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Falyn Freyman

Falyn Freyman is a freelance multimedia journalist based in Miami.

How New Order Pioneered the Sound and Image of Alternative Dance Music

By Falyn FreymanJanuary 3, 2019

Released 35 years ago last May, New Order’s iconic LP “Power, Corruption & Lies” wasn’t the influential English band’s first album. But the sophomore effort marked the group’s clear transition from its moody punk origins as Joy Division to an extroverted, effervescent dance act. A pioneer of postpunk, electro-pop, proto-rave, dance-rock, and a whole umbrella of enduring club styles, New Order has been credited with “inventing the ’80s” and “changing music forever.”

Meet Miami’s New Class of Laid-Back, Sophisticated Bars and Nightclubs

By Falyn FreymanNovember 28, 2018

The busy season in Miami brings cooler weather, thirsty snowbirds, and a new cast of venues vying for a slice of the action. To help you get ahead on partying, New Times rounded up eight of the city’s most anticipated, unexpected, and buzz-worthy bar and nightclub openings. Now that Miami Art Week and Miami Music Week are just around the corner, consider this your fresh guide to local nightlife’s most wonderful time of the year.

Love, Light, and Power of Junglepussy

By Falyn FreymanSeptember 18, 2018

She approaches most things in life that way. Raunchy and emphatically real both in her music and her public image, the Brooklyn-born West Indian Junglepussy styles herself in exuberant tropical colors and patterns and changes her weave to match her mood, all while emanating a spiritual-guru level of self-assurance: It’s the power of the Pussy.

How Las Rosas Became Miami’s New Beacon for Live, Local Music

By Falyn FreymanSeptember 13, 2018

Grand Central, Tobacco Road, Bardot, the Stage, Vagabond, Bar Black — the list of Miami music spaces lost too soon is long. Now, on an unassuming corner in Allapattah just west of I-95, a low, flat rectangle of a building holds Las Rosas, one of the city’s newest platforms for live music. Its success has largely been the result of a group of passionate old-timers hustling to keep their dreams for the city alive.

Miami-Dade’s Fifth Medical Marijuana Dispensary Opening in Dadeland

By Falyn FreymanAugust 15, 2018

Medical pot is on the rise in Florida. Since voters legalized medical marijuana and low-THC cannabis in the November 2016 general election, Florida has added 144,557 patients to the Office of Medical Marijuana Use’s user registry, according to the Department of Health’s latest update. For a state with a population of 21 million, about one in 145 Floridians can legally use medical weed.

III Points 2015 Day One: Warpaint, Nicolas Jaar, and More

By Ryan Pfeffer and OthersOctober 10, 2015

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…

Helado Negro on Working With “Professional Dancers” and PAMM

By Falyn FreymanMay 14, 2015

In Isaac Asimov’s 1941 sci-fi short story, “Runaround,” a robot named Speedy is tasked by his human commanders with retrieving the selenium resources necessary to power the life-support system of their base on the scorching planet Mercury. However, when the robot fails to return after a few hours, an investigation…

Justin Timberlake’s Top Five Collaborations

By Falyn FreymanFebruary 27, 2014

It’s hard to imagine a world without Justin Timberlake. No lovably awkward Mickey Mouse Club duets, no bleached-blond curls or coordinating denim outfits, zero hours spent in front of the mirror trying to learn the choreography from the “Bye Bye Bye” video, definitely no “Cry Me a River” (the greatest…

Joakim and Young Adults at Electric Pickle December 7

By Falyn FreymanDecember 5, 2013

“There’s this sense of very lonely sensuality. And, of course, the obvious paradox of being so connected but so alone,” French DJ-producer Joakim says of his latest full-length project, an as-yet untitled followup to this past June’s pair of down-tempo electro-pop tracks — “Heartbeats” and “Another Light” — and his…

Joakim Talks “Ghetto Techno,” His Next Full-Length Album, and Basel 2013

By Falyn FreymanNovember 29, 2013

“There’s this sense of very lonely sensuality. And of course, the obvious paradox of being so connected, but so alone,” says French DJ-producer Joakim of his latest, as-yet untitled full-length project, a follow-up to last June’s pair of downtempo electro-pop tracks, “Heartbeats” and “Another Light,” and his first LP since…

A$AP Ferg Asks People to “Get Up Off They Ass and Work”

By Falyn FreymanNovember 20, 2013

The world got its first taste of Fergenstein on Live. Love. A$AP., the purple-tinged, codeine-soaked 2011 debut mixtape from New York newcomer A$AP Rocky. The tape ushered in Rocky as a breath of fresh air in the hip-hop game and introduced A$AP as not just a young collective of adventurous…