In a seemingly never-ending saga of city politics and buzzing debate the fate of Ultra Music Festival is on the table once again. The story of a city driven by tourism while struggling to appease the residents who call it home is far from over. Driven by residential complaints of …
In September 2018, the City Miami made the decision to not renew Ultra’s contract at Bayfront Park, thereby forcing the festival to find a new venue with barely 6 months until showtime. While Virginia Key served as a fine intermediary, 2019’s Ultra was still not the perfect event. Ultra has …
Billboard has unleashed its list Top 10 Facebook Live Videos — because apparently that’s actually a thing?? — for April 2019 and Oliver Heldens is king. The producer took the stage at Ultra Miami this year and live streamed the performance the massive social media platform. His set was obviously well …
In what was expected to be a mostly YES vote, the Miami Beach commissions just voted 3-4 NO on bringing Ultra Music Festival to the city in 2020. For those not familiar with the area, Miami Beach is a separate city in Miami f the coast, much like Virginia Key. …
Minutes after the Miami City Council motioned to put Ultra Miami back on the next city commission meeting agenda, as well as directing city manager Emilio Gonzalez to renew talks with Ultra, Homestead-Miami Speedway called a special call meeting to authorize longer hours. The venue called the meeting in Homestead in …
Recently, there has been much concern as to where Ultra Music Festival will be relocating its home festival. After it’s 2019 edition at Virginia Key, Miami ficials agreed that the festival would not be returning to its recently new location due to many complications that occurred during this year’s event. …
People have been asking: where is Ultra 2020 going to be held, well it looks like Ultra Music Festival might be headed to Miami Beach! City commissioner Ricky Arriola is proposing that the city enter negotiations to host it at Lummus Park in 2020. Lummus Park is a beachside location on …
Rather than wait for the City Miami to convene tomorrow and fer its own vote to the fate Ultra Music Festival, the festival dropped the hammer today and ficially “voluntarily terminated” its license with the city. Now, the question goes to where the festival will end up in 2020. In its …
Rather than wait for the City Miami to convene tomorrow and fer its own vote to the fate Ultra Music Festival, the festival dropped the hammer today and ficially “voluntarily terminated” its license with the city. Now, the question goes to where the festival will end up in 2020. In its …
Following a challenging year with an unprecedented and hasty relocation, Ultra Music Festival has announced that it will not return to the Virginia Key location and will be seeking a new, permanent home in South Florida. In an official statement released today, Ultra acknowledged the largely negative feedback to the …
Ultra Music Festival is ficially leaving Miami. The festival and Miami City Council were expected to have a meeting tomorrow about the coming years. But, Ultra has “voluntarily terminated” their license before the meeting happened. Leading up to this years event, there was quite the debate from the Miami City …
While a meeting tomorrow from the Miami City Council was expected to define Ultra Music Festival’s fate, Ultra has beaten the city to the punch and announced that it has “voluntarily terminated” its license with the city. “After listening to feedback from many you, it is clear that the festival …
For the first time since their reunion at Ultra Music Festival 14 months ago, Swedish House Mafia took to the stage with new production, new music, and 43,000 people at the Tele2 Arena in Stockholm, Sweden where it all started. The trio, Axwell, Sebastian Ingrosso, and Steve Angello, will be …
Miami City Council will vote on May 9 whether to renew or revoke Ultra Music Festival’s license to hold their event on Virginia Key for a second year, but Virginia Key has already made it clear that it doesn’t want Ultra back. A preliminary meeting two weeks ago discussed the …
Ushuaïa Ibiza has confirmed Swedish House Mafia will perform a single show this summer. The Swedes will be back at the Ibiza club on July 26. Before breaking up at the end of 2012, the group’s final show was hosted at the island’s outdoor venue, bringing their two-year residency to …
After Ultra Music Festival experiencing its own mini-fire, things got a bit too lit at Coachella this past weekend. Express UK reported that a large fire broke out in the campgrounds Coachella weekend 1. The fire seems to have started in the shower area the campgrounds. Reports from Twitter say …
Ultra Music Festival faced many challenges in 2019, not least all the truncated preparation period afforded to them by being ousted from their Bayfront Park venue. The move to Virginia Key was approved in November 2018, giving the festival only four months to effectively plan and execute a festival for …
Ultra Music Festival returns to Miami in 2020 — but, where will it go? After claiming a new home on Virginia Key, music festival organizers hope to return. However, some key Miami ficials don’t believe it’s a good idea. Ultra Miami gave 2019 everything it had, with a new venue, new …
The Chainsmokers proved this past Sunday night, once again, why they deserve to headline an event like Ultra Music Festival. They never brought out any rappers, they never relied on gimmicks, they just brought their 120% energy to the stage and played their hearts out. With drummer Matt McGuire in …
Zeds Dead and JAUZ made waves when they dropped their first original collaboration “Lights Go Down” in 2017. Now, a little less than two years later, and a full b2b tour later, the two are teaming up again for another new fire track. At Ultra this past weekend, Zeds Dead …
Most, if not all, the artists who were featured on this past weekend’s live stream during Ultra Music Festival have begun uploading their HQ sets to their own channels. For many artists, this means fans will be listening to and watching these sets for years to come, much like I, …
Deadmau5 debuted his Cube 3.0 to the world this past weekend at Ultra Music Festival. Taking over the very last set at the Live Stage on Saturday (before it became the ASOT stage on Sunday), deadmau5 impressed with a feat technology, techno, and house that only he could possibly achieve. …
Avicii was at Ultra Music Festival in sprit this year… An artist by the name Royyal Dog captured the essence the late producer with his live art display, which he painted during the festival. The resemblance is uncanny, as Avicii looks f the canvas with a bright smile on his face. …
Ultra Music Festival just wrapped up over the weekend and we’re already excited for next year. Organizers just shared a new set dates for the 2020 installment — so get excited. Less than a year stands between us and another round Ultra. The flagship music festival will return to Miami over …
It’s hard to decide which set was best at Ultra Music Festival this past weekend. Apart from all the sets that were featured on the live stream, there were a lot more that weren’t, including every artist on the Worldwide stage with the exception Dog Blood. Arguably one the better …
Ultra Music Festival enjoyed its new home on Virginia Key in Miami this past weekend with three full days performance, going until 2am for the first time. Already going into the weekend with a grain salt, Ultra didn’t do itself any favors by selling a timeslot to chicken fast food …
is always a true wonder when he takes to main stages all over the world. All his sets pail in comparison to what he does for Ultra Music Festival though. Even after nearly three decades producing, Guetta leaves nothing to chance. This year during his Ultra 2019 main stage set, …
‘s return to Ultra Music Festival this past weekend was a long time coming. After missing the flagship event last year, Garrix returned like Napoleon from Elba to tear down the Ultra Music Festival Mainstage. Martin wasted absolutely no time jumping into the mix as the crowd was met with …
Ultra Music Festival is still a memory glowing bright in the back our heads. The festival ended not even 24 hours ago, but the experts over at 1001 Tracklists are already hard at work idenitfying every song from every single set. One the most exciting moments from Day 1, was …
Ultra Music Festival just ended hours ago, but as always, Ultra has left us with a little taste the action for next year. While it has been tangentially confirmed that Ultra will be staying in Virginia Key for 2020, we now also have the dates for 2020 as well. Ultra …
