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25 years ago this month, Miami’s Club Space first opened its doors. In the decades since, it’s become not just a citywide institution, but a national and international destination that’s risen, then risen again, in tandem with the explosion of underground electronic music.
Created by Miami native Luis Puig in 2000 and now operated by a trio of friends and business partners who’ve long been embedded in the city’s dance scene, Club Space now hosts roughly 600 annual events, drawing tens of thousands of party people for the both the music and the all-night into morning experience that the club, which possesses a 24 hour license, famously offers. Parties can, and do, go on for days.
This week is not only the Club Space’s anniversary, but its busiest week of the year, with thousands of dance industry folks and genre fans flocking to town for Miami Music Week, a confluence of parties, showcases and gatherings. Starting today (March 25), Club Space will feature a flurry of producers and party brands including Hugel’s Make the Girls Dance, Fisher’s Catch & Release, HARD, Cloonee, The Martinez Brothers and Loco Dice and many, many more.
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In tandem with the revelry, here Puig, the current co-owners and other essential Club Space employees tell the story of the venue, in their own words.
I. Origins
Puig started bartending and DJing in Miami nightclubs as a teenager. Eventually, he operated clubs in South Beach, but the competitive market and a yearning for another type of venue later brought him to downtown Miami, a move that would affect the future of nightclubs in the city and ultimately reverberate throughout dance music culture.
Puig: The experience I got from DJing and bartending was watching people and what they liked. That was fused with my travels to all the big clubs in New York — Ice Palace 57, New York, New York, Paradise Garage. Then in 1981, I went to Ibiza. That just took it to another level. I was 21 years old [and going], “Wow, this is something else.” The clubs didn’t close, they just stayed open. From that experience and from all those years of clubbing and DJing and working at nightclubs, it gave me an idea what would make a great club.
I had my blueprints and architectural plans [with me in Ibiza] and one night I was invited to dinner at Roman Polanski’s house there. [Pacha Ibiza] founder Ricardo Urgell was there, and after dinner I spread the plans over the table and went through it like, “This is where DJ booth is. This is how big the dance floor will be. This where I’m putting the bar. Everybody’s doing VIP clubs on the Beach, but this is going to be for locals, and it’s going to have a patio.”
There were like, eight people sitting at the dinner table having drinks and looking at the plans. I remember Ricardo just passed his hand to the left, and said, “Esto va a ser un gran éxito.” This is going to be a great success. If I would have never built a club, I would have been happy just with his blessing. It was a pretty amazing night for me.
Years later, in 1999, Puig located a promising building in Miami’s Park West neighborhood, then an unsavory part of downtown.
Puig: The whole area was abandoned. The landlords had nobody to rent to. [The area I wanted] was basically three warehouses and a parking lot. I walked in and there were three homeless people living on the floor, s— everywhere. It was horrible. I mean, rats, everything.
Longtime Space bartender Sean Ospina: I mean, back in the dy downtown was scary. I’d be scared walking down the street.
Puig: The walls of the building were missing. There were pieces of roof missing. But I just saw a club. I was 39 at the time and said, “It’s now or never,” and I started building it. I paid $7 a square foot, for almost 20,000 square feet. I’d been paying $30 a square foot on the Beach. I started selling everything I had to raise money for the club. I sold my car. I had money put away. I borrowed money. I think we put together the original Space for about half a million dollars.
Knowing it’d be hard to compete with the South Beach clubs, Puig decided his venue would be an after hours, designed to draw the thousands of partiers forced to leave the city’s many clubs at closing time, but who didn’t want to go home. To make that happen, first a few laws had to be changed.
Puig: In Miami, there are areas where you can stay open until 3:00 or 5:00 a.m. Anyone can do those. That’s easy. The 24-hour thing was unheard of outside of Vegas. But I knew if I was going to make any money, I’d have to get all these people to come at 4 or 5 a.m., and the only way to do that was to sell liquor after hours.
The director of the Downtown Development Association got a hold of me through my lawyer and requested a meeting. She helped me so much, because she knew that first the club comes, then people get comfortable with the area — then the next thing you know, some guy opens a pizza shop and then something else opens up. Nightclubs are like the seed to start entertainment districts.
Current Space co-owner David Sinopoli: Louis paved the way for us. That guy bulldozed and changed the laws.
Puig: My lawyer and I came up with the 24-hour district thing. Convincing the city took some lobbying, because they didn’t understand why anybody would want to be drinking at seven in the morning. Like, what kind of animals are drinking and dancing at 7 a.m.? It took about three months of lobbying and talking to commissioners. Then it went to vote, and they all voted for making this two-by-two block segment dedicated as a 24-hour entertainment district where you could sell liquor for 24 hours. Game-changer.
Louis Puig during a Space remodel
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After construction was completed, Space opened on March 24, 2000, during Miami Music Week.
Puig: My marketing director said, “Bro, just call it Club Space, because there’s all this space inside it.” The opening night was Danny Tenaglia, the king of clubs. He was the most respected DJ in the industry. Every DJ wanted to hear what Danny was playing, because he could play for hours and not repeat a record. That first party just kept going and going. Overnight, everybody started talking about this crazy club that didn’t shut down. All the DJs started calling, because if Danny was playing there, they all wanted to play there.
