Every year, the International Noise Conference descends upon Churchill’s Pub in Little Haiti for a week of alien frequencies, outré performance art, and late-night debauchery. After more than a decade of bizarre and frequently brilliant shows, the event has endeared itself to attendees and performers from Florida and beyond. It’s…
Miami-based independent label Houndstooth Cottage wears many hats, but whether they’re putting out cassettes for local bands, recording tracks by various acts for compilation albums in marathon sessions, or pressing T-shirts and other printed paraphernalia to fill merch tables, their practice always reflects a unique personal philosophy and DIY attitude…
Other Body has been relentlessly pacing around the Miami alternative scene for over a year now, turning venues around town into pressure cookers of condensed punk vitriol. Formed in the wake of local acts like Teepee and Lil Daggers, the band includes Jacob Israel on bass, Melvin Zantua on drums,…
If you, for some reason, have spent any time snooping around the Montreal music scene, you’ve likely encountered the jagged garage stylings of Mark Sultan. A jangly crooner with a taste for the craggy intersection of punk energy and blues caterwauling, Sultan has been jamming around the Great White North…
For many of Miami’s cultural establishments, engaging the event-going public is never an easy task. But the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), located in the newly-remodeled Design District, is seeking to attract attendees with an immersive new program beyond standard museum fare. Dubbed ICA Residents, the new program focuses on…
Listening to a Tall Juan track for the first time, you might mistake the energetic hooks and propulsive guitar for an acoustic Ramones B-side. Indeed, the Buenos Aires-born songwriter (born Juan Zaballa) takes cues from the monolithic presence that Joey Ramone and company had in the heyday of punk. “I…
If you’ve been at all acquainted with the music scene in the past few years, you’ve likely heard of Pocket of Lollipops, a pair of locals who describe their own unique rhythmic flavor as “posh punk.” The musical mainstays have been performing around these parts since 2008, and from the looks…
If asked to name two formative musicians who’ve opened the floodgates for noise and experimental music today, you would be hard-pressed to come up with two better entries than Bill Orcutt and Chris Corsano. Free-form guitarist Orcutt brought his avant-garde din to the Magic City in the late ‘80s and…
You may not know the Yeats poem from which Silver Apples took its name, but chances are you’ve felt the group’s influence stretching across the globe, inspiring the creation of genres like krautrock and the use of experimental electronics in music. The outré duo of instrumentalist Simeon Coxe and drummer…
Quick, what do shredding, the Surfside Publix, tacos, and Wynwood have in common? If you answered “the new video from Ben Katzman’s DeGreaser, silly,” you’d be right on the money. For those seeking a heady dose of fist-pumping garage jams, look no further than this fuzzed-out ode to stickin’ to…
Next time your landlord gives you shit about few nails in the wall or a chip in the paint, you should take them over to Bruiser’s pad. The local experimental trio turned their house in Miami’s historic Buena Vista neighborhood into, essentially, a very hardcore Airbnb. “The landlord didn’t like the…
The story of Kansas’ Appleseed Cast is not lacking in complexity or dramatic shifts. Over 18 years and several lineup changes, the band’s sound today hardly resembles the emo-tinged one that put the group on the map. But through it all, founding member Christopher Crisci has retained a singular hold…
The Miami sun is a multifaceted muse. It’s typical for our locale to spawn glammed-out techno or hip-hop party anthems, but travel a bit off the beaten path and there’s a whole new array of beachy wonders to unearth. Case in point: Wynwood’s own Jellyfish Brothers, a local no-wave outfit…
Intrepid music fans willing to brave an absolutely scorching afternoon in the Little Haiti sun were treated to the sixth incarnation of Sweatstock, beloved local shop Sweat Records’ blowout in honor of its anniversary and Record Store Day. Celebrating ten years in the biz, this year’s offerings for the annual…
In a way, listing International Noise Conference 2015’s ten most insane moments is an exercise in futility. The whole five-day freak fest contained a wealth of bizarre occurrences, and not all of them were limited to the stage. With hundreds of acts spanning almost a full week of performances, a…
For the uninitiated, the International Noise Conference might sound like a pedantic experience. But don’t worry. There’s no keynote speaker, and there sure as hell aren’t any PowerPoint presentations. Revelers have come to Churchill’s Pub annually since 2004 for a cornucopia of radical weirdness: hooded artistes tweaking knobs to generate…
If you step into the South Beach apartment-turned-recording-studio of local underground music aficionado Frank Falestra, better known by his ubiquitous stage name, Rat Bastard, you’ve got to come prepared. From the sundry rock posters, guitars and paraphernalia dotting the walls, to the full rack of records and the ceiling-high stacks…
Sure, for eleven and three quarter months out of the year, the people of Miami can indulge themselves with sunny beaches and scandalous nightlife till they’re burnt to a crisp, puking in a chic SoBe restroom, or both. However, for one golden week, Art Basel Miami Beach descends upon our…
Interpol With Hundred Waters Fillmore Miami Beach Saturday, November 8, 2014 Venture onto South Beach on any given Saturday night and you’ll likely find a gridlocked mess of sports cars and tourists blocking streets, parking spots, and doorways. Add the South Florida Auto Show to the mix… and you’re in…
Marnie Stern With Killmama and Kazoots Presented by Brooklyn Brewery’s Mash 2014 Gramps, Wynwood Saturday, November 1, 2014 Sure, it was a downright brisk November night, and many of us were undoubtedly still feeling the burn from spooking up the city on Halloween. But that wasn’t going to stop the…
Every mash ends with a bash, are we right? If you’re Brooklyn Brewery, you’d be inclined to agree, given that your mash was already a weeklong series of beer-themed parties. And what better way to wash down all those hops than with a final blowout featuring none other than New…
III Points Festival 2014, Day Three With Mac DeMarco, Jamie Jones and Hot Natured, Tiga, Com Truise, and others Soho Studios, Wynwood, Miami Friday, October 10, 2014 Good morning, Dade County. Oh, you can’t hear me ’cause you’re still asleep and the bass is still tickling the inside of your…
