WMC Cofounder Bill Kelly on Three Decades of Dance

With the mayhem of Ultra Music Festival and the endless parties at local nightclubs, it’s easy to forget that none of Miami’s March EDM madness would be happening if weren’t for Winter Music Conference. This year, the WMC list of events includes a Q&A with Hardwell, a panel on the…

Five Most Exciting Live Acts at Ultra Music Festival 2014

You don’t have to be an EDM junkie to know that Ultra Music Festival brings some of the best DJs on the planet to the Magic City every year. (Eric Prydz, Carl Cox, and David Guetta sound familiar?) But one thing that’s got us beyond ecstatic about the 2014 fest…

Empire of the Sun on Pop Stars, the Bible, and Ultra 2014

Hey, you party people. Yeah, you. It’s time for Ultra Music Festival again. And guess who’s back to blow our minds. It’s our favorite Aussies, Empire of the Sun’s Luke Steele and Nick Littlemore. They dazzled the Ultra crowd in 2011, playing tracks off their debut album, Walking on a…

Ten Best Pool Parties During WMC and MMW 2014

Ever wondered why Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week is held every March in the Magic City? Well, because it’s warm and sunny in the MIA while the rest of the country is digging out from under yet another late-winter snowfall. As we shake sand out of our pockets…

Jesse Perez’s Pastelito Party

For true 305ers, Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week can seem like tourist hour. Oh, so you wanna come to South Beach, watch a bunch of national acts, and then go home to the shitty snow and talk about how much you “love Miami”? But if you’re lookin’ for…

Hard Miami 2014’s Rump Shaker

When you hear “family reunion,” you might imagine a barbecue in a park attended by dozens of screaming children and an uncle who drinks too much. Some crappy boombox blasts radio tunes, piercing the boredom like a plastic spork through mac ‘n’ cheese. But what if we took away the…

Crosstown Rebels’ Get Lost Miami

Ten years into Crosstown Rebels’ run, there’s no denying the indelible mark that Damian Lazarus’ label has made on electronic dance music. In a way, a spot on the label’s roster has become a rite of passage on the underground house and techno scene, with the label having broken international…

Oneohtrix Point Never at PAMM

Trippy visuals and live music go together like drugs and rock ‘n’ roll — or bpm and EDM. In the beginning (the ’60s, when else?), there were Ken Kesey’s Acid Tests, featuring San Francisco’s Grateful Dead and full-on psychedelic film projections splashed across the walls like shamanistic flower-power visions. Meanwhile,…

Underground Story at Ultra 2014

If you still need proof that Miami has grown an underground electronic dance music scene to rival those of international meccas like London and Berlin, look no further than the success of Underground Story. Five years ago, it was practically inconceivable for promoters to pull off an underground house and…

Red Bull Guest House 2014 at Gale South Beach

If there was one party during last year’s Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week that everyone kept shouting out on social media, it had to be the Red Bull Guest House. In its inaugural edition, the event proved to be no joke, offering four days of rooftop pool parties…

Underground Story Stage at Ultra 2014: “Expect To Be Blown Away”

If you still need proof that Miami has grown an underground electronic dance music scene to rival international meccas like London and Berlin, look no further than the success of Underground Story. Five years ago, it was practically inconceivable for promoters to pull off an underground house and techno night…