Still recovering from the uhntz-uhntz buzz of Winter Music Conference, Miami Music Week, and Ultra Music Festival? Luckily for you, there’s a cure for that: even more music. And while the kandi masks, neon pasties, and flower crowns have long been put away, the tuneage never ends in the Magic…
Ultra 2015 just might go down in history as the most cameo-crazy edition of the festival ever. Last night, Usher showed up for Martin Garrix’s set on the Main Stage to perform their new single, “Don’t Look Down.” And honestly, even though we joked about the possibility of a Bieber…
Deadmau5 isn’t at Ultra Music Festival this year, but that’s not going to stop the loudmouth Canadian DJ-producer from taking away the spotlight from what’s happening in Bayfront Park. Krewella, who are now just consists of sisters Jahan Yousaf and Yasmine Yousaf after producer Kristopher “Rain Man” Trindl resigned from the…
Yesterday, we at New Times told you Ultra “blew its surprise superstar load” when Usher crashed Martin Garrix’ headline set on the Main Stage. We have to apologize a bit to Ultra. They have more loaded in their star-power canon than we thought. Arianna Grande blind-sided the Ultra World Stage…
It’s become an annual Ultra Music Festival tradition. Even before party people, DJs, and downtown Miami condo residents have recovered from their latest romp through Ultraland, the fest springs the news that next year’s 200,000-strong EDM extravaganza is only 365 days away. At Ultra 2013, it only took organizers 17…
There have been a lot of changes at Ultra Music Festival. The audience is over 18 now. And many of rave culture’s familiar accoutrements — finger gloves, glow sticks, rage totems, etc. — have been banned under the fest’s new Prohibited Items policy. There are still those of adult age…
When I wrote back in January that I found Ultra Music Festival’s 2015 underwhelming, honest to God I wasn’t doing it do be contrarian or clickbait-y. EDM is big and there’s a lot of money to be made. No one is going to argue that headliners like Avicii and Tiësto…
Downtown Miami’s 32-acre Bayfront park is swarming with some 40 thousand (NOT SURE IF THIS IS ACCURATE #, CANT FIND 2015 ATTENDANCE) glistening glittered bodies. The lights on the main stage make the Vegas strip look like the ass of a dying lightning bug. The hard-bodied minimely dressed millennials are…
Ultra Music Festival 2015 just blew its surprise superstar load as Usher joined heir-to-the-EDM-throne Martin Garrix for a surprise live performance of their new collabo track, “Don’t Look Down.” The explosive Main Stage was all fireworks, confused ravers, and screaming girls when the A-Town R&B legend stood atop the decks…
“I need to know now, can you love me again?” That was the opening line of Avicii’s set on Ultra Music Festival 2015’s main stage last night. Sure, they weren’t his words. (He isn’t an especially chatty DJ, only occasionally reaching for the mic to express his affection for the…
The big news from day one at Ultra Music Festival 2015 was, of course, the rain. Personally, we spent more time in the press area trying not to get wet than we did on the festival grounds. (Still, Röyksopp’s last-minute performance on the Live Stage made all the crappy weather…
Even our “Eat Me” bikini bottoms and weed-leaf knee socks are soaked. Ultra Music Festival 2015’s opening day was wet. Very wet. And the drizzles, showers, and storms eventually led to five of the fest’s seven stages being temporarily shut down. At about 6 p.m., the rain started falling. It…
Sad ’cause you’re stuck at home while 60,000 half-naked party people stampede toward downtown Miami’s Bayfront Park for the ceremonial bass drop that signals the start of Ultra Music Festival? Shake off those negi vibes. There’s a solution to your problem. Even if you don’t have tix for this weekend’s…
Are you ready to rave? Maybe not. It’s actually quite likely you just can’t wait for that 200,000-person traffic snarl, noise nuisance, and neon eyesore — otherwise known as Ultra Music Festival — to clear outta downtown Miami. Well, chill, bro. The fest doesn’t even swing open the gates to…
We are going to pose a question for you: does anything go together better than a hard night out and delicious greasy food? No, it doesn’t. No one knows that better than South Beach hotspot, Cheeseburger Baby. Owner Stephanie Vitori has been serving up noms like bacon cheeseburgers, chili cheese…
Legendary EDM duo Deep Dish quit working together in 2007, much to the disappointment of music fans around the world who’d grown up on their trend-setting studio work and massive skills at murdering a party crowd. Early last year, Sharam and Dubfire, having established themselves as individuals capable of twice…
Straight outta Harlem, Dipset is in the house, they’ve got Diplomatic Immunity, and they’re going to rock Grand Central like straight drop in pyrex. Fresh from a headline set at Austin’s SXSW. Jim Jones, Cam’ron, Freekey Zekey, and Juelz Santana are setting the hip hop world on fire with their…
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…
