Your teeth just stopped chattering from the bass like 20 minutes ago, and every time you turn your head, you still hear vestiges of screeching synths. But that doesn’t mean you’re thrilled WMC and Ultra just ended. EDM-heads will not stop pulsing with beats for any sort of practical reason. Work?…
Photo by Liz Tracy 16. Best Bieber At first we thought: “Holy shit! That’s Justin Bieber at Ultra! Wow! This is better than Madge’s crash (and burn) last year!” Alas! It was merely a cardboard likeness of our favorite pothead newbie. But for desperate Bieber fans like us, any Bieb’ll…
Photo by George Martinez With the rise of the ubiquitous Internet, street fashion trends rolled in, heavy and dark like a storm cloud, over the style world. Instead of dressing sorta like supermodels on the catwalk, we had to start wearing exactly whatever some fashion editor in Italy was sporting…
Photo by Jacob Katel With Lil Wayne just out of the hospital after a series of seizures and a Codeine relapse, no one’s fronting about the role drugs play in the world of hip-hop. The EDM scene is also deep into intoxicants, and no one’s going to tell us otherwise…
Photo by Jacob KatelSpaceGhostPurrp runnin’ the live stage at Ultra Music Festival 2013. SpaceGhostPurrp can be a prickly dude. He’s so young, smart, and deep. And all that online attitude. You can’t help but envy him his complexity and talent and resent what sometimes comes off as a sense of…
Things that are cool in one context are often not cool in others. For instance, if you arrived at the Pitchfork Music Festival in your kandi best, you would certainly not be the belle of the ball. You’d be a lame-o freak in neon, crying over a box of doughnuts…
It’s still a month off, and advance and early bird tickets for the inaugural Tortuga Music Festival are almost entirely sold out. That’s not to say that you still can’t gain entrance to see the Fort Lauderdale Beach fest with Kenny Chesney, Eric Church, the Avett Brothers, and other big…
Suenalo9:30 p.m. Friday, March 22, at the Funky Biscuit, 303 SE Mizner Blvd., Royal Palm Place, Boca Raton. Tickets cost $10 in advance, $15 at the door. Call 561-395-2929, or visit funkybiscuit.com.Throughout the history of international folklore, humankind has been obsessed with mythical monsters assembled from different parts of animals…
To put it simply, Queen Latifah is a goddess. This isn’t like one of those compliments you give to your dudely pal ’cause she finally put on a dress. No, Latifah is divine in the way of Athena or Yemaya: a powerful natural force. Though everyone knows Latifah as a…
To put it simply, Queen Latifah is a goddess. This isn’t like one of those compliments you give to your dudely pal ’cause she finally put on a dress. No, Latifah is divine in the way of Athena or Yemaya: a powerful natural force. Though everyone knows Latifah as a…
Photo by Liz TracyIf the colorful and magical land of Ultra Music Festival sits at the end of the rainbow, then perhaps the music is the gold, and the ravers? They’re leprechauns. At least they were yesterday when the fest coincided with the second most costumey of holidays. And if…
Photo by Liz TracyOn day one of Ultra Music Festival 2013, the main-stage DJ surprisingly played Red Hot Chili Peppers’ “By the Way.” It’s not one of the Cali crew’s early songs, but it’s a hit that came out when about 60 percent of the crowd (now dancing in tutus,…
Liz TracyThey danced. They rolled. They yelled: Glitter! Yes, these are ten talkative fashionistas of Ultra Music Festival 2013. Certainly, there were some better dressed, and others more sensibly garbed. But the following folks found during night one of 2013’s three-day shit fest — they were the ones who most…
Every year, band after band plays the shit out of their instruments on the SunFest stages. At the edge of the ocean, on the sand, drink in hand, there’s really no better spot to watch some of history’s greatest and potentially greatest musicians perform. This year’s lineup is crazy with…
Sheryl Crow is one of those singers whom everyone kind of likes. You can hate all the other singer/songwriter weepy-girl pop-country rockers and still take a shine to this singer. She’s got class, like when her ex Lance “Not Strong Enough” Armstrong got busted for juicing, she kept her trap…
After living and traveling all over the planet, Steven Machat recently moved to Florida, full time, with the intention of staying. His condo sits bayside, overlooking the weird majesty that is Miami Beach. This expanse of clubs and sunbathers is where the former lawyer, record label owner, and music industry…
Straight and gay couples shoveled frozen lemonade into their maws while eyeing chocolate penis lollipops. The fashions included: men in leather, roller-derby gals, and one middle-aged guy in Bamm-Bamm Rubble bottoms. A hefty dude perched in a dunk tank never seemed to get slammed into the water. How could they…
If you were beaten by the bass and trance-ported to a divine electronic headspace this weekend, you were definitely ’90s-tripping to Paul Oakenfold’s DJ set at Gryphon.The nightclub was packed with sweaty, animal flesh. The crowd was amped and ready to rave into a darkened bedroom after a night of…
To hell with all those Irish jokes. We know that on Saint Patrick’s Day you’re just an alcoholic looking for an excuse to worship at the altar of your god Jameson. And Jameson is not a kind deity. He’s more like that stepdad who hates you, but takes you out…
Masses of hungry Floridians will be filling up Cruzan Amphitheatre this weekend to slurp up succulent ribs and dance the day away to good ol’ country at the fourth annual WIRK Rib Round Up. Rodney Atkins will be crooning in his deep voice and strumming to his own songs at the…
The sun is setting on the Atlantic, and you’re sitting on a mound of sand smoking a spliff. The breeze is soft, and the expressions of your favorite and not-so-favorite musicians light up with the sunset. All of that, and you don’t have to camp out in the cold and…
The ultimate reality-show star weighs like 200 pounds but is working on losing weight by crying and weighing himself on a giant scale in front of an audience of millions. He has a really orange tan too and a few visible muscles. He also can dance like Fred Astaire and…
