Montreal

Guillaume Coutu Dumont Talks Mutek Festival, New Album, and New States of Consciousness

Turns out the Canadian city of Montreal is a real hotbed of forward-thinking electronic dance music. A few natives we've chatted with just this past year are Akufen, Footprintz and Blond:ish. And another luminary of that Northern city is producer and multi-intrumentalist Guillaume Coutu Dumont. I ... More >>

Blond:ish to Paris Hilton and Aspiring Female DJs: "If You Want Respect, Don't DJ Topless"

Dumb blonde bimbo DJs? The EDM industry already has one Paris Hilton. Montreal's Blond:ish, on the other hand, isn't messing around. With a reputation for driving, body-jacking DJ sets, the duo exploded onto the international scene this past year with some auspicious tech-house releases on Kompakt ... More >>

Footprintz Talk New Album on Visionquest and Recording at the BBC Studios

Footrprintz is multi-intrumentalist producers Clarian North and Adam Hunter. The Montreal natives are currently their city's most hotly-tipped house and techno crossover act, thanks to 2011's auspicious Utopia EP on Visionquest, a label beloved by the techno heads with a taste for left-field dance-p ... More >>

Akufen's Marc Leclair Talks Musique Risquée, Horror Inc., and His New Album on Perlon

If you've never heard of Akufen (AKA Horror, Inc., AKA Marc Leclair), we can't really call you clueless. After all, the elusive Montreal-based producer rarely gives interviews and it's been a minute since he's even played in the U.S. In fact, his show at the Electric Pickle with Flight Crew tonight ... More >>

Def Leppard Announce Summer Tour with Poison, 1.8 Million People Are Thrilled

WTF, 1.8 Million people "like" Def Leppard on Facebook? And holy shit, another 800,000 dig Poison? No wonder these two glam metal giants are hitting the road together again; it'll be the biggest tour ever! That's right, MILFS, "Great Britain's premiere arena rock band" and Rock of Love heartth ... More >>

Anthony Bourdain's The Layover: Montreal Means Trouble (A Recap)

​As the opening credits start, I can't wait to see where Tony is taking us to on his little overnighter that he calls The Layover. I've been on an extended vacation and haven't checked the internet to find out the targeted city.  So many exciting cities to visit -- Paris, London, Nairobi, San ... More >>

Grimes Announces Visions Spring 2012 Tour With Miami Show at Bardot on March 8

​Question: What do you get when a girl who lives by the motto, "its not about the program its about what you do with ur brain," gets her hands on Garage Band? Answer: Grimes (nee Claire Boucher), a 23-year-old bedroom dweller, witch house dabbler, and dark electro wizard from Montreal, whose sel ... More >>

F*#% the World With Anti-Rock Stars Angels in America at Sweat Records Tomorrow

​These days, being a rock star isn't about mystery, aloofness, and fuck-the-world attitude. Thanks to the inescapable ever-presence of the internet and the slow death of the music industry, the rock 'n' roll lifestyle has become a sterile, never-ending cycle of virtual fan friendship, high-speed ... More >>

Blond:ish at Arkadia June 24

Blond:ish Gets Ambitious at Arkadia June 24

​Alfred Hitchcock populated his films with blonde women, believing that film audiences would be more suspicious of brunettes. But when you see two platinum manes bouncing up and down behind Arkadia's decks this Friday, you should suspect that this fair-headed DJ duo is conspiring to do evil thin ... More >>

Surfer Blood Announces Spring 2011 US Tour

Photo by Ian Witlen​It's crazy when one of your local scene stars goes fucking supernova in the space of a year. But that's been the Surfer Blood story so far ... Big bang. And maybe it's about to get bigger. Still riding the crest of that massive wave called Astro Coast, the West Palm crew have ... More >>

Wolf Parade at the Fillmore Miami Beach November 10

Preview Spike Jonze's I'm Here's Soundtrack; Sleigh Bells, Of Montreal, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and More

​You probably don't recognize his name, but you know who Spike Jonze is. He slowly made his way into movies by directing music videos for the likes of Fatboy Slim, Beastie Boys, Weezer, Sonic Youth, Kanye West, and most recently, LCD Soundsystem's "Drunk Girls." He directed a few feature films, to ... More >>

Donkey Puncher

Team Rojas Brings Two Cities Closer Together

​Dividing time between the Big Apple and the Magic City, Team Rojas have a knack for taking each city's nightlife characteristics and meshing them into dancefloor gold -- New York's foward-thinking mentality with Miami's raw grittiness. Compromised by EDG4R (Edgar Rojas) and Stravinsky (Erick Roja ... More >>

Around Town: Of Montreal, Marlins, '80s Freestyle Jams, Mitchell Davis, and Jimbo's

Spring, glorious spring. Start your frolicking at the Marlin's first home game or at the Fillmore, where a colorful indie band from Athens, Georgia plays Scandinavian-style pop music. Spend Saturday outdoors watching BMX racing or rugby. You have your pick of celebrating two cult figures on Sunday. ... More >>

Of Montreal's James Husband at Electric Pickle March 13

James Husband​Last time Of Montreal came to South Florida, the band stopped at Revolution in Fort Lauderdale. While they aren't planning to return in the near future, guitarist James Huggins III side-project James Husband will come to South Florida on March 13.Huggins released his debut album, A P ... More >>

Balls Out: Miami FC Joins Renegade Soccer League

C. StilesCan't stop. Won't stop.​Depending on how much of a die-hard soccer fan you are, watching South Florida's pro soccer team Miami FC's front-office machinations can be more interesting than any of its on-field action. In its effort to survive, the club has tried everything. It's signed the B ... More >>

Old School Square Cultural Center Celebrates 40th Anniversary of John Lennon's and Yoko Ono's Bed-In for Peace

​Picketing, boycotts, sit-ins, marching; protests can take many forms, though most, with the exception of the bumper sticker, involve some sort of action-oriented defiance. But in 1969 Yoko Ono and John Lennon proved yet another advantage of being famous. While the rest of us risk contending with ... More >>

Oh, the Urbanity!

Random Person With Vague Connection To Education To Be Next University Chancellor

Remember when St. Pete Times columnist Howard Toxler wanted the state university system's next chancellor to be "a real (bleep)"? Basically he wanted someone with name recognition who couldn't be easily pushed around by legislators. Fat chance at that. The Board of Governors hired a search firm from ... More >>

A-Trak

Listen to Miami Techno City on Techno.FM

Nomadic veteran DJ and producer St. Marc, who now operates his studio out of Miami Beach, currently hosts South Florida's local weekly broadcast for Montreal-based Techno.FM online radio. The show features St. Marc's top five techno picks of the week, including unreleased tracks, and live mixes fro ... More >>

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Our pro soccer club joins the fray of crappy local sports teams.

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A funky-fresh breeze blows at the Sandal Club

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Tigertail brings us Canadian artistes

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It's the Motherfucking Remix Vol. 2.2 (Turntable Lab)

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Forget those fake WWF wimps, these wrestlers really go mano a mano

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Jazz pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba takes Cuban music deep

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Charlie Haden and Gonzalo Rubalcaba make lush with their sound

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A supermodel flies high and falls fast in Arcand's witty and stylish Stardom

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