Since 2010, this brand has been home to the expression and preservation of Miami’s music culture.
I just wanted to have fun.
This writing catalog begins in 2010. Many electronic artists were coming through Miami. I was going out six nights a week until 5a, sometimes later.
The only social media was FourSquare. You could “check-in” from your cell phone and that was it. People stayed present.
I remember a friend at LIV one night foreshadowing the day that the internet would spill over from our home lives and into our dance lives. He, unfortunately, was right.
I was documenting the end of an era, although for me it felt very much alive.
Catalog
coming soon
This is the third time I have brought this website back to life.
2010-2011: I was going out so much. I had to choose between work, going out, and writing. So the writing went.
I chose a path that felt like I lost my soul. Then Ultra’s 20th anniversary reminded me that I had not lost it. Two months later, I came back online in 2018 following Avicii’s death.
2018-2020: This renaissance felt really good. I thought Miami was coming back into a groove. A new age. Then COVID hit.
Living in the past couldn’t work. Everything had to come undone.
2026-now: I care about the formation of Miami’s scene. This isn’t an easy city to thrive in. And the kids here make the most of it.
We were kids making the most it, where privacy in a club was a given. Where getting lost was a right. Where getting home was a question.
Kids today have lost their privacy, their right to anonymity, and their ability to wonder and problem-solve.
Furthermore, with the swing of a bat, or a construction crane, long-standing spaces are disappearing.
Preserving our cultural spaces can help kids today remember how important gathering spaces are to our well-being. They deserve to know how things used to be before the internet became an energy vampire to real life.
It has always been about the music.
If you care about Miami’s music scene, I encourage you to participate in your local government.
Local law is what helps preserves the 5am closing time, the cultural places we know and love, the art deco architecture, so on and so forth.
So get involved!
An easy way to start is by attending monthly commission meetings. Many are available via Zoom.