Despite Ultra Music Festival’s annual $79 million contribution to the local economy, City of Miami commissioner Marc Sarnoff believes the “event will be disruptive to the local business community and area residents due to noise, nuisance behavior of festival goers, and grid lock traffic.” After all, as he fear-mongered during…
There were a lot of grim faces on Monday morning as the electro-loving masses emerged off the MSC Poesia (AKA the EDM party boat Holy Ship!!) and did a slow zombie shuffle through U.S. customs and back into the real world (AKA Fort Lauderdale). Here in the industrial port, the…
Yesterday, Crossfade broke the news that Commissioner Marc Sarnoff had introduced a resolution “disapproving” of the second weekend of Ultra Music Festival.We still don’t entirely understand whether the commission could actually force the festival to cancel its second weekend, and repeated messages Crossfade left with the city attorney and Sarnoff…
Crunk, where’d it come from? You’d be a fool to believe that it’s a modern phenomenon. In fact, scripture says that God herself was so tired of building an entire planet in just six days that she spent the seventh “Smokin’ Out” with Project Pat and learning ’bout crunk music…
Aboard the Holy Ship!! one gets to mix and mingle with big-name DJs. “Hey, there’s Zedd in line for pasta salad! Wow, there’s Dillon Francis in the elevator! Oh damn, Diplo is out on the beach swimming with all the fans! Jackbeats just bought all those people shots!” With this…
Ballin’ like a Bawse … That’s how Rick Ross typically spends a Monday in Miami. But tonight, big homie’s gonna be bowlin’ like a Bawse on South Beach, poppin’ bottles and spikin’ footballs in the VIP, all in honor of the BCS national championship game between the Notre Dame Fighting…
It can’t be Ultra Music Festival without a little bit of drama. This time it comes from Miami Commissioner Marc Sarnoff who has introduced a new resolution “disapproving” of the second weekend of Ultra Music Festival.The resolution, which the commission will consider on Thursday, claims the “event will be disruptive…
Is Rick Ross a gangsta? Well, he’ll be playing one on cable television. An omnivorous student of gangland myths, the larger-than-life rapper is finally taking his flair for the dramatic to the small screen, joining the cast of Starz’s Magic City, a late-1950s crime drama set in Rozay’s real-life hometown,…
The BCS national championship game goes down tonight. Over the weekend, though, this four-day football frenzy blitzed South Beach as dance-hoppin’ fanatic Flo Rida, country-poppin’ shit-kicker Dierks Bentley, crowd-hypin’ DJ Irie, and pep-stepping Fighting Irish and ‘Bama devotees swarmed the sands for the Discover Championship Fan Experience. Just check the…
Better Than: Karaoke night with your co-workers. Retribution is a beautiful thing. And after nearly 28 years of pumping out tough riffs and churning circle pits, punk legends Slapshot finally brought Boston hardcore to Miami. The show (which many in the scene considered a gift after so many years of…
On Friday afternoon, nearly 3,000 raver chicks, dude guys, scenesters, club kids and DJs assembled at a port in Fort Lauderdale and boarded the MSC Poesia, AKA Holy Ship!! (There are two exclamation points because this is the second edition of the EDM party cruise put on by L.A.’s Hard…
Three reasons Ultra Music Festival 2013’s gonna be epic, beat freaks. 1. The EDM megafest has expanded from three days to two whole uhntz-uhntz-ing weekends. 2. Swedish House Mafia and Deadmau5 are gonna be the primary party starters. 3. The just-announced Phase 1 linuep, including 13 extra DJs, 13 additional…
Wanna party like a BCS champ? On Monday evening, the 2013 Bowl Championship Series comes to Miami when the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and the Alabama Crimson Tide hit the gridiron at Sun Life Stadium to do battle for college football’s 2013 national title. In the meantime, though, we all…
Has the apocalypse been averted? Or are the end days still upon us? The Mayans’ calculations may have been a lil’ off. But Miami hip-hop crew ¡Mayday! remains convinced that the Armageddon is imminent. Specifically, a rotting plague of walking corpses hungry for human flesh. And the ¡Mayday! plan for…
He’s a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winner, and a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. But in the restaurant business, Sir Eric Clapton is Hard Rock Café. Throughout the 1970s, Clapton was a regular patron at the first Hard Rock in London. But by 1979, the…
Last week, Story Nightclub kicked its doors open with a massive New Year’s Eve 2013 lineup. But just because the year has been rung and we’re all getting used to dating things “’13,” doesn’t mean the Story crew’s gonna let the mood lighten up. The rest of January is filling…
Story Nightclub has only been open for, like, a week and a half, and it’s already made the front page of TMZ for a hilarious celebrity nip slip. Our homies Cultist reported that Modern Family’s Sofia Vergara came down to the new SoBe club to party with Kaskade, but ended…
Kat Stacks says: “Freedom baby.” That’s right … The supergroupie and former Tootsie’s Cabaret stripper (who scored 2010/11’s Best 15 Minutes of Fame by claiming to have humped the entire Young Money crew, Soulja Boy, Bow Wow, and basically every other rapper who ever rolled through Dade, Broward, or Palm…
Femi Kuti is a world-music master, a deep political thinker, and a true Nigerian patriot. Just like his famous late father, Fela, the fearsome legend who pioneered an entirely fresh fusion of complex African rhythms and electrified Western sounds, invented the term Afrobeat, embodied Black Power, defied government oppression, and…
Ellie Goulding is the sweet-voiced crooner cooking up hits from the other side of the Atlantic. And she’s hitting the stage at the Fillmore Miami Beach on Wednesday, January 16. But what do you really know about her anyway? Sure, you know all the lyrics to her hit song “Lights.”…
Do you ever miss Burdines? Us too. Especially shopping for husky jeans with our abuelita while her sweet, reassuring Cuban voice reminds us que husky no significa gordo, just healthy. But like grandma, Burdines passed away in the mid-’00s. Once the gold standard of Florida ready-to-wear clothes, fine linens, miscellaneous…
Flo Rida and Dierks Bentley at Orange Bowl Discover Fan Zone January 5 and 6
