Lollapalooza

Ultra 2013: Top Five Trends, From Big Beautiful Butts to No Hipsters

Things that are cool in one context are often not cool in others. For instance, if you arrived at the Pitchfork Music Festival in your kandi best, you would certainly not be the belle of the ball. You'd be a lame-o freak in neon, crying over a box of doughnuts on her way home. But just as location ... More >>

JT Money and 69 Boyz at Miami Bass Super Fest December 15

Lollapalooza 2012: Four Reasons EDM Is the New Summer Music Festival Staple

See also "Fashion Freakouts at Lollapalooza 2012" -- plus "Day One: M83, Black Sabbath, Die Antwoord, Afghan Wigs, TEED," "Day Two: Frank Ocean, The Weeknd, Twin Shadow, and Others," and "Day Three: Jack White, Sigur Ros, Florence The Machine, and Others." With every year that passes, it feels li ... More >>

Top 25 Kooky Lollapalooza 2012 Moments in Animated GIF!

See also "Fashion Freakouts at Lollapalooza 2012" -- plus "Day One: M83, Black Sabbath, Die Antwoord, Afghan Wigs, TEED," "Day Two: Frank Ocean, The Weeknd, Twin Shadow, and Others," and "Day Three: Jack White, Sigur Ros, Florence The Machine, and Others." Ready for some GIFs? To quote Ozzy Osb ... More >>

Lollapalooza 2012, Day Three: Jack White, Sigur Ros, Florence The Machine, and Others

See also "Fashion Freakouts at Lollapalooza 2012" -- plus "Lollapalooza 2012, Day One: M83, Black Sabbath, Die Antwoord, Afghan Whigs, TEED" and "Lollapalooza 2012, Day Two: Frank Ocean, The Weeknd, Twin Shadow, and Others." What have we learned following Lollapalooza 2012? Not only do reunions ... More >>

Lollapalooza 2012 Stopped by Rain Storms, Returns as 90,000-Person Mud Party

See also "Fashion Freakouts at Lollapalooza 2012" and "Lollapalooza 2012, Day One: M83, Black Sabbath, Die Antwoord, Afghan Wigs, TEED." The 2012 installment of Lollapalooza has thus far brought the requisite extremes, in terms of performances and potent weather. A two-hour delay cut through the ... More >>

Lollapalooza 2012, Day Two: Frank Ocean, The Weeknd, Twin Shadow, and Others

See also "Fashion Freakouts at Lollapalooza 2012" -- plus "Lollapalooza 2012, Day One: M83, Black Sabbath, Die Antwoord, Afghan Whigs, TEED." The second day of Lollapalooza could not have been more different than the first. A bunch of noted cancellations -- B.o.B, Alabama Shakes, etc. -- subtracte ... More >>

Lollapalooza 2012, Day One: M83, Black Sabbath, Die Antwoord, Afghan Wigs, TEED

See also "Fashion Freakouts at Lollapalooza 2012." The first of three days of music in the hot cauldron of Grant Park in Chicago is now one for the history books. Black Sabbath (or at least three-quarters of them) got back together; M83 lit up the skies and our hearts; and the lines at the water ... More >>

O Rappa at Fillmore Miami Beach August 5

Little Festival, Big Message

O Rappa's Brazilian Reggae, Funk, Rock, and Dub at Fillmore Miami Beach on August 5

In 1980, Bob Marley traveled to Brazil on a scouting mission with Island Records' Chris Blackwell and the Wailers' Junior Marvin, in preparation of a world tour. A year later, he was dead. But even though Marley never got to play Rio or São Paulo, the reggae man's musical influence had a serious ... More >>

Jane's Addiction Says "Fuck No!" to Shirts, "Fuck Yeah!" to Miami at The Fillmore

See also "Jane's Addiction's Perry Farrell Comments on Tom Gabel's Transgender Announcement" -- plus the Fillmore's full Facebook photo album from Jane's Addiction in Miami. Jane's Addiction With The Duke Spirit Fillmore Miami Beach Friday, May 18, 2012 Better Than: Remembering that Ritual de lo H ... More >>

Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga, and Eight Other Undercover Alien Pop Stars

If there's anything we've learned from the Men in Black movies, it's that aliens are everywhere. They could be on the bus, in the break room, or even singing to us on MTV. Those movies always include fun little pop culture cameos and MIB III director Barry Sonnenfeld recently announced the upcoming ... More >>

LA Riots at Arkadia January 6

LA Riots Erupt at Arkadia on January 6

Via facebook.com/LARiotsOfficial​Often associated with violent street crime, urban decay, and N.W.A., South Central Los Angeles is generally considered a residential wasteland, the type of gritty, big-city neighborhood where dreams die and poverty prevails. During the early '90s, it was the epic ... More >>

Art Basel Music: Santigold Drops New Track at LIV Last Night, Wale Supports AC Milan

