Much like the actual weather in this era of global warming, the emotional climate at Ultra Music Festival’s live stage is wildly unpredictable. The fans might love it. They might hate it. It’s always tough to predict. But the fervor and size of the audience often mirrors the enthusiasm, though…
If you think rave culture is about the music or drugs, you’re so very wrong. Above all, it’s about the look. And at a rave: the freakier, the finer. Year after year, fans of EDM and friends of Molly help the culture evolve with their fashion choices at Miami’s Ultra…
The 305 helped invent modern dance music. In the late 1970s, Henry Stone’s TK Records, headquartered in Hialeah, pumped out disco hit after disco hit from KC & the Sunshine Band, even introducing the word “booty” into the pop lexicon. Today, Miami party music is still making asses shake. And…
Lucky ColeThe writer as subject.On a recent sunny day, New Times videographer Kathryn Sotolongo and I drove to a place bloated alligators are pecked on by starving vultures and the sawgrass’ll take off a finger. Out on Loop Road, where the Everglades becomes Big Cypress National Preserve, Lucky Cole and…
The grizzled profile of a man with an exaggerated scar running down his face appears in almost every ad for the Miami International Film Festival, on buses, at bus stops, and in print. The tagline reads, “Every Character Under the Sun.” Oddly enough though, you won’t be seeing this character…
Miami New Times’ Mastermind Awards honors the city’s most inspiring creatives. This year, we received more than 100 submissions, which our staff narrowed to an elite group of 30, and finally, nine. We’ll be profiling those finalists in the days to come. This year’s three Mastermind Award winners will be…
A stage visionary redefines the way South Florida sees theater. A thrift-shop connoisseur turns his love of collecting into an art career. A musician describes himself as “half Cuban Native Indian, half German Anunnaki wolf.” You can say a lot of things about 2014’s MasterMind Award finalists, but you can’t…
George Martinez In Churchill’s Pub, Dave Daniels established and maintained a safe space for musical and artistic expression, the watching of international soccer games, and drinking heavily in the heart of Little Haiti for 35 years. But, at 74, Daniels tells us: “It’s time for me to move on.” An…
Every once in awhile, we here at Miami New Times and New Times Broward Palm Beach start looking around for some fresh meat (fresh as in sassy and new; meat as in freelance writers). That time has come again!…
John Lennon As a kid, I rummaged through my parents’ cassettes, separating the good from the Billy Ocean. Sometimes, though, I’d come upon a tape that was beyond great, that was nearly perfect. And then I’d listen to it a thousand times while lying on my bedroom floor, and eventually…
When Miami heard that the legend, the fashion (and karma) chameleon, and now comeback kid, Boy George, would be coming to play a DJ and an acoustic set during Art Basel Miami Beach week, every mouth was yapping about it from Hialeah to Wilton Manors. There’s no one quite like…
Marc Vedo sweetly schooled those at Mansion in dance music this past Saturday night. And he handed them their sonic diplomas right before his tourmate Boy George took over the decks. Vedo’s been DJing since he was a teenager and seems to have played in every corner of the earth,…
Photo by Morgan ColemanCheck out Crossfade’s full 30-photo slideshow of Kendrick Lamar at Mana Production Village. Last night, I tweeted at Kanye West for the first time ever. Did I think he’d read the tweet? No, duh. But I did want to document that my feet hurt a lot, and…
Via mocanomi.org The day after Thanksgiving, we spoke with SZA, the Top Dawg Entertainment-signed songstress with an ethereal voice. She’s intelligent, cool, but not pretentious, easy with a giggle, and told us that all she’d eaten the day before at her mom’s was collard greens –since she’s a non-grain-eating vegetarian…
Yes, we cut in front of the paparazzi to take a shot of Kevin Spacey posing with Tracey Emin. And what? The black walls inside the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami are glowing and buzzing with Tracey Emin’s work. Lines like “People Like You Need to Fuck People Like…
You’ll usually find Nicky Bowe in the warm womb of Little Haiti’s Churchill’s Pub. The Irishman’s thin arms and torso are covered with a colorful tatted narrative that rivals the dynamic tales that emerge from his smiling face. Nicky isn’t just a bartender or a guy who builds motorcycles. In…
“Miami at night,” Otto von Schirach describes laughing, “going home at 4 in the morning. There’s the crackhead in your door trying to sell you an avocado.” This is the Little Havana-bred musician’s answer when asked about the inspiration for his homemade beats. At 12 years old, von Schirach started…
Photo by Ian WitlenThe stage is THAT way. Jeez. Millennials, you still do all the drugs and have all the sex, but I have to break it to you — #realtalk — you do not know how to party. And it’s bringing me down. Heading over to what’s supposed to…
Tim Maxeiner”I really feel like I did some of my best work while at the Miami Herald,” Evelyn McDonnell admits. The writer spent eight years there as the pop music critic. But she was familiar with Miami even before moving here. She’d attended years of Winter Music Conference (which she…
Since the 1970s, Alice Cooper has been making bloody fantastic rock ‘n’ roll. Known for his shocking stage shows, the artist born Vincent Damon Furnier is now a little further along in years but still touring like crazy. Cooper lives in Arizona, where he enjoys playing a lot of golf…
Austin Mahone is a teenage dreamboat. The perfectly adorable 17-year-old pop sensation went from YouTube cutie to VMA winner in almost record time. Signed to Cash Money Records, he was voted 2013’s Artist to Watch by MTV and named the new Justin Bieber by everyone else. Mahone and his mom…
Each music festival has its “highlights.” The reason we describe the best moments this way is to make you feel like you missed out. You can’t have it all, and we want you to know that life is cruel. This past weekend at Wynwood’s inaugural III Points Festival, YACHT mastered…