We were only open on Saturdays for the first two or three years. We’d start getting busy around three or four in the morning, enough to open up all the rooms. When we first opened, there was the Red Room and the Blue Room. The Blue Room would would play trance; Paul van Dyk, Tiësto, all the big trance DJs, then the Red Room would play house. Our resident was Oscar G, a legend. Then I opened the hip-hop room, and it became very popular, because the hip-hoppers didn’t have anywhere to go for after hours.
Longtime Space employee and current general manager Lisa Mion: When I started at Space I was a waitress in the hip-hop room. It was a tiny room with two tiny VIP tables on each side. That place was filled to the brim all the time.
Puig: The last room to open didn’t open until four months after everything else, and that was the patio.
II. The Patio!
Also referred to as The Terrace, this outdoor area is one of Club Space’s most popular and defining features, allowing guests to enjoy the music as the sun rises. Initially open air, this upper floor of the venue now has a transparent, retractable roof to protect people on the dancefloor from the elements while still letting the sunlight in.
Puig: In the early years, people would go peek out at the patio then run back inside. The question was, how do you get people who’ve been partying all night to come into the light and and keep partying, besides giving them sunglasses?
I knew everybody liked Ibiza, so we did an Ibiza party. Back then Ibiza was mostly farms, except for the clubs. So we went and got chickens, dogs, pigs and bunnies. We had a goat. We bought bales of hay. We all wore overalls with farmer hats and gave away popsicles and melons. [All the employees] went outside to the patio so no one could find us. If you wanted to hang out with us or get a free drink, you had to come see us. We gave away free sunglasses. That was the first patio party. Within two months, pictures started going around and people were preparing to be in the light, and it became the thing. [British DJ] Steve Lawler] became the king of the patio.
Ospina: Back in the early days, we didn’t have a roof on the terrace, so people were exposed to the elements. It could be cold, or super hot, or raining. People didn’t care — they were on the terrace for the music and the vibe.
Puig: It was open-air for the first two or three years. One of those years, during Miami Music Week, it was like, 10 in the morning and raining like it’s never rained before. There were about six inches of water on the terrace, and the awning started getting full of water and stretching. We thought the whole thing was going to fall on top of people and kill them. It was this huge balloon of water. We thought we were going to have to close.
We had bamboo trees on the patio back then, so my manager took a knife, tied it to a bamboo shaft that he broke from one of the trees and started poking holes in the belly of the beast. It became a shower, all these little waterfalls everywhere. Everybody’s just digging it and running around and playing in the water. Then out of nowhere, Sasha shows up and wants to play. So he gets on, and then Sharam from Deep Dish gets on. They weren’t hired to play, they just wanted to. People are going bananas. DJs are showing up. Everybody’s calling everybody. It doesn’t stop raining, people are jumping in the water like kids. That, to me, was epic.
Louis Puig at Space
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III. Space Is the Place
Puig: I mean, look, I run a pretty tight ship. I would say we started turning a profit within the first six months. And once it really got going, it just just got bigger and bigger. Everybody on the Beach was trying to shut me down. My big competition would call bomb scares. They would tell their clients that it was an after hours for drug abuse people. Luckily, we hired police to work the front door and when the other police would get there, they would say, “There’s nothing going on.”
Longtime Space doorman Alan Tibaldeo: The perfect Space guest is done to the nines, giving a look — comfortable, but giving. They know who’s playing and what time to be there. They have their ticket and they’re ready to go dance.
Puig: A few years in, half a million people were going through the door of Space every year. But it started getting busy right away. The Music Conference [the year after we opened] was huge, because now everybody knew about Space, and everybody knew there was a room for them to play where they didn’t have to turn of the music at 5:00 in the morning.
Mion: Miami Music Week is what we all wait for. It’s like the hurrah, the big boom of the year for us.
Puig: Some of my worst nights were during Miami Music Week, because you had every club owner, every actor, every famous DJ in the world, and they all wanted to get in for free. They all wanted to drink for free. They all demanded to be in VIP or worse, the DJ booth. I mean, those are the nights that we would turn off our phones and hide. I would actually go to my office and lock myself in.
Ospina: How many drinks do I serve on a really busy night like that? I don’t know. It’s a lot of drinks.
IV. “The Boys”
Puig: By 2012, I had gotten married and my wife was pregnant with our second son. The phone was ringing at all times of the night with people trying to get into the club. I wanted to have a happy marriage and see my kids on Sundays. I thought, “You know what? I did everything I wanted to do here. What more am I going to do?” I decided to sell.
In late 2013, Puig sold Space to Roman Jones and Justin Levine of Opium Group, who operated the venue for three years before selling it to Coloma Kaboomsky, Davide Danese and David Sinopoli, three locals who’d been cutting their teeth in Miami’s club and festival scene for years. Sinopoli was co-founder of the city’s III Points Festival, while Danese and Kaboomsky had been throwing parties at local venues under their Link Miami Rebels brand. The trio took over Club Space in late 2016.
