The time for “Big Decisions” has come. So has the hour of My Morning Jacket’s new album, The Waterfall. Last week, Jim James and company debuted the record’s lead single. And they’ll be releasing the entirety of their seventh full-length effort in only another couple of months on May 4,…
It’s been about four years since EDM exploded into a supernova-level pop culture phenomenon. And it’s been about a year since the term dubstep was added to the dictionary. (“A type of electronic dance music,” the definition reads, “having prominent bass lines and syncopated drum patterns.”) So yeah, some of…
Cops have swarmed Lil Wayne’s Miami Beach mansion. Around 12:45 this afternoon, police received a phone call reporting a multiple shooting at the rapper’s 94 Lagorce Circle residence. According to the caller, four people were wounded. A perimeter has been set outside the mansion, and the authorities have brought in…
“A little trouble,” Iggy Azalea insists, “only makes for a good time.” Well, let’s hope she’s right. Because her fans aren’t exactly thrilled about having to wait another five months for the Aussie rapper’s Great Escape tour. Originally set to begin on April 14 and run till May 24, Azalea’s…
Red Bull binge, errbody. During Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week 2015, the now-annual Red Bull Guest House will be throwin’ down at the Sagamore Hotel for four whole days and nights of ass-shaking shenanigans. From March 26 to 29, the #RBGuestHouse will be providing accomadations to Young Money…
The War on Drugs is not over. Founded by celebrated rock songwriter Kurt Vile and moody indie mastermind Adam Granduciel, this post-punk outfit released its debut album, Wagonwheel Blues, in 2008. A short time later, though, Vile split to pursue a solo career. But despite his departure, Granduciel just said…
“Feel like a woman”? Good. Because ’90s pop country superstar Shania Twain just announced the Rock This Country tour, hitting 48 cities from Edmonton, Saskatoon, and Winnipeg to Nashville, Austin, and even Miami. Twain has spent the last two years holding down a residency at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas…
“Wake up, wake up, wake up.” Well, it’s not quite the “1st of tha Month.” But Layzie Bone and Bizzy Bone of Bone Thugs-n-Harmony still insist y’all “get up, get up, get up, so win free tickets and get up.” Tomorrow night, Layzie, Bizzy, and Miami’s own ¡Mayday! are gonna…
She’s been blessed with a Rebel Heart. From “Like a Virgin” to Sex to asking Ultra Music Festival ravers to pinpoint the whereabouts of Molly… Madonna Louise Ciccone has always defied her detractors, her censors, her critics. And she’s never apologized. Now 56, she’s about to release a new album,…
Hard forever. The Los Angeles dance music promoter already puts on Hard Summer, Hard Day of the Dead, Hard Haunted Mansion, Hard Red Rocks, Hard Miami, Hard NYC, Hard SF, Hard Arena Autralia, and even an annual rager at sea called Holy Ship! But it seems all that Hard-ness just…
“Oh, won’t you stay with me?” With his debut studio album, last year’s In the Lonely Hour, and his melancholic meditations on love desired, love consummated, and love lost, English pop crooner Sam Smith has emerged as an unlikely pop phenomenon. He’s moody. He’s brainy. And he doesn’t do choreography…
The Ultra Music Festival 2015 party plan is finally complete. Last month, the EDM festival’s organizers confirmed 113 acts for this year’s musical roster, from Avicii to Afrojack, Die Antwoord, Deep Dish, Loco Dice, Röyksopp, and Kygo. Now the UMF folks have revealed their Phase Two lineup. Among the additions:…
Feeling fancy? Well, that’s convenient. Because it’s nearly time for New Times’ Artopia 2015, the latest edition of our annual jubilee in honor of “Miami’s best artists, musicians, fashion designers, culinary masters, and cocktail creators.” As we’ve done on this occasion since 2010, we will also be giving out MasterMind…
Happy Pickle Day! Well, almost. The Wynwood dance institution won’t actually kick off its dauntingly named Sixth-Anniversary Three-Day Bender for about another 60 hours. But we’ve already got some serious anticipatory tingles. And you should too. Because the Pickle crew is offering free passes for the entire weekend’s festivities. It’s…
“It’s going down for real.” That’s what Flo Rida tells us. And yep, he’s talking about Miami Beach’s “100-hour, non-stop” centennial festival. As the latest headliner added to the beach’s landmark b-day celebration, Flo will join Gloria Estefan, Andrea Bocelli, Barry Gibb, and Wyclef Jean for the fest’s finale at…
It’s gonna be a movie Nintendo game. Famous rappers love to boast about their x-rated, violence-addled, billion-dollar blockbuster lives, as if every day were a supersexy summer action epic. But rather than the Hollywood treatment… Maybe their flashy, larger-than-life, often ridiculous celebrity existences might be more adequately captured via candy-colored…
Who will be the next Ricky Martin? The Puerto Rican heartthrob started his career, shakin’ that bon-bon as a member of legendary Latin boy band Menudo when he was just 12 years old. Now lil’ Kiki is all grown up (actually, he’s 43) and he’s teaming up with Simon Cowell…
Miami is the future. Coast to coast, the United States seems destined to become a multilingual, multicultural nation that looks a lot like our own ciudad magia. That’s why Hispanicize, a conference for Latinos in media, marketing, entertainment, and tech, has chosen downtown Miami to be its staging ground. And…
Dancing. Driving. Napping. French touch pioneer Étienne de Crécy makes “electronic music albums that you can listen to anywhere.” His latest is Super Discount 3. It’s the third installment (and first in ten years) of his lauded SD series, which debuted in 1996 before seeing its sophomore release in 2004…
Dipset warned you. Last month, the Harlem rap crew dropped a comeback track, hollering “Have My Money.” And later this year, Juelz Santana, Cam’ron, Jim Jones, and Freekey Zekey will be putting out a new Dipset mixtape with bold-name cameos from Funkmaster Flex, Swizz Beatz, DJ Khaled, and DJ Mustard…
“Liquor in the front, party in the rear.” That’s the motto of The Bend Liquor Lounge, a new ’70s-style boozing spot in Miami Lakes. But it’s also a snappy way to describe the former occupant of 6844 NW 169 St., a strip-mall dive (and 2013 recipient of New Times’ Best…
As Hundred Waters would say: “Show us love.” Now signed to Skrillex’s OWSLA label and living in Los Angeles, this indie-tronica foursome — consisting of Nicole Miglis, Trayer Tryon, Paul Giese, and Zach Tetreault — actually got together in Gainesville. And in just two weeks, Ms. Miglis and Misters Tryon,…
