Ultra 2015 Announces Phase Two Lineup

The Ultra Music Festival 2015 party plan is finally complete. Last month, the EDM festival’s organizers confirmed 113 acts for this year’s musical roster, from Avicii to Afrojack, Die Antwoord, Deep Dish, Loco Dice, Röyksopp, and Kygo. Now the UMF folks have revealed their Phase Two lineup. Among the additions:…

New Times‘ Artopia 2015 Music Lineup: Jolt Radio, Limited Fanfare, and More!

Feeling fancy? Well, that’s convenient. Because it’s nearly time for New Times’ Artopia 2015, the latest edition of our annual jubilee in honor of “Miami’s best artists, musicians, fashion designers, culinary masters, and cocktail creators.” As we’ve done on this occasion since 2010, we will also be giving out MasterMind…

Win Free Passes for Electric Pickle’s Sixth-Anniversary Three-Day Bender

Happy Pickle Day! Well, almost. The Wynwood dance institution won’t actually kick off its dauntingly named Sixth-Anniversary Three-Day Bender for about another 60 hours. But we’ve already got some serious anticipatory tingles. And you should too. Because the Pickle crew is offering free passes for the entire weekend’s festivities. It’s…

Hip-Hop’s Ten Best Crews of All Time

Crews are the backbone of rap and hip-hop. Sure, you can be a solitary rapper, but there’s strength in numbers, and who doesn’t want a gaggle of talented homies to have his back? Rap and hip-hop has been around since the ’70’s, so crews are no new thing. There’ve been…

Miami Beach “100-Hour” Centennial Adds Flo Rida and Announces VIP Tickets

“It’s going down for real.” That’s what Flo Rida tells us. And yep, he’s talking about Miami Beach’s “100-hour, non-stop” centennial festival. As the latest headliner added to the beach’s landmark b-day celebration, Flo will join Gloria Estefan, Andrea Bocelli, Barry Gibb, and Wyclef Jean for the fest’s finale at…

Ten Best Piano-Playing Rock Stars of All Time

Were it not for the extroverts, rock ‘n’ roll piano players would be at a decided disadvantage. Though a frontman who wields a guitar has the mobility to move about the stage and pose and posture, your average keyboardist is forced to remain in a stationary position due to the…

Miami’s Five Best Concerts This Week

Can you hear it? That’s the roaring whoosh of tuneage sweeping its way through the Magic City this week. While you’ll still have to battle through the Monday rush for it to get here, your life will change (at least for the night) at the sound of that first note…

Miami’s Ten Under $10 Weekend Party Guide

Freezing temperatures, an empty wallet, and the weekend… That’s what most of us faced this frigid cold morning. While we may have nothing but layers upon layers of sweaters to wear and spare change in our pocket, that’s not gonna stop us from partying it up this weekend — no…

Electric Pickle: “It’s Been a Magical Six Years”

Do you remember you first wiggle at the Electric Pickle? The Wynwood dance hangout has grown into a world-renowned deep house institution over the past six years. Even Richie Hawtin was like, “How come y’all don’t book me?” And the Pickle’s people were just like, “Because we don’t do techno,…

Hispanicize 2015’s Music Lineup: Luis Fonsi, Chino y Nacho, Seven Others

Miami is the future. Coast to coast, the United States seems destined to become a multilingual, multicultural nation that looks a lot like our own ciudad magia. That’s why Hispanicize, a conference for Latinos in media, marketing, entertainment, and tech, has chosen downtown Miami to be its staging ground. And…

Space’s Miami Music Week 2015 Lineup

Space may be the final frontier, but it’s one of the first places on the list of must-sees for any Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week aficionado. It’s not just a nightclub. It’s a dance music institution. It stands to reason the downtown monolith would book a serious roster…

Win Free Tickets for Etienne de Crecy at Bardot Miami

Dancing. Driving. Napping. French touch pioneer Étienne de Crécy makes “electronic music albums that you can listen to anywhere.” His latest is Super Discount 3. It’s the third installment (and first in ten years) of his lauded SD series, which debuted in 1996 before seeing its sophomore release in 2004…

Dipset’s Reunion Tour Coming to Miami for WMC and MMW 2015

Dipset warned you. Last month, the Harlem rap crew dropped a comeback track, hollering “Have My Money.” And later this year, Juelz Santana, Cam’ron, Jim Jones, and Freekey Zekey will be putting out a new Dipset mixtape with bold-name cameos from Funkmaster Flex, Swizz Beatz, DJ Khaled, and DJ Mustard…