Puig: The [Opium Group] people I sold to didn’t really operate the club the way I would. They were trying to run Space like the clubs in South Beach, and that didn’t really work out for them. So the owners reached out to “the boys,” as I call them — Davide, Coloma and David. I couldn’t be more satisfied than to have them taking care of my baby. It’s like sending your kid off to college and knowing they’re in the right hands.
David Sinopoli, Coloma Kaboomsky and Davide Danese
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Sinopoli: Justin [Levine] was at a point in his career where he wanted to kind of be done with Miami nightlife, and for us it was simply right place, right time.
Danese: The three of us had a strong following in the Miami music scene, and many years of strong relationships with underground artists that were about to become major players in the international electronic music scene. So when it was offered to us, it was perfect. It was just plug-and=play.
Kaboomsky: We had been scouting Space for a while, and it was really at a low point. The bookings were all over the place. There were very few people going to the venue. We did a pop-up with Art Department in August of 2016, and it felt like the venue came alive again. Everyone was buzzing about how the place was so phenomenal, but the week before, nobody wanted to go there, so that first night was just such a strong proof of concept.
Danese: For me, the first four months were very difficult. It was our first Music Week [in 2017] that really made me feel like we had it, because every single night was phenomenal and all led into a 36-hour closing party with The Martinez Brothers, Jamie Jones and Joseph Capriati. It felt like we could finally welcome our crowd to a place that was fully ours — that looked like us, that felt like us, where we controlled everything from the door to the bars and, most importantly, the music direction. It felt like the community came together that [week] and from then on, it was almost easy.
Kaboomsky: A lot of these [international party brands] were previously doing these high-risk pop ups in random places [around town]. A lot of what we were doing was saying “Hey guys, you can trust us. This is going to be a turnkey thing for your brand, and we can focus on marketing and presenting it the way it should be presented, versus you trying to figure out where to put port-a-potties.”
Danese: The employees loved how we changed the security, we changed the bars, we changed the strong, heavy energy they used to have.
Kaboomsky: [When we came in] it was also really important for Space to be safe for women, because at the end of the day, guys are going to follow women. We can book great DJs, but if we want to build a culture, women need to be safe. A lot of the security changes were focused on making sure women feel safe holding a drink in their hand, making sure there’s no fighting.
I think the music programming also had a lot to do with it. Some of the first weeks in the club that weren’t big DJs were a cleansing. They were these very underground bookings, nothing that had ever been at Space before. It was this beautiful music, more feminine, more downtempo. A lot of the crowd that was coming before for the high, tribal energy came and were like, “Oh, we’re never coming back.”
Sinopoli: We were also kind of evangelistic about converting people to the after-hours. At the same time, Davide and Coloma were converting me to the after-hours, because I wasn’t from that world. Davide would basically force me to come. He’s like, “You need to see your f–king club in the morning, man. It’s an incredible thing.” I found that if you spend a couple mornings there, or do the night-into-the-morning thing, it becomes an itch. It’s unlike anything you can you can experience at any other nightclub.
In 2019, Club Space partnered with Insomniac Events, with the dance events company acquiring an ownership stake in the venue. Upon the announcement, Insomniac Events founder Pasquale Rotella said that Danese, Kaboomsky andSinopoli would still be “running the show and together we will set the bar for entertainment in Miami.” Since 2016, Danese, Kaboomsky, Sinopoli and their sprawling team have made changes to make the club more comfortable for early morning attendees, offering coffee at the bar, introducing a breakfast menu and allowing guests to order takeout right to the dancefloor.
Doorman Alan Tibaldeo
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Tibaldeo: People will arrive at 11:00 at night, and it’s like, go home, take a nap and come back, because you’re too early. The club is really to experience daybreak, if you want the whole enchilada. The best time to arrive is probably around 5:00 a.m.
Mion: The sunrise is the most magical moment we have here.
Kaboomsky: One of the biggest misses, and I see it all the time, is when somebody goes to the club and they don’t make it to sunrise. It’s tragic.
V. Sleep & Lack Thereof
The club’s possession of the 24-hour license that allows for these moments also means that parties can and do go on for days — making it so that considerations must be made for approaching a night, and day, at the Club Space properly.
Puig: Danny [Tenaglia] created the format. He would do these marathon sets, and it became the thing.
Tibaldeo: The big weekends go forever, it’s usually Sunday to Tuesday. There are nights that can go 24, 25, 26 hours.
Danese: People plan on being there for 12, 15 hours. They can spend an entire day with us.
Kaboomsky: People have outfit changes.
Tibaldeo: I have outfit changes, for sure.
Kaboomsky: I had a friend who was at the club, then took a meeting in New York and then came back to the same party.
Ospina: It takes me at least two days to decompress after a shift. After a weekend is done, I come home and I’m like a hermit. I’ll be in my room for two days. Back in the day, we would do marathon shifts. We could be behind the bar for 20 or 25 hours. We don’t do that now; they won’t let us. Now at the most it’s 15-hour shifts.
