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…
After the resurgence of vinyl, perhaps no other twentieth-century artifact has made as unlikely a revival as the celebrity roast. Late at night, after the kids went to bed, commercials for The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast used to air. Today, it seems so old and musty as one rat pack member after another…
When Miami Marlins pitcher Jose Fernandez tragically died last month after a boating accident at only 24 years of age, not only Miami but the entire baseball community mourned the loss of one of the most promising athletes in the MLB. To see someone that talented and joyous taken away so young…
Drummer Andrew Kerr has lived most of his life in South Florida. But the four years he spent in Brooklyn proved to be well worth the time. The rent was high, but, hey, he got a band out of it. While on his northern sabbatical, the Delray Beach-bred Kerr joined…
Day three is always a royal bitch. With blistered feet and damaged ear drums (seriously — where were you earplugs this year, people?), many were on autopilot at the final day of III Points 2016, a year marked by both adversity and triumph. Luckily, there is a cure for such…
Down its biggest headliner and plagued by last-minute hiccups, III Points limped into day one, badly wounded. The forces of god, nature, and misfortune had seemingly unloaded their entire arsenal on the Wynwood festival this year in the form of wind, mosquitoes, and cancelled flights. Year four would be the…
After the underwhelming collection of wind and rain South Florida was calling Hurricane Matthew, the city could use an adrenaline boost. Thankfully, the fourth annual Black Kvlt Festival is upon us. “I’m not a Satan worshipper, but I like the dark, evil shit,” Ira Ochacher says when asked why he…
If, as a child, the notion of mutilating the neighborhood cat made you a little squeamish, Wednesday night’s concert at the Fillmore Miami Beach probably wasn’t for you. One half of the all-time big four of thrash metal were in town — Slayer and Anthrax — and an army of their…
Donald Trump is perhaps the most divisive candidate to run for president of the United States, like, ever. And even that’s an understatement. So, when YG was planning a new tour, he thought it was the perfect opportunity to let Trump know how he felt about him. “I ain’t a…
You step into a bar in Miami and a live band is playing. How did they get there? They didn’t just magically appear. And they didn’t just walk into the room carrying instruments and commandeer the stage like a troupe of funky pirates. As you peruse through the back of…
