A hotel reservation on South Beach always costs crazy money. But during Winter Music Conference, Miami Music Week, and Ultra Music Festival (when citywide occupancy hits 90 percent), room rates skyrocket even higher. Especially if you’re looking to bed down with Swedish superstar Avicii on SoBe. In 2013, a Miami…
Get Hard, beat freaks. ‘Cause Destructo (AKA Los Angeles DJ, producer, and superpromoter Gary Richards) has just announced this year’s Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week party plan. For the third straight WMC/MMW season, Hard Miami will throw down two full nights of fist-pumping and hump-dancing at downtown Miami’s…
Theo Parrish is a producer’s producer. The Detroit techno veteran’s experimental flair puts him as much in the realm of avant-garde sound art as that of electronic dance music. After all, Parrish was creating sound sculptures and installations as a student at the Kansas City Art Institute before he was…
Dom Kennedy Presented by Dope Ent Avenue D, Miami Friday, February 7, 2014 Better Than: These bitches talking a lot of shit about you. With the cell phones in full attendance, Dom Kennedy strolled onto the stage in his Los Angeles Dodgers hat and Wayne Gretzky jersey. He began his…
Skinny Puppy Shapes for Arms Tour 2014 With Army of the Universe Grand Central, Miami Friday, February 7 Industrial music does not possess a great wealth of heroes. It’s a genre that many acts love to borrow from, but rarely ever commit to. However, Skinny Puppy is one group that…
Panic! at the Disco With the Colourist and Junior Prom Fillmore Miami Beach Saturday, February 8, 2014 Over the weekend, Panic! at the Disco returned to South Florida with its Too Weird tour. And triumphantly, the Vegas outfit played for a sold-out crowd at the Fillmore Miami Beach. Let’s just…
You don’t need a significant other, heart-shaped chocolates, and roses to make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside this Hallmark holiday dedicated for lovers Valentine’s Day … All you need is music and Mr./Mrs. Right Now. Just check out the five best concerts going down this week, from Wale’s…
Love is a mysterious thing. So this V-Day, if you finally meet some sexy stranger who makes your palms sweat, knees shake, and the tip of your tongue tingle, please don’t waste time asking a million questions, like, “Is this forever?,” “What if we don’t like the same music?,” or…
The clock tower’s chiming. The smiley faces are turning into rage faces. The dancepocalypse is truly upon us. In just seven days, trap lords RL Grime and Salva will unleash fire, brimstone, and bass on Miami’s most cataclysmically inclined club freaks. Now … It’s true that this low-end doomsday at…
Queens of the Stone Age With Chelsea Wolfe Fillmore Miami Beach Wednesday, February 5, 2014 Better Than: Those sad years when Queens of the Stone Age stopped being a band, the Dwarves gig at Churchill’s a few years back, and any recent Kyuss reboot. It’s been 11 years since Queens…
One of the greatest forces of bass in nature occurs when thunder booms over the flatlands of Miami. And when lightning strikes, sometimes the Earth catches fire. While the Everglades burn, waves of smoke as thick as wet concrete roll all over South Florida. In some places, the fat purple…
As Toro y Moi, AKA one-man electro-pop wonder Chad Bundick, points out: “You’re working double just to have a life.” Those lyrics from “Come Alive,” his new collabo track with Chromeo, are proof that the self-described indie soulster truly understands existence as a cultured individual in a Great Recession world…
“I’m ready to fight this thing.” That’s how Bingo Players’ Paul Baümer took on his unexpected and devastating cancer diagnosis last summer. But sadly, though he showed great courage and admirable resilience, the Dutch DJ-producer passed away on December 17, 2013. Now, in Baümer’s memory, the fight continues. And next…
It’s never boring when Boys Noize is ’round. The German party boy, EDM producer, and label head is always full of surprises, whether throwing down aboard the Holy Ship!! EDM cruise, dropping a new collab with Snoop Dogg at Ultra Music Festival, or raging his way through Winter Music Conference…
There are certain DJs who’ve long denounced trance, even though the genre helped turn them into international superstars. But not Markus Schulz. The German-born, Miami-based dance music veteran (and America’s Best DJ titleholder) says, “It shouldn’t be a dirty word.” Perhaps Schulz is comfortable with the label because he’s always…
“Special music must be made by special people.” That’s how label head Damian Lazarus explained the nature of a Crosstown Rebel for Crossfade a couple of years ago. And proving the true character of his crew hasn’t changed, Lazarus just announced the 2014 lineup for his annual Winter Music Conference…
Car horns frantically beeping during rush hour, neighbors yelling greeting each other at 8 a.m. on a Sunday, and hits of uhntz-uhntz blasting from the strip of clubs that line Washington Avenue till the wee hours of the night. That’s the distinct sound of Miami. But every now and then,…
Nipsey Hussle Avenue D, Miami Friday, January 31, 2014 Better Than: Walking into a Crip neighborhood wearing all red. Draped down in a white t-shirt, his Cuban-link chain and Malcolm X pendant, a blue bandana wrapped around his neck, California rapper Nipsey Hussle took the Miami stage for the first…
Deep in the hells of Guantanamo Bay, extreme bass music rumbles from Bazookas as federal agents use the music of Skinny Puppy to torture prisoners. It’s a fact that has been confirmed by the pioneering industrial band, and that inspired its latest album, Weapon. Now, if you’ve never been to…
Arctic Monkeys Fillmore Miami Beach Thursday, January 30, 2014 British post-punk foursome Arctic Monkeys completed its first performance of 2014 last night for a sold-out crowd at the Fillmore Miami Beach. In support of the outfit’s fifth studio album, AM, the current tour has been ping-ponging across the Atlantic since…
Remember that bizarro nightmare where the sky was burning, the air smelled like scorched flesh, and a deranged pair of necromancers turned you into a puppet that did a weird seizure dance? Well, that was actually a Skinny Puppy show. And next week, the pioneering industrial band’s cEvin Key and…
Ma Dukes is slang for anybody’s mother. But when you talk to hip-hop heads, only one matters. J Dilla was a hip-hop producer from Detroit whose life was tragically cut short in 2006 by a rare blood disease, but his momma, the Ma Dukes, continues to travel the world in…