Mion: The the hours are probably the most challenging, because sometimes we don’t sleep much. For me, [working at] Space is like having a baby. The baby needs to eat. Like a new parent, you’re never going to sleep much. I don’t drink, I’m vegan, I don’t partake in anything; I don’t even drink caffeine. People ask me all the time, “How do you stay up 30 hours?” It’s because I love my job. I care for it like I would if it was my child.
Space employee and longtime colleague of “the boys” Lucas Zaglul: We always keep in touch to see, who’s coming in at what hour? It’s like, “I’m going in the morning,” and Coloma will be like, “Cool, I’ll go early in the night and take over.” I was once at the club for 20 hours, totally delirious. It’s hard to go past 12 hours when you’re in there working and having to deal with stuff. That’s when it’s like, “Okay, I have to go home.”
VI: It’s Solomun!
The esteemed Bosnian-German producer first played Space during Art Basel 2017, becoming a favorite of the venue while also becoming known for sets that have lasted a full 24 hours.
Kaboomsky: The first Solomun marathon was super important. It was a moment of like, “Damn, we could actually do this,” where before [those long sets] were just something we wanted to do. No one had done marathons that long in the club before. There had been 12 hour marathons, but not 25.
Ospina: When Solomun plays, I don’t know what it is, but you feel the energy in the air. I usually don’t pay attention to the music — because I’m working and focused on what I’m doing — but with him I’ll always be like, “Wow, this is really good.”
Mion: Solomun, oh my goodness. When we have Solomun nights, those are the highlights. You know when you’re there and then you’re [dancing] and you don’t know why? He’s that kind of vibe. When we have Solomun we’re all very excited, The whole staff, management. I want to say that the whole building is on fire when we know Solomun is coming.
Zaglul: Most times when Solomun comes, I’m like, “I want to see how long I can hear Solomun play,” and then I can’t even stay for half his set. The guy’s just built differently than the rest of us. Midway through I’ll go home and take a disco nap and come back.
Solomun plays The Terrace at Club Space
Courtesy of Space
VII: The Portal
Along with all the music, Space has also become a community hub, hosting events like pet adoptions and a free weekly yoga class, evolutions as the club also welcomes new generations of dance fans.
Tibladeo: I mean, now I’m addressing people’s kids and grandkids at the door. I get phone calls from parents who are like, “Hey heads up, my daughter’s coming. She’s on her way to dental school and this is her last hurrah.”
Zaglul: With our community programming, we figure out how to get people from all walks of life to come to Space and see how magical this place is. Our biggest one to date is our 420 Space Yoga. It’s a yoga class we do for free every Saturday for everybody in Miami or anybody who comes to visit. At first people were like, “We’re not going to do yoga on the floor of the club.” We had to start sharing videos of us cleaning right after the party and bleaching the floors.
Sinopoli: When Davide is in Ibiza, he’ll [sometimes] text me at some crazy time, like, “This guy just said we have the best club in the world.” It still floors us to hear s–t like that, but we keep each other accountable in staying grounded and controlling the ego things that come from this job. You can’t get lost in the soft sauce, because the second you do that, you lose track of what’s actually important, and that’s the experience, the programming, the community, the operation, the staff.
Danese: We’re kind of scared of giving ourselves the importance that maybe other people can see from the outside, like when they tell you you’re running the best club in the world, for me it’s almost scary.
Sinopoli: The main thing we’re doing is maintaining a portal. This thing has been open since 2000 and there’s been different custodians maintaining it along the way. Like any portal, if you don’t take care of it, it can become a different type of energy. Clubs are very life-changing for people, so how we maintain this portal for them to be able to have those life-changing moments is a massive responsibility that the three of us understand more than we understand what club we are in the world. That responsibility alone is enough to fill up our plate.
Puig: I know the boys are going to keep it going. I think this thing has legs. I mean, listen, Space is as close to heaven as you’re ever gonna get.
Mumford & Sons could have done the usual promotional run to get fans hyped for their upcoming Rushmere album, the folk rock trio’s first in seven years. And while singer Marcus Mumford will surely sit down for some interviews and the band have booked a run of intimate promo gigs in New York and the U.K. through April 3, one of the things the group’s frontman tells Billboard they wanted to do this time around was find a way to deeply connect with fans where they already are.
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“We’re full of songs at the moment — we spent two years in the studio writing [and] this first batch is Rushmere — and it’s encapsulating the spirit of our band in a lot of ways. That made us look back a bit at some of the collaborations we’ve had, some of the records we’ve made, EPs… it’s a lot of music,” says Mumford of the group’s half dozen EPs and four studio albums since 2008.
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So, with their follow-up to 2018’s Delta due out on Friday (March 28), Mumford, bassist/drummer Ted Dwane and keyboard player Ben Lovett will help celebrate Tuesday’s (March 25) launch of their first dedicated SiriusXM channel, Mumford & Sons Radio, with a special event for their die-hards. On Thursday (March 27), the trio will give North American fans a chance to call in and ask questions during a live Q&A session, followed by a live performance in the SiriusXM studios.
