Otto Von Schirach

Sweatstock 2013's Full Lineup and Set Times

Go wild in the streets! Score swag! Mosh! In exactly 49 hours, everyone's favorite Little Haiti music shop, Sweat Records, will be celebrating Sweatstock 2013, its third annual one-day music fest, anniversary party, and Record Store Day bonanza. There will be limited-edition RSD releases, indie m ... More >>

Sweat Records' Sweatstock 2013 Lineup, Raising Money via Indiegogo

Record Store Day 2013 Ambassador Jack White said it best: "We need to re-educate ourselves about human interaction and the difference between downloading a track on a computer and talking to other people in person and getting turned onto music that you can hold in your hands and share with others." ... More >>

Miami's Top Albums, EPs, and Singles of 2012

Miami's Best Albums, EPs, Singles of 2012

Heavy bass, ear-shredding distortion, booty beats, syrupy synths, and prime rhymes. Even though the 305 is a sunny city, it's definitely got a weird, dark, and dirty side. So while this year's top local releases were often sexed-up and fun-obsessed, they were also experimental, X-rated, drugged-ou ... More >>

Crazy Cheap Tickets to Artopia, Get 'Em While You Can

​Admit it: You've grown weary of the typical club night. $20 drinks this, untz-untz that. What's a party-ready Miami kid gotta do to change it up?The answer: Get tickets to Artopia, Miami New Times' annual arts soiree. We'll be dining, drinking, and toasting the city's top cultural talent, includi ... More >>

Otto Von Schirach Monkeys Around With Modeselektor in "Evil Twin" Video

​A while back, we talked to Otto Von Schirach about his recent collaboration with German DJ-producer duo Modeselektor. He called the collabo track a "banger," which is a spot-on description of the glitchy, pulsating beat that dominates "Evil Twin," a song off 2011's Monkeytown. In its dark and t ... More >>

Otto Von Schirach's Private Tour of Wynwood's Dorsch Gallery, Celebrating Its 20th Anniversary This Saturday

Otto taking a moment to read about art and stuff. ​​Maybe you didn't know, but master Miami beatmaker Otto Von Schirach is a great friend of gallerist Brook Dorsch. "I remember meeting Brook. It was love at first sight!" Otto beams. Dorsch is a lover of fantastic art, experimental music, and fu ... More >>

Otto Von Schirach Tours With Atari Teenage Riot, Hooks Up Again With Modeselektor

​Otto Von Schirach seems to be big everywhere but America. In Europe, he tours extensively and plays at big festivals. Here, he's just one of Miami's many oddly awesome characters.That could change this year as he tours across America with Atari Teenage Riot, the '90s digital hardcore outfit that ... More >>

Jimmy Edgar at Eve Miami, February 20

Jimmy Edgar Eve Miami Sunday, February 20, 2011 Better Than: Much of what's coming for WMC. Last night's LSD/DSL show, put on by Schematic Records' Romulo del Castillo and Otto von Schirach's Triangle Earth Records with Salim Rafiq, sooo brought the goods to a not-so-huge audience at Eve. In ... More >>

Candyland 15 at Mekka December 17

Candyland 15 With Starkillers, Ed Rush, and Otto Von Schirach at Mekka December 17

Photo by Logan FazioEnter Candyland. The winter rave gang is waiting for you.If you've never made the trip, there's only one way to enter Candyland: Get a group of festively costumed friends together, drop a tab and a little gamma-hydroxybutyrate, spin some drum 'n' bass (or maybe dubstep, if you're ... More >>

Dino Felipe's My Vomit Is A Crystal Ball Channels Iggy Pop and Joy Division

​Onstage, Dino Felipe is all chaos and mayhem. His live show usually starts off with high energy, which sometimes turns into antagonism, which often spirals into self-directed violence. As a performer he can really polarize the crowd. It's unfortunate that the thing most people take away from the ... More >>

Eprom Drops Digi-Chaos on the Crowd at the Trinumeral Festival Tonight

​Drink a case of Red Bull. Stay up for 36 hours straight. And then go listen to the overamped and fucked-up digital noise that soundtracks Eprom's days and nights. How do you feel? Weird? Scared? Awesome? Like you're falling into a partially pixilated reality where Wario or some other evil boss ... More >>

Around Town: Exxotica, Michael Franti, Wyclef Jean, Prefuse 73, and Major Lazer

​Is this the final cultural push before Miami goes silent for the Summer? This weekend has a series of multi-day events that will leave you scrambling to decide what to do. There's a porn expo, Haitian music fest, Mexican film festival, hip-hop conference, lesbian beach parties, and the opening we ... More >>

Record Store Day: Full Sweatstock Schedule Posted

​As you may have heard about 2,112 times already, Record Store Day is Saturday, and Sweat Records (5505 NE 2nd Ave., Miami) has posted the full schedule for the Sweatstock extravaganza. (Previously: "Radio-Active Records Unveils Details of Saturday's Record Store Day")The free, all-ages block part ... 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 >>

