When you’ve been in the game as long as Fatboy Slim, you need to spice it up a bit. Sometimes that means orchestrating the crowd at Creamfields festival into a giant smilie. Sometimes that means playing a surprise set for Bansky, and sometimes it means fabricating a story about how…
Spanish gypsies are well known nomads. Gitanos, as they’re called in their native language, have also made a long lasting impression on the world of music, specifically with flamenco, a fiery style of folk music, dancing, and guitar playing. Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter Antonio Barullo, a gitano by birth, shoulders all…
Future. With Culture Prophet, Treznik, and ES.P. Presented by King’s Head Records. Friday, November 20, 10 p.m. Gramps, 176 NW 24th St., Miami; 305-699-2669; gramps.com. Admission is free. Ages 21 and up. Step into the future — of funk, that is — with Culture Prophet as the electronic artist under…
You’d be wise to hang out around Mana Wynwood this year during Art Basel. Two weeks ago we learned that Jamie xx and Four Tet would kick off the III Points Art Basel Concert Series on Friday, December 4, at the Wynwood venue. And Life and Death will be invading…
Vanessa “Vanne” Dazza seems calmer and more composed than the last time I interviewed her in the spring of 2011. This may be because our first interview was conducted — at the insistence of her band, the “bi-polar power pop” outfit, Radioboxer — inside of BT’s Gentleman’s Club on free beer…
Michael Barksdale wants you to dance this Friday night at Gramps. Otherwise known as Culture Prophet, the electronic artist under King’s Head Records is putting together a night of electro, nu disco, and future funk that he hopes your feet will be powerless to resist. “I really want the night…
Birthed in a Doral warehouse, the Miami Music Project has spent the last five years teaching kids who might not otherwise have the chance how to sing and play musical instruments, from the violin to the tuba. “Our goal is to transform communities using music as a vehicle,” explains Stephen…
It’s been a classic three years for the Gale Hotel’s LDV Hospitality Group: three years of rockin’ beats at Rec Room, three years of clinking glassware at the Regent Cocktail Club, and three years of delicious tartufo and thin-crust pizza at Dolce Italian. “Longevity in this town is sometimes hard…
From having luscious locks of hair and hoards of groupies lining up outside their dressing room, to opening a barbecue joint and getting their mailbox smashed by some rowdy youths, South Florida is where rock stars come to retire. Sure, we may be no L.A., but there’s something magnetic about…
When visiting a juvenile detention center to perform a concert with his band Suénalo, Chad Bernstein and the rest of the group tried to lecture the kids about how music could lead them on a better path. There was only one problem: No one was paying attention. That is, until…
Back in August, news broke that longtime Miami Beach nightlife staple, Mansion, was shutting its doors. At 11 years of age, the venue was considered elderly by nightclub standards. The news caught some off guard. Others, not so much. Longevity is rare in Miami nightlife. Space’s 15 years of operation…
Lately something interesting has been happening in the world of Phil Collins. He’s finally getting some goddamn respect. See, for years it’s been easy to take jabs at Mr. Collins. Why, exactly? Who knows. It was a weird mob mentality sort of thing that seemed to spread throughout the internet…
When DJ DZA, who you probably know from The Garret’s now extinct Peachfuzz party, listens to fellow local Kodiak Fur’s “I’ll Be Waiting,” he feels some type of way. “The song basically makes you feel like you’re driving home at 6 a.m. after a night of just bullshit trying to…
Straight from his dorm room to the depths of the internet, Saint Pepsi quickly became one of the biggest names of the internet-inspired, politically charged genre vaporwave. As his peers sampled Muzak and smooth jazz, Pepsi — real name Ryan DeRobertis — appropriated house hooks and disco melodies, which left…
Before Obama pardons a turkey for Thanksgiving, Cash Money Records co-founders Bryan “Birdman” Williams and Ronald “Slim” Williams will take a more humanitarian approach to the holiday. This Friday, November 20, the brothers celebrate their label’s fourth annual 2015 Thanksgiving turkey giveaway at Little Haiti Soccer Park in Miami. The…
Musical duo Sam & Dave, the effusive singers behind the timeless hit “Soul Man,” may have come to define the sound of Memphis in the ’60s. But Samuel David Moore was, in fact, born and raised right here, in Miami’s historic — and at times troubled — Overtown. It was…
The Miami Herald is reporting that Gloria and Emilio Estefan will be among the 17 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom award, the United States’ highest civilian honor. Though an official announcement of the nominees is expected later this afternoon, the Herald says a source tipped them off to…
Mitch Albom is a renaissance kind of guy. A best selling author, a humanitarian, a musician, radio host, screenwriter and all around inspiring individual, his words have touched the hearts and minds of millions, 35 million at last count. Music has always been of interest to Albom. He’s a steadfast…
Somewhere in an upper-middle-class neighborhood in Lake Worth, sledgehammering his way through dusty concrete, a pop culture icon recognized the world over struggles with his friends to meet a renovation deadline. “I did ‘Ice Ice Baby’ when I was 16 years old,” the rapper-turned-reality star renovator says. “If you would…
YoungArts Salon Series with Fab 5 Freddy. Wednesday, November 18, 6:30 to 10 p.m. Jewel Box at National YoungArts Foundation, 2100 Biscayne Blvd., Miami; 305-377-1140; youngarts.org. Tickets cost $20 to $35 via eventbrite.com. Fab 5 Freddy may be considered one of the godfathers of rap and hip-hop, but the musician is,…
Miami Beach has more contenders for newest, “coolest” hotel than the Republican Party has presidential candidates. And much more attractive ones too. But with its one year anniversary concert last night, the Thompson Miami Beach proved it was the clear winner in the categories of style and party production. Part…
A military brat, Markus Schulz was born and raised in Germany before moving to Phoenix for his teenage years. He didn’t speak English very well and spent a lot of time alone in his room listening to the radio. Music inspired him, as a teenager he played eight-hour sets on…