“When the SiriusXM team suggested it we leapt at it,” Mumford says of the channel he promises will feature hand-picked songs from across the band’s catalog, as well as some of their favorite collaborations with artists including The National’s Aaron Dessner on the Grateful Dead’s “Friend of the Devil,” and “special moments” with Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen and Joni Mitchell, among others.
“It was fun to look through our previous recordings, like, ‘oh s–t! I forgot about that song!’,” Mumford says of the culling process. “But we had to draw lines through some of [the songs] because you can’t put them all on.” The limited-run channel is the latest such offering from the satellite radio giant, joining temporary ones from Mary J. Blige and Lady Gaga earlier this month, as well as quick-hit channels featuring the music of Maxwell in February and Billy Joel in January.
“We put some real effort into it… we sat down to talk about our songs for far too long!,” says Mumford about the band interviews that will be featured on the channel along with DJ sets in which he can geek out over playing favorite artists such as Mk.gee and talk about how much he loves Gracie Abrams and Kendrick Lamar. There will also be some pleasant surprises, including songs Lamar producer Sounwave worked on for Mumford’s self-titled 2022 solo album.
“There are also some heavier moments, like when we really plug in and go electric with Gang of Youths, or we do a cover version of Nine Inch Nails’ ‘Hurt’ via Johnny Cash and then plugged back in again,” Mumford promises of the surprises that will pop up alongside songs by other artists that have influenced and inspired the group. The channel will also tap into Mumford & Sons’ long association with SiriusXM with replays of their 2015 SiriusXM exclusive performance at New York City’s McKittrick Hotel, their 2019 show at Stephen Talkhouse in the Hamptons and other in-studio sets from over the years.
Mumford & Sons Radio will be available in cars on channel 79 through April 8 and on the SiriusXM app through April 24.
Stephen Graham has said that he was left in tears after receiving a message from Bruce Springsteen, who praised the British actor for his performance in Deliver Me From Nowhere. The upcoming biopic, which stars Jeremy Allen White as a young Springsteen, follows the seminal artist during the making of his 1982 LP Nebraska, with Graham playing the Boss’ late father, Douglas “Dutch” Springsteen.
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After filming wrapped, Springsteen shared an emotional exchange with Graham. He texted the Adolescence star to let him know that his turn as his father, with whom he had a complex relationship, had moved him. Speaking on Edith Bowman’s Soundtracking podcast, Graham said Springsteen had sent him “the most gorgeous texts I’ve ever had in my life”. He went on to explain that, at one point, the role required prosthetics that he had to rip off before hopping on a flight.“I’m racing to get to the airport, and I got this text, and it was so beautiful,” Graham continued. “It just said: ‘Better than any award that I could ever receive in my life’. He’s an icon. He’s a hero. He’s a working-class hero. He’s an icon to thousands, to millions. And his text just said, ‘Thank you so much. You know, my father passed away a while ago and I felt like I saw him today and thank you for giving me that memory.’
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“I was crying reading the text, do you know what I mean?” Graham added. “Oh mate, it was beautiful. You couldn’t ask for anything more, you know, to share that with someone was gorgeous. He’s a lovely man.”He went on to reveal that Springsteen was also a fan of cult classic TV show This Is England – in which Graham plays lead antagonist Combo – and that they’d had conversations about Springsteen’s book, Born To Run, in which he detailed his complex relationship with his father.Elsewhere, Graham has received widespread praise worldwide for his work as a shell-shocked dad on the Netflix drama, Adolescence, which centers on a teenage school boy and his arrest for suspicion of murdering a female classmate.
Megan Thee Stallion: In Her Words, The Voice, The Daily Show and Variety Power of Women are among the music and entertainment-leaning winners of the 50th Annual Gracie Awards, which seeks to amplify women’s voices, stories, and achievements in media. The winners will be honored at the Gracie Awards Gala on May 20 at the Beverly Wilshire in Beverly Hills, Calif. Comedian, writer and actress Fortune Feimster is set to host the show.
The Gracie Awards are presented by the Alliance for Women in Media Foundation (AWMF), which advances women in media through educational programs and scholarships.
Megan Thee Stallion’s documentary debuted on Prime Video on Halloween.
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Individual winners include Keke Palmer for Baby, This is Keke Palmer and Mayim Bialik for Mayim Bialik’s Breakdown.
“For 50 years, the Gracie Awards have honored the storytellers who push boundaries and redefine what’s possible,” Becky Brooks, president of AWMF, said in a statement. “This is more than an awards show—it is a movement that has championed inclusion, representation, and truth in the media. The women we celebrate today are shaping the next 50 years, ensuring that our narratives are not just seen or heard, but felt and remembered.”
The Gracie Awards Gala will be produced by female-owned production companies, and all-female production teams from Do Great Projects and Mythical Creators with Kristin Whalley serving as executive producer.
Local and student award recipients will be recognized at the Gracie Awards Luncheon on June 18 at Cipriani’s in New York City.
