Ultra Music Festival band Neon Indian just released an Adult Swim-directed video for new-ish single “Fallout” and it’s just as cartoonishly trippy as you’d imagine. Coming from the minds of the best primetime stoner entertainment on the market, this clip features an animated hottie with pink hair, giant boobs, and…
When legendary Nigerian bandleader Fela Kuti toured the US in the ’70s, he was blown away by the funk, soul, disco and other African-American music forms he heard here. So he took them with him back to Nigeria, threw them in the blender with some African dance highlife and traditional…
You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. You’ll uhntz-uhntz uncontrollably. That’s right … We’re talking about Ultra Music Festival’s 45-minute concert documentary, Can U Feel It: The UMF Experience. With a cast of 200 uber-mega-superstar DJs, lazer-wielding robots, tattooed mice men, half-naked electro groupies, and 150,000 soother-sucking beat freaks, it’s guaranteed to induce…
Almost without question, Ultra Music Festival now dominates the American dance festival scene. But Los Angeles’ Hard may be the next big event brand to rise to the top. What started as a bunch of one-off West Coast events has become a traveling series of mini-fests for young and wild…
Attention party animals! Sweden’s Miike Snow will be breaking it down at Ultra Music Festival, and you don’t wanna be caught slippin’. No, Miike Snow is not a man. It’s a group of electro-pop producers — Christian Karlsson, Pontus Winnberg, and Andrew Wyatt — that’s created some of the biggest…
Diana Ross at Hard Rock Live February 23
Moombahton Over Miami V at the Vagabond February 23
Doobie Brothers at Hard Rock Live February 24
Tommy Trash at Amnesia Miami February 24
Lenny Kravitz at the Fillmore Miami Beach February 25
The official start of Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week is less than a month away, and local venues are starting to reveal all the beat-wrapped goodies. One of the bigger juggernauts of the week, of course, is the Opium Group, which stands to dominate a good portion of…
David Guetta might have changed the entire sound of commercial pop and Deadmau5 may have gotten legions of clubbers to don faux rodent heads. But there’s no question that over the past year, the hottest name in electronic dance music is Skrillex, born Sonny Moore. The polarizing artist has been…
The United States of America is totally addicted to the white stuff. Strung out, fat, unfocused, cranky, fiending — we are a nation of shrubby slaves to the cane, cube, and spoonful whose bodies (and minds) could never be called beach-ready. But there’s a cure for our sucrose-, lactose-, and…
UPDATE Originally scheduled for February 29, Guns ‘N Roses has changed the date of its Miami concert to March 5. Break out your sweatiest bandana and stankiest pair of ripped jeans … It’s time to get “intimate” with Guns N’ Roses again. Just three and half months ago, the Axl…
Can you handle The Whole Love? ‘Cause Wilco’s ready to give it to you. Earlier today via wilcoworld.net, the Chicago alt-country crew announced its intention to lay the “Art of Almost” and “Standing O” on six cities across the Southeast U.S., including stops in states like Arkansas, Alabama, Mississipi, Florida,…
Jesus loves electronic dance music. The bearded one with the ripped abs totally answered our prayer to have just one more day with Swedish House Mafia at the Masquerade Motel. A second day — Saturday, March 24 — has been announced. At 10 a.m. today, tickets for Day Two of…
It only took two hours for the inevitable to happen … Swedish House Mafia’s Masquerade Motel tickets sold out and opened a scalper floodgate. But don’t blow your paycheck just yet. Inside sources tell us that Swedish House will release another batch of tickets in the near future. So keep…
Swedish House Mafia’s Masquerade Motel is a go, and tickets for the two one-day event went on sale about an hour ago. Update: The event has sold out its first batch of tickets. But rather than going down on the sands of South Beach as it did last year (or…
Beware, beat freaks! The raving masterminds behind Ultra Music Festival have already colonized and conquered Downtown Miami in the name of electronic dance music, annually deploying an entire army of furry-booted troops and uhntz-uhntz-ing explosives experts to terrorize Biscayne Boulevard condo owners with three days of non-stop beat bombs. And…
Octogenarians rejoice, fellow 80-something-year-old and Great Depression survivor Tony Bennett has just announced a two-night engagement at a South Florida casino. Anthony Dominick Benedetto will leave his heart in Hollywood after the legendary crooner soft rocks the Hard Rock Live at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino on Friday,…
Revolutionary hip-hop is alive in Miami. This Saturday night, Dead Prez’s M1 and Thirstin Howl, Mecca AKA Grimo, P-Doe, FLO, Maybach Latino, Haiti Blues, Tom Larock, and PP Armstrong are gonna take over Moksha in Little Haiti to celebrate Black History Month, and fight for a better future for humanity…
Surfer Blood at Bardot February 16
