The Ten Best Bands From Kendall

There’s a pocket of Miami’s music scene that is alive and kicking but usually flies under the radar, overshadowed by the loud and flashier parts of our city. Maybe it’s because many of the live shows are put on in backyards due to the lack of appropriate venues in the…

Gramps’ Friday Nite Live Will Start Your Weekend Off Right

Psychomagic’s latest record came together fast — maybe too fast. “We only had three weeks to write the songs and three days to record it,” singer and guitarist Steven Fusco says. But they were able to pull it off. The album, Bad Ideas, mixes and matches garage rock with psychedelia…

Oscar G Describes His First Trip to Cuba as a DJ

From scoring a dozen Top 10 hits on Billboard’s Hot Dance Club Songs chart to running his own underground house label, Murk Records, with fellow local Ralph Falcon for nearly 25 years, the 305’s Oscar G has accomplished a lot in his career. But it wasn’t until last month that…

For Corey Jones’ Band, the Music Must Go On

Corey Jones called his older brother to let him know he’d be late. His SUV had broken down near the southbound I-95 exit ramp to PGA Boulevard. It was 2:52 a.m., and Corey had pulled onto the shoulder to wait for help. His older brother, Clinton Jr., would call back…

Look Alive Fest 2015 Was a Very Different Side of Art Basel

Wet streets and way too many rowdy party options made this Friday during Art Basel Miami Beach 2015 a time to seek refuge from two kinds of storms. Over in Little Haiti, at Churchill’s, was a safe — albeit loud — space where people who both create and genuinely love…

Lil Dicky Was Art Basel’s Most Unlikely Headliner

There’s an old stereotype propagated by film and TV, that old white folks just don’t get young people’s music. Mostly it’s because they literally don’t understand the words, whether it’s Bob Dylan or Kurt Cobain or any number of screamers or mumblers. Of course, the one genre that typically receives…

Miami’s Ten Can’t-Miss Concerts of the Week

10. Glass Animals. With Gilligan Moss. Tuesday, December 8, 7 p.m. Revolution Live, 100 SW 3rd Ave., Fort Lauderdale; 954-449-1025; jointherevolution.net. Tickets cost $21.50 plus fees via ticketmaster.com. Dive into the “tropical sounds, languid jungle vibes, and electro-R&B” of Glass Animals as the Oxford alternative hip-hip crew make their South Florida debut at Revolution…

Balthazar Getty Isn’t Content to Rely on His Last Name

Balthazar Getty has a name to live up to. Today, the name Getty may be more associated with stock images than nineteenth-century industrialism, but the billion dollar family Balthazar is a part of made its fortune in oil. Like the Clintons and the Kennedys, the Waltons and the Johnsons, the…

305 Fest Is Two Days of Loud, Unfiltered Miami Rock

With two nights featuring over two dozen bands, 305 Fest aims to be a showcase for all that is punk and hardcore about South Florida. The night’s roster will include just about every face from the local scene you could imagine, as well as some out of town legends, like…

40oz Van Brings His Legendary NYC Party, 40oz Bounce, to Art Basel

Joel “40oz Van” Fuller, a Bronx native, got his name from passing out 40oz beers at his parties, which have since transformed from unofficial get togethers to the super official 40oz Bounce series. Once an avid wearer of Vans, Fuller has turned his NSFW Tumblr and ferocious social media following…

Basside’s New Single Is the Most Miami Thing We’ve Seen in a While

“Welcome to Miami, no bras, no panties.” That must have been the line Carolina Villalba, dressed loudly in a tiny neon green bathing suit, dropped on the unsuspecting tourists from Atlanta lounging on South Beach. It’s exactly the sentiment she and Linda Attias represent with their rap duo Basside, and…

Mind Against Prepares for Life and Death’s Fourth Art Basel Showcase

Life and Death isn’t a label known for playing by the rules. Founded by Manfredi Romano (DJ Tennis) and Greg Oreck (50% of New York’s Thugfucker), the label has a reputation for producing dark, psychedelic  tunes, tracks that take time to burrow deep inside your brain, to foreign regions dance music rarely…

The Six Can’t-Miss Art Basel Miami Beach 2015 Parties

Be honest with yourself, art fiend: There are only so many times you can see fluorescent lights stacked neatly in a pile until you want to pull your hair out. That’s why this week’s parties, afterparties, and after-afterparties are so necessary. They provide the alcohol and escapism from all the…