Imagine a hot, steamy weekend night at a Hialeah house party as you lounge poolside. The grill is fired up with patiently marinated and spiced meats, sizzling and smoking. There are some spare ribs and jerk chicken, and on the side sit perfectly seasoned black beans and rice, along with Puerto…
In the Martin Scorsese-produced Amazon documentary about the Grateful Dead, Long Strange Trip, biographer Dennis McNally calls the group “the most American of all bands.” He deduces that if you take all the individual members’ backgrounds and sounds “and you dissolve egos with acid and stir vigorously,” you get the Dead.
Most bands playing ’80s nights don’t really know the ’80s. They might have studied old Adam Ant MTV videos, seen Valley Girl a few hundred times, or binge-watched Glow, but they weren’t there for the ’80s. Erotic Exotic does not have that problem. “We started in 1981,” original member Johnny Aguiló reminisces. “I had just graduated from South Miami High School and we were all working at a record distribution company. We started off as a New Wave band, but then we discovered drum machines.”
The Wu-Tang Clan’s Raekwon the Chef is a man of many talents; he’s rap’s premier mafioso, responsible for the crown jewel of the genre, Only Built 4 Cuban Linx…; and he has one of the most distinct names in the game, which lends itself to online sketches as well as features in Food & Wine magazine.
“I would end up fucking a female rapper and fucking the business up.”
The mid-’90s was a period of transition for rock music. The grunge subgenre that exploded at the beginning of the decade was in decline after its reluctant leader, Kurt Cobain, died.
It’s not easy being a lady in this world, particularly given the current state of affairs. Sometimes you need a break — from the office, from the Man (and maybe your man) — God knows you’ve earned it. Luckily, many of your favorite Miami bars have ladies’ nights most days of the week, even Fridays. Here are the best ones.
Khalid knows you don’t need radio support when you have SoundCloud.
Well, Kodak, it turns out they do like to see you winning. Pompano Beach rapper Kodak Black has been nominated for Best New Artist at the MTV Video Music Awards. He’s facing off against fellow MC Young M.A, R&B singers SZA and Khalid, and Miley Cyrus’ sister Noah for the coveted prize.
When you hear that Raekwon, a founding member of the legendary rap group Wu-Tang Clan, is coming to Miami July 30, your first question will of course be “Where?” The city doesn’t have an enormous number of live music venues, but you’d probably guess quite a few sites before thinking of Churchill’s Pub.
How many hits does it take to make us overlook an artist’s dark side?
Prince Royce returns with a Spanish-language bachata album featuring Shakira, Gente de Zona, Zendaya, and Chris Brown.
Contrary to popular belief, South Florida’s music scene is alive and well in the summertime.
Bachaco recently signed on for a residency at the Hard Rock Café at Bayside. The band will begin rocking the downtown Miami venue the first Wednesday of every month beginning September 6.
In case you were unaware, bachata is back, and Prince Royce is giving it a pop twist. The Dominican-American Bronx native will stop by Bayfront Park Amphitheater this Sunday, July 30. He’s on tour in support of his fifth album, the appropriately titled Five. If you want to get a taste of another part of the world…
The way Darryl “DMC” McDaniels tells it, hip-hop wouldn’t exist without comic books. There sure as hell wouldn’t be any Run DMC, McDaniels’ legendary group that overcame numerous hurdles to bring rap into the mainstream. “I was a Catholic school kid in Queens who got straight As and wore…
Miami has both a burgeoning entertainment sector and serious social problems. Young Musicians Unite (YMU) is a nonprofit music program that hopes to use one to solve the other. YMU pairs at-risk adolescents from Overtown and Wynwood with professional musicians. “YMU provides consistency, leadership, and support for our students,” says…
Poet, journalist, musician, scenester — all that and more. Adam Matza has been a member of South Florida’s music scene in one shape or another for a handful of decades. Now he has a new gig: integral member of the tricounty noise music scene, as both host and performer. After…
Last September, precocious 18-year-old and Seventeen magazine cover boy Shawn Mendes sold out Madison Square Garden’s nearly 21,000 seats. This Wednesday, he will unleash his boyish charms and angsty, lovelorn pop hits on Miami. And though he hasn’t quite broken MSG numbers with this week’s concert at the American Airlines…
It has been more than eight years since Eric Garcia’s anti-blues band Juke put together a recording its founder has felt proud to share. “I haven’t liked anything we recorded since the first album,” Garcia tells New Times. That record, Lungbutter – The Blues Basement Tapes, is the only album he believes captures the spirit of Juke, which in essence reflects Garcia’s love for blues music and his hatred for what it has become.
Our music scene has experienced a resurgence within the last year, with new venues quietly popping up around town. While some of our favorite places have been casualties of our ever-evolving music scene, most recently the legendary Jazid on South Beach, we hope these new spots will fill the crater-sized holes of the fallen.
“I think probably what’s happened is that society has just sort of caught up to the things I’ve been complaining about for years,” Isbell says. “Had my last record come out now, I think people would feel the same way.”
