Third Eye Blind’s long-time drummer Brad Hargreaves remembers an odd time between the band’s third and fourth albums. A time when he was on the road with another band, Year Long Disaster, touring in a tiny van and struggling. Then somewhere around Pittsburg, he came up with an idea for his…
“Say hello to my little friend!” Those are the famous words screamed by Tony Montana as he’s about to launch an M203 grenade at Bolivian cocaine kingpin Alejandro Sosa’s men in the 1983 flick, Scarface. The scene, which leads to the film’s climactic shootout, ends with the fictional Cuban drug…
Miami’s Metromover is, at times, a very quiet ride. Maybe not when something like Ultra Music Festival is flooding this free downtown transit service with screaming, fist-pumping, neon-clad riders. On most days, though, the only sounds are idle conversation and the whoosh of the cars cruising down the tracks. Near…
Unlike the UK, where rave culture blazed through the mainstream like a wildfire following the late-’80s acid house explosion, American rave remained a comparatively smaller, self-contained underground subculture. It’s therefore possible to trace its origins to a mere handful of key players. One of them is certainly San Francisco DJ…
Slow Roast Records lived up to its name Sunday by hosting the dopest BBQ Blowout of Memorial Day Weekend in Miami. Craze and the gang teamed up with L.A. party smashers The Do-Over and invaded Brickell’s Sidebar for a night of sipping, dipping, and more roasted lechón than a person…
Rick Ross remembers the day he discovered the identity of his greatest enemy. In 2011, after suffering two seizures in less than 24 hours, the Bawse found himself sitting in the waiting room of a very expensive doctor’s office. “I was the only black dude, and the rest was 55-…
Don’t ask Chris Carrabba why his band Dashboard Confessional is making a comeback. Never mind the fact that he and his outfit have been on a self-imposed hiatus for the past six years and that they haven’t had a tour or a new album since late in the last decade…
Happy Memorial Day, party people! Yes, today is the day when the nation remembers our fallen troops. But in the 305, it’s also the day when Miami partiers raid Publix for subs and Coronas, hit the beach to shows off their rock-hard bods, and kick off summer — as if…
Say “Slow Roast.” And what comes to mind? Are you salivating at the thought of crunchy, fall-off-the-bone pork slathered in spicy, tangy sauces? Are you scrubbin’ the ground with dat fat booty, humming a riddim that sticks to your ribs? Both make sense, because not only is slow-roasted meat the…
It is officially Memorial Day Weekend in Miami — AKA Urban Beach Week. But while the cops frantically erect barricades, establish checkpoints, and orchestrate traffic loops in preparation for a South Beach onslaught of hip-hop heads, bikini babes, and lime-green lowriders, we here at Miami New Times Music are feverishly…
Rise ‘n’ shine, 305 … Memorial Day Weekend is upon us! And with it, the (un)official start of summer! That means it’s time to grab your crew and turn up in the club. Sure, you could make it rain dolla bills and Patrón at the Urban Beach Week parties going down…
Like fellow boogie meisters PillowTalk and Nick Monaco in the Crew Love collective, Life on Planets is bringing a fresh if retro approach to dance music, self-described as “dawning a long-awaited return to authentic songwriting” in the genre. “So much of vocal songwriting in modern dance music lacks poetry,” the…
Madonna’s been a bad girl. Basically, her entire life. Right now, though, we’re referring specifically to the bad, bad, bad news that this bad, bad, bad girl just broke about having to cancel her Rebel Heart Tour kickoff shows, a two-night stand in Miami. But that’s not all. Naughty Ms…
It seems like every day in recent memory has been met with the announcement that another iconic music group is getting back together, despite so many of these acts having so often addressed the possibility of a reconciliation with a “highly unlikely” or “no, never!” Between the draw of reunions for…
Don’t let her stilettos, tight dress, and wig fool you – when Jacksonville’s drag queen rapper Twinki raps, she slays those rhymes like a boss. “Basically, the music I perform right now, it’s really, I like to call it raunchy, sexxxcore,” the corporate salesperson by day and J-Ville diva by…
Though the Strokes are still together, frontman Julian Casablancas, like most of his bandmates, has spent the last few years on other endeavors. With only seven festival shows scheduled through 2015, the essential early-2000s rock band has no plans for a new album. Instead, guitarist Albert Hammond Jr. is prepping…
Kaskade doesn’t just believe in Miami’s music scene. He’s bought into it. Super Music Group is a 305-based management company that started as a means to represent Amtrac. Since 2010, founders Derek Walin and Brandon Kesslar have expanded the mission and the roster to include Craze, Robb Bank$, DZA, Sluggers,…
Miami is not a boring city, but the nightlight scene can get old pretty fast. The same people, the same places, the same music, the same beer. But every Sunday, South Beach’s Score becomes a place where club kids and scenesters, gays and straights and in-betweeners come together under flashing…
Memorial Day weekend in Miami, colloquially known as Urban Beach Week, is almost upon us. So yes, we must honor our fallen troops. But we must also get set for beats, bangers, public intoxication, near-naked insanity, and pimped-out Chevys causing gridlock on Ocean Drive. There are two ways to deal…
In recent years, the Fillmore Miami Beach has hosted some of EDM’s heaviest hitters. Whether it’s Excision bringing down the roof with his ridiculous sound system, RL Grime’s futuristic turn up, 12th Planet and Skrillex dropping bass-heavy sets for the wob-hungry masses, or the Disclosure brothers translating their slick garage…
You know it’s gonna be a good day when your morning starts off with a shot of cafecito and your favorite song. But the moment you realize the next few days are filled with nothing but live music from some pretty talented artists, chances are you’ll actually find yourself looking…
The blues has given modern music any number of iconic individuals over the course of the past 100 years, but none were more beloved and respected than Riley B. King, better known as B.B. The legendary guitarist died on Thursday night at his Las Vegas home from complications due to…
