You remember the scene. It’s the moment in the famous 1988 flick Big when a 13-year-old wishes he were a grownup and then wakes up in Tom Hanks’ adult body. If you’ve seen it, you surely remember the iconic scene where Hanks plays “Chopsticks” with his feet on a giant…
Floridians don’t really know how to handle winter. While the rest of the country is shoveling snow and huddling around trash-can fires, we’re wearing shorts and hitting the beach. But we still find ways to celebrate the season — for example, with “Lots of good…
Top 40 radio is a beloved institution for a vast number of listeners. And few stations in America have been playing the hits as long as WHYI-FM. Better known around these parts as Y100, the pop station has been broadcasting whatever the kids happen to be listening to that week…
If you don’t know what a busker is, you’re not alone — especially in Miami. For all of South Florida’s weird and wonderful talent, we’re not exactly known for our “people who entertain in a public place,” as Webster defines the term. “Miami has a ton of performers, but except…
Though he’s recently had albums titled Global Warming, Globalization, and the upcoming Climate Change, lately Pitbull has not been the most political of rappers. His verses in “Timber” had nothing to do with deforestation, and “Give Me Everything” makes no mention of where he comes down on tax rates. But…
Though some musicians might feel awkward watching people listen to their songs, Sam Rosenthal says he will feel no such anxiety when Deju Vu Audio South hosts a listening party for his band’s double album, These Fleeting Moments. “At a listening party I don’t have to worry about doing anything,”…
The first Thanksgiving – or at least the less bloody one sans ethnic cleansing that’s preferred in elementary school curriculums – involved hospitable natives sharing food and resources with struggling immigrants. Since the inaugural feast in Plymouth, the spirit of Thanksgiving has evolved and now includes such things as football, discount shopping…
It’s an ironic truth that sends a mixture of anger and confusion shooting up the spine of out-of-towners: South Floridians who live near the beach tend not to actually go to the beach very often. Maybe we’re jaded, spoiled, or don’t want to get sandy — who knows? But the concert…
Miami’s newest record store — in spite of its name — is proud to be from the 305. “I was raised in Allapattah,” Diane Perez, owner of Brooklyn Vintage & Vinyl, explains, “but my girlfriend was born in Brooklyn, and we always liked it there.” The record store, which celebrated…
I’ve had an upset stomach since Election Day. Most of you probably have as well. And, aside from nausea and a loss of appetite (especially for flaky, orange foods), one side effect of the 2016 election has been a reluctance to have fun. With every cabinet appointment or moronic Tweet from…
It’s only fitting that the most political of hip-hop groups, Dead Prez, would be touring during an election year. The duo, consisting of emcees M-1 and stic.man, have rapped for decades against power structures, war, and inequality. Or, as M-1, a resident of Miami for the last six years, puts…
When we spoke, Wayne Coyne was on the way to his Oklahoma City gallery to participate in what he describes as “Friday-night drunk yoga.” And though he says he’s “as old as Dracula,” the 55-year-old lead singer of the Flaming Lips still speaks as enthusiastically about the power of rock ‘n’ roll as any millennial out there.
LDV Hospitality — the parents of Miami’s Rec Room, Regent Cocktail Club, and Dolce Italian — are celebrating a four-year anniversary this weekend. And they’re doing so in style. Rec Room, the intimate Miami Beach hotspot in the bottom of the Gale South Beach, will be hosting a true rap icon…
Yet another new venue has emerged to try and reclaim the spot where the beloved Vagabond once stood. And the new joint, Armando Records, is hitting the ground running. But don’t expect an actual Armando to greet you at the door tomorrow night for the grand opening. “Armando is a…
It has been a big year for James “Woody” Beckham. While many people might foolishly think someone who suffers from paralysis — as Beckham has since 2011 — might slow down, Woody has proven just the opposite. He’s spent the last 12 months graduating from FIU with a finance…
For a very long time, Miami has faced one big obstacle when it comes to live music: geography. The fact is, it takes a lot of convincing for a band to drive all the way down to the tip of Florida. From a financial perspective, it doesn’t make a whole…
Do you have an extra half-million lying around? We’ll wait while you check your sock drawer. Done? No luck, huh? Well, look, if by some chance you can round up $500,000 by December 30, the Fontainebleau Hotel has a New Year’s Eve package tailor-made for you and nine of your closest…
Last year, when Johann Torres was closing down the Stage, a Design District music venue that he partly owned, he began sniffing around Miami for a new spot to host events. “One of the places I looked at was the American Legion,” Torres tells us over the phone.
As the line to get into Bayfront Park’s free Jennifer Lopez concert — which doubled as a Hillary Clinton rally — zigged and zagged around Biscayne Boulevard, a man sold pink T-shirts that read “Nasty Women Vote Hillary,” an allusion to the awkward improvised insult Trump threw at Clinton…
In the realm of concert planning, the members of Japanese psychedelic rock band Kikagaku Moyo are true believers in an intuitive approach. “We decide onstage what songs we play,” Go Kurosawa, the band’s drummer, tells New Times. “If the crowd is silent, we’ll play meditative, dreamy songs. If people are more wild,…
With the release of his new album, Third Ward Stories, Fort Lauderdale-based saxophonist Jason Hainsworth set out to create a musical biography of his childhood in Houston. But how do you tell a story through instrumental jazz without any lyrics? “Too often I think we take for granted the countless…
Even in an average year, Halloween in South Florida means shoulder-to-shoulder hordes of zombie Trumps and $5,000 Harley Quinn getups jostling for space from Lincoln Road to Las Olas and inside every bar and club in between. But this year, thanks to October 31 falling on a Monday, the drunken…
