A member moving to Hong Kong would be the death knell for most Miami bands. But the indie-rockers of Modernage are continuing to put out music even with guitarist Xavier Alexander living half a world away. Proof of this long-distance relationship comes with their new music video, “Sideways,” premiering below.
Like many of us, Daniel Gorostiaga gleams when recalling his formative years. Or maybe in his case it’s a sludgy gleam. In the early ’90s, when he cofounded the sludge-metal band Cavity, he thought Miami’s music scene was at a high point.
It’s fitting that as Marlon Sinvergüenza speaks with New Times, he’s planning to go to a “Weird Al” Yankovic concert. ‘Ho’s,” the newest video and song by Sinvergüenza’s electro duo, Seizure Machine, is heavily influenced by the comedy-parody legend.
Growing up in Germany, Christian Löffler was enchanted by music of both the electronic and analog varieties. “I found out about music software programs at 14. I wanted to learn everything. It took a while for me to find my strategies and concepts.” Löffler says.
Even before singer Michelle Forman had musical aspirations, the Miami native knew she wanted to help others. “Since I was a girl I felt I was supposed to do something bigger than me,” the longtime vocalist of Afro-Latin fusion band Suenalo said. “I was always sensitive to people suffering. I…
Robbie Guariglia spent years as a music industry professional producing, writing, and gigging with touring acts such as the Veronicas, Ryan Shaw, Oh Honey, and Phoebe Ryan. But it was a time of tumult that led him to take center stage with Modern Whale. “I had lost my dad to cancer,” Guarjila explains to New Times.
Salt Cathedral was set to release a debut album when New Times spoke with the Colombian electropop duo a year and a half ago. But then there was no trace of it anywhere. What happened?
People rarely bring up Coconut Grove as a historic hotbed for folk music, but according to legendary singer David Crosby, the Grove in the ’60s was right up there with New York’s Greenwich Village.
Talking to Sam Kiszka of Greta Van Fleet, you’d never guess he was the bassist of the biggest young rock band to emerge in decades. The 20-year-old speaks humbly and philosophically about his success. That’s a feat for someone so young, especially after the band’s first full-length album…
Check out the calendar. It’s almost the May 5, AKA Cinco de Mayo. The Mexican holiday was not meant to merely celebrate fake mustaches, extra-large sombreros, and lots and lots of tequila. Cinco de Mayo was originally intended to commemorate an underdog Mexican army’s victory over the French forces in 1862. But a love for Mexican culture has given the fifth day of May a life of its own.
The Wynwood Yard is not long for this world, but before its gates close for good, owners say they’re planning one “epic final weekend.” YardFest: Farewell to The Wynwood Yard is a three-day extravaganza aiming to celebrate everything that was good about the open-air space. From May 3-5, over a…
The Living Room opened in the Faena Hotel at the end of 2015, but it wasn’t until recently that the gathering space found its musical niche, explains Alejandro Listo, Faena’s entertainment director. “The first idea was to have one band play the entire week. After a while, we decided every night was something different. We added more bands and more bands, and suddenly we have 20 bands rotating.”
Marijuana is slowly becoming legalized, but remnants of its underground, illegitimate status can be hard to shake off. That’s why so many herbal enthusiasts still treat April 20, or 4/20, as a national holiday, simply because “4/20” has become a code that provokes chuckles from potheads. Miami has long had…
Record Store Day, the one part Comic-Con, one part Black Friday audiophile extravaganza, had a festive feel this past Saturday at Sweat Records. The Little Haiti shop earlier in the week had announced that a rent increase would force the Miami vinyl-boom pioneer to relocate. So this would be one last hurrah in a…
“No big nightclubs in Miami had femmes or ultrafemmes in their lineup,” local DJ Gami says of her inspiration to help organize Versus. Internet Friends’ highest-capacity show will be held at the Ground this Friday, April 12. “Ground is usually a bro-fest. There was a lack of this kind of night.”
Bad boys, bad boys — whatcha gonna do when they come for you, Miami? Bad Boys for Life, the third installment of the buddy-cop movies that helped turn Will Smith and Martin Lawrence into A-list movie stars, will be filming in Miami this month. Under the production name “Garden Films Productions…
It’s been a long slog for rock ‘n’ soul band the Sh-Booms from their founding in an Orlando garage in 2011 to having their single “Leon the Hustler” declared “the coolest song in the world.” The Sh-Booms’ debut album, The Blurred Odyssey — whose release the group will celebrate with a free show…
After almost a decade and a half, the organizers of Wanee Music Festival say they might be calling it quits on their extravaganza in North Florida. But fans of the annual event started by the Allman Brothers Band in 2005 need not mope: A new tradition (closer to home) will…
As one-third of the English progressive trance trio Above & Beyond, Tony McGuinness has had a front-row seat to watch the evolving ways the world consumes music. “It used to be the lack of availability of music made it more valued,” McGuinness tells New Times. “You’d go to a club and hear a song, and you’d have to track it down. Then you’d spend weeks getting to know it. An album was valuable because you spent money on it. People’s record collections were a display of their soul.
O Cinema Wynwood is closing this weekend — but not without a final farewell party. “O Cinema was part of the first wave of Wynwood,” explained codirector Kareem Tabsch. “We wanted to honor our friends and say a bye-bye to the neighborhood to thank everyone for supporting.” The art theater…
Irvine Welsh, the author of the youth and drug culture touchstone “Trainspotting,” mentions Miami only in passing in his latest novel, “Dead Men’s Trousers.” But the Scottish writer is grateful to be back in his adopted hometown. “I’ve been in [the United Kingdom] the last couple of months. It’s so dreary and dark. We have no seasons in Scotland — it’s one long, dreary fall.”
A South Florida music tradition returned this past weekend. After canceling its 2018 edition, 9 Mile Music Festival came back Saturday night with an intense dosage of reggae music. 9 Mile began in the ’90s as Bob Marley Festival, founded by the reggae legend’s mother. It was a free show at Bayfront Park…