Here are highlights of the winners list for the 50th annual Gracie Awards Winners, with a focus on music and entertainment. The complete list of this year’s winners and event details is at www.allwomeninmedia.org.
Television/Streaming National Winners
2024 Paris Olympics on NBC; NBCUniversal; Sports Program; [TV – National]
Descendants: The Rise of Red; Disney+ / Disney Branded Television; Ensemble Cast- Family Programming; [TV – National]
DORA; Nickelodeon; Family Series; [TV – National]
INSIDE EDITION; CBS Media Ventures / INSIDE EDITION; News Magazine; [TV – National]
Megan Thee Stallion: In Her Words; Prime Video; Documentary; [TV – National]
Molly McNearney (Jimmy Kimmel Live!); ABC; Writer Unscripted; [TV – National]
Molly Solomon (2024 Paris Olympics on NBC); NBCUniversal; Showrunner Non-Fiction; [TV – National]
The Daily Show; The Daily Show/Comedy Central; Talk Show – Entertainment; [TV – National]
The Voice; Warner Bros. Unscripted Television; Non-Fiction Entertainment – Competition; [TV – National]
Radio National Winners
Amy Brown (Women of iHeartCountry); Premiere Networks/iHeartMedia; Weekend Host / Personality; [Radio – Nationally Syndicated Commercial]
Angela Yee (Way Up with Angela Yee); Premiere Networks/iHeartMedia; Host/Personality; [Radio – Nationally Syndicated Commercial]
Breaking: Don’t Call It Break Dancing; ABC NEWS; Feature/Special; [Radio – Nationally Syndicated Commercial]
Music is Weapon (Thousand Miles Talks About Music); Taipei Broadcasting Station; Non-English Program; [Radio – Nationally Syndicated Non-Commercial]
Digital Media National Winners
Keke Palmer (Baby, This is Keke Palmer); Wondery; Audio Podcast Host – Entertainment; [DM – National]
Legacy Talk with Lena Waithe; Hillman Grad and Lemonada Media; Audio Podcast – Entertainment; [DM – National]
Mayim Bialik (Mayim Bialik’s Breakdown); ICON PR; Audio Podcast Co-host/Ensemble; [DM – National]
The Boar’s Nest: Sue Brewer and the Birth of Outlaw Country Music; Audible and Fresh Produce Media; Audio Podcast – Scripted; [DM – National]
Variety Power of Women; Variety; Website – Entertainment; [DM – National]
Radio Local Winners
Alabama (The Alabama Show); iHeartMedia; Host Morning Drive – Medium Market; [Radio – Local]
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Travis Scott extended his Circus Maximum world tour on Tuesday (March 25) with the announcement of a series of 2025 international fall stadium shows. The Live Nation-produced outing will hit five countries in October, beginning with an Oct. 11 show at the 94,000-capacity FMB Stadium in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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The swing will then take him to Delhi, India, Seoul, South Korea and Sanya, China before wrapping up with a Nov. 8 show at the 31,000-capacity Belluna Dome in Tokyo, Japan. The newest dates are a capper to the tour that began in October 2023 and played 76 sold-out shows in North America, Europe, the U.K., Latin America, Australia and New Zealand, grossing more than $209 million on its way to becoming the highest-grossing rap tour ever.
Presale and on-sale dates for the international fall dates will vary by market; check your local listings here for additional information.
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Earlier this week, La Flame officially announced that the Cactus Jack label compilation, JACKBOYS 2, is “on the way.” The rapper hopped on the mic during Chase B’s DJ set at LIV nightclub in Miami on Monday (March 24) to tease the project. “JACKBOYS 2 on the way, man. Let that motherf—–r ride, ya dig,” he said. “New Sheck Wes what the f–k is we doing?” Scott also performed a handful of records, including ASTROWORLD‘s “NO BYSTANDERS.”
At press time it was unclear when the label compilation is set to drop, though fans suspect it might coincide with Scott’s return to Coachella in April, where he’s promised to “redesign the desert” during his headlining set.
See Travis Scott’s fall 2025 international tour dates below.
Oct. 11 – Johannesburg, South Africa @ FMB Stadium
Oct. 18 – Delhi, India @ Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium
Oct. 25 – Seoul, South Korea @ Goyang Stadium
Nov. 1 – Sanya, Hainan, China @ Sanya Stadium *
Nov. 8 – Tokyo, Japan @ Belluna Dome
*Non-Live Nation Date
Kids do the darndest things. Just ask Cardi B. The rapper took to her Instagram Story on Sunday to share her horror after her six-year-old daughter, Kulture Kiari Cephus, took a marker to mom’s dark yellow crocodile skin Hermés Kelly bag to tag it with a cute little doodle.
“We spent $60,000 on this purse,” Cardi said in the since-expired Story (which you can re-live in this YouTube video). “Look what my daughter did to my purse. Look what my daughter did to my purse. Look what my daughter did to my f–king purse… mmmmm.” The camera then zoomed in to reveal an adorable little heart inked on the bag in black marker.
