Coming straight out of Salt Lake City, Max Pain and the Groovies earned the attention of ears across this great nation with their debut album, Electro Cosmic, a valentine to garage rock and psychedelia where — if you listen carefully — you can hear influences as varied as the Make-Up,…
Sunday is often seen as a day of rest — the Sabbath — a day where one can find redemption for the sins committed during the prior six days. In some parts of the United States, Sunday is so pure you are not even allowed to purchase liquor. Fortunately, we…
If you missed out on Iggy Pop’s concert at the Fillmore a couple months ago (we’re looking at you, horrible Miami selfie man) and are wondering what the late-era Iggy Pop live experience is all about, O Cinema is willing to fill you in. On June 16 at 9 p.m.,…
Everyone should attend a Weird Al Yankovic concert once in their life. And probably only once. It was fitting that the curly-haired parodist ended his over two-hour main set imitating James Brown, a roadie throwing a robe over his shoulders. Yankovic might really be the hardest working man in show…
The advice we get when we are particularly disgusted by a politician is to hold your nose and vote for the lesser of two evils. But wouldn’t it be nice if instead of having to choose between a billionaire narcissist or a two-faced phony, there could be a candidate who…
After renovating and reopening the 80-year-old Little Havana club Ball & Chain, co-owner Zack Bush has been on a mission to provide live music every day of the week, Sunday being no exception. And for the past year, Ball & Chain’s Sundays on the Ocho has sought to provide a…
It has taken only 20 years for Jazid to become Miami Beach’s longest-running nightclub. “Bars like Mac’s Club Deuce and Ted’s Hideaway have been around longer, but as far as nightclubs with entertainment, believe it or not, we’re the oldest,” co-owner Tony Alarcon tells New Times. Though he and his…
The isolation of Key West — it being the southernmost point of the continental United States, accessible only by boats and bridges — hasn’t exactly made the island a hotbed for rock ‘n’ roll bands trying to make it big. You’re more likely to find a band of drunk college…
The $40 required to enter Churchill’s Saturday night was confirmed to be a record cover charge in the Little Haiti dive’s storied 37 year existence. “I think Dick Dale charged $25,” an employee at the door said, “But yeah, nobody’s ever charged $40.” There was good reason for the price…
“If you wanted to buy a nice car, you wouldn’t want to buy it off Amazon.” Eric Gould, owner of Deja Vu Audio South, has a point. “You’d want to test drive it. It’s the same with audio equipment, you should spend time with it before you buy it.” Gould…
P.Y.T. — short for Pretty Young Thing — may sound cute and polished, but the new weekly Wednesday night party coming to LIV has a far dirtier background. It is the spiritual descendant of Miami’s infamous Dirty Hairy party series. “P.Y.T. Wednesday will definitely be carrying the torch from Dirty…
Though the electro-pop trio Pompeya hail from Russia, they’re about to make Florida their home for much of the month of May, with half a dozen shows scheduled up and down the Sunshine State. According to Pompeya’s singer and guitarist Daniil Brod, though, there’s not a huge difference musically between Miami…
The origins of ladies night are unclear. Perhaps it was a tool used by men to attempt to lessen their guilt for denying women basic human rights and equality. Maybe it goes back even farther, and after Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden of Eden, she felt the…
Talib Kweli has a simple description for his shows. “Good times all around,” the Brooklyn rapper says to expect. Kweli’s current tour, which had him in New Zealand when he spoke with New Times, will take the MC to Rec Room for a free show this Saturday. Kweli, who is…
Nikki Rodriguez finds it hard to believe June 8 will celebrate the sixth anniversary of Words & Wine Open Mic, a weekly gathering of poets, musicians, and comedians held every Wednesday night. “We started out in my living room on 27th and Biscayne,” she remembers. “Everyone would crowd in and…
“It’s all my fault,” Peter Stebbins, founder and president of the nonprofit local radio station Shake 108 (107.9 FM), tells New Times. He launched his humble radio station just less than two years ago, but now the beloved frequency faces a government-mandated obstacle. “The FCC recently did an inspection of…
According to Miami Beach High alumnus Rachel Goodrich, you can take the girl out of Miami, but you can’t take Miami out of the girl. In a 2008 New York Times profile, Goodrich was proclaimed “queen of the Miami indie rock scene.” But in 2010, she took off for the…
Though John Lennon once co-wrote a song about a Magical Mystery Tour, The John Lennon Educational Tour Bus only goes halfway with that philosophy. While it does hope to create magic, it also seeks to take the mystery out of the artistic process. Started by Yoko Ono Lennon 19 years…
If you know even the slightest amount of Spanish, it is impossible for Cinco de Mayo to sneak up on you. Unlike Thanksgiving, Easter, and St. Patrick’s Day, the holiday’s date is right in the name, and that date is drawing ever so closer. Cinco de Mayo, which commemorates an…
With a focus on the positive and political in the early ’90s, Arrested Development was often brought up in defense of hip-hop whenever the mainstream media demonized rap as the soundtrack of so-called gangsters. With hits like “Tennessee,” “People Everyday,” and “Mr. Wendell,” Arrested Development delivered Afrocentric messages over Sly…
The lively new animated video for the Spam Allstars song “Around the Track” had a long and winding origin. “Years ago the Spam Allstars management reached out to me to do some artwork for them,” explains the video’s director, a man who goes by the name MarcPaperScissor. The artist, who…
Eric Hernandez spends his days packing auto parts in a Miami warehouse, but since the summer of 2014, his nights and weekends have been spent singing and playing guitar for noise-rock quartet Wrong. “I was in another band, Capsule, with [guitarist] Ryan Haft. That fell apart, but we still felt…
