Last year, at III Points 2015, Run the Jewels laid down one of the most memorable sets of the festival. It was the duo’s first time in Miami. Killer Mike and El-P ran through a high-energy set, encouraged the crowd to vote for Bernie Sanders, and stopped the performance every…
As the election wheezes out its last few cold, miserable breaths, it’s becoming clear what state both Trump and Clinton are fighting hardest for: Florida. As we learned yesterday, our critical swing state is hanging neither to the left nor the right, but rather dangling straight down the middle as…
For a very long time, Miami has faced one big obstacle when it comes to live music: geography. The fact is, it takes a lot of convincing for a band to drive all the way down to the tip of Florida. From a financial perspective, it doesn’t make a whole…
Do you have an extra half-million lying around? We’ll wait while you check your sock drawer. Done? No luck, huh? Well, look, if by some chance you can round up $500,000 by December 30, the Fontainebleau Hotel has a New Year’s Eve package tailor-made for you and nine of your closest…
Anticipation for the Fest builds year-round. On Halloween weekend, punks from all over the continent swarm the quaint college town of Gainesville, Florida, for the three-day punk music festival that has become a mainstay in its 14-year history. Gainesville hotels are booked months in advance. In the hours before…
Last year, when Johann Torres was closing down the Stage, a Design District music venue that he partly owned, he began sniffing around Miami for a new spot to host events. “One of the places I looked at was the American Legion,” Torres tells us over the phone.
As the line to get into Bayfront Park’s free Jennifer Lopez concert — which doubled as a Hillary Clinton rally — zigged and zagged around Biscayne Boulevard, a man sold pink T-shirts that read “Nasty Women Vote Hillary,” an allusion to the awkward improvised insult Trump threw at Clinton…
The Icelandic trio of Daníel Ágúst Haraldsson, Högni Egilsson, and Birgir Þórarinsson may sport names unpronounceable to American tongues, but their band, GusGus, should absolutely be on the lips of every electronic music lover. Formed in 1995, GusGus was a collective of artists, filmmakers, and musicians that combined visually impressive live…
Boo! Sorry, did we scare you? Well, cheer up, because this weekend is jam-packed with Halloween events for you to explore. Having trouble narrowing down your choices? Start with our curated guide of the 12 best Halloween parties in town. Still feeling indecisive? Take a step back and look over…
You’ve probably heard by now: Jennifer Lopez will be playing a free pro-Hillary concert at Bayfront Park this Saturday. With only ten days to go until the godforsaken 2016 presidential election is over, Hillary is ramping up her campaign for what — according to most polls not conducted in an…
Local acts are starting to attract plenty of heat outside of the 305. Broward spitter Hi-Rez may be on a self-imposed hiatus at the moment, but throughout the last week, other SoFlo rappers have begun to pick up momentum inside the Sunshine State. While Little Havana rapper ER305 gives us…
It’s official: Trick Daddy is bad at social media. Like, really bad. Trick Daddy makes your racist aunt look like Mark Zuckerberg. Trick Daddy’s so bad at social media even Tom wouldn’t be his friend on MySpace. If you hired him to run your company’s Facebook page, your business would be…
Since leaving his hometown of Miami, Segundo Casalis has built himself a proper home in San Francisco, where he’s better known as the architect of Candy Rain, a bimonthly trap and R&B party. In recent months, Segundo has taken his show on the road to his new environs in Los Angeles. But…
Looking back, Ryan Brown realizes it wasn’t meant to be. He was young and inexperienced. On his first day of work he nearly crashed his friend’s Vespa into the first floor of New Times (which was basically one big window, so everyone got a prime view of his near-death experience)…
When Steph Taylor and Nabedi Osorio of Miami’s The State Of were living on opposite coasts, pretty much everyone else around them thought their partnership was done. But theirs was a special sort of bond, closer than you average Craigslist band, one that didn’t need regular, everyday maintenance. “I was gone for three…
Impending hurricanes, minor federal holidays, Tuesdays — Miami never needs much of an excuse to party. So it’s no shock that for an actual, A-list fiesta like Halloween, the Magic City doesn’t play. Our costumes are more elaborate than Donald Trump’s latest conspiracy theory, and our parties — from packed…
Adele’s introduction to her iconic Bond theme, “Skyfall,” on night one of back-to-back shows at the American Airlines Arena was quintessential Adele. “Every morning, the first thing I see when I go for my morning wee is an Oscar.” At first glance, Adele appears to be just like the rest…
Hardcore was the first rave subgenre. An investigation of early ’90s rave culture would reveal its participants’ insistence on using the word “hardcore” to describe themselves and their music. “Strictly for the hardcore,” “Hardcore, you know the score!” and “Hardcore will never die!” screamed off vinyl records and glossy flyers sporting…
If the 2016 presidential election was to be decided by the coolness of celebrity supporters, it would have been over months ago. Donald Trump — with fervent support from Z-listers like Scott Baio, Gary Busey, and the cast of Duck Dynasty — would have had to concede by now under…
In the realm of concert planning, the members of Japanese psychedelic rock band Kikagaku Moyo are true believers in an intuitive approach. “We decide onstage what songs we play,” Go Kurosawa, the band’s drummer, tells New Times. “If the crowd is silent, we’ll play meditative, dreamy songs. If people are more wild,…
In some ancient Polynesian traditions, “mana” represents supernatural power. For fans of the Spanish rock gods of Maná, their influence may not be mystical, but it is certainly magical. Since its inception in 1986, Maná has made a career embracing its Mexican culture. Instead of remaining a local phenomenon, the…
It was a Sunday in January. Erick Morillo had just finished a marathon set on the Terrace at Club Space. He and former Space owner Louis Puig were heading out with ladies packed in their car like clowns in a Volkswagen Beetle. But their afterparty was delayed slightly when warning…
