Arielle Castillo
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The 2013 edition of Ultra Music Festival, the country's largest annual dance music festival, practically swallowed downtown Miami. Celebrating its 15th year, the festival expanded to Coachella-size proportions, offering two separate weekends with largely similar lineups.
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This past weekend marked a major milestone for Steve Angello, the 30-year-old dance-music heartthrob best known as one third of Swedish House Mafia. On Sunday night (March 24), the act, whose other members are Axwell and Sebastian Ingrosso, played its last-ever show at the Ultra Music Festival in downtown Miami.
On the eve of ...
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Daniel Sannwald
More than 150,000 music fans will converge on Miami this weekend for the Ultra Music Festival, now in its 13th year.This year, among a line-up that includes dance-rock crossover originators like Duran Duran alongside new acts like Crystal Castles, Cut Copy and Empire of the Sun, only one band from Miami itself will grace the ...
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Johnny O
Brooklyn-based White Hills play tripped-out, guitar-driven, effects-heavy songs that regularly pass the six-minute mark and sometimes near 15. You might be tempted to label the sound "psychedelic," but according to founder and bandleader Dave W., you'd be wrong. He prefers "space rock," a tag that makes sense, given the floating ...
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Gary Clark Jr. is no run-of-the-mill indie rocker. The 27-year-old guitar prodigy and Austin native is the next great hope for bringing raw blues to a mainstream audience, starting at SXSW. Clark is a rarity in the blues community -- a musician who respects the great standards while remaining open to other sounds, freely mixing in ...
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Autumn de Wilde
A master of analog tape, San Francisco troubadour John Vanderslice has been churning out smart solo albums from his studio, Tiny Telephone. For more than 11 years, Vanderslice's pop sensibility and layered production have given his work an almost orchestral quality, helping him transcend the singer-songwriter genre.
His ...
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Pop prankster Dom (just one name) is a testament to artistic triumph over the state-run institutional machine. Given up to Massachusetts foster care as a young teen, he ran in and out of trouble before aging out of the system and breaking free into the DIY community in Worcester. While drifting in and out of boarding houses, ...
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