Miami Music Week 2019 Party Guide

The big news this Miami Music Week is Ultra Music Festival’s impending move to Virginia Key, along with Winter Music Conference’s return to Faena Forum. However, for the average spring breaker, the end of March signals the onslaught of parties featuring a who’s who of dance music’s brightest talent. Though…

Bad Bunny’s Latin Trap Is Cultural Appreciation, Not Appropriation

Puerto Ricans are the ones constantly calling Power 96 to play the new Ozuna, J Balvin, and Bad Bunny. That trunk-rattling bass with booming 808s and mumbled Spanish lyrics you hear over a gritty beat while sitting in Miami traffic has been dubbed “Latin trap,” and regardless of whether you speak the language, trap en español is making its way into the music scene.

Vote P!nk for President in 2020

Every misfit’s hero, every mother’s friend, and every bully’s nightmare, P!nk has been disrupting the status quo for decades. Her 2001 single “Don’t Let Me Get Me,” from the album Missundaztood, was the soundtrack of my teenage years. Almost 20 years later, now that I’m a mother, she still grabs my…

Art Meets Trap This Weekend at Project Pat’s Trap Attack

You’d think curating the festivities for the makeshift roller rink at III Points last weekend would be enough for Otto Von Schirach and Notorious Nastie in their never-ending quest to keep South Florida weird, but according to them, you ain’t seen nothing yet. Next weekend will bring their Project Pat’s Trap Attack, a three-night extravaganza that will mix music, art, a yacht party, Project Pat, and madness.

III Points 2019 Winners and Losers

That’s a wrap on the sixth edition of III Points. So was the 16-month wait worth it? In short, yes. The new February date proved to be a smart move. Temperatures were much milder, and any worry that the festival would suffer crowd shortages during the busy Presidents’ Day weekend…