Few names in indie rock (dare we say “emo”?) can evoke the same reaction as mentioning the Kinsella brothers. Mike, Tim, and Nate have all played in bands acknowledged as towering influences: Cap’n Jazz, Joan of Arc, Owen, and the often-gushed-about American Football. Even a cover of that band’s 1999 album…
Janet Jackson, Kesha and Macklemore, Panic! at the Disco, and more of the best concerts in Miami this week, July 30 through August 5.
The 48-minute companion video for Janelle Monáe’s 2018 album, Dirty Computer, begins with projections of a naked man and woman, then cuts to projections of them clothed in white tracksuits emblazoned with the letter “D.” “You were dirty if you looked different,” she says. “You were dirty if you refused to…
Britney Spears’ fans are special. They don’t push or shove to get into their seats at the arena. They have no problem spending their life savings on overpriced tour T-shirts. They wait patiently in food lines that stretch well past the box office, and they come dressed like her in her “…Baby One More Time” music video…
For the last five years, the effervescent music, art, and technology festival, III Points, has showcased both homegrown and internationally acclaimed acts. This past May, the festival announced it would skip 2018 and return in February 2019. And this year, the festival is doing things a little bit differently. For the…
For the past six years, Miami native Tiffany Miranda’s local nonprofit organization, Girls Makes Beats (GMB), has worked with young girls ages 8-17 to train them in music production, DJing, and audio engineering. The organization, which recently expanded and established another chapter in Los Angeles, is cultivating the next generation of women in music with the help of Miami chapter leader Christine Miranda and Los Angeles chapter leader Whitney Taber, with Tiffany Miranda at the helm.
The last time Maya Arulpragasam performed in Miami, it was fresh off the heels of her comeback album of sorts, Matangi, at Ultra Music Festival 2014. She released her fifth studio album, AIM, in 2016, and is about to release her long-delayed documentary, MATANGI / MAYA / M.I.A, September 28. The British rapper…
With the local rap community still reeling from the recent murder of Broward star XXXTentacion while simultaneously celebrating the induction of four South Florida rappers into XXL’s coveted Freshman Class, all eyes are on the Miami hip-hop scene.
One day, you’re a young punk, body-surfing shirtless across a sweaty crowd of high schoolers. The next, you’re worrying about your own kid behaving like a little punk in his seventh-period history class. Life is impermanent and ever-changing. Time can temper and mold even the most hard-core into mortgage-having, child-rearing,…
Jolt Radio’s DJ Mariana Dias was 14 years old the first time she heard techno in a large, dark space. Her dad took her and a cousin to see the Chemical Brothers in São Paulo. “I was underage, but I had to go,” she recalls. “That show blew my mind. The visuals were really elaborate and cinematic, so the space felt immersive and surreal.” It was the beginning of her forays into the electronic music nightlife world.
It seemed outrageous in 1994 when lead singer Billy Corgan said the Smashing Pumpkins were influenced by ’70s dinosaur rock like Boston and Electric Light Orchestra. His most faithful fans figured he was being ironic. Those were the kind of older acts his alternative-rock peers like Nirvana and Radiohead openly mocked…
Britney Spears invented pop music. No, she didn’t singlehandedly construct the genre, but she did a damn good job of bringing up-tempo melodies and hair flips to a multicultural audience in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Her singles “…Baby One More Time,” “Toxic,” “Sometimes,” and “Crazy” topped charts…
“Rare. Very rare.” No, Counting Crows’ longtime frontman, Adam Duritz, isn’t talking about how he likes his steak. He’s appreciating his band’s time in the biz, which hits the quarter-century mark this year. To celebrate, the California-bred seven-piece is hitting the road with fellow multiplatinum rock band Live for the 25 Years and Counting tour.
Dirty Computer was written with young, queer, black women in mind. It’s a gift from Monáe to a community within a culture that takes and takes from black women but has only recently shown interest in crediting the community with mainstream reflections in television, music, and in the halls of revered museums and gallery spaces.
Britney Spears, Janelle Monae, Rod Stewart with Cyndi Lauper, and more of the best concerts in Miami this week, July 23 through 29.
Are you leaving your mom’s house, your job, or even the club with a bag of someone’s mango oversupply? Then you know it’s summer in Miami. These smooth, juicy fruits have inspired Miami’s bold party-starter Afrobeta to pen a song that “goes out to all the mangos out there.” The duo was kind enough to let New Times premiere this delicious tune today. It’s a thank-you to fans who voted Afrobeta Readers’ Choice winner in the 2018 Best of Miami issue.
In the depths of West Kendall, just past the chain restaurants your parents love, lies a layer of pride buried beneath the surface of its residents. What’s cooking up behind its suburban corners isn’t just a really great happy hour at Bahama Breeze. There’s an untapped wealth of major talent on the rise.
Have you been dancing to the new Enrique Iglesias song featuring Pitbull, “Move to Miami”? Of course you have. It’s everywhere. And Nitti Gritti, the man who started the song, has come up with a new remix of it.
Musicians come and go, often leaving a trail of mediocrity and failed dreams. Not Otto Von Schirach. He’s been making beats from his hometown of Miami and spreading mystical messages worldwide for almost 20 years to fans frothing at the mouth to express themselves by shaking their asses…
Eelke Kleijn returns to Miami Friday, July 27, to play at the dark and cozy Do Not Sit On the Furniture, the perfect venue for his evolving sound.
Miami New Times has immediate openings for writers covering the world of Miami music. If you have a passion for local bands, attend every major tour that comes to town, know your techno from your trance, or keep a mental map of the best underground parties — or all of the above — New Times might be looking for you.
David I. Muir has a favorite among the 26 photos that will be on display during his upcoming exhibition, “Reggae Reel: Moments in Music.” It’s a picture he snapped of incarcerated reggae artist Buju Banton sitting onstage at Bayfront Park Amphitheater in 2011 when the singer was out on bail…
