A converted Wynwood cola factory is about to fill with skateboard wheels and bass this weekend, as Andrew Music Club brings its three-day skate rave back to Miami for a fifth-anniversary run. The event, produced by local skate brand Andrew alongside its music club offshoot, takes over the RC Cola Plant at 567 Northwest 23rd Street from Friday through Sunday, mixing pro skaters and ramps with a lineup of local and international DJs.
According to WSVN, the club is named after Hurricane Andrew, the storm that tore through South Florida in 1992 — a nod that Andrew skate company co-founder Ross LaBrie has tied directly to the event's mission. “The idea was to bring underground music culture and skate culture in Miami together,” LaBrie told the station. Andrew Skate Company, described by WSVN as a local Miami brand central to the city's skate culture, collaborates with Andrew Music Club on the event and on custom merchandise sold on-site.
The rave previously ran out of Lot 11 Skatepark before moving to its current Wynwood venue, WSVN reports. That earlier home is no small footnote in Miami skate history: Lot 11 is a 48,000-square-foot public skate park tucked beneath the I-95 overpass in Downtown Miami that opened in November 2019 after a nine-year campaign by nonprofit SkateFree and the City of Miami, according to Miami New Times.
Inside the RC Cola Plant's Second Life
The venue itself carries its own layered history. Built in 1935 as a Royal Crown Cola bottling facility that shut down in 1993, the RC Cola Plant was acquired in 2010 by developer Moishe Mana and reworked into a 12,000-capacity open-air space wrapped in graffiti art, per Ticket Fairy. Mana announced a redevelopment plan worth more than $20 million in May 2023 aimed at preserving the plant's outdoor event footprint and murals while adding a 100-foot bar, an indoor food hall and 10,000 square feet of parks, according to a report from The Real Deal. Organizers at major RC Cola Plant events regularly invite back original South Florida graffiti crews to refresh the venue's brick walls, work that has featured more than 70 local street artists, World Red Eye notes.
The skate rave's growth has been rapid. Before expanding into the open-air RC Cola Plant this year, Andrew Music Club held its Labor Day events indoors at Mana Wynwood's Black Room, which featured a 360-degree DJ cage, custom skate ramps and VIP viewing decks. This year's edition keeps that 360-degree stage and giant cage alongside ramps, but moves the whole production outdoors for a fifth-anniversary celebration.
Who's Playing, and Who's Skating
The lineup spans genres from ghetto tech and eurodance to jungle, breaks, bass and Miami club music. WSVN reports that Underscore headlines Friday, while Ben UFO, Dylan Brady, new Miami act Boy Girl and The Archives are set to perform Saturday or Sunday. Ariel Satina and Jubilee — who plays techno, remixes and Caribbean music, among other genres — are booked back to back, with Jubilee closing out the event Sunday.
Andrew Music Club is billed as an all-ages event open to everyone, though children must be accompanied by a guardian, and the rave has previously included skaters as young as six years old. Tickets range from $15 to $40, and organizers have set up multiple restrooms along with food vendors from three different local restaurants.
Backed by Miami's Nightlife Heavyweights
The 2026 edition is co-produced with Miami festival operator III Points and nightlife venue Club Space, in partnership with global promoter Insomniac, according to Resident Advisor. III Points was founded in Wynwood in 2013 by David Sinopoli, who took over operation of Downtown Miami's Club Space in 2016 before Insomniac acquired a stake in the club in 2019, per Wikipedia's entry on Club Space. That backing marks a shift for an event that started as a scrappy skate-and-music mashup tied to a local brand's name and a hurricane's memory, now scaling into a multi-day festival with corporate dance-music muscle behind it.
Andrew Music Club runs Friday through Sunday at the RC Cola Plant in Wynwood, with pro skaters, ramps and DJ sets sharing the same open-air footprint that once housed a soda bottling line.