Though such purses can cost as much as a luxury ride, luckily it’s not Cardi’s only one. Back in October, she took fans inside her bonkers Birkin closet, where she displayed her three newest crocodile bags in fall-appropriate colors including dark red, grey and mustard yellow, representing nearly $200K worth of Birkin goodness.
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To be fair, before they split, Cardi and ex rapper Offset were happy to shower Kulture with extravagant gifts, from a gold-accented crib, to a $100,000 Word Party chain for her first birthday, a hot pink $10,000 Birkin bag of her own, as well as another custom $48,000 Hermés purse with a bedazzled rainbow.
Back in February, Cardi sparked collaboration rumors when she teamed up with Ozuna in the studio. “A Movie always,” Cardi captioned the first clip of her dancing and singing along to an untitled track in the muted clip. In another clip, Cardi hung out with Ozuna and his crew, which she described as “Un vibe durisimoo (a very hard vibe).” The pair first teamed up in 2017 for “La Modelo,” which reached No. 52 on the Billboard Hot 100; they also appeared together on DJ Snake’s 2018 No. 11 Hot 100 hit “Taki Taki.”
Fans are still waiting on news about Cardi’s long-awaited sophomore album, the follow-up to her 2018 debut studio album Invasion of Privacy.
Wet Leg performed two intimate shows in Brighton and London earlier this week (Mar. 23 and 24), ahead of their return to festival stages this summer. Over the weekend, the Isle Of Wight band – comprising Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers – teased the surprise gigs at Green Door Store and at the Moth Club in the capital via social media.
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Tickets sold out upon release, though the shows were initially announced without revealing the band’s identity and shared under the pseudonym Uma Thurman – with the caveat the real actor “will not be in attendance.” Wet Leg then confirmed their involvement by sharing a link to the Moth Club date.
According to images shared across X/Twitter, the shows saw the band play an 11-song set, including a slew of unreleased tracks, with titles including “Dragonfart,” “Beans” and “Lovestruck.”
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The live debut of new music comes after the band took to Instagram last week (Mar. 17) to announce their return, and share a 30-second teaser of upcoming material to their Stories. On stage, they donned black wigs and suit attire in the style of Thurman’s character in Pulp Fiction, Mia Wallace. Watch a clip from their performance below.
The duo will follow the Brighton and London dates with two U.S. shows. They will play the Market Hotel in Brooklyn on Mar. 31 and The River in LA on Apr. 8. They are inviting fans to a pre-sale on March 28, for which further details can be found here.
Posting on Instagram they wrote: “Hey there neighbor been a while hasn’t it? Why dont u [sic] come on down to the bottom of our garden? It’s about time we had ourselves a little gathering…just a couple of special nights in NYC US and LA US.”Wet Leg’s last full-length release was their 2022 self-titled debut LP. It earned them two Grammy Awards for best alternative music album and best alternative music performance at the 65th Annual Grammy Awards. In 2023, they won a BRIT Award for group of the year, as well as scooping the best new artist prize.
Over the coming months, they are set to headline a bevy of U.K. and Irish festivals including Green Man and Wilderness, while they also have appearances confirmed for Glastonbury, TRNSMT and BBC Radio 1 Big Weekend in Liverpool.
Bruce Springsteen has joined the all-star lineup for Wednesday night’s (March 26) all-star tribute to Patti Smith. The Boss will make the trip to Carnegie Hall in New York for the sold–out People Have the Power: A Celebration of Patti Smith show celebrating the 50th anniversary of Smith legendary 1975 debut album, Horses.
In addition to Springsteen, the show will feature appearances from R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe, Bangles singer Susanna Hoffs, Pretenders frontwoman Chrissie Hynde, Sharon Van Etten, the Kills’ Alison Mosshart, director Jim Jarmusch, Scarlett Johansson, Kronos Quartet, Ben Harper, Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Karon O, former Sonic Youth singer/guitarist and solo performer Kim Gordon, Sean Penn, Angel Olsen, Courtney Barnett, Interpol’s Paul Banks, Maggie Rogers, Glen Hansard, Michael Shannon, Jesse Malin, The National’s Matt Berninger and others.
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The house band will be lead by Smith’s longtime bassist/keyboardist Tony Shanahan, who will be joined by Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers keyboardist Benmont Tench, Bob Dylan guitarist Charlie Sexton and Rolling Stones drummer Steve Jordan.
In addition to celebrating the Horses anniversary, the show will also mark the 20th anniversary of City Winery founder and CEO Michael Dorf’s “Music Of” series, which spotlights the work of legendary rockers and benefits nonprofit organizations focused on music education; since 2004, the annual Carnegie Hall series has donated more than $1.8 million to such groups. General admission tickets are sold out, but VIP tickets are still available here.
