Were there music snobs in 1790 who went to hear Mozart play in a fancy opera house and said, “Bah, I remember when he only played small, grimy pubs.” Sure, seeing Chris Cornell play in as clean and classy an establishment as the Arsht Center last night was a strange…
Without much mental gymnastics, it’s easy to connect Chris Cornell to some of the most pivotal figures of the past 25 years of rock music. Simply put: Chris Cornell is the Forrest Gump of the music industry. Just as Gump popped up in the biggest moments in 20th-century history, Cornell…
Paper Diamond is not one to talk about the past. “You can find most things about me if you do some research online,” The electronic music producer told New Times. Instead he was more interested in discussing his present and future. “I’ve been on the road three years straight, but…
While you were dancing your pants within an inch of their life at III Points, the artists who entertained you were chilling across the street at Milk & Honey, Wynwood’s newest event space. The venue served as the artist’s lounge for Mana Wynwood’s three-day musical extravaganza. Owned and operated by…
It isn’t often that bands list writers as their influences. But most bands don’t go by the name Telekinetic Walrus. “We’re a mix of JRR Tolkien and Douglas Adams. It’s Lord of the Rings meets intergalactic space travel,” explained the Telekinetic Walrus singer who goes by Time-Zoo Keeper onstage, but…
“We wanted to do something that wasn’t the regular album-release party, so we decided to have a festival,” says Cuci Amador, half of the local electro duo Afrobeta. She and Tony Smurphio (the other half of Afrobeta), along with a few close musical friends, will throw the Mooncake Jam this…
The godfathers of nu metal, Korn, have had so much fun celebrating their 20th anniversary they’ve decided to take a victory lap through their 22nd year, playing their debut self-titled album front to back at the Fillmore Miami Beach this Friday. “I think this is a once-in-a-lifetime event for our…
With names like Run the Jewels, Toro Y Moi, AlunaGeorge, Ghostface Killah and Doom, the second day of III Points was stacked. There was something to listen to in every direction you faced, and good music was never more than thirty yards away. The crowd was big and eager on…
On Friday, October 9, as the skies above Wynwood opened up and bled down upon the colorful neighborhood, we feared the worst. So much anticipation and preparation was being threatened by a few bloated clouds. But, as the clock struck 5, the sun emerged, all hot and glorious. God loves…
“I don’t call myself horrorcore,” Scumbag Worldwide’s emcee Big Rela explains over the telephone. “There’s a stigma with horrorcore — you think Insane Clown Posse and fans that paint their faces. If you’re going to call me horrorcore I want you to understand the history. It’s not all bloody t-shirts…
It took a while for salsa legend Willie Colón to find his way to the trombone. “When I was 8 years old, I was given a recorder from school. I took it home and played on my stoop in the Bronx and wrote tunes on it,” he recalls in his…
Even if you think you don’t know Walk the Moon’s “Shut Up and Dance,” you know it. It’s as unavoidable as oxygen, flowing from every radio station, streaming service, and karaoke bar for much of 2015. It’s a pop song even right-wing Republicans are shaking it to — 63-year-old presidential…
By some strange cosmic coincidence the first concert I ever went to was the Jesus and Mary Chain’s last show in Miami. On the site where the Pérez Art Museum now stands, the Scottish shoegazers performed as a side act for Lollapalooza a couple days before Hurricane Andrew hit. At the…
BOYTOY has been getting a lot of attention lately. Their first recorded work, the band’s 2014 self-titled EP, earned write-ups and photo spreads in Nylon, Spin, and Rolling Stone. Saara Untracht-Oakner, the band’s lead singer and guitarist, is grateful for the attention. “It’s cool that people care. It’s nice to know that…
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater will go down as one of the greatest video games of our generation. Originally released for Playstation in 1999, there have been ten installments of the franchise since then. Just about every millennial can recall spending hours in their room, trying to sharpen skills and master…
“Our mission is to create innovative concert experiences,” Sam Hyken explains. He, along with Jacomo Bairos, created the Nu Deco Ensemble in July 2014. It’s what Hyken dubs “a 21st-century chamber orchestra.” And the 22-member group will have its second round of performances this Friday and Saturday at the Light…
Death to the Sun is more than just a name for the music festival held this past Saturday at the North Beach Bandshell. It’s a plea to mother nature — a celebration that soon the sun will retreat, and South Floridians will no longer spend their days dabbing at their…
Raised on her parents’ Prince and Whitney Houston records, Oly has had a long relationship with music. The Los Angeles native and long time Miami resident put out her EP, A Hot Hooray, in 2004, which had its songs picked up by the MTV show South of Nowhere and the…
Sitting in bumper-to-bumper traffic somewhere in Michigan amid a 60-date nationwide tour, Benjamin Miller (better known as Wrekonize) is feeling philosophical. The rapper is one-sixth of Miami’s underground hip-hop group ¡Mayday!, and his band is days away from the September 18 release date of its new album, Future Vintage. “It’s…
Death to the Sun 5 should benefit those with short attention spans. It’s almost like a musical equivalent of speed-dating. Over the course of the ten-hour underground music festival at the North Beach Bandshell, 27 musical acts will hit the stage from noon to 10 p.m. The concert’s organizer, Ricardo…
While our local public radio station WLRN (91.3 FM) is now mostly talk, it still provides listeners one daily dose of music. Every weeknight, from 9:30 p.m. to 1 a.m., Tracy Fields helps Miami unwind from the long day with Evenin’ Jazz. The show started 13 years ago but Fields took…
It isn’t just hall of fame football players like Michael Irvin and Jim Kelly or action movie stars like The Rock and Sylvester Stallone that have walked across The University of Miami’s campus. There are also a boatload of renowned and acclaimed musicians who attended class in Coral Gables. And…
