Astari Nite Premieres New Music Video This Friday at Kill Your Idol

“Everyone thinks because of the way we look that we’re a Goth band, but we’re post-punk indie rockers,” explains singer Mychael Ghost over the phone. His band, Astari Nite, is often thrown into a box based strictly on appearances, but it’s not fair to typecast this diverse group of Miami…

The International Noise Conference Keeps Miami Weird for the 13th Year

For those who have never been, the International Noise Conference might conjure up images of networking businessmen holding briefcases filled with screams and explosions. But instead, the five-night event celebrating its thirteenth year at Churchill’s is a commerce free, avant-garde celebration of sonic experimentation where you’re equal parts as likely to…

Seven New Miami Music Venues That Should Be on Your Radar

One of the truths about Miami is that if you find yourself in a six-month coma, when you wake up, everything about the city will be different. But perhaps no aspect of Miami feels as transient as our nightlife. In the space of what feels like minutes, the hottest and…

Fundraising Campaign for Blowfly’s Funeral Needs Your Donations

Since Clarence Reid died last Sunday from liver cancer and organ failure, the Miami legend’s stage persona, Blowfly, has been eulogized in Rolling Stone and the New York Times. Celebrities from Ice-T to the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Flea to Run the Jewel’s El-P have paid tribute to Reid on…

The Soft Moon on Live Performance: “It’s a Living Thing”

Listening to Luis Vasquez’s three dark industrial albums as the Soft Moon, you would think he always lived in Berlin. But he originally hails from sunny Southern California. “I was born in L.A., where I watched MTV every morning. It was mostly glam rock like Poison, Mötley Crüe, Cinderella, and…

SunGhosts Break Down New EP Track by Track

SunGhosts, our reigning readers’ choice for Miami’s best band, just put out a new four song EP, Parhelion. The title keeps with the Kendall band’s solar obsession. Parhelion is the scientific name for a rainbow halo phenomenon seen around the sun in case you were wondering. Recorded in both Davie…

France Camp Promises Raw Fish and Dirty Old Men at Gramps Show

Jay Simonson’s prediction for Friday’s show: “It’s going to be loud, and I’m going to climb on stuff.” It’s one of the few straightforward answers Simonson, lead singer of the Minneapolis garage-rock band France Camp, was willing to give over the phone, where he was joined by drummer Dylan Rosebringeth…

Miami Music’s Craziest Moments of 2015

Maybe it’s the heat, or the traffic. The perhaps easily available flakka probably doesn’t help either. But Miami has always been a magnet for insanity. So why should we expect any less from Miami’s music world? 2015 is officially in the past, but before we leave it there completely, it’s…

1349’s Lead Singer Breaks Down the Finer Points of Black Metal

When asked to define black metal, there is a long pause from Olav Bergene, the lead singer of Norway’s 1349. A second passes and then another and then, in his Norwegian accent, he explains the fundamentals of the loud, fast and heavy musical genre that his life revolves around. “Black…

28 Newsstand Is a New Pop-Up Hiding in Plain Sight

No, that is not a newsstand that has opened up on the site that once housed Railroad Blues and PS 14. Not really, anyway. It’s a slightly more lucrative scheme than print media. While it might appear to be a vendor selling candies, old copies of New Times, and vintage…

Cavity Is Back, and Miami’s About to Get a Lot Sludgier

The last time we spoke with Cavity bassist Dan Gorostiaga, his band was gearing up for an April 10 benefit show that he insisted would be a one-time reunion. But since then, the local sludge legends have already played one show at New York City club Saint Vitus back in…

305 Fest Showed Us Why Miami Needs Metal

The layman might have expected a very different sort of “305 Fest.” By inserting Miami’s area code into the name of 305 Fest, the punks and headbangers behind the two night extravaganza challenged an outsider’s expectations of what Miami music all about. If some poor schlub strolled into Churchill’s this…

Gramps’ Friday Nite Live Will Start Your Weekend Off Right

Psychomagic’s latest record came together fast — maybe too fast. “We only had three weeks to write the songs and three days to record it,” singer and guitarist Steven Fusco says. But they were able to pull it off. The album, Bad Ideas, mixes and matches garage rock with psychedelia…