Springsteen and Smith’s relationship also stretches back nearly half a decade, when the Boss was struggling to figure out how to finish his song “Because the Night” and his engineer, Jimmy Iovine — who was also producing Smith’s 1978 album Easter at the time — suggested he give it to Smith. She worked it over and adding new lyrics in honor of her husband, the MC5’s Fred “Sonic” Smith, and it became her highest-charting single to date, hitting No. 13 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Smith will also be hitting the road for a Horses anniversary tour, slated to kick off in Dublin, Ireland on Oct. 6 and criss-cross Europe for a month before landing in Seattle on Nov. 10 for a run of shows that will keep her on the road through a Nov. 29 gig in Philadelphia.
Camila Cabello is heading to Australia for two massive shows this August as part of her global Yours, C tour.
The pop star will perform in Sydney and Melbourne, bringing her latest album C,XOXO to life onstage following her recent run of festival appearances across Europe.
The Yours, C tour marks Cabello’s first as a solo artist, with her previous performances in the country as part of Taylor Swift’s Reputation tour. Since then, she’s continued to evolve as a solo artist with hit singles like “Bam Bam” and her genre-blurring fourth studio album C,XOXO, which blends pop, trap, reggaeton and punk.
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Following a string of memorable performances at major international festivals last summer, including Glastonbury Festival (UK), Rock in Rio Lisbon (Portugal), and Tinderbox Festival (Denmark), Camila will kick off the Yours, C tour in Marbella, Spain, before hitting Australia.
Speaking about the tour in February, Cabello wrote on Instagram: “I have been dying to tell you this. You have been so patient, and now it’s finally happening. I haven’t seen you guys on tour in so long, I wanted it to be a love letter to you guys for the summer. For the summer I’m yours.”
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At the BAFTAs in London in February, the “Havana” singer dropped a hint on the red carpet that she would be heading Down Under as part of the tour.
“I’m actually going on tour this summer, for the first time in a very long time, so I’m gonna be on tour all over Europe.” She added, “I’ll be playing some festivals, but a lot of headline shows. I’m gonna be in London July 8th, so I’m excited about that.”
Her latest singles “I Luv It” and “He Knows” have been making waves online and teasing a bold new era for the former Fifth Harmony star.
Camila Cabello – Yours, C Tour Australia Dates
Aug. 20 – Sydney, Qudos Bank ArenaAug. 22 – Melbourne, Rod Laver Arena
Fred Again.. and Justin Bieber were recently seen in the studio together, according to footage shared by U.K. artist Sekou — and while no collaboration has been confirmed, the brief moment has prompted renewed interest in both artists’ current creative phases.
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On March 21, Sekou posted several Instagram Stories documenting a recording session. Though the focus was on the rising artist himself, fans quickly noted the presence of both Fred Again.. and Justin Bieber in the background of one clip. The story has since expired, but screenshots began circulating across Reddit and X (formerly Twitter), drawing attention due to the pair’s history of working together — and their individual reputations for shaping global hits.
Fred Again.., born Fred Gibson, previously co-wrote and co-produced Bieber’s 2019 hit “I Don’t Care” with Ed Sheeran. The track debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, both stars’ best ranking on the chart since 2017, spending 22 weeks on the chart and reaching No. 1 in multiple countries, including the U.K., Australia and Canada. The collab also topped the Adult Pop Songs airplay tally dated Aug. 3.
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It remains one of Bieber’s most commercially successful releases — and was a key early writing credit for Gibson before he launched his solo career under the Fred Again.. moniker.
Since then, Fred Again.. has become one of the most innovative voices in electronic music. With albums like Actual Life 3 (January 1 – September 9 2022) and collaborative projects alongside Skrillex and Four Tet, the producer has built a cult following through emotionally raw production and unpredictable live performances.
His 2022 breakout track “Delilah (Pull Me Out of This)” reached the Billboard Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart and helped propel him to a spot on Billboard’s year-end Top Dance/Electronic Artists list.
Bieber’s last full-length project, Justice, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in 2021 and produced multiple Hot 100 hits, including “Peaches” (No. 1), “Ghost” (No. 5), and “Anyone” (No. 6). While the singer has yet to announce a new album, he’s been spotted in the studio on several occasions over the past year.
Sekou, who posted the story, is a fast-rising British R&B talent who released his debut EP Out of Mind in 2023 to critical acclaim. His presence alongside two high-profile artists has only amplified curiosity — but for now, no official release or project involving the three has been confirmed.
In 2024, producer Mk.gee confirmed he had been working with Bieber, telling The New York Times, “Anything that comes out of his mouth: That’s pop music. You can really do pretty wild stuff behind that, just because it represents something.”
After launching a world tour in February 2022 in support of Justice, and his 2020 Changes album, Bieber revealed in June of that year that he’d been diagnosed with Ramsay Hunt syndrome, which had resulted in “full paralysis” on one side of his face, leading to the postponement of some dates. Though he hit the road again, Bieber was forced to come off the road again in September after the Rock in Rio festival due to ongoing health issues.
He appeared as a guest on a few singles since then, including Don Toliver’s “Private Landing” and an acoustic version of SZA’s “Snooze.”
Bieber has been busy with fatherhood lately. The star and his wife, Hailey Bieber, welcomed their first child, a baby boy named Jack Blues Bieber, in 2024.