​Santigold With Wale Wednesday, November 30 LIV Better Than: Waiting in line at a Basel party for free drinks. Nightclubbing ... Aside from the 1977 Iggy Pop track, we pretty much hate everything about it. The stringent dress codes, blatant superficiality, remixed dance versions of Edward Sha ... More >>

Korn Announces November 9 Show at the Fillmore Miami Beach

​Topping the list of artists we'd never expect to see at the Fillmore Miami Beach, Korn just announced a November 9 engagement at the house Jackie Gleason Live Nation built. Thirteen years ago, Jonathan Davis and company released its big breakthrough album, Follow the Leader. It debuted atop the ... More >>

Los Amigos Invisibles at Grand Central June 11

Amigos Invisibles' Julio "Chiulu" Briceño, center.​Do you know Los Amigos? Well, this Venezuelan disco-funk crew is right on the forefront of the Latin indie-dance scene, one that thrives here in Miami and runs parallel to the general street-level culture oozing out of our downtown bars and club ... More >>

Lollapalooza 2011 Announces Lineup With Eminem, Girl Talk, DFA 1979, and 122 Others

​It's time to start planning your road trip to Lollapalooza land 'cause King Perry Farrell just released his 125-name guestlist for this August's three-day Grant Park extravaganza. And if you don't wanna be left at the gate, crying and clawing the dirt like a pauper, you better buy a full-weekend ... More >>

Langerado Music Festival Returns to South Florida October 8 and 9

​It's now been two years and one month since venue problems, "sluggish ticket sales," and the general shittiness of the U.S. economy sank the Langerado Music Festival. But now, the fest is back. Mere minutes ago, Crossfade received notice from Fresh Clean Media that "the wait is officially over." ... More >>

Banging Royalty

Most Anticipated January Indie Music Releases

Tennis' debut, Cape Dory, drops on January 18​There were a lot of great albums in 2010, and we caught a lot of great shows too. But what's in store for 2011? Will Katy Goodwin leave the Vivian Girls after La Sera's full-length drops in February? Will Alex Ebert's (Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic ... More >>

Perry Farrell at Bardot for Art Basel December 2

Photo: Lady Gaga at Lollapalooza 2010

Photo by Mark AustinLady Gaga brought her smoke and mirrors to Lollapalooza.​If you know me, you know how I feel about Lady Gaga and how she's running the biggest pop scam since Milli Vanilli. But I can put aside my feelings aside for a moment to bring you a snapshot from this year's Lollapalooza ... More >>

Q&A: These United States' Jesse Elliott Proposes a "In the Garage" Duet With Weezer

Photo by Sarah LawThese United States' Jesse Elliott is the guy with the second-least amount of facial hair​SunFest 2010 -- AKA a five-day injection of live music, food, art, and maybe a few beverages -- begins today at the West Palm Beach waterfront. New Times will be there all week, and updates ... More >>

WMC Preview: Q&A With Booka Shade

The international dance floor domination of the German electro-house duo Booka Shade, as well as that of the record label they co-founded, Get Physical, came serendipitously. "The plan was not to have a plan," says Arno Kammermeier, half of the twosome, of Get Physical's heady early days. It was aro ... More >>

Q&A with Tokyo Police Club's Greg Alsop

Any band that can crank out seven songs in the span of just 16 minutes and not give up a thing is all right by me.  And that's exactly what Tokyo Police Club did with their 2006 debut EP titled A Lesson In Crime.  Their single off that EP, "Nature of the Experiment", which features br ... More >>

Homegrown, featuring ArtOfficial and the Spam Allstars

Art Basel Week: Home Grown party at the Vagabond

Rachel Goodrich While seemingly the whole highbrow world descends on Miami Beach tonight for the official opening of Art Basel, across the causeway, the Vagabond kicks off the artsy extravaganza with a locals-centric fiesta. Okay, so Miami New Times is an official sponsor of the event, but it’s n ... More >>

Heat Rave

Ten summers that rocked.

Miami's Own ArtOfficial Headed to Chicago, Finals of Lollapalooza's Last Band Standing Competition

Musical Meltdown

It's sweltering outside, but there's still music worth hearing

The Changes

Today Is Tonight (Drama Club Records)

Your Government at Work

Projekt Revolution

Just Like Heaven

The Cure kicked off its Curiosa tour with a mixed bag of delights

Punkland

What's worth seeing at the tenth-anniversary Vans Warped tour? Here are a few suggestions

The Unexplored Horde

Calendar for the week

HellFest

Loaded Questions

Lollapaloser

All the Young Dudes

The Boss Hoss of Skacore

Program Notes

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Virtual Woodstock

The X Generation takes culture by the throat

Am I Black Or Am I White?

Ask yourself, then ask them

If Ya Snooza, Ya 'Looza

An indispensable guide for those attending the biggest rock and roll event since 1991!

Program Notes