The story of Kansas’ Appleseed Cast is not lacking in complexity or dramatic shifts. Over 18 years and several lineup changes, the band’s sound today hardly resembles the emo-tinged one that put the group on the map. But through it all, founding member Christopher Crisci has retained a singular hold…
In a large office space at MADE at the Citadel, the shared workspace in the former Bellsouth building on NE Second Avenue, III Points has a small squad of people working hard to make sure this year’s festival eclipses 2014’s edition. The III Points team is made up of young…
The Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science’s current location is set to close its doors on August 30. And while you have until the end of the month to make peace with one of your childhood staples, one of the museum’s mot beloved features will be drawing to a close…
Eons’ latest EP marks a turning point in the Miami synth-pop duo’s career. “I think we raised the bar a little bit and we were kind of more picky in particular on what songs were to make it onto the EP,” says Johnny Deezal (AKA Johnny D.). He along with his Eons…
If you drove around Miami in the 1990s, you probably remember the name DJ Ballistic Billy. At 7 and 9 on the dot every night on Power 96, he would play his mixes, mashing up rock with hip-hop and house. Though he found himself broadcasting on a major radio station…
The walls were so thin at their old place Afrobeta could hear the parade of hookers marching in and out of their neighbor’s apartment. Luckily, the Miami natives invited us to their new home/studio for this interview. Their friend AholSniffsGlue’s ubiquitous artwork covers a wall next to the new and…
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…
