Oski Gonzalez is a man of many opinions. No topic gets him as fired up as what it takes to put on a music festival. The former booker at Tobacco Road, Gonzalez has put together bills for shows up and down South Florida for more than a dozen years. As…
Brazilian musicians have a long history of absorbing American and British musical influences and then spitting out something completely new and different. In the ’60s, Os Mutantes and Gilberto Gil caught a whiff of the psychedelic revolution and birthed their own hallucinatory genre, tropicália. More recently, the Rio de Janeiro…
After 21 years as South Beach’s most dependable spot for a dance and a drink, Jazid has declared Monday, July 10, will be the last day of business. The bar at 1342 Washington Ave. was among South Beach’s longest-running nightclubs, having opened its doors in 1996. The sale of the location has been finalized, and all that’s left is to say goodbye this weekend.
By some quirk of the calendar, the architects of two of rock’s greatest bands will perform in Miami the same week. July 7, we get former Beatle Paul McCartney, and six days later, Roger Waters of Pink Floyd arrives. As one rock legend after another slips from this mortal coil, these are must-attend shows.
Rappers, rockers, and Latin lovers convene on our list of favorite songs from the past six months.
After 21 years, the club where Prince once jammed will close its doors in the second week of July.
The guys in the band Post Animal aren’t too keen about being labeled as psychedelic rock. On the phone with New Times, Javier Reyes, one of the group’s many guitarists, came up with a more specific description of their live show:
Few times and settings in rock history have as deep a mythology as the Sunset Strip of the late 1980’s. As lead singer for L.A. Guns, Phil Lewis had a front row seat for all the guitar solos and debauchery. “It was like I died and had gone to heaven…
Add the band Jaialai as another name to know in Miami’s rock scene. The four-piece is set to release its debut EP, When I’m on the Run, June 14. It will include three songs that are chill enough to serve as background music but also groovy enough to be the centerpiece of a listening party.
Reel Big Fish started off at the perfect time for a ska band. Just as groups like No Doubt and Sublime began dominating rock radio in the mid-’90s, the Southern California six-piece started gaining attention for horn-heavy, punk-influenced ska. Ska’s popularity has ebbed and flowed over the decades…
The greatest rock band of the 21st Century will finally return to Miami this fall. Arcade Fire yesterday announced 20 dates for the Infinite Content Tour, including a show Saturday, September 23, at the University of Miami’s Watsco Center. Road-trippers should also take note of a Tampa date Friday, September 22.
In most corners of the world, summer is the season when people shed layers of clothes to show off their skin, crank up the air conditioning to unnaturally frigid temperatures, and discover which parts of their bodies are prone to leaving sweat stains. By those metrics, it is always summer in Miami — a theme that will be celebrated with lots of rock ‘n’ roll during Miami’s Endless Summer, taking place Saturday, June 3, at Churchill’s Pub.
When Miami based record producer Nick León was planning to start his own record label, his first thought was to ask III Points founder David Sinopoli for advice. “It was around this time last year I started thinking about all the musicians I knew, and I wanted to connect all…
If you were disappointed by Beach House’s last South Florida show, guitarist Alex Scally wants to make it up to you. He says he’s terribly embarrassed by the way his duo performed five years ago.
Rara is Haitian festival music played with drums, maracas, and bamboo trumpets, which are known as vaksen. Until recently, the music was always played by men. That changed when Dieuvella Etienne bucked tradition and formed the group that is now called Symbi Roots, the all-female rara troupe that has taken up residency in South Florida over the past couple of months.
Some bands, no matter how popular they get, aren’t meant for cavernous arenas or massive amphitheaters. Perhaps their sound is too intimate or their stage presence too introverted. Muse is not a band with that problem.
After 17 years with English indietronica band Hot Chip, why did Joe Goddard decide to release his first solo album, Electric Lines? “I just had the chance to do it. I had the free time in my studio, and I decided to make a bunch of songs,” says the mild-mannered Brit, who’s slated to play the Electric Pickle this Saturday.
It is an understatement to say Venezuela has been in a state of unrest. The South American country has been dealing with widespread inflation that has left a large swath of its population unable to afford food and medicine. As the tragedy plays out, South Florida’s Venezuelans have been feeling their friends’ and families’ pain.
Growing up on Key Biscayne in the ’90s, Xavier Manrique’s foremost passion was playing tennis. But there was always something about the movies. “Any time it was raining, we couldn’t play tennis, so we’d watch movies,” Manrique tells New Times. “I’d obsess over everything on the screen: the photography, the music, the costumes. Same with every Sunday, when my Dad would take me to the Riviera or the Miracle Center to see a movie.”
Rod Reiter’s gig at Churchill’s falls on May 17, the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia. “I grew up when homophobia was a normal thing,” he says. “I got abuse in high school in Boca Raton just for being friends with a gay kid. In my lifetime, homophobia’s thankfully…
One of the curses of being a millennial is that 60 years’ worth of musicians got to go through the dictionary and cherry-pick their act’s name before you got around to it. So when Abel Makkonen Tesfaye wanted to christen his dark R&B project the Weekend but discovered there was already a Canadian band that had copyrighted the name, he didn’t give up.
The words “bluegrass music” can conjure images of the hills of Appalachia. But Anders Beck says another kind of community might also come to mind. His band, Greensky Bluegrass, was formed in the midsize Midwest town of Kalamazoo, Michigan.
