Winter Music Conference

Claude VonStroke Looks Back On 15 Years of Dirtybird Records

Claude VonStroke Looks Back On 15 Years of Dirtybird Records

WMC 2020 Is Canceled

WMC 2020 Is Canceled

Will the Dance Music Industry Embrace Winter Music Conference Once Again?

By Jose D. Duran
Mar 26, 2019

If you're coming to the Magic City for Miami Music Week and Ultra Music Festival, you have Winter Music Conference (WMC) to thank. From 1985 to 2010, the week in March when the entire dance music community descended upon Miami to shake off the winter chill, network, and, of course,...
Winter Music Conference Returns in 2019 With Ultra's Support

By Jose D. Duran
Oct 31, 2018

In the past few years, New Times has been critical of the direction the once-revered Winter Music Conference was headed. The issues went beyond the squabble organizers had with Ultra Music Festival in 2010. The problems with WMC stemmed from its failure to evolve and stay ahead of dance-music trends...
Azabu Offers Quality Japanese at Reasonable Prices on SoBe

By Clarissa Buch
May 15, 2018

What comes to mind when you think of Ocean Drive? Overpriced frozen margaritas? Rowdy, scantily clad revelers? The weirdest traffic jams on the planet? Well, try this on for size: a hushed place where your order is taken promptly and food arrives quickly. You'll be checked on periodically and, once...
Ultra Music Festival and Winter Music Conference Announce Merger

By Jose D. Duran and Douglas Markowitz
Mar 21, 2018

Today Ultra Music Festival marketing manager Albert Berdellans announced the festival's acquisition of Winter Music Conference during a news conference aboard the yacht SeaFair, docked next to the festival site at Bayfront Park.
Winter Music Conference Returns as a Three-Day Event at Faena Forum

By Jose D. Duran
Mar 8, 2018

After much speculation, Winter Music Conference has announced it will indeed return this year. The storied industry gathering will be a three-day conference at the Faena Forum in Miami Beach. It's smaller in scale than past editions. Last year's conference spanned four days, and it ran six days in 2011.
Is Winter Music Conference Dead?

By Jose D. Duran
Mar 5, 2018

If you visit Winter Music Conference's website, you'll notice something is off. Miami Music Week is only a few weeks away, yet the site is still thanking last year's attendees "for making WMC 2017 a big success." Notably absent is any information about how to register this year, while its social channels don't make any mention of whether or Miami's groundbreaking EDM conference will return.
The Eight Best Afterhours Events During Miami Music Week 2017

By Celia Almeida
Mar 17, 2017

A rundown of the best afterhours sets and parties at Miami Music Week.
Miami Music Week 2017 Party Guide

By Jose D. Duran
Mar 1, 2017

Miami Music Week, Winter Music Conference, and Ultra Music Festival will attract DJs, electronic musicians, and producers from all over the world. There will be everything from easily digestible EDM to heady techno. If Art Basel is the art world's cultural apex in the Americas, then MMW is Mecca for dance...
DJ Pierre, the Father of Acid House, on Birthing a Genre

By Sean Levisman
Mar 22, 2016

Today's young millennials weaned on a lifetime of electronic music can hardly imagine how futuristic and positively alien acid house first sounded to listeners in the '80s. In contrast to the mostly pop and disco-based dance music of the time, the hypnotic, hard-hitting machine beats and trippy synthetic bass squelches...
Winter Music Conference Searches for Identity After Splitting From Miami Music Week

By Kat Bein
Mar 16, 2016

Matriphagy; noun: A condition in which the young cannibalize their creator to survive. It's a practice common among crab spiders, whose mothers sacrifice themselves to trigger the predatory instinct. The younger generation doesn't kill in bad blood. Overwhelming, the parent is necessary for growth, the only way to fulfill the...
Long Before the VIP Section, Dance Music in Miami Was for the Oppressed

By Jose D. Duran
Mar 15, 2016

With throngs of spring breakers set to invade the 305 for nonstop partying this Miami Music Week, it's hard not to be in awe of how quickly dance music has been commodified. The genre is now also a lifestyle that can be sold by energy drinks and liquor brands. Then...
WMC and MMW 2015's Best Saturday Parties

By S. Pajot
Mar 28, 2015

Only 48 hours left. Don't cry. Don't hyperventilate. Don't despair. We know it seems Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week is oh-so-quickly coming to an end. But there's still plenty of party time to go. You will realize your wildest WMC and MMW dreams. You will fist-pump underwater. You...
WMC and MMW 2015's Best Friday Parties

By S. Pajot
Mar 27, 2015

Contrary to what your physician may suggest, after three straight days of partying, you do not need a dark room, a warm bed, some rest, a good cry, and an IV dose of 1000 milliliters of normal saline. All you need is more partying. Lots more partying. And even more...
WMC 2015: Food-Related Events to Get You Through the Weekend

By Carla Torres
Mar 26, 2015

Winter Music Conference is in full effect and if you want to get through a week of pool party hopping and dancing till sunrise, you’ll need some sustenance in-between. But don’t worry, we’re not here to take away from all the revelry, which is why there’s plenty to eat and...
George Clinton Funks Up WMC's 30th Anniversary

By Jacob Katel
Mar 26, 2015

George Clinton is one of the God particles of hip-hop. Like James Brown before him, his crucial contributions to the world of funk form the basis of rap as we know it. Not just the samples, the breaks, the ripoffs, and the re-writes, but the classics. From De La Soul's...
WMC and MMW 2015's Best Thursday Parties

By S. Pajot
Mar 26, 2015

Good morning, party people. You're probably the super-serious sort of nightlifers. And that means you will have already been celebrating that weeklong holiday known as Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week for about 46 hours now. There has been no sleep. (Except for five-minute power naps in VIP poolside...
WMC and MMW 2015's Ten Best Pool Parties

By Laurie Charles
Mar 25, 2015

Splish, splash, and uhntz-uhntz. Every year, when Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week come 'round, picking the right H2O bash to show off that cute "I'm in Miami, Bitch!" bikini and matching shades can be a daunting task. Luckily, we at New Times have taken many trips to the...
Deep Dish Talks Reunion and New Music: “It Was Time to Finish the Story”

By Stephen Feller
Mar 25, 2015

Legendary EDM duo Deep Dish quit working together in 2007, much to the disappointment of music fans around the world who’d grown up on their trend-setting studio work and massive skills at murdering a party crowd. Early last year, Sharam and Dubfire, having established themselves as individuals capable of twice...
Funkadelic’s George Clinton on Shake the Gate, Recording With Kendrick Lamar

By Jacob Katel
Mar 25, 2015

George Clinton has fought so many lawyers, he can smoke a spliff rolled in a Habeas Corpus and still know every word printed on it. For decades he has fought for legal and monetary justice over song copyrights he says were fraudulently signed out from under him and then exploited...
WMC and MMW 2015's 20 Best Club Parties

By S. Pajot
Mar 24, 2015

Do not stop dancing. Maybe you haven't heard (and maybe you live in a padded, soundproof room with no internet, a busted TV set, and boarded-up windows), but that annual 144-hour dance marathon known as Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week is about to swarm South Beach, downtown, Wynwood,...

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