Miami hosts the finest EDM artists around

Every year, the world’s premier electronic dance music festival, the Ultra Music Festival, takes place at Bayfront Park in Downtown Miami and all the finest artists from around the globe make their way down to show off their skills. Taking a break from their leisure time, their Caribbean cruises and their penthouse apartments, the biggest talents from the EDM world are taking over Miami for three days in March, displaying the heaviest, hardest and deepest sounds around.

 The height of electronic talents

Featuring top artists including David Guetta, Tiesto, Kraftwerk, Skrillex, Mike Snow and Armin Van Buuren, the Ultra Music Festival (UMF) has already sold out, in record time. This is the third year in a row that the event has sold out in quick time and will be held in conjunction with the Winter Music Conference. This conference features networking and business contacts as well as music and is a great place for up and coming music technologists, artists and behind the scenes experts to meet. Click here to see video and interviews from previous WMC djs including Bob Sinclar, Paul van Dyk, and Deadmau5.

 The UMF is in its 13^th year and has made great moves from its launch in 1999. Expanding from a small low key one day festival event, to the three day extravaganza that took place last year, its growth is evidence of the growing presence of electronic dance music (EDM) in the mainstream charts.  

Bayfront Park is a huge urban space, ideal for the massive festival to takeover. The Amphitheater has space for 10,000 people and the Tina Hills Pavilion is more intimate, with space for just 1,000. This may well be where some of the up and coming acts get their first taste of festival.  

Deadmau5 hits back

Not everybody is a fan of the huge Ultra Music Festival, although we can’t see why. Electro-trance artist and producer Joel Zimmerman (better known as deadmau5) has slammed the festival in a ranty YouTube video for its ticket prices and contractual agreements involved in performing at the event. It’s obvious his words have fallen on deaf ears as fans have already bought their tickets in the thousands despite of this. The UMF attracts fans and artists from around the world and many historic remixes and tracks have been first performed at this legendary festival. It seems Zimmerman is the lone voice, bemoaning the event and his words have done little to distract fans of EDM.

A closer look at the Winter Music Conference

The Winter Music Conference is one of the largest music industry conventions specialising in the electronic genre. Founding in 1985, the conference has served as a launch pad to spur on DJs and professionals from the electronic dance music genre into greater success and potential stardom. Many of the major agency deals take place at the Winter Music Conference, where young prodigies sign their future to a label that can make it happen and learn all about the industry from the experts. It’s expected over 50,000 delegates will attend the conference in March, with 500 separate events taking place during the week. One of the most anticipated events are the panels and seminars where topics and questions can be posted to experts and newcomers can learn everything they need to know about their future career, from the people who know it.

Artists to look out for in 2012

There are some obvious heavyweights attending the UMF such as Guetta, Tiesto and Fatboy Slim but there are hundreds more acts who are worth taking in. UK drum and bass legends Chase and Status are a definite must see as they combine musical performance with their DJ sets. Canadian Dubstep DJ Datsik is another artist who will make the hairs stand up on the back of your neck. Knife Party, the new electro-house carnation of Australian chart-storming Pendulum are set to be one of the leading EDM acts of 2012, so their set at UMF may be a sign of things to come.

Miami is a perfect host for the finest EDM music worldwide and the Bayfront Park setting is the perfect setting for the event. With years of experience behind them the festival’s founders are set to make this year’s event even more successful than the last and then perhaps next year, tickets will sell out even faster.

Leave us feedback about your opinion on these music events in Miami below. We would love to hear from your experiences.

It’s that time again. Have you burned off the holiday gut? Been running much lately? On Sunday, January 29th, 2012 either you join them or sleep in because you know how crowded the streets get when the ING Miami Marathon takes over. Join the massive crowds as the internationally acclaimed marathon and half marathon takes to the beautiful streets of Miami, South Beach, Downtown Miami, Coconut Grove and Key Biscayne, and ends with a great finish festival at Bayfront Park.

There is still time to register for this event. Click here to go directly to the registration page.

