Tickets for Ultra Music Festival have sold out. But for procrastinating electro nuts willing to drop a few hundred bucks on scalper tickets, the opportunity to trip balls in downtown Miami is still alive. The news came as a shock to everyone, smeared across the top of the festival’s website,…
That’s it, folks. According to Ultra Music Festival’s site, tickets to this year’s event are gone with 34 days left until the festival. Will more be made available? We’re not sure, but we’re working to finding out.Could this be a marketing ploy? Maybe. There is no way of really knowing…
The last year has been pretty goddamn huge for Ricky Martin. He released his autobiography in both English and Spanish (titled Me and Yo, respectively) in November of 2010, giving the world a very candid look at the notoriously private superstar’s life for the first time. Then, just a few…
Straight from scoring a gold-plated gramophone statuette for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance at last Sunday’s 53rd Annual Grammy Awards, Hawaiian pop crooner Bruno Mars and his bouffant hairdo were pleading guilty to cocaine possession in a Las Vegas courtroom. Back in September, the Mars man got busted in a…
Like some kind of benevolent pied piper of international partydom, French electro-pop producer Martin Solveig (né Martin Picandet) bestowed last year’s Dragonette collab “Hello” upon the world, luring everyone from disco refugees, degenerate club kids, and dirty hipsters to the dance floor like hypnotized rats. And now Solveig wants to…
Julieta Venegas is a shapeshifter. Hers is a constant evolution, a never-ending series of experiments wherein she tests her own boundaries. She’s not quite reinventing herself — her sound is a signature, featuring quirky upbeat vibes and a soothing, sweet vocal style. But she’s not standing still, either. Nearly a…
Despite its girly name, The Pinker Tones is a 100 percent male band formed in 2001 by two dapper dudes from Barcelona, Salvador “Mister Furia” Rey and Alex “Professor Manso” Llovet. And if you’re expecting some kind of sonic cutesiness befitting pink, you’re off the mark again. There’s nothing especially…
For those street-heads whose chronic-sucking, crip-walking heyday is 15 years behind them, Queens-born Puerto Rican rapper Victor Santiago Jr. will forever be known as Noreaga. Partnered up with fellow New York City product Kiam Akasi Halley (AKA Capone), Santiago co-owned the East Coast rap game for a solid minute in…
If folk wisdom is to be believed, a Latin person’s blood runs two or three degrees hotter than the normal core temperature of 98.6 Fahrenheit. This condition is called la pasión, and it explains why American Airlines Arena becomes a 19,000-person sweat lodge every time someone like Marco Antonio Solis…
Long before Ozzy Osbourne became reality TV’s foulmouthed Prince of Bleeping Darkness, he was the godfather of heavy metal. He earned that title fronting Black Sabbath in 1970, with the hits “Iron Man” and “Paranoid,” and by later reinventing himself as a solo artist supported by full-throttle guitarists such as…
Have you seen the very meta, ’80s-referencing music video for Dragonette and Martin Solveig’s hyperactive retro-house collabo track “Hello”? If not, dial up the YouTube immediately. All the dudes look like Björn Borg and all the ladies look like Christie Brinkley. The premise: Solveig (DJ Mag-ranked number 47) and fellow…
The key to making a sexy album about sex? Stop doing it. Celibacy was Jimmy Edgar’s formula for success when creating XXX, his latest full-length release on !K7. It includes raunchy tracks such as “Hot Raw Sex” and “Vibration.” Edgar’s formative years in Detroit, the electronic heart of America, gave…
Hamburg, Germany has become a serious hotbed for electronic dance music in recent years. It’s home to house and techno luminaries such as Tensake, Stimming, and Lovebirds, as well as esteemed labels like Diynamic and Liebe*Detail. Another pair of Hamburg residents, Florian Kruse and Nils Nürnberg, have been making major…
The dude’s been dead for two decades. But even so, jazz demigod, congenital rebel, and cocaine enthusiast Miles Davis looks like he’s gonna have an incredibly packed 2011. Earlier this month, the trumpet-wielding master reissued the expanded Bitches Brew Live, a soul-scorching set of electrified jazz-rock pulled from his infamously…
The blending of genres and melding of styles is becoming as commonplace in popular modern music as cocaine lines next to grapefruit juice at Lindsey Lohan’s breakfast table. The whole world, including the biggest stars in any genre you can name, has been dabbling with mezcla of late. But just…
When we polled you, the reader, about what to call the week of events happening around Ultra, 67 percent of you decided Ultra Week would be the best moniker. For Google’s sake, we sort of agree with you, even if the name carries connotations of Ultra’s dominance.The Opium Group, meanwhile,…
If folk wisdom can be believed, a Latin person’s blood runs two or three degrees hotter than the normal core temperature of 98.6 fahrenheit. This condition is called la pasión and it explains why the American Airlines Arena becomes a 19,000-person sweat lodge every time someone like Marco Antonio Solis…
No WMC would be complete without a few yacht parties. And this March has, count them, four stellar lineups aboard the infamous Biscayne Lady.From big-room house heavyweights like Desyn Masiello to underground techno stars like Reboot, there’s a bit for everyone’s EDM taste here. The Lady sets sail in the…
See the full 24-photo Flogging Molly slideshow. Flogging Molly Seventh Annual Green 17 Tour 2011 With Drowning Men and Moneybrother Fillmore Miami Beach Saturday, February 12, 2011 Better than: A gallon of Guinness. Even though it’s a big boozy band of seven Irish punks, Flogging Molly is always on time…
Have you seen the very meta, ’80s-referencing music video for Dragonette and Martin Solveig’s hyperactive retro-house collabo track “Hello”? If not, see the cut immediately. All the dudes look like Bjorn Borg and all the ladies look like Christie Brinkley. The premise: Solveig (DJ Mag-ranked number 47) and fellow funky…
Read Crossfade’s interview with Matisyahu. Matisyahu With Adam Weinberg Knight Concert Hall at the Adrienne Arsht CenterFebruary 12, 2011 On Saturday night, the Adrienne Arsht Center was transformed from world-class concert hall to new-age synagogue as Matisyahu and his guitarist Adam Weinberg went unplugged for a packed house. A sold-out…
When Florida Memorial University does a homecoming show, they do it loooooong. The first performers came on at 7 p.m., and the last one didn’t leave the stage until close to midnight. Maybe the other attendees knew this in advance and so decided to conserve their energy, refraining from such…
