Xiuhtezcatl Martinez doesn’t want to be forever cast as “the activist rapper,” though he acknowledges his music career and work as an environmental advocate parallel and support each another.
The Woolly Bushmen, a rock outfit based in Orlando, is heavily influenced by classic rock ‘n’ roll bands such as the Animals, in addition to early rockabilly and punk.
Pascal Arbez-Nicolas is the legendary French electronic dance music artist known as Vitalic, but he doesn’t consider himself a producer. He’s more of a songwriter who tells stories using the sound palette of techno house, he says, filtering his personal life through four-to-the-floor bangers with big kick drums and blasts of synthesizer.
Suzi Analogue is a fashionista and a music gear-head: someone equally likely to dig through racks of neon clothing and crates of old vinyl records.
Tycho is Scott Hansen’s solo project, but he fills out the sound with a full band in the live setting and incorporates audiovisual elements that create a dazzling overall experience.
The Flaming Lips usually draw a few thousand people when they headline shows, but they’re often given prominent festival slots for their reputation as an absolutely bananas live band. They’ll take the stage at Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival this Saturday, March 3.
The World Is Mind is a thought-provoking album tackling the issues of today, continuing KRS-One’s long tradition of putting out socially conscious music.
They sing live and play bass and guitar onstage, but the rest of the sounds are programmed, and some sections of their sets are reserved for choreographed dance routines.
During her immersive multimedia show, “The Neck Is a Bridge to the Body,” Kaki King’s instrument will be transformed from a blank white canvas into a dazzling explosion of light and color.
Much of Shimabukuro’s success over the years has been tied to his note-for-note renditions of famous rock and pop songs. (He shot to fame more than a decade ago thanks to his cover of the Beatles’ “While My Guitar Gently Weeps,” one the first viral videos on YouTube.)
Youngr plays music with a crazy charisma. His vocal delivery is effortlessly cool, and so is the way he seamlessly switches instruments, building songs layer by layer in real time with exuberance.
The Goo Goo Dolls have seen it firsthand and often: In times of tragedy and hardship, music has a way of bringing people together. In October 2001, they played the Concert for New York City alongside luminaries such as Paul McCartney, the Who, and David Bowie to honor the first responders who died during the September 11 attacks…
Elderbrook is an electronic producer, singer, and multi-instrumentalist best known for his chilled-out, down-tempo style, but he makes high-energy music as well — and he’s good at it. In fact, his single “Cola,” a collaboration with British duo CamelPhat, is nominated for a Grammy for Best Dance Record.
Just a few years ago, Alex Cameron was a virtual unknown to pretty much everyone outside of the music industry. Now the Australian musician and his band are touring in support of the Killers — including their opening slot on January 23 at the American Airlines Arena in Miami — and…
DJ Irie oozes charisma and gets parties started like pretty much no one else, because, look: He’s the official DJ of both the Miami Heat and Jamie Foxx for a reason. But 2017 was a banner year for the jet-setting Miami product with a huge personality. New Times recently caught up with…
Ottaviano plays keyboards for Book of Love, a classic electronic/synth-pop band out of Brooklyn he cofounded with vocalist Susan Ottaviano (they share the same last name but aren’t married or otherwise related). The band is perhaps best known for the mid-to-late-’80s singles “Sunny Day,” “Boy,” and “Pretty Boys and Pretty Girls,” as well as Susan’s signature deadpan vocal delivery.
The soundscapes and cinematic imagery of Dude Skywalker.
Electronic-music producer Nghtmre is known for extremely fast-paced sets — he usually cycles through a song a minute — as well as absolutely insane light displays and wholesale exploitation of the build-drop, build-drop dynamic. He’s clearly taken some cues from Skrillex, the messiah of wobbly, party-forward dance music who helped launch Nghtmre’s career during a Miami music festival a few years ago.
For a classic hip-hop group, Wu-Tang Clan has remained surprisingly relevant, but not due to any new music the group has released — not to the public, at least. In 2015, they famously auctioned off the only pressing of their long-awaited LP, Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, to the…
Lookas likes to party. The young music producer from Palmetto Bay cut his teeth as a DJ at house parties all over Miami-Dade before EDM emerged as an ultrapopular genre.
Make no mistake: Jonathan Pierce has always been the creative force behind the Drums. Since the indie-pop band’s early days, he’s written all of the lyrics and most of the music. He maintained the collaborative façade partly because he feared vulnerability, he says. If the creative process was out in the open, any criticism of the music would reflect directly on him.
David LaChapelle’s I Walk Out of My Prison depicts Miley Cyrus as a naked, technicolor butterfly with wings spread and arms open in a Christ-like gesture. But as with much of LaChapelle’s work, the photograph is paired with a juxtaposing image — in this case, Solitary. Cyrus is captured in the same room, still naked but in starkly real color, on her knees and reaching desperately for light pouring through a window.
