Four years ago, Ultra Music Festival made waves when it split from the usual date range of Winter Music Conference. Traditionally, the festival and the conference took place during the same week. In 2011, though, the two entities feuded and scheduled separate stretches during the month of March. Thus, the…
It can’t be easy to leave a good band just when they’re about to hit it big. And once that’s happened, there’s never a chance to get back in and enjoy what you helped start. Or is there? Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist Rickey Medlocke has been living out that rare chance…
There’s still another month until Miami degrades into a giant Winter Music Conference/Miami Music Week mess, but the list of parties is already longer than the city is wide. We can tell you from experience that such a list is daunting, especially when it’s scattered around the Interwebs. How are…
“Oh, won’t you stay with me?” With his debut studio album, last year’s In the Lonely Hour, and his melancholic meditations on love desired, love consummated, and love lost, English pop crooner Sam Smith has emerged as an unlikely pop phenomenon. He’s moody. He’s brainy. And he doesn’t do choreography…
The Ultra Music Festival 2015 party plan is finally complete. Last month, the EDM festival’s organizers confirmed 113 acts for this year’s musical roster, from Avicii to Afrojack, Die Antwoord, Deep Dish, Loco Dice, Röyksopp, and Kygo. Now the UMF folks have revealed their Phase Two lineup. Among the additions:…
Were it not for the extroverts, rock ‘n’ roll piano players would be at a decided disadvantage. Though a frontman who wields a guitar has the mobility to move about the stage and pose and posture, your average keyboardist is forced to remain in a stationary position due to the…
Can you hear it? That’s the roaring whoosh of tuneage sweeping its way through the Magic City this week. While you’ll still have to battle through the Monday rush for it to get here, your life will change (at least for the night) at the sound of that first note…
Do you remember you first wiggle at the Electric Pickle? The Wynwood dance hangout has grown into a world-renowned deep house institution over the past six years. Even Richie Hawtin was like, “How come y’all don’t book me?” And the Pickle’s people were just like, “Because we don’t do techno,…
If you spent any time in a legit nightclub in 2014, there’s a good chance you heard Danny Daze’s “Silicon.” The track was an infectious cut that blended sonic touches from Miami’s dance music scene — including repurposing the obnoxious horn FX, as well as techno’s rougher edges that some…
Space may be the final frontier, but it’s one of the first places on the list of must-sees for any Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week aficionado. It’s not just a nightclub. It’s a dance music institution. It stands to reason the downtown monolith would book a serious roster…
Dipset warned you. Last month, the Harlem rap crew dropped a comeback track, hollering “Have My Money.” And later this year, Juelz Santana, Cam’ron, Jim Jones, and Freekey Zekey will be putting out a new Dipset mixtape with bold-name cameos from Funkmaster Flex, Swizz Beatz, DJ Khaled, and DJ Mustard…
Cheese, wine, puff pastries, provocative movies; whatever it is the French are doing, they’ll give it their signature sumptuous twist. French dance music is no different. It’s sexy and artsy but not too high-brow. It’s simple in construction, and yet it has that je ne sais quoi. You know what…
Seth Troxler peddles the kind of funky, minimal, beat-driven music that one would expect from a man who’s admitted that “Richie Hawtin is my favorite DJ.” The producer, originally from Kalamazoo, Michigan, honed his sound while throwing techno parties in Detroit, and later moved to Berlin, where he’s continue his…
There’s no doubt Miami is the party playground of the South. And the home of some of the top nightclubs in the country. But Ms. Magic City is just as much a music snob as she is club royalty. That’s why everyone, from wannabe divas and Grammy-winning stars to up-and-coming…
So Hard. Now in its fourth year as a Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week mainstay, Gary Richards’ annual multi-day mini-fest, Hard Miami, has not softened. Since 2011, Richards — the Los Angeles DJ, producer, and superpromoter also known as Destructo — has spent WMC and MMW destoying the…
Paradise Garage. As DJ Joey Llanos explained to New Times yesterday: “It was a sanctuary where people of all backgrounds, races, colors, creeds or sexual orientation were accepted on the the dance floor as one. They all came there for one purpose, and that was to hear the greatest sound…
When one thinks of the sensitive singer/songwriter types who thrived in the early 1970s, certain artists come to mind: James Taylor, Joni Mitchell, and Neil Young were the big buzz, and yet, though their songs embodied a starry-eyed sensibility, none of them could squeeze more pathos from their platitudes than…
Gen-Y locals may remember former Miami resident Adrian Michna from his time with the Secret Frequency Crew, whose “Miami Eyes” 12-inch from 2003 became something of an underground hit in our city’s hippest dance clubs. Of course, as DJ Egg Foo Young, Michna also released straight-up Miami breakdance records with…
Still shakin’ that bon-bon… For the last 30 years, Ricky Martin has been driving guys and girls crazy all around the world. He started his celebrity life as a 12-year-old teen heartthrob with boy band Menudo. And then he went solo, eventually becoming the face (and hair and abs) of…
Rise and shine, you love birds… Valentine’s Day is almost here. Before you go broke trying to impress Mr. or Mrs. Right Now with all those gourmet chocolates and exotic flowers, treat yo’ self to some good ‘ol music with this week’s five best concerts. Check ’em out, from the…
Jazzy funk. Afro-soul big band. Chilean hip-hop. Miami’s global music fest, the 13th annual Heineken TransAtlantic Festival, is back this April 10 and 11. America’s most popular Dutch brew and Miami’s Rhythm Foundation are again bringing the beats of the world to the North Beach Bandshell. Past years have featured…
If Michelle Beebs hadn’t been gifted with the sultry voice of a powerful frontwoman, she could always fall back on a successful career as ghostwriter for talk-show guests. Her larger-than-life stage and fashion presence as the singer of Orlando ska band Beebs and Her Money Makers proves she’s got the…
