Some people prefer to welcome a new year of life without much commotion. But in the case of Buffalo Brown, a staple in the local music scene for over a decade, candles and a sheet cake just won’t do for his fast-approaching birthday. Brown, together with bandmate Ulysses Perez, are…
New Times’ chief meteorologist is calling for champagne showers, heavy fog, and a storm of LED foam sticks when Sultan + Shepard return to LIV this Thursday. “We’ll be reading the crowd at LIV,” Ned Shepard says. “We’ve been DJing so long that we can take a set anywhere the…
Though the quirky name hasn’t changed, local soul outfit Ketchy Shuby’s appearance Thursday at Bardot will be the debut of an almost entirely new lineup. “Me and the bass player [Matt Pyatt] are the only original members,” Ketchy Shuby’s outspoken singer/guitarist Jason Hernandez-Rodriguez says. The band has added a new…
My Morning Jacket Monday, August 3, 2015 The Fillmore Miami Beach Better than: Anything that’s supposed to happen on a Monday. If there is one constant regarding My Morning Jacket, it’s that no two concerts are alike. It’s a conscious effort by the band who always try to mix up the…
“Everything you hear that has a beat, that has a pulse, is a derivative of Afro roots.” That is Jose Elias’ condensed definition of world music. And as the man behind the Magic City’s 17th-annual Afro Roots World Music Festival, Elias knows a thing or two about worldbeat. “In every…
As part of Swedish House Mafia, Axwell and Sebastian Ingrosso, along with third member Steve Angello, proved to the world that dance music was commercially viable. The Swedes topped the U.S. dance charts, headlined festivals, and dominated the party scene with their Masquerade Motel concept. Just as ABBA, Ace of…
Yelle Friday, July 31, 2015 Bardot, Miami Better than: French toast. French fries. French-press coffee. When Yelle first popped up in the music scene with a track called “Short Dick Cuizi,” they were part of a group of acts that took advantage of new mediums like MySpace and the Hype…
The members of Soundwall are excited. I had arranged to meet with one of them to discuss the unique new creation, but when I arrive, there are four members of the Miami music scene’s new “artist’s collective” seated at the table for our lunch meeting. All four are local musicians…
My Morning Jacket. With Mini Mansions. Monday, August 3, 8:30 p.m. The Fillmore Miami Beach, 1700 Washington Ave., Miami Beach; 305-673-7300; fillmoremb.com. Tickets cost $55 to $75 plus fees via livenation.com. Wheaties may be the breakfast of champions, but in Miami, lechón asado is the meal of legends. That, of course,…
Carol City’s Gunplay released his debut studio album, Living Legend, today alongside a fantastical video for the track “White Bitch.” In the video, we see Gunplay team up with the last standing Cocaine Cowboy, Mickey Munday, to move weight from the jungles of Colombia to somewhere in South Florida. In…
Adam Duritz and the Counting Crows love Miami so much, they not only visit South Florida with some regularity, but they also wrote a song bearing the city’s name. It’s the type of wistful and sweeping pop rock the group has been known for over the course of its twenty…
Hypoluxo. With Tailings and Chaucer. Friday, July 31, 10 p.m. Shirley’s at Gramps, 176 NW 24th St., Miami; 305-699-2669; gramps.com. Admission costs $3. Ages 21 and up. Get your dose of “experimental bedroom-pop death drone Kanye West lo-fi shoegaze weird pop” with West Palm Beach’s Hypoluxo at Gramps. A band on the move, the young indie rockers will…
It’s not easy for American bands to break through to pop success. When the Backstreet Boys got started, they were strategically marketed in Europe first, then brought back to the States after they’d already built a fan base. Imagine, then, the near-insurmountable odds stacked against a French-speaking electro-pop band. You’re…
When he was seven-years-old, Michael Barksdale’s father gifted him a guitar. Ever since, he’s been tinkering with sounds. Now known as Culture Prophet, the electronic producer who grew up in Greenville, South Carolina, and Atlanta, Georgia, decided when he made the move to South Beach last September that he wanted to change…
Kind of like when Clark Kent loses the glasses, adorns his cape and becomes Superman, Sam Young morphs into Vanilla Ace before our very eyes when he drops the needle on a 118 BPM house track with an Isaac Hayes sample. While Sam Young has played 30-plus open format sets…
Playing at Churchill’s Pub is a rite of passage for Miami musicians. When Modernage had the opportunity to perform at the legendary Little Haiti dive ten years ago, the band released recordings of the night’s performance — its first ever release — calling it Live at Churchill’s. The group hasn’t looked…
Thanks to Bob Dylan, plenty of rock and roll fans are familiar with the name Hollis Brown. His 1964 hit, “Ballad of Hollis Brown,” is the dark tale of a South Dakota farmer who escapes poverty by killing his family and then himself. These days however, Hollis Brown is a…
The guys of My Morning Jacket are legendary live performers. Given that they’ve been going strong since ’98 and released seven albums, you’d expect them to put on a stellar show. Still, no matter a group’s longevity, stage presence and charisma are rare in music. They’re inherent skills, ones not…
They say you have your whole life to write your first album and two years to write the next. Luckily for ghetto-tech beatmaster Justin Martin, he never got the memo. “I think I’m more relaxed, like almost a little bit too relaxed,” he says. His 2012 full-length debut, Ghettos &…
Each year, we at New Times get together at our annual Iron Fork event, give our stomachs a pep talk, and get ready to stuff as much food as possible into ourselves. The annual event, which will take place this year at the Hyatt Regency, features food from almost 100…
On Monday afternoon, a makeshift stage was set up between the volleyball courts on the sand off of Ocean Drive on South Beach, between 8th and 9th. Complimentary Dunkin’ Donuts iced coffee shots were handed out to those lucky souls who weren’t wedged into a cubicle, and at 2:45 p.m. and at…
Music and mental health have a complicated, reciprocal relationship. Songs can simultaneously settle and exaggerate moods, augment intellect, numb pain, recall thoughts good and bad. Many of music’s most magnificent figures have grappled with various degrees of mental instability, experiencing the revelatory peaks and troughs of the human condition. Counting…
