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…
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…
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…
“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…
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…
Elvis Costello Au-Rene Theater at Broward Center For The Performing Arts Wednesday, March 18, 2015 Better Than: Most singer/songwriters going it alone. There’s an old expression that suggests a leopard will never change its spots. I’m not exactly sure how a leopard could change its spots, even if it were…
Fleetwood Mac’s recent reunion with formerly retired vocalist/keyboardist Christine McVie marks just another notable transformation for the notoriously tumultuous rock outfit. The significance of having all of the members of Fleetwood Mac’s classic lineup on stage at the American Airlines Arena in Miami this weekend will not be lost on the…
The time for “Big Decisions” has come. So has the hour of My Morning Jacket’s new album, The Waterfall. Last week, Jim James and company debuted the record’s lead single. And they’ll be releasing the entirety of their seventh full-length effort in only another couple of months on May 4,…
Formed in 1998 by Xaphan and Xul and known initially as Azazel, Kult ov Azazel has been leading the charge in South Florida’s metal scene with their distinctive black metal. Xaphan’s involvement in music has seen him stint in many bands before, ranging from metal to punk, but as the…
Three days and 78 DJs is a daunting task, but it’s one EDM fanatics joyously face when entering the Ultra Music Festival grounds. Yes, the old favorites are there, the likes of Tiesto, Steve Aoki, and Skrillex, but to catch the biggest names is only to scratch the surface of…
Diamanté Blackmon, AKA Carnage, knows how to crush a trap set. When he played Pompano Beach’s Club Cinema last year, he was hauled out of the DJ booth by Broward Sheriff’s officers because he performed for 45 minutes after closing time. Still, he has positive memories of that show: “That’s…
In 2012, Avicii was preparing to take the main stage at Ultra Music Festival when Madonna came out to introduce the then-22-year-old. “Who has seen Molly?” she asked. Those four words would set off a media firestorm and spur the outspoken Deadmau5 to write, “Fuck off, you fucking IDIOT.” This…
Scientifically speaking, you are what you eat. But what if you’re a Grammy-winning house producer and DJ? Does food fuel the creative fire in your belly? In the case of Ali Shirazinia, known to house music fans as Dubfire or half of D.C.-based duo Deep Dish, the answer is a…
“Let’s get weird,” as they say. Every year for approximately 144 hours during the last week of March, our already party-obsessed subtropical city becomes the all-day, all-night staging area for a throbbing, million-person orgy of neon-swaddled raver chicks, sweaty frat bros, black-clad hipster dance aficionados, and progressive house heads who…
It’s been about four years since EDM exploded into a supernova-level pop culture phenomenon. And it’s been about a year since the term dubstep was added to the dictionary. (“A type of electronic dance music,” the definition reads, “having prominent bass lines and syncopated drum patterns.”) So yeah, some of…
Nothing’s worse than waking up to the sound of your alarm thinking it’s Friday when, in fact, it’s only Monday. Sure, it’s a brutal reality, but here’s a comforting fact: come 5 p.m., there’ll be nothing but good music and kickass shows coming your way. Just check out the five…
Agnostic Front is the greatest New York hardcore band of all time. And the crew has earned this title with 35 years of furious music. But before lead singer Roger Miret ever set foot in Queens, he was stepping off a plane from Cuba onto the grounds of Opa-locka Airport…
By all accounts, Fleetwood Mac is one of the great rock ‘n’ roll bands. But there weren’t many people who would’ve predicted its classic lineup would be together and touring sports arenas in 2015. Over the course of the 38 years since the release of the group’s masterpiece, 1977’s Rumours,…
Hardcore punk rock is the world’s best music for unity, aggression, and positive mental attitude. Just ask Freddy Madball, he’s been doing it for decades. From the time he was a kid in Miramar, to starting a band on the mean streets of NYC. Whether you’ve been going to shows…
DJs are a dime a dozen. But a few times every decade, the world gets an act with the creativity, vision, and voice to change the course of pop music. Nearly ten years ago, French house duo Daft Punk laid the foundation for an electronic dance music explosion, when its…
“It’s the official headquarters of Miami Music Week,” says Gianfranco Dossena of DiskoLab, the team of curators behind the inaugural MMW Hotel. From March 24 to 29, Dossena, the DiskoLab crew, Miami Music Week, and Ultra Music Festival will set up for six days and nights at the Delano South…
