The evolution of dubstep as a musical genre reads like some kind of “origins story” for a character in a graphic novel. Formed from dissonant and minor key bits and pieces from UK garage and two-step tracks, dubstep, or “grime” as it’s sometimes known, was the experimental afterbirth of DJs…
Ever since Robert Rauschenberg elevated the craptastic into high art by yoking a stuffed Angora goat with a truck tire, artists have been creating subversive works using the rubble of modern consumer society. Enter Miami Beach Botanical Gardens, with a “cruddy” exhibit featuring a dumpster’s load of artwork created from…
The PL0T folks are doing it again this Friday night with a double booking of DJ sets by Seth Troxler and Lee Curtiss at the Electric Pickle. Troxler and Curtiss are part of a new generation of young Detroit-bred DJ/producers who took their underground dance music sensibilities across the Atlantic…
You may not be familiar with Little Feat, but you sure as hell should. They’ve been around for 40 years, during which time they’ve worked and shared the stage with some of music’s true legends, artists running the gamut from Jimmy Buffet to Bela Fleck, Dave Matthews to Vince Gill,…
Atlanta-based trio Last November plays two gigs in South Florida this weekend, hitting an early all-ages gig tomorrow night at Respectable Street Cafe in West Palm Beach, and then Transit Lounge in Miami on Friday. The group first got together in high school, when they bonded over playing acoustic versions…
Atlanta-based trio Last November plays two gigs in South Florida this weekend, hitting an early all-ages gig tomorrow night at Respectable Street Cafe in West Palm Beach, and then Transit Lounge in Miami on Friday. The group first got together in high school, when they bonded over playing acoustic versions…
Chai or Earl Grey? Sugar or Splenda? Milk or honey? Milk and honey? Choosing the elements of the perfect cup of tea can be a bit daunting. In a perfect world, the spot-on spot of tea would come in a mesh bag available in a grocery store near you. In…
What Fletch was to plaid-checked water-cooler wits in the ’80s, what National Lampoon’s Van Wilder was to college-bound douches at the dawn of Dubya, that’s what 2003’s Old School is to Gen-X frat rats — a secret-handshake movie. A shaggy, intermittently hilarious wish-fulfillment nightmare about sorta dissatisfied, sorta middle-age dudesters…
The face of Mike Tyson stares out from the screen like a sentry — intent, sober, watchful. The camera sits close, the framing is tight, and as we lock eyes with the former heavyweight champ who could shatter an opponent’s confidence with little more than a glance, he seems to…
City Theatre’s Summer Shorts Festival Is Filthy and Fabulous
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Homegrown Brew at Miami Art Museum
We learned poker over jellybeans and cold milk while Daddy berated us for not holding our hand close to the chest, but these days you can easily find a nice digital instructor online who’ll scold you only if your bathroom break lasts too long. Each Tuesday at Waxy O’Connor’s, get…
It’s official: Poplife turns 10 next month. Last year, when we sat down and spoke with founders Aramis Lorie and Barbara Basti about the party turning 9, we thought that was a milestone, but 10 sounds so much more official, no? And to celebrate that achievement, the party is bringing…
You like that image over there? It’s a piece from Mexican Artist’s Luis Iga’s “Him | Her” project entitled “Restless.” It could be yours, and for a good cause. The piece will be auctioned off (silently) at Raise The Bar, an annual fundraiser put on by Miami’s young legal professional. It will be…
Since Chicago, the 2002 flick about murderous, fame-seeking vixens and starring Renee Zellwegger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Richard Gere debuted, fans of the original musical were joined by legions of new-age cohorts. Being one of the newbies myself, I was sure that the Adrienne Arsht Center’s version would only restore the…
The Bass Museum’s newest exhibition, “The Endless Renaissance,” is dedicated to poking holes in the idea that art history falls neatly into periods of accelerated growth and relative mediocrity. Guest curator Steven Holmes, a veteran of the Palais de Tokyo in Paris and the Kunste-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art in…
Hey, you, under the rock, there’s a really cool festival every year that brings short plays to Miami. It’s called Summer Shorts, and it includes productions for the young’uns (Shorts 4 Kids), some that are simply awesome and dramatic or hilarious (Signature Shorts), and others so dirty they should bear…
Unless you slipped into a coma during the mid-eighties, you couldn’t have missed dance-pop sensation and Paula-Abdul contemporary Taylor Dayne, who produced ’80s gold like “Tell It to My Heart” and “Love Will Bring You Back.” “All you needed back then was a blowdryer and a dream.” Yes, Dayne actually…
Hailing from West Hollywood, CA, glitterati gastrolounge Apple is getting its first taste of living it up Miami. And it’s a wet one. Thanks to our token inclement summer weather arriving on schedule, Apple’s owners have been tossed off theirs. Principal Steve Marlton confirmed this afternoon via phone last week…
Hailing from Baltimore, Maryland, Surf Nazis on Ecstasy are a thrash-punk trio who, despite their name, are neither beach bums nor fascists. And they definitely don’t do raves. By their own word: “We’re not artsy. We’re not Nazis. We only play all-ages shows.” It’s an operational ethic that regularly brings…
For those of you still aching for some ich bin Berliner tech grooves after Phonique’s stellar set last week, Format: B will be in town and throwing down an exclusive live PA at the Electric Pickle on Friday night. This dynamic production duo from (where else?) Berlin have been making…
