it time to sell…
Yeah, it’s easy to feel like a freaking superhero when you’re rolling fast, hard, and free. You might even look pretty awesome. But just wait till the next morning. Last night, Dutch DJ and crazy rave-y ringmaster Laidback Luke brought his Super You & Me party to LIV — not…
He combed his hair, bought a week’s supply of Binaca, rented a tux, scored a corsage, and blew up a giant freaking balloon. And now dapper DJ, experimental electronic producer, and avowed Sunday Schooler Frivolous (AKA Daniel Gardner) would like to celebrate Ultra week and the release of his new…
After this initially funny article in the New York Times, parties continue to roll on in South Beach at World’s Fanciest Parking Garage — i.e. the Herzog & de Meuron-designed 1111 building at the corner of Lincoln and Alton Roads. To be fair, for a parking garage, it’s pretty beautiful.Yesterday…
Amid the deep woofs of Miami bass and the resonating pitch of piercing house, one New York duo plans to make sweet love to the sound systems at Ultra Music Festival’s Live Stage. Meet Holy Ghost!, the pair responsible for your favorite slow-dance disco track, “Hold On.” And this Friday,…
Support Public Radio! We were filming live at 91.3FM for Ed Bell’s show, and caught a great musician.Sarah Packiam is a singer songwriter who grew up touring bars and clubs around the world.Her mom is Irish, and her dad is a traveling Indian musician. She won a national song contest…
Ahhhhhh, Diplo. Miami loves nothing more than a good ol’ Florida boy who can DJ big bass and has a tattoo of a manatee holding a machine gun on his chest. Mr. Wes Pentz was here only a couple of weeks ago with his hybrid dancehall outfit, Major Lazer, at…
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Duran Duran at Ultra Music Festival March 25
Moby at Ultra Music Festival March 26
It’s been only about three months since beloved local quirk-pop queen Rachel Goodrich left you, me, and the Magic City for the big, bright floodlights of La La Land. And already we miss her so much. We watched helplessly as Rachel picked out her favorite records, stuffed her suitcase, and…
This weekend, Bicentennial Park will be flooded by an international wave of beatmakers and pookie heads for Ultra Music Festival. But just a half-mile west of downtown’s loudest outdoor fiesta, Shit Robot will pop his Miami cherry Friday at the Vagabond, two days before hitting Ultra’s Heineken Dome. Marcus Lambkin,…
Miami Chum Bucket grand opening March 26
Peter Murphy is the pale, skeletal baritone whose career fronting Bauhaus in the late ’70s and early ’80s jump-started a movement toward darkness and beautiful pain in rock music. Bauhaus’s hit single “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” is the template for much modern goth, while the band’s cameo in the 1983 vampire…
Critical condemnation and popular adulation go alarmingly hand-in-hand in the world of rock music. Often, the same qualities lead those opposing camps to their positions, and such is certainly the case for ’70s and ’80s progressive rock stalwart Rush. Fond of science fiction and Ayn Rand, the group often worked…