Not everyone wants to run a marathon; some people prefer to cheer on the sidelines. With our new volunteer program, supporting the athletes just got easier. Sign up today to help (and cheer) on the race course or be waiting at the end to hand out finisher medals.

ING Miami Marathon Facebook Page

Somewhere I heard a rumor that a Walmart might be opening up in Midtown. I did not believe it and so made no effort to check into this statement. This morning I saw it mentioned in my Twitter feed along with a petition to sign. Without hesitation I signed the petition and hope you will too.

Here are a few links you can check out in regards to the Walmart in Midtown Debate:

Grant Stern wrote an opinion piece published in Miami Herald

Follow Grant Stern on Twitter @grantstern

Follow the conversation on Twitter #nowalmartinmidtown

Click here to read and sign the online petition

“Walmart Coming to Midtown Miami” on Miami Herald “…Preliminary plans call for a 155,000-square-foot store with a full-service grocery store, which would be just slightly larger than the center’s existing Target; it would be located on undeveloped property at the south end of Midtown Miami on North Miami Avenue. The store would likely open in late 2013 or early 2014.”

“Walmart’s Midtown Miami Plan Sparks Anger, Confusion —  and Surprise Support” on Miami New Times by Tim Elfrink

“Walmart Collapses U.S. Cities and Towns”

“Walmart Collapses on Civil War Battlefield” on Huffington Post by Al Norman

Trailer for “Walmart: The High Cost of Low Price”

There are many people in Miami that want to give back, become a part of the community, and generally pay it forward. It is a new year and time to refresh your goals for 2012. Hopefully, one thing on your list is to find a way to volunteer or donate. There are many places in Miami and around the world that deserve a helping hand.   We are grateful to have worked on this website to now be at the point where it can be a source of information to others.

Our desire is to present some opportunities that you might not have thought about or known. I was reading Marie Claire magazine when it occurred to me that I can include their list on goLIVEmiami. If it were not for the subscription I received as a gift, I would not have discovered some of the organizations I read about while reading the article.

This list will be evolving. go LIVE miami welcomes you to submit a place, link, suggestion in the comments section below or through our contact page. Your submission will be added to the list.

Miami
Best Buddies Florida
Dream in Green
Tropical Audobon Society
Aqua Foundation for Women
Sumando Manos
Food for Life Network
Children First Foundation
The Little Lighthouse Foundation

Online
Charitii - Play multiple choice crossword puzzles for charity.
Charity Water - Brings clean water to developing nations. Donate or start your own fundraising campaign.

Free Rice - Want to goof off at work? For each quiz answer you correctly answer the site donates rice to the United Nations World Food Programme.
VolunteerMatch.org  - Find places to volunteer by geographic area
Infinite Family - Video mentoring site for African teens
Great Nonprofits - Volunteer recently? Post your comments and read reviews about any of the 1.8 million U.S. based nonprofits.
Good Shop - Addicted to online shopping? Well do some good while you are at it.
Common Kindness - Food coupon site that allows you to print coupons and when you redeem at the store, gives a percentage to your charity.
Sparked - Online volunteering for busy people. You can help non-profits with web-based tasks they post. Whether it is feedback, logo design, writing a letter you might have the knowledge base to help.
Deal Gooder - It is a flash sale site that benefits charities.  One deal a day, one charity, one good deed.

Fashion meets Art at this season’s second edition of Bal Harbour Art Nights, hosted by Bal Harbour Village. Seth Browarnick’s Art of Night Fashion Edition will be on display in a specially curated exhibition for Bal Harbour Shops in the Center Courtyard. The event is free and open to the public.

DATE: Wednesday, January 11, 2012
TIME: 6:00pm – 9:00pm
LOCATION: Bal Harbour Shops - 9700 Collins Avenue, Bal Harbour

LINKS:
Facebook Event Page

YouTube Video for Arboles Libres

Mr. Pauer Website

Arboles Libres Website

Ricochet Bar Lounge

HeartCamp brings together speakers and participants from different walks of life to discuss all matters of the heart — the physical, emotional, spiritual and creative heart.

