So, you and your family have piled into the car and visited every relative. You’ve been jammed elbow to elbow in endless retail lines. You’ve eaten and drunk enough to launch a diabetic coma. Now there is only one holiday ritual left: Neujahrskonzert. What? This fun-to-mispronounce German word loosely translates…
When listening to Novalima, fans will find many similarities between this modern Afro-Peruvian group and the highly percussive sounds heard every night in Calle Ocho’s nightclubs. After all, both Peru and Cuba have a long history of blending the music of formerly enslaved Africans with the drums of the native…
To close out the year, Crossfade is picking out its favorite albums by 305 artists. Read the full list of Miami’s Best Albums of 2010 here.Axe and the Oak Record Store Day EP (Self-Released) We’ve all seen, heard and loved bands that were total disasters. The bass is too low…
Wearing glasses just got a whole lot cooler. HungChains are glasses chains that revolutionize the way you wear your shades. These chains were spawned right here in Miami and have quickly started to crawl across the globe. In the summer of 2009, the Miami-raised designers were inspired by digging through…
To close out the year, Crossfade is picking out its favorite albums by 305 artists. Read the full list of Miami’s Best Albums of 2010 here.Beings Beings (Amnesian Records) Miami’s reigning power trio, Beings, doesn’t waste a single second on its eponymous mini-album. While the official stats (8 tracks in…
Some claim Miami has no memory. Maybe, but no one is forgetting teacher, choreographer, and erstwhile Miami-resident Gerri Houlihan. A former soloist with the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company, and schooled in Martha Graham and Jose Limon technique, Houlihan remembers as much as anyone alive about the making of modern dance…
Currently living what sounds like the premise of a television legal drama, Adam Gersten is a dude from Miami Beach who’s found himself with the seriously serious job of being a Key West lawyer. Though Matlock and Sam Waterston do inspire his life choices, it is Gersten’s label, Needless Records,…
Christmas brings a mixture of emotions to the masses. Dealing with family you haven’t seen all year. Remembering why you haven’t seen them all year. Being too broke to buy appropriate yet clever crap at Brookstone for everyone. Not being able to get anything important done. Tolerating neighbors’ stupid light…
All you pop culture junkies might recognize DJ Tracy Young from The Real Housewives of Atlanta where she recently made a cameo alongside ex-girlfriend Kim Zolciak. But if that’s the only reason you know her, you’re crazy. Since 1991, Ms. Young has racked up a total of 40 Billboard Number…
In honor of our MasterMind genius awards, Cultist proudly presents “100 Creatives,” where we feature Miami’s cultural superheroes in random order. Have suggestions for future profiles? Email cultist@miaminewtimes.com with the whos and whys.54. Teresa BarceloIf you’ve seen any music videos lately, you’ve seen Teresa Barcelo and her fresh choreography, sizzling…
In honor of our MasterMind genius awards, Cultist proudly presents “100 Creatives,” where we feature Miami’s cultural superheroes in random order. Have suggestions for future profiles? Email cultist@miaminewtimes.com with the whos and whys.59. Octavio Campos Octavio Campos is not dead. The Miami-born, Cuban-American multi-disciplinary artist has been quiet for a…
All the excitement about the visual arts during Basel can leave performing artists feeling neglected. But the experimental choreographers at Inkub8 are not to be left out. They hooked up with visual and sound artists and renamed their art form “visual dance” – at least for last week’s performances. Smack…
Los Angeles-based summer time jam the Do-Over (not to mention party masterminds Aloe Blacc, Haycock, and Strong) returned to Bar this Sunday to close out Art Basel. If you made it to the party during WMC, then you know good tunes, barbecue, and lots of surprises were on tap. The Do-Over’s…
Everyone who went to Basel should be able to agree that that it was great. (Or at the very least “interesting.”) But sometimes all that art can make you feel dumb, like maybe you just don’t get it. So when we finally got tired of cracking jokes with our friends,…
Cranky New York Times dance critic Alastair Macaulay has embarked on a “Nutcracker marathon,” pledging to see as many productions as he can of this classic ballet this season across the United States. Well, we have one for him to attend in Miami this weekend. Save room for sugarplums on…
Bardot is the only music venue in South Florida that has a very strict no-camera, no-press policy. However, Perry Farrell’s Basel bash last night was the first and only time Bardot allowed select photographers inside the club. And while the camera restrictions were still very tight, Bardot and Mr. Farrell…
Choreographer Merce Cunningham and visual artist Robert Rauschenberg were groundbreaking when they first collaborated from 1954 to 1964, and they kept breaking ground right up through their last collaboration in 2007. The two men believed art referred only to itself, and they created riveting works together. Even now in the…
Recording under his persona Plastikman, minimal mastermid Richie Hawtin first established himself as a standard-bearer for material as much about breath as breadth. Now, seven years since the last Plastikman album and 18 years since debuting the brand, Hawtin is prepping the Arkives, a comprehensive, limited-edition set including remastered, rare,…
Performing under his own name, Canadian-born, Berlin-based Richie Hawtin has navigated the space between DJ and recording artist for two decades, constructing epic swaths of spatial microedits and spartan percussion, bringing it to fields, forests, black box art spaces, and mega-clubs all around the world. Starting out in Windsor, Ontario,…
In honor of our People Issue, which will hit newsstands and computer screens November 25, Cultist proudly presents “100 Creatives,” where we feature Miami’s cultural superheroes in random order. Have suggestions for future profiles? Email cultist@miaminewtimes.com with the whos and whys.74. Ana MendezAna Mendez is a one-woman pyro-technic show, detonating…
When Miami Contemporary Dance Company artistic director Ray Sullivan decided to research the life of migrant workers for his new piece, Harvest Voice, he was more interested in the workers’ dreams than in the working conditions in the Homestead fields. “As we know there are no borders for dreams,” he…
One of the perks of being a concert photographer is sometimes you’ll luck into a behind-the-scenes pass. You’ll get to mingle (very briefly) with rock stars. Partake in a few ounces of free booze. And high-five beautiful groupies. Anyway, Saturday was one of those “sometimes” for Crossfade photo guy Ian…
