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Bauhaus' Peter Murphy Arrested for DUI and Meth Possession

Mr. Moonlight's been caught. Two weeks ago, Peter Murphy announced a tour "celebrating 35 years of Bauhaus," for which he will be traveling to Miami's Grand Central, as well as 51 other North American and European cities. Over the weekend, though, he was cruising through Glendale, California, in h ... More >>

Steve Aoki: The Neon Punk of EDM

Once an indie darling, he has coasted to superstardom on a wave of pure showmanship.

Rage Against the Machinima

As YouTube becomes increasingly wealthy, its stars and the networks that contract with them battle for money and creative control.

EDC 2012: Calvin Harris Plays CDs of Himself Singing

Dance music is fighting for its soul. The charts are filled with tracks (Rihanna, Flo Rida) that borrow from the ecstatic trance and pulsing grooves of electronic dance music. The last time pop was so infatuated with the dance floor was 1979, the year disco died. This time around fans are more sa ... More >>

EDC Vegas Pulls Plug on Music Due to High Winds

[Update at 2:48 a.m]: EDC is over for the night. Organizers are waiting for crowds to thin out before making an official announcement. More details and older updates at the bottom.Electric Daisy Carnval in Las Vegas tonight was shut down temporarily as a result of high winds buffeting tall sound st ... More >>

EDC 2012: Coachella or Electric Daisy Carnival: Which One is Better?

See also: Our Complete Coachella Coverage Dance music is coming to an arena near you: Kaskade will be the first DJ ever to play Staples Center (July 27). And mainstream concert promoters such as Live Nation are diving into the electronic dance explosion. Electric Daisy Carnival, which is being hel ... More >>

EDC 2012: House Music Beef With DJ Sneak Plays Out in Steve Angello's DJ Set

In early spring, a Twitter beef erupted between DJ Sneak, a Chicago house music legend, and Steve Angello, one-third of the DJ supergroup Swedish House Mafia. Sneak called SHM's music "fake shit" and said they "do not play house music" -- as in, real house music. On Friday, in front of a huge crow ... More >>

The Worst of Coachella 2012

See LA Weekly's complete Coachella coverage -- the top moments from Friday, April 20, four highlights from Saturday, April 21, including Black Lips' Biggie Smalls "hologram, and the five best things from Sunday, April 22. It couldn't all be great performances, decent recreational drugs, and pleasan ... More >>

Top Ten Dance Moves at Coachella 2012 in Animated GIF!

See "Crossfade's Top Ten Dance Moves at Ultra Music Festival in Animated GIF!" -- plus LA Weekly's West Coast Sound for tons more Coachella 2012 coverage. At Coachella, folks come from all over the world to lose themselves in the music. They'll employ almost anything in this quest. But mostly drugs ... More >>

Coachella 2012: Snoop, Dre, Santigold, and Other Top Moments From Sunday, April 22

See LA Weekly's complete Coachella coverage -- plus the top moments from Friday, April 20 and four highlights from Saturday, April 21, including Black Lips' Biggie Smalls "hologram." By the third day of Coachella's second weekend -- the sixth and final day of this year's festival -- folks had more ... More >>

Freak Yo Friend and Nine Other Dirty Dances at Coachella 2012 in Animated GIF!

See the "Top Ten Dance Moves at Coachella 2012 in Animated GIF!" -- plus "Crossfade's Top Ten Dance Moves at Ultra Music Festival in Animated GIF!" During Coachella's second weekend, temperatures topped 100 degrees every day. Yet somehow folks were dancing even crazier! Most just stripped down an ... More >>

Hunx and His Punx at Churchill's Pub April 13

Hunx and His Punx: Top Ten NSFW Things We Learned Via Seth Bogart's Twitter

​Seth Bogart is queercore's flat-chested poster boy and a household name among same-sex households with an affinity for independent garage rock. The colorful 31-year-old Hunx and his Punx frontman has become one of Hardly Art's chief impresarios, a showman who's second to none. Whether he's eye- ... More >>

Sun-Sentinel to Start Charging For News Content Online

The Sun-Sentinel is erecting a pay wall on April 9, so expect a mass exodus of readers who don't want to pony up five bucks a month for mostly routine local news.The once proud Fort Lauderdale-based daily is following the lead of other Tribune Co. owned newspapers like the Los Angeles Times, which i ... More >>

The Worst Moments from SXSW 2012

The last few days, Village Voice Media's indefatigable music staff has been regaling you with stories of the best from SXSW 2012. In the midst of these discoveries, we've been culling another list: the worst shit. The acts that ranged from huge bore-fests to downright lame. Below, you'll find our cr ... More >>

Shawn Loftis, Globe-Trotting Gay Porn Star, Rehired As Miami-Dade Public School Teacher

​Shawn Loftis was a popular sub at Miami Beach High and a handful of other Miami-Dade schools until he was abruptly canned in January 2011. His crime? A past life as a gay porn performer under the screen name Collin O'Neal, including his own erotic series -- "World of Men" -- featuring Loftis cavo ... More >>

Victoria Jackson Says New Times Profile of Her Was Lies Penned by a Socialist

​Our profile of Victoria Jackson, Saturday Night Live cast member turned Tea Party-lovin', Bible-thumpin' Fox News screamer, was published in several Village Voice Media newspapers yesterday. Jackson made clear late last night she thought it was a "hit piece" typical of the liberal media. She sent ... More >>