DATE: Saturday, February 4, 2012
LOCATION: Hyatt Pier 66
TIME: 8:00AM to 8:00PM
FEE: $30 (voluteers and speakers complimentary)
PARKING: $3 All day
Click here for more detailed information about the event.

Facebook: www.facebook.com/heartcamp  Twitter: @heartcamp  Hashtag: #heartcamp

Foursquare: Hyatt Pier 66 and HeartCampSoFla … check in on the day of the event!

Flickr Pool: HeartCampSoFla

If you’re not familiar with the camp format, here’s a brief primer. To put it simply, it’s an open event in which participants provide content. This user-generated unconference is modeled after BarCamp, a technology-focused, international network of events successfully operating around the world since 2005. Camps are a great way of building community without the hassle of formal conference arrangements.

At HeartCamp, we treat the heart as the central core of what it means to be human.  We create dialogue about everything that affects the heart, with emphasis on relationships of all kinds, including, but not limited to:

•    Love and sex as well as one’s relationship with self
•    Relationship to family, children, parents, pets, country and culture
•    Professional relationships, heart connections to career and to money
•    Relationship to the physical and spiritual heart, heart health and heart break
•    Relationship to body, self-esteem, anxiety, addictions, grief
•    Relationship to technology, love in the age of the internet, the heart exposed

Topics relating to heart are only bound by the limits of your imagination.  Have an idea you’d like to share?  Visit our Speaker Instructions and Speaker Sign-Up pages.

For those who don’t wish to speak, you are still a participant and as important as any speaker. This unconference is for YOU –  simply observe or share in discussion, Q & A sessions and networking time.  Register and enjoy!

Dig deeper into HeartCamp at our What To Expect page.

Coconut Grove is a small village on Biscayne Bay that was the start of the City of Miami in the 1800′s. It is a tight knit group of artists and would-be bohemians (and a lot of attorneys). Elizabeth’s Christmas parties have brought together the young and old of the Grove for 35 of the last 37 years. This video is a tribute to Elizabeth. Go to the “last hurrah” party dinner with us and meet many of the longstanding Grove intelligentia.

Please leave your comments below. And if you know someone in the video, do share this page with them. Happy Holidays from goLIVEmiami!

“You Go Where We Go” — goLIVEmiami

WHERE: 1234 Washington Avenue, Miami Beach, FL
WHAT: Chalk is the 1st of its kind in Florida to offer an ultra chic adult playground comprised of multiple ping pong tables, billiard tables and board games of all kinds under one roof.
CONTACT: 305 532-8662
WEBSITE: ChalkMiami.com

Check out Chalk Miami on Facebook!

Is time to find a new hangout? Had enough of the same old bars? Need a new spot to take your dates? Finding things to do in Miami Beach that aren’t tacky or touristy can get challenging if you have lived here long enough.

I was trying to think of when was the last time I played ping pong. It was two years ago in the basement of a house party in San Francisco. It was more like racquetball pong as walls and ceilings counted as good. There’s something soothing about that hollow pop sound a ping pong makes. Do you remember when was the last time you played board games or ping pong? Leave your comments below.

DATE: 02/17/2012 – 02/18/2012
TIME: 08:00 am – 06:00 pm
LOCATION: UM School of Communications Building
5100 Brunson Drive, Coral Gables
PARKING: There is ample free parking available.

Click HERE to visit event website 

CONTACT: Visit the event’s contact page of follow them on Twitter @wordcampmiami #wcmiami

WordCamp Miami is a multi-day event for passionate bloggers, designers, developers, WordPress users and anyone else who is interested in learning all about WordPress, website development, and marketing/blogging topics. Last year our event sold-out, so this year we are planning on bigger and better topics and surprises. The event will be hosting over 20 speakers from across the USA, Canada, and other countries from around the world.

This event sells out! Make sure you visit the website to buy your tickets in advance!

Click here to buy your tickets!