Like many South Floridians, Matthew Redler found there were more local events he wanted to attend than he could afford. “I was priced out of exploring all the sports and music events Miami had to offer,” the Plantation native and University of Florida student says. Out of that disappointment sprang his eureka moment…
A quick glance at Bigg D’s Wikipedia page shows an impressive resume. He wrote songs for Mariah Carey and produced music for Rick Ross, Jamie Foxx, and Jennifer Lopez. But midway through an interview with New Times, he dropped a bomb revealing his Miami musical bona fides. “You know that Miami…
You’d think curating the festivities for the makeshift roller rink at III Points last weekend would be enough for Otto Von Schirach and Notorious Nastie in their never-ending quest to keep South Florida weird, but according to them, you ain’t seen nothing yet. Next weekend will bring their Project Pat’s Trap Attack, a three-night extravaganza that will mix music, art, a yacht party, Project Pat, and madness.
It might sound corny, but Daniel Saud and his Zeta bandmates believe in the American dream. Saud formed the rock band in his hometown of Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela, back in 2002 when he was 12 years old. Joined by Juan Chi, Gabriel Duque, and Juan Gonzalez, the quartet…
For actress and playwright Carmen Pelaez, inspiration comes from real-life work experience. “I was working in the art world and I would deal with all these people on eBay selling obvious fakes,” she explains, recalling the beginnings of her latest play, “Fake.” “They were doing it very poorly and being…
“There’s enough festivals in the world showcasing bands already well known and successful. We wanted to create a space where people who really love music can come hear new sounds and take those sounds home with them to expand their listening horizons,” Snarky Puppy bassist Michael League says of his original intentions for GroundUp Music Festival. “I wanted this to be a festival that only booked artists that aren’t just wonderful, but wonderful live.”
Do you already have plans for 4/20? If you do, you might want to break them. Kaya Fest just announced the lineup for its Bayfront Park Amphitheater spectacle, and it falls on one of the most irie days of the year: April 20.
There were seven DJs on the bill for Life in Color this past Saturday night, but the main attraction for the thousands of people in attendance was the paint. Gallons of colorful liquid sprayed onto the crowd during the DJ sets. Men on the stage could barely control hoses spewing pink, orange, yellow, and green flumes. Vendors even sold paint for $5 a pop to attendees who wanted to add even more color to everyone’s complexions.
Miami has an electronic music festival in Ultra, a hip-hop festival in Rolling Loud, and an everything-in-between festival in III Points. But the region’s most popular genre of music — Latin — has remained underserved. That is until now. Fuego Music Festival was just announced. It’s billed as “the first East Coast two-day Latin music festival.”
With their weekly Saturday-night party, Relic, Travis Rogers and his partner Fiin wanted to fill a void they saw in Miami: an electronic music party specializing in local talent. “We want to organically grow a night that was about the music,” Fiin tells New Times. “People want to come to…
“There’s so many similarities to making it in football and making it in music,” T-RO, a onetime wide receiver and tight end at Southern California’s Mt. San Antonio College, tells New Times. “Football made my music career easier because I didn’t need to install discipline. I was coachable when I came into the rap game…
It all started with a scheduling conflict. “The band Steve Jr. from New York were touring their new album. They hit me up about playing in Miami,” Ricardo Guerrero, who produces a series of shows called Death to the Sun, tells New Times. “I reached out to Churchill’s, and they told me that Gordo [Emmanuel Nanni, who promotes Hardcore for Punx] already had the date reserved for a punk show…”
As cofounder of III Points, the wildly popular music festival held in Wynwood since its inception in 2013, David Sinopoli is keyed into Miami’s music scene. His level of expertise becomes apparent when he begins talking numbers: “With the Ground, Space, and Floyd, and before that Bardot, for the last eight years I’ve been programming 300 shows a year in Miami,”…
“My father played trumpet, so we always listened to jazz. I don’t think there was any choice in the matter,” says Dee Dee Bridgewater, the Grammy- and Tony-winning jazz singer. Taking a break from entertaining her family and watching Martha Stewart on TV the morning of Christmas Eve, Bridgewater speaks with New Times…
“Tancred started out as a side project. My big three influences were the Cure, Portishead, and Letters to Cleo. I’d been listening to them since I was 11, and they always get me to want to write music,” explains Jess Abbott, the onetime guitarist for the indie-rock band Now Now. “I named [Tancred] after a character in a children’s book series…
With the federal government shut down and Donald Trump tweeting angrily at anyone who dares defy him, it’s safe to say 2018 was a shit year. We hope 2019 will be better, but let’s be honest: It will probably be worse. But one thing that certainly wasn’t shit this year…
“I like to say hip-hop was born when I was in my mother’s womb,” Black Thought says by phone right before he and his band the Roots take the stage as house band for The Tonight Show. “I was born in October 1971. It was documented that August 1971 was when Kool Herc created the culture of hip-hop.”
Are you a 1-percenter looking for more creative ways to spend your money than lighting your cigars with hundred-dollar bills? Miami has a worldwide reputation as a place where ballers can blow their hard-earned cash (or inheritances) on partying. If you’re not of the retirement-plan philosophy and still use “YOLO” as a mantra, peruse this selection of New Year’s Eve parties with the most outrageous price tags.
“I have a love-hate relationship with Miami,” Rick Moon says. His new video, “Cracker Jack,” set to debut with a party at Gramps Saturday, December 15, exemplifies his mixed feelings about his adopted hometown. In the video for “Cracker Jack,” a psychedelic, Flaming Lips-esque song that will be the opening track on his forthcoming album, Moon is clad in an absurd mask while about to enter a surprise party. Instead of reveling in a good time, he finds himself arrested and on trial before taking the stage to jam.
Why would anyone pay to see a show of Christmas songs when every Walgreens speaker has been blasting the same carols since Halloween? The best answer is because it’s Brian Wilson singing The Beach Boys’ Christmas Album in its entirety. Though the 1964 record doesn’t have the cachet of Pet Sounds…
For those eagerly anticipating the 2019 edition of Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival, there’s some bad news: It’s not happening. Thursday afternoon, the festival announced on its Facebook and Instagram pages what many had suspected because of the delay in announcing a lineup: There will be no…
If you hear St. Paul & the Broken Bones sight unseen, the Alabama neo-soul band conjures images of Al Green sweating while crooning. Singer Paul Janeway chuckles when asked about listeners’ preconceptions about his appearance before they see his band live. “When we started, there were assumptions I wouldn’t look the way I do,” he says. “It’s fun to surprise people.”
