Andrea Oliva Closes Out Heart While Looking to the Future

After what’s seemed like several false starts — or, in this case, stops — downtown staple Heart will open its doors for the final time tonight, marking the end of an era in Miami nightlife. Swiss DJ/producer Andrea Oliva will steer Heart on its final voyage…

Call Super Brings a Keen Understanding of Dance Music to Floyd

It wouldn’t be quite accurate to describe DJ/producer Joe Seaton — better known to clubgoers as Call Super — as a techno artist. Although the London-born, Berlin-based musician is often given the label, it’s hard to find straightforward bass drum-led, hi-hat riddled numbers in his discography. Rather, his sound is possibility,…

Record Store Day 2018 at Sweat, Technique, and Other South Florida Shops

Years ago, in response to the digitalization of media, music nerds and sentimentalists started searching out older, analog musical formats. In those dedicated fans, Record Store Day found an audience. Ten years after its inaugural event, the Record Store Day website boasts participating indie stores on every continent except Antarctica.

RZA Is (Still) Bridging the Worlds of Music, Film, and Kung Fu

In a pivotal scene of the 1978 kung fu classic The 36th Chamber of Shaolin, the protagonist poses an existential question: “Do men have a right to say what they believe in? Or must they always do what the government says?” It’s a simple line that has come to define the film’s overarching theme — the oppressed versus the oppressor — and one that resonates with the multitalented artist RZA 40 years later.

Durante Returns to South Florida for a Homecoming at Floyd

Over the past few years, Italian-born and South Florida-raised DJ/producer Durante has quietly but steadily built a formidable reputation. His skills behind the decks might come as little surprise to University of Florida alumni and Gainesville residents who saw him cut his teeth as an up-and-coming artist at the beloved weekly party Neon Liger, but for those seeing him for the first time, it’s only natural to be shocked at how much soul and sheer skill the young artist brings to his craft.

Minus the Bear Returns to Orbit the “Planet of Ice” on New Tour

For a certain kind of early-millennial indie-rock fan, Minus the Bear elicits affection. The band’s specific brand of melancholic prog-pop struck a chord with listeners on the breakthrough album Menos el Oso, a complex, layered beast that balances its math-rock, avant-garde tendencies with earnest songwriting.