When he’s not pushing Dr Pepper or exposing his Family Jewels on A&E, Gene Simmons rocks silly makeup and platform shoes as the legendary lead singer of Kiss. Similarly, when he’s not dubstepping aboard Holy Ship! or steering megayachts with his penis, Tommy Lee beats the skins for arena rock…
You can go to a hundred clubs in Miami with half-naked party people sweating it out to a world-class DJ.But last night, the Standard flipped the script on that template, hosting a free, life-affirming meditative journey led by Donna D’Cruz on the (CDJ) wheels of steel in the hotel’s hamam…
Super Music Group Label Party With J. Paul Getto, Louis La Roche, and Amtrac The Well, South Beach Tuesday, March 20, 2012 Better Than: Paying to party. Last night was the official start of Miami Music Week. So local funky boys Super Music Group kicked the festivities off right with…
Music Loves Fashion has been putting on events that combine music (duh!), fashion (duh!), beautiful people, celebrities, and great locations near Los Angeles and Montreal for a while now. It’s best known events are the ones at the Riviera Hotel in Palm Springs, California, which coincide with Coachella.Now the party…
Check out the full lineup and set times for Ultra 2012. Normally, in year’s past Ultra Music Festival’s organizers send us a photo version of the artist set times the day before the festival takes place. But in keeping with this year’s bigger-and-better approach, you don’t have wait until then…
This past September, the world of dance music lost Mehdi Favéris-Essadi, an amazing DJ and producer at the age of 34. Of course, Mehdi was no stranger to Winter Music Conference and Ultra Music Festival, having made several Miami appearances. And 2012 will mark the first time in several years…
Back in December, superpopular LARPer, international DJ, and dance music producer Deadmau5 announced that he would not be attending this year’s Ultra Music Festival. Laying out his grievances in a 12-minute YouTube video, the producer cited exorbitant ticket prices, exclusivity contracts, and repetitious lineups as chief motivations for his absence…
Are you still alive? Yes? Good. Because there are still six more days of partying. God help your liver.Today marks the official start of Miami Music Week (AKA Ultra Week), so that means big parties from here on out. Still, if you are looking for something a bit more underground,…
Corrosion of Conformity With Holly Hunt, Consular, and Shroud Eater Grand Central Monday, March 19, 2012 Louder Than: Volcanoes, stampedes, and a skirmish in the valleys of Afghanistan. Can someone please explain how Corrosion of Conformity ended up playing an only-show-in-Florida date at Grand Central on a Monday? We can’t…
March is total mayhem for the Miami music fan. For a solid week, the world’s greatest DJs descend upon the city to make our clubs, hotels, and poolside bars their bitch. With over 300 parties, it’s nothing to drop hundreds before the workweek even ends. But it doesn’t have to…
When we mentioned SBTRKT (pronounced subtract) in our list of of ten most exciting acts at Ultra Music Festival, we were being dead serious. The British musician is often pigeonholed as post-dubstep. But in reality, he carefully navigates EDM genres, splicing disparate styles and influences like a human supercomputer. That…
With the dawn of Miami’s own late ’80s and early ’90s booty music contingent, hip-hop was evolving to the point of becoming an entirely new sonic construct. Explicated most famously (and crudely) by 2 Live Crew — and integral to Miami’s skimpily clothed beach-and-barbecue culture — the new guard had…
Is Paul Bearer Irish?”Fuck no. Not at all. Polish, Italian, and Spanish … New York mutt.” But that didn’t stop Sheer Terror’s lead singer and driving force from beating up on Churchill’s Pub like a Catholic does a Protestant on St. Paddy’s Day. The band brought out all the hits…
Jazz in the Gardens 2012 With Mary J. Blige, Patti LaBelle, Sensere, Nicole Henry, Kevin Eubanks, and Kenny G Sun Life Stadium Sunday, March 18, 2012 Better Than:Kenny G doing a saxophone solo while writhing around in a bed of roses. Well, Mr. G was there. But a bed of…
During WMC 2010, White Room (currently Eve) was the unofficial DJ VIP room. Except, it wasn’t really VIP. DJ and fans easily hung out side by side. It was the only place were the average partygoer could find him or herself talking with some of the best EDM and DJ…
Miami homeboy Danny Daze (AKA Daniel Gomez) blew up big time in 2011 thanks to a bass-heavy dancefloor bomb called “Your Everything” signed to Jamie Jones and Lee Foss’s Hot Creations label. Needless to say, the record made our cut for Miami’s Best Albums of 2011. And it put Danny’s…
In two days, millions of non-Irish folks around the world will gather in inauthentic “pubs” for a day of drunken debauchery in the name of St. Patrick. In Miami, however, Tyler, The Creator and his Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All collective will (sweaty) dick slap the Big Mango…
For a lot of party people, America’s dance music obsession is a rather recent phenomenon. But for Harry Romero, it’s been a way of life for more than 15 years. As a renowned producer, international DJ, and co-founder of Subliminal Records, Romero has watched the EDM world change a lot…
If there is one act that rarely disappoints, it’s Simian Mobile Disco. We’ve caught the duo so many times live that we’ve started to lose count. From a cavernous light show at the now-defunct Studio A to an odd New Year’s Eve booking at the Shore Club, what stays consistent…
The EDM game is tough. Before you get the big dollars, you’ve got to pay your dues and take a few hits. So it’s no surprise most of these heavy hitters are well into their 30s or even older. But over the last couple of years, there’s been a youth…
Ill Gates at the Vagabond March 15
Tony Bennett at Hard Rock Live March 16
