When Mike Gardner walks through a room of well-connected Miami movers and shakers, a reasonable amount of fist bumps and handshakes can be expected. As president and CEO of Headliner Market Group, the party promotions company responsible for some of Miami’s most lavish bashes, Gardner makes sure the right people…
Singer and guitarist Warren Haynes assures us that no matter how many times you might have seen his jam band, Gov’t Mule, every show is completely different. “Each night we put together our set list by consulting our history. We see what we played last time we came to town,…
Bands with a single common noun as their name are usually either attempting to remain obscure or have a shit idea of what makes for good marketing. Of course, that’s only true until they hit it big and bury both Merriam-Webster and Oxford in Google search results. British bands have…
You don’t get to see a whole lot of Kanye West during the Kanye West concert. The light above him is hazy and pallid, somewhere between brown and yellow. Sometimes he’s just a spasming shadow. Instead, the real show is below him, where his floating stage lights up the general admission…
Hey, there. It’s me, weekend. What’s that? You’re bored and your ears and hungry for frothy melodies? Well, why didn’t you say something earlier? This weekend we’ve got the Miami Music Festival from Around the World happening all weekend at the Wertheim Performing Arts Center at FIU. It’ll be classy as hell,…
DJ EFN and the Crazy Hood crew continue their mission to explore hip-hop culture around the world in Coming Home: Vietnam. Last night, on September 15, Crazy Hood Film Academy hosted a private screening of the fourth installment of EFN’s docu-series — which has previously tackled countries like Cuba and Haiti…
The words “Design District” and “free” go together about as often as “Kanye West” and “humble.” It’s not exactly an area of Miami known for its live music, either. So, you can imagine our surprise when we found out about this weekend’s upcoming Day Into Night celebration happening in Miami’s swankiest district…
At one point in his life, if you were to ask Mel Buckley, AKA King Buckley, where he saw himself in ten years, he might have said on the basketball court. The former University of South Florida basketball player once earned a living playing ball overseas. But things changed, and Buckley…
Now entering its tenth year, Miami’s messiest concert, the “World’s Largest Paint Party” known as Life in Color, is moving to Wynwood. After starting at a house in Tallahassee, LiC has taken over the newly renamed Hard Rock Stadium for much of its existence. But for the next installment of the neon Bukkake…
Miami suffers from a severe lack of live music. That’s not an opinion, that’s a well-known and discussed fact. The 305 leads in electronic music and even benefits from a worldwide reputation in rap, but when a Miamian wants to leave his or her house and hear a full band…
Zika is the scariest new four-letter word in Miami — worse than the “rent” in Brickell or “rain” during a wedding reception at Vizcaya. But, when examined from a wider perspective, all the hype hardly seems proportional. Over the last week or so, the number of Zika-related cases in a…
One could argue with the ease of claiming B.I.G. and ’Pac’s eternal rap game dominance that music fans want every speck of background on their favorite hotshots. How else could one explain the everlasting cycle of celebrity worship and tabloids, or the slut-shaming and buzz around the selfie hacks of…
Guitarist John Ceparano was holding some flowers one day when a stranger approached, glanced at the blooms in his hands, and asked if they were stargazer lilies. “We thought that was such a cool name for a band,” Ceparano remembers. “It informed our sound. We thought, What would a band…
Back in March, one of our favorite stages of Ultra Music Festival was the Resistance stage. We gushed over the giant terrifying spider and its unique “DJ booth.” It was part DJ set, part performance art equipped with its own choreographed show — weird in the best way possible. But even…
Common myth would have you believe that a person uses either the right side or the left side of the brain, and that alone determines whether the individual is creative or logical, as if the two are mutually exclusive. “I don’t believe it,” Manchester native Sam Shepherd says over the…
2017 is about to sneak up on you like a hungry leopard, reminding you that life moves fast, and we’re all one step closer to death. But it’s not all bad news. Sure you blew pretty much all your resolutions by February, but now you’ve got a clean slate on…
Here’s something Katiana Urbina has learned in the past year: Life doesn’t care about your plans. It doesn’t give a crap about the big red X’s on your calendar or that things happen to be going swimmingly at the moment. Life is rude, and it will rear back its pimply…
Since the first settlers sank a boot into the swampy expanse of Florida’s Everglades, the area has been under near-constant threat from environmental issues. These days, under the not-so-watchful eye of Florida’s governor, the assault continues. From lowered water standards being legally challenged by the Seminole Tribe of Florida, to…
Not everyone loves family reunions. When reuniting with their kin, one might be forced to rehash old arguments, get dragged through past mistakes, or even relive the traumatic passing of the family’s patriarch. Plus, grandma’s drunk again and she knows where your uncle keeps the guns. The Bad Boy Entertainment family has…
The undeniable king of future bass has officially been crowned. Flume’s latest LP, Skin, broke the top ten in five countries and topped the charts in his native Australia as well as the dance charts in the United States. He also just nabbed his first certified-platinum plaque in the U.S. for…
Lil’ Boosie, Meghan Trainor, and Kanye West are all in Miami this week. God help us. Not to be the old man yelling from his lawn, but that’s a grating trio of noise, albeit in different, equally obnoxious tones. Actually, to be fair, the first two are forgettable “mehs,” soon…
Dialogue is important. Every great movement, law, and revolution throughout history started with a conversation. After all, you can’t change the world without getting on the same page. That’s part of the philosophy behind this weekend’s All Access Miami, a concert centered on the topic of abortion. It’s part of…
