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Dragonette at Mansion Miami April 6

MasterMind Awards 2012 Take Wing

Roofless Records Awarded $20,000 Knight Grant, Announces "Dude, We Are Stoked!"

Image by Bleeding Palm​Man, no one loves to give away massive amounts of cash like the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Last night, the foundation held its annual Knight Challenge Grant award ceremony, dropping a $2.9 million jackpot on 31 local South Florida arts organizations, including ... More >>

Miami New Times Now Accepting Submissions for MasterMind Awards

​For the past two years, we've supported the city's quickly evolving art scene with the MasterMind Awards, modest grants that honor the people and projects in the community that are making the biggest impact on visual arts, music, film, and beyond. This week, the submission period for the 2012 Mas ... More >>

Roofless Records' Cinema Sounds IX at O Cinema November 23

​For the past two years, we've supported the city's quickly evolving art scene with the MasterMind Awards, modest grants that honor the people and projects in the community that are making the biggest impact on visual arts, music, film, and beyond. This week, the submission period for the 2012 Mas ... More >>

Roofless Records Talks Ballscarf and Nightmarish Chaos at Cinema Sounds IX

Image by Ronnie RiveraBallscarf's Aiden Dillard will scare you shitless at Cinema Sounds.​An astute and insightful cultural seer once observed that the movies are actually mankind's collective dreams. But what about our freaking nightmares? Well, our fave films can be anxiety-soaked, terror-indu ... More >>

Don't Miss Meat's Smoking Weed With Jesus Release Party Tonight!

Roy Neil Hunter looks like he's 17. But that's OK, since the main mastermind behind the band Meat is merely a fresh, young 24. This musician has played in other Miami bands with mouth-watering names like Strawberry Dirt, Sparkling Purple Mango, and Ice Cream. We're honestly starting to think these ... More >>

Roofless Records' Suffocating Humidity at The End/Spring Break Tonight

​If there are two words that accurately describe how the city of Miami feels right now, they would be suffocating and humidity. So this adjective and that noun, combined, are a pefect name for tonight's Roofless Records showcase at the end/SPRING BREAK. The intense, diverse lineup includes Miami' ... More >>

Torche, Big Business, and Helms Alee at Churchill's Pub, July 12

Photo by Matt PreiraIt was a get-your-hand-out-of-my-face kinda rock show.​Torche With Big Business and Helms Alee Churchill's Pub Tuesday, July 12, 2011 Better Than: Staying home and watching Easy Rider. As to be expected, most practitioners of stoner rock are pretty lazy. We don't care how bla ... More >>

Beings' Last Show Ever at Bardot, May 25

Photo by Matt Preira​Last night, South Florida rock trio Beings played its final show. The performance came after a sudden announcement, attracting a moderately sized crowd of local artists, bands, bloggers and other assorted creative types, who all turned out to pay their respects to the group's ... More >>

Meet the nine MasterMind award finalists

Photo by Matt Preira​Last night, South Florida rock trio Beings played its final show. The performance came after a sudden announcement, attracting a moderately sized crowd of local artists, bands, bloggers and other assorted creative types, who all turned out to pay their respects to the group's ... More >>

Black Bobby, Roofless Records, and Panic Bomber Selected As MasterMind Finalists

​After sorting the mail, painstakingly assessing the applications, arguing viciously about their merits, getting drunk, sleeping it off, and then agonizing over the decision for weeks, we here at New Times are finally set to announce our 2011 MasterMind Awards finalists. In the sound category, w ... More >>

Roofless Records' Cinema Sounds #7 at O Cinema December 10

​After sorting the mail, painstakingly assessing the applications, arguing viciously about their merits, getting drunk, sleeping it off, and then agonizing over the decision for weeks, we here at New Times are finally set to announce our 2011 MasterMind Awards finalists. In the sound category, w ... More >>

Screw the Cineplex, Hit Cinema Sounds #7 at O Cinema This Friday

via myspace.com/beingspageMiami pop-punk shoegazers Beings.​If you've never attended one of Roofless Records' Cinema Sounds soirees, then the whole concept can seem a little arty or highbrow or out there. And, duh, it's all of those things. But at the same time, no one's wandering around in a vin ... More >>

