It has a long and storied history, first as Miami Beach Municipal Auditorium, then the Theater of Performing Arts, and later the Jackie Gleason Theater. But 2017 is the tenth year the building at 1700 Washington Ave. has been known as the Fillmore Miami Beach. To mark the occasion…
One of John Gregory’s great recent frustrations in life was that he couldn’t find a drum ‘n’ bass night in Miami. “I’d been doing events all over South Florida and I found the last couple years there really wasn’t anything I wanted to go to,” the man who was in…
The man who sang youth anthems such as “My Generation” and “The Kids Are Alright” is now 73 years old, but the Who’s Roger Daltrey approaches performing his classics the same as always. “When I sing ‘Baba O’Riley,’ a song I’ve sung a thousand times, I’m singing it for the first time. That’s always been my method. I have to sing them like it’s the first time.”
“About 40 minutes from where we’re from in Bogotá, there is a salt mine,” singer Juliana Ronderos says. “The workers in the mine would build shrines to pray at since their job was so dangerous. They built a cathedral made completely of salt, and they dedicated the area to it moving the mine away.”
Tom Petty was found unconscious and in cardiac arrest Sunday night at his Malibu home. TMZ reported the 66-year-old’s death Monday afternoon and then rescinded that news after the Los Angeles Police Department said it could not confirm it. As a reminder of the musician’s greatness and his Florida roots, New Times is reposting the following story from 2014, when music writer David Rolland visited Tom Petty’s home:
Are we living in the era of the clown? The movie It, starring Pennywise the Dancing Clown, is breaking all sorts of box office records. Scary-clown sightings near forests and schools have been reported. And, of course, there is the musical phenomenon of Insane Clown Posse that refuses to die.
When the rock band Mutemath got to work on its fifth and most recent album, Play Dead, singer and keyboardist Paul Meany found inspiration in some heavy places.
While Canadian indie rockers Wolf Parade, are now serving as openers for Arcade Fire, the two bands’ histories have a much deeper history. Not only are both influenced by the art rock of The Talking Heads, they each started in Montreal at the turn of the century. And Wolf Parade’s…
If you’re old enough, you can recollect that in the ’90s, baby-boomers wouldn’t stop boasting how old-time rock ‘n’ roll was best. “Bob Dylan, the Doors, Woodstock, that was when rock was rock,” they’d tell you. The old-timers would keep their radios locked on classic-rock stations playing the same hundred songs in constant rotation and save their money for anytime the Moody Blues or Donovan would come to town.
Like much of South Florida after Hurricane Irma, Vizcaya Museum & Gardens suffered damage to its property and is trying its best to recover. Like most of your neighbors, Vizcaya could also really use your help. Unlike your neighbors, however, the museum is offering more in return than a grateful hug and some bottled water.
In a city with a future lies that lies in the cone of uncertainty, there was at least one large room where Miami could forget the dread and anxieties on Wednesday night. For more than two hours at the Fillmore Miami Beach, Modest Mouse brought the goods. It wasn’t until 1 in…
With South Florida in complete pandemonium with the monster Hurricane Irma on the horizon, there is confusion and incertitude over what is open and what is closed. Ticket holders for events scheduled for the days before Irma approaches might be wondering if the show will go on. Ticketmaster has been…
If you had to take a stab at what side of the political line Kip Moore falls on, you might guess the one that wears red trucker hats with “Make America Great Again” stitched on them. After all, this is the singer and co-writer of Top 10 country songs with titles like “Somethin’ ‘Bout a Truck,” “Beer Money,” and “Hey Pretty Girl.”
Maybe it shouldn’t be surprising that the indie rock greats, Modest Mouse, have become obsessed with the Sunshine State. Their mastermind, Issac Brock, has found lyrical inspiration in subjects as varied as Charles Bukowski and math equations. But even for a lover of geography who hollered out the names of…
When you think of Amy Winehouse, you probably think of the Motown influence found on her biggest hit, “Rehab.” You might not guess that Miami played a role in Winehouse’s sound. But a massive portion of the music she released in her much too brief life was recorded in the Magic City, because Winehouse’s label paired her with local producer Salaam Remi.
The Mowgli’s, along with on-site activations that give fans a chance to interact with the newest Ford vehicles”. Signing up for the show also gives you opportunities to win free travel and even, potentially, a new car.
Started in Southern California in 1978 by a teenaged Mike Ness, Social Distortion was inspired by the Sex Pistols and the Rolling Stones. Listen to the band’s catalog of seven albums, released sporadically over the past 34 years, and you’ll hear the rebellious spirit of those influences. But lyrically, Social Distortion takes an approach that’s different from that of those two British acts.
The theory of alternate realities posits that right next to this reality are infinite universes, together comprising everything that exists. If that’s true, somewhere out there is a reality where every rock star dresses like a superhero. This is a world where no lip comes near a microphone without lipstick on it, where no T-shirts or jeans are allowed onstage, where Insane Clown Posse is not an outlier laughingstock but the norm in a society in which every rocker is decked out in outlandish costumes, makeup, and wigs.
Most bands playing ’80s nights don’t really know the ’80s. They might have studied old Adam Ant MTV videos, seen Valley Girl a few hundred times, or binge-watched Glow, but they weren’t there for the ’80s. Erotic Exotic does not have that problem. “We started in 1981,” original member Johnny Aguiló reminisces. “I had just graduated from South Miami High School and we were all working at a record distribution company. We started off as a New Wave band, but then we discovered drum machines.”
When you hear that Raekwon, a founding member of the legendary rap group Wu-Tang Clan, is coming to Miami July 30, your first question will of course be “Where?” The city doesn’t have an enormous number of live music venues, but you’d probably guess quite a few sites before thinking of Churchill’s Pub.
The way Darryl “DMC” McDaniels tells it, hip-hop wouldn’t exist without comic books. There sure as hell wouldn’t be any Run DMC, McDaniels’ legendary group that overcame numerous hurdles to bring rap into the mainstream. “I was a Catholic school kid in Queens who got straight As and wore…
It has been more than eight years since Eric Garcia’s anti-blues band Juke put together a recording its founder has felt proud to share. “I haven’t liked anything we recorded since the first album,” Garcia tells New Times. That record, Lungbutter – The Blues Basement Tapes, is the only album he believes captures the spirit of Juke, which in essence reflects Garcia’s love for blues music and his hatred for what it has become.
