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…
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…
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…
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…
If there are two acts that smile more on stage than Imagine Dragons and Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, their dentist deserves a raise. And the free show Wednesday night on the sands of South Beach gave a projected 20,000 plenty of reason to smile back. The event was a pep…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Not familiar with grindcore? Here’s a brief definition from Fuck the Facts guitarist Topon Das: “It’s a frame of mind of really fast easily relatable musical expression.” He is quick to clarify, however, that his Canadian five-piece is not a textbook example of the musical genre. “I don’t think we’re…
With two nights featuring over two dozen bands, 305 Fest aims to be a showcase for all that is punk and hardcore about South Florida. The night’s roster will include just about every face from the local scene you could imagine, as well as some out of town legends, like…
TJ Mizell is a DJ. You probably haven’t heard of him. But you have heard of his father, Jason Mizell. He went by the name Jam Master Jay and was one-third of one of the most important hip-hop acts of all time, Run-D.M.C. You might expect a descendent of rap…
Five years ago a rugby accident left Florida Atlantic University student James “Woody” Beckham paralyzed from the chest down. But despite the long road that injury would set Beckham down, the injury hasn’t defeated the Coconut Grove resident. “Sometimes I got worn out and tired,” he says. Shortly after his…
“We keep saying maybe we won’t do it this year, but then we decide why not,” Lolo Reskin says. Lauren “Lolo” Reskin, the owner of Miami’s Sweat Records, will — thankfully — once again throw her signature Thanksgiving Eve ’80’s Prom this year. This Wednesday night at the Electric Pickle…
Birthed in a Doral warehouse, the Miami Music Project has spent the last five years teaching kids who might not otherwise have the chance how to sing and play musical instruments, from the violin to the tuba. “Our goal is to transform communities using music as a vehicle,” explains Stephen…
When visiting a juvenile detention center to perform a concert with his band Suénalo, Chad Bernstein and the rest of the group tried to lecture the kids about how music could lead them on a better path. There was only one problem: No one was paying attention. That is, until…
“I wanted to pay homage to my city, Miami.” Toto Gonzalez says. That was his goal on, Orange, the second album he’s released as Mr. Pauer. “Everyone who was part of the album lived in Miami at the time it was recorded. Twelve nationalities are represented and we have songs…
In life, there are ups and downs. So when we posted a list of the 15 greatest moments in Miami music history back in September, it got us thinking about the darker times. And Miami has seen plenty of those. Not to imply that any one death is somehow sadder…
“We enjoy the tradition of record-shop in-stores,” Lauren Reskin, owner of Sweat Records, says. “We wanted to honor that and take it up a notch.” After receiving a grant from the Knight Foundation in December 2012 and ensuring that the sale of Churchill’s Pub would not cause their shop to…
Just last week Sabina Sciubba, lead singer of Brazilian Girls, announced she had a supporting role in Zach Galifianakis’ new TV show Baskets. And during her show at the North Beach Bandshell on Friday night she put forth maximum effort to prove that she had the theatrical and comedic chops…
Local piano bar fans who are in a deep depression over Magnum Lounge closing a couple weeks back have a new reason to keep on living. Every Friday night this November from 6 to 10 p.m., Cafeina will transform into the Wynwood Piano Bar, where former Magnum Lounge piano man…
Last November, when the New York City electro quartet Brazilian Girls left the stage of Ball & Chain after a fantastic set that had the crowd chanting, “Pussy, pussy, pussy, marijuana” (the chorus of the band’s single “Pussy”), singer Sabina Sciubba promised that the band would come back to Miami…