For the Love of Dub

A Taste of Artopian Decadence

Phish Afterparties at White Room With Break Science, Boombox, and EOTO

Not to be outdone, White Room is hosting its own special events today through Wednesday, courtesy of Glitterglu Productions and Under One Beat Entertainment. The stand of shows  is called "Black Curtains at the White Room," and are all electronic gigs -- the flyer bills the series as nights of ... More >>

More Dubstep Madness at Shake on Thursday with Joker and MC Nomad

Straight out of Bristol, Joker is a 20-year-old wunderkind whose hybrid club experiments may be the next big step in the ongoing evolution of dubstep. Just don't tell him that -- like many stridently independent studio jockeys, he hates genre tags. (Joker prefers to describe his tunes, cryptically ... More >>

Celebrate the Final Days of Summer With the Death to the Sun Festival at Legion Park, September 26

photo by Ian WitlenSurfer Blood​Before monotheism ruined the fun, humans worshiped a female god (hell, yeah!) and held huge, outdoor fuck parties to honor the beginnings and endings of seasons. Instead, we now scrunch into hard-backed pews to be lectured; spend our entire Friday nights in the dark ... More >>

Around the World in 80 Decibels: Bermudas to Berlin, Otto Brings the Bass

Otto von Schirach in Berlin​ The year is 1945 and Berlin falls to the allied troops as World War II comes to an end. Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun have one last glass of apple juice as they depart for the big ol' Deutschland in the sky. I wonder what our old Führer would make of his dear belov ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Dolphins Cheerleaders, Viva La Vox, Nick D'Annunzio's Totally '80s Birthday and Death Print Premiere

Ch-ch-ch-changes are happening and everyone's favorite over the weekend recap has moved from its home at Riptide 2.0 over to Crossfade. Why? Well, it seemed appropriate and better yet, now we can focus on all the things happening across South Florida and between both the Miami New Times and the New ... More >>

On the List: Memorial Weekend Detours

Memorial Day in Miami is like the elephant in the room. Nobody admits they don't want to party in South Beach this weekend for fear of coming off as racist. Well, you are. You aren't going to get shanked, stabbed, cut, mugged or shot at if you cross the causeway. Then there are those who just plainl ... More >>

Video: Miami Bass Warriors "Bro, That Chick's a Basser"

Video is a few weeks old, but just in case you haven't checked it out, here is a video of the Miami Bass Warriors -- minus Otto Von Schirach who was in Germany during Calle Ocho -- performing their newest track "Bro, That Chick's a Basser." Jose El Rey and El Tigre perform along with the Warriors' ... More >>

Over the Weekend - Confection, The Wicked, and Coconut Grove Arts Festival

Note to self: Valentine's Day on the weekend sucks. At least we can avoid the shitty corporate holiday when it falls on a weekday, but it's a little hard to do on a Saturday. The only thing we felt a couple of days ago was the urge to punch everyone dressed in red and looking happy. Bah humbug!So wh ... More >>

Saturday Night: Candyland 13 at SoHo Studios

Photo by Logan FazioCandyland 13Soho Studios, MiamiSaturday, December 27, 2008Better Than: I expected.The Review:Culture and other similar promotions groups, in an effort to shrug off the nasty mainstream perceptions of the Nineties dance scene, like to call their large-scale events music festivals. ... More >>

Candyland 13

Miami Bass Warriors "Going Back to Calle Ocho" Video Premiere

Yesterday, we told you that Otto Von Schirach, Jose El Rey and El Tigre, who together form Miami Bass Warriors, would make their small-screen debut on Pitbull's La Esquina on mun2. Their video for (their only song?) "Going Back to Calle Ocho" -- which we're pretty sure is play on Notorious B.I.G.'s ... More >>

Art Basel Bonus: Otto Von Schirach at FriendsWithYou Fun House

So if you didn't attend any of the art fairs this past weekend, you missed out on plenty of visual stimulation. This year, Scope definitely was my favorite fair, not only because the work for sale was superb, but their commitment to inviting local artists and musicians to take part in the festivitie ... More >>

Over the Weekend - My Morning Jacket, Club Jupiña Colada and Roger Sanchez

Photos: Club Jupiña Colada with Otto Von Schirach and Jose El Rey at PS14

The Weekend in Live Music, August 8 - 10

José El Rey

A Little Strong (Palm Tree Snuff/¿Que Pasa M.I.A.?)

Over The Weekend - Miami's Birthday Bash, Summer of Steel and Black Sundays

Saturday: Laptop Battle at Churchill's

Fifth Annual Miami Music Festival

The Shows Go On

Ten good live moments in South Florida this year.

Nastie's Nice

Infamous rock promoter hits the airwaves for a locals-only radio show.

Video: Otto von Schirach Live at Studio A

Photek

Midnight Glimpse: Laundry Bar

International Noise Conference

2006: The Year the Superstar DJ Died

Dinosaurs rule the dance floors no more

Circuit City

Churchill's gets the hi-tech treatment

From Waukesha, with Noise

Wisconsin transplant Doormouse threatens to overtake Miami's experimental music scene

BEST LOCAL ELECTRONICA ARTIST

The Waterford Landing

THIS JUST IN

Home Weird Home

Dan Doormouse and the men of Somia Music are rebels in their own minds

Bass Wars

Don't mess with Salim Rafiq