Odd Future at the Fillmore Miami Beach October 31

Odd Future, We Hate You and Your Youthfulness

​"What's you name?" Tyler Okonma asks an audience member in Minneapolis. The guy in the crowd introduces himself as Melvin. Naturally, Okonma replies, "I fucking hate you, Melvin." In a 12-month span, Tyler, The Creator, and his gang of street punks have gone from relative West Coast obscurity t ... More >>

Barry Minkow Has To Pay Lennar Corp. $583 Million And Serve Five Years

via LA WeeklyBarry Minkow​An ex-con man who two years ago wreaked havoc on the price stock of a Miami-based national builder is going back to prison after pleading guilty to one count of securities fraud.During a hearing yesterday morning, Miami federal Judge Patricia Seitz handed Barry Minkow a f ... More >>

Get an Early, Exclusive, and Free Peek at Smashing Pumpkins' New Song "Owata"

​It's been almost exactly 11 years since Billy Corgan's infamous May 23, 2000 interview with Los Angeles alt-rock radio station KROQ. It started with a minirant against "the Britneys of the world" and concluded with the on-air announcement that Smashing Pumpkins were breaking up. But now that a d ... More >>

Odd Future Wakes Up With a Sweaty Dick, Announces East Coast Tour, and Snubs Miami

Artist's TwitterOdd Future's Tyler the Creator​Maybe he was having "threesomes with a fuckin' triceratops, Reptar" or "fuckin' Goldilocks up in the forest/in the three bear house eatin' their muthafuckin' porridge." But for some strange reason, Tyler the Creator, the leader of 10-member L.A. rap ... More >>

Barry Minkow, Ex-Ponzi Schemer and Minister, To Plead Guilty To Insider Trading

via LA WeeklyBarry Minkow​Barry Minkow's life could have been an American archetype: A seemingly successful young entrepreneur goes to prison for in fact running a Ponzi scheme, and then finds Jesus and dedicates his life to helping the feds sniff out other frauds.But like any good crook, Minkow j ... More >>

LA Thinks It's America's Douche Capital, Miami Begs to Differ

​It's Friday afternoon on a particularly slow news day, a time when Village Voice Media news bloggers tend to go a bit off the reservation. Our counterparts at LA Weekly just dashed off a post about how the City of Angels is "The Douche Capital of the World," while calling into question Miami's do ... More >>

Around the Voice: Dum Dum Girls' Past Gets Unwrapped

I Will Be reluctant to answer questions about my past​Every week, we gather some interesting stuff from our sister Village Voice Media publications' music sections. Just for kicks. Here's last week's entry.Owl City has a song called "Hello Seattle" and Seattle Weekly likes that fact.The story b ... More >>

The Do-Over

Around the Voice: The Flaming Lips and Gil Scott-Heron State the Obvious

Wait, he's not new here?​Every week, we gather some interesting stuff from our sister Village Voice Media publications' music sections. Just for kicks. Here's last week's entry.In the Dallas Observer's bumper crop of content: Surfer Blood mourns the loss of Jay Reatard and confirms that even Pitch ... More >>

R.I.P. Michael Jackson. Coverage Around the Web

*CNN's complete coverage.*Rolling Stone's extensive tribute, with links to coverage throughout the RS archives.*SPIN magazine remembers Michael as a hero, not as a punchline.*At New Times' sister paper LA Weekly, an exclusive interview with longtime MJ lawyer Bob Sanger.*Also at the LA Weekly web si ... More >>

A Day Without Mexicans

No, this post has nothing to do with the film (which, by the way, is an excellent movie).  Instead, it refers to a burning question I intended to begin with.  Do any Mexicans read this blog?  I have no idea, to be perfectly frank.  But I feel like the answer, by and large, is goi ... More >>

The Week That Was: Hats Off to Obama

Obama was actually inaugurated! And one of those three billion people in attendance was a New Times writer! Most of us just watched in the conference room, though. Outgoing president Bush has left us speechless (in a bad way), but nut nearly as much as Aretha's hat (in a good way). Git'mo! Git'mo! G ... More >>

The Week That Was: Celebrating our Freedom of Choice

Some fanatical pro-life group got itself all worked up because Krispy Kreme dared to use the word "choice" in some dumb Inauguration promo. This weekend I choose to eat one Krispy Kreme doughnut for every page view that post received. I will probably be dead by Saturday. Meanwhile the Hollywood Fore ... More >>

Top Dance Albums of 2008

Any knucklehead with DSL and a laptop can now make an electronic track. With a half hour of clicking and fiddling, you can sample enough cheesy beats and mashups to clog arteries from here to Berlin. Simple dropdown mouse maneuvers can transform electro tracks into progressive house tracks (from dr ... More >>

The Roots Performing in Miami for New Years Eve

Do you have plans for New Years yet? If you're a hip-hop fan, then you do now. The Roots have announced that they'll be performing in Miami--at the Florida Room inside of the Delano Hotel of all places--on New Years Eve. It's definitely going to be one of the hottest places to be in Miami rolling ... More >>

BAC To Restore Purvis Young Mural

Tori Amos Goes Schizo

Lil Wayne Brings the Flood

In Honor of Mr. Gold, We Hereby End His Career...

In Honor of Mr. Gold, We Hereby End His Career...

Keira, Get Your Gun

Domino chronicles the life of a model turned bounty hunter

Between Punk Rock and a Hard Place

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