Underground and Local: Diet Cokeheads, White Execution, and Bone Owl

​Diet Cokeheads' Nasal EP (Drugged Conscience) Gainesville's Diet Cokeheads is one-third of Florida's holy triumvirate of new, damaged rock 'n' roll. (Lake Worth's Cop City/Chill Pillars and Tampa's Neon Blud comprise the other 2/3.) If you didn't already know, D.C. features Palm Beach expatriate ... More >>

Miami Micro-Show at Little River Yacht Club October 16

​Diet Cokeheads' Nasal EP (Drugged Conscience) Gainesville's Diet Cokeheads is one-third of Florida's holy triumvirate of new, damaged rock 'n' roll. (Lake Worth's Cop City/Chill Pillars and Tampa's Neon Blud comprise the other 2/3.) If you didn't already know, D.C. features Palm Beach expatriate ... More >>

Roofless Records' Miami Micro-Show Delivers 15 Bands in 15 Minutes October 16

The 305's godfather of fuzz, Rat Bastard, gets flattened.​In the realm of supershort sets, the former reigning champs on the scene were those essentialist hardcore heads, whose performances boiled down to sweaty, shirtless 15-minute blasts of loud and sloppy 60-second songs. These days, however, ... More >>

Justice Yeldham Brings Blood, Noise, and Performance Art to Churchill's Tonight

​In a joint effort to foist some seriously intense shit on an unsuspecting public, Roofless Records and Laundry Room Squelchers dragged notorious noise offender Justice Yeldham (AKA Lucas Abela) from his microphone and glass-filled hole in Sydney, Australia. They disguised him in khakis and sport ... More >>

Strange Days at Bar Last Saturday: A Recap

"Alex Diaz, Eric Lopez-Zareno (Teepee), and Ed Wilcox* are a true super group," says Matt Preira, promoter of this past Saturday night's event at Bar, Strange Days. He continues, "Their individual projects have garnered a great deal of acclaim, and as a trio they are unstoppable."Miami's music and ... More >>

Roofless Publishing debuts with Lazaro Rodriguez's I Swear

"Alex Diaz, Eric Lopez-Zareno (Teepee), and Ed Wilcox* are a true super group," says Matt Preira, promoter of this past Saturday night's event at Bar, Strange Days. He continues, "Their individual projects have garnered a great deal of acclaim, and as a trio they are unstoppable."Miami's music and ... More >>

Roofless Records and Rat Bastard Bring Strange Days to Bar Tomorrow Night

​Decapitated goats floating in Biscayne Bay, teens arrested for rapping at the drive-thru, knife-wielding psychos turning berserk because the jukebox isn't loud enough, teachers crafting geometry lessons based on "hypothetical" Obama assassination plots, daddies trading their babies for beer, robo ... More >>

Countdown to Sweatstock: Q&A With Sweat Records' Lauren "Lolo" Reskin, Part One

via sweatrecordsmiami.comSweat Records' current storefront​Yes, we've been seriously hyping up Sweat Records' fifth anniversary party, on this blog -- but that's because the event deserves it. Sweatstock, as the party is dubbed, is shaping up to be one of the best locals-only (plus No Age) events ... More >>

Roofless Records Just Won't Reveal Its Cinema Sounds Secrets Till Tomorrow

From the moment Cinema Sounds No. 6 was announced, there's been a serious swirl of secrecy surrounding the whole thing. And no matter how hard we batter him with questions, Roofless Rex exec Matt Preira refuses to reveal anything but the most basic details. He just smirks and says: "It's secret!' U ... More >>

Sound and Vision

From the moment Cinema Sounds No. 6 was announced, there's been a serious swirl of secrecy surrounding the whole thing. And no matter how hard we batter him with questions, Roofless Rex exec Matt Preira refuses to reveal anything but the most basic details. He just smirks and says: "It's secret!' U ... More >>

Miami label Roofless Records pushes experimental music on vinyl and cassette

From the moment Cinema Sounds No. 6 was announced, there's been a serious swirl of secrecy surrounding the whole thing. And no matter how hard we batter him with questions, Roofless Rex exec Matt Preira refuses to reveal anything but the most basic details. He just smirks and says: "It's secret!' U ... More >>

Letters from the Issue of , 2002

From the moment Cinema Sounds No. 6 was announced, there's been a serious swirl of secrecy surrounding the whole thing. And no matter how hard we batter him with questions, Roofless Rex exec Matt Preira refuses to reveal anything but the most basic details. He just smirks and says: "It's secret!' U ... More >>