Hialeah is apparently experiencing a cultural renaissance, but long before “Leah Art District” came around, Hialeah has been home to some of the best Latin nightlife in South Florida. Whether it’s Jennine Capó Crucet’s (author of How to Leave Hialeah, a compilation of short stories inspired by Crucet’s own upbringing in Hialeah)…
Get artsy, Miami – the Coconut Grove Arts Festival is back! Taking over Peacock Park February 13 to 15, CGAF has partnered with Miami New Times for the second year in-a-row as the festival’s musical curators. That, of course, means you’ll be in for three days of tuneage guaranteed to…
In 2000, when Eddie Vedder was in Miami, he got drunk and recorded one of the most legendary jam sessions this city’s ever seen. 16 years later, Vedder’s older, wiser, and bringing his band, Pearl Jam, to Miami once again. One can only hope he downs a dozen Bud Lights…
The new year is barely three weeks old and in that short time it’s already claimed the lives of too many icons to bear. First it was David Bowie, then actor Allan Rickman, then we learned Blowfly had passed away. And now Glenn Frey, who, according to an official statement,…
The moon looks nice. You’re waxing emotional. Some butterflies flutter in your stomach. Stars are shiny. Maybe you’ve lit a candle, maybe three or four candles. You’ve gone all out, like, stir-fried shrimp and homemade pasta all out. Those trousers and button down are really well ironed, homie. You feel…
Alex Clare is no stranger to struggle. The English singer-songwriter, best known for his 2011 dubstep crossover hit “Too Close,” owes much of his success to the setbacks he had to overcome. Speaking on being dropped from Island Records early on in his career, Clare is insistent that he would…
For many health-conscious stoners, vape is life. So, it’s only fitting that Miami indie pop/hip-hop band, Furious Leisure, just dropped “Vape Life,” an ode to the healthier, less smokey version of marijuana consumption: the vaporizer. The video is stoner comedy meets educational film. Furious Leisure’s Bodizepha and Damian Major, accompanied…
2016 started off a little sour – like when Jack Daniels goes bad and tastes sugary — just awful. To have Lemmy’s passing followed so closely by David Bowie’s was too much for folks with progressive musical tastes. But to find out on an otherwise pleasant Sunday afternoon that another…
“The sound of the world right now.” That’s what you’ll be hearing at the North Beach Bandshell when the TransAtlantic Festival returns to the Magic City on April 8 and 9. Going on its 14th year, the Rhythm Foundation – the organization behind the fest – will be bringing the…
10. Peppa Pig Live! Saturday, January 23, 5 p.m. The Fillmore Miami Beach, 1700 Washington Ave., Miami Beach; 305-673-7300; fillmoremb.com. Tickets cost $26.50 to $42.50 plus fees via livenation.com. Peppa Pig may be a pink animated character who hangs out with her British pig family and animal friends, but in the toddler world, she’s the Beyoncé…
It’s a sad day for Miami music. It’s a sad day for all music. Yesterday afternoon on Blowfly’s Facebook page, a message was posted declaring Clarence Reid, also known by the stage name Blowfly, had entered hospice care after suffering organ failure as a result of terminal liver cancer. Dear Blowfly…
Listening to Luis Vasquez’s three dark industrial albums as the Soft Moon, you would think he always lived in Berlin. But he originally hails from sunny Southern California. “I was born in L.A., where I watched MTV every morning. It was mostly glam rock like Poison, Mötley Crüe, Cinderella, and…
Pop punk hearts everywhere are beating fast right about now. Today, it was announced that Weezer will be joining Panic! at the Disco on a co-headlining tour hitting over 40 U.S. cities. The tour starts on June 10 at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion in Texas and ends August 6…
Steve Aoki founded his independent record label Dim Mak in 1996, at the tender age of 19. His aim was to sign the best names in punk, indie, and electronic. 20 years later, it’s hard to imagine, sitting in his UCSB college apartment, he ever saw it getting this big…
Acceptance, frugality, unabashed nostalgia, tolerance of others, fighting addiction and drug abuse, and eschewing crass commercialism: Those are not the typical tenets of a global rap superstar. Ben Haggerty, better known as the thrift-shop-loving Macklemore, has built his reputation and career on subject matter usually glossed over by hip-hop and…
In an era of one-trick ponies riding the bandwagon of a single trendy style, it’s rare to find artists that straddle both ends of the house and techno spectrum. But Russia’s Andrew Guyvoronsky, AKA Tripmastaz. is in the unique position of being associated with both the funky, jacking Chicago house…
Jeb Bush’s 2016 presidential campaign is not going smoothly. Unless the heads of all the dictionaries in America get together to change the definition of “smoothly” to mean: when one’s house explodes in a fiery spurt of diarrhea. If they do that, then, yes, Jeb Bush’s 2016 presidential campaign is…
In 1985, linebacker Marc Buoniconti of the Citadel — and son of NFL Hall of Fame linebacker Nick Buoniconti — suffered a spinal cord injury after colliding with running back Herman Jacobs of East Tennessee State. It was an accident that would leave Buoniconti paralyzed from the neck down for…
Keys N Krates have fond Miami memories of eating good Cuban food and playing a WMC party hosted by DJ Craze at a strip club. They love Florida and say the crowds are “lit.” Their mission statement reads, “make weird rap beats for the weird kids,” which would make the…
Making a living as a musician was considerably easier before the digital music revolution started killing record sales. These days, it’s particularly tough for idiosyncratic artists like Marco Benevento, a Berklee-trained keyboard virtuoso and songwriter who eschews pop formulas in favor of experimental jazz-rock forays. Fortunately for Benevento, his talent…
The first printmaking conference that I went to made me realize how punk rock printmaking is,” Kristine Leschper raves over the phone. “It’s really time-consuming. There are a lot of really cool techniques. It’s very nerdy. It’s a very old-school way of making art.” Leschper is speaking about intaglio, a…
Since the United States began its diplomatic thaw with Cuba in December 2014, we’ve seen a gradual exchange of culture between the two countries. Some developments were small, like when Netflix became available in Cuba. Or when the famous Havana cabaret, El Tropicana de Cuba, performed its first stateside show…
