Halloween is the last time DJ Erick Morillo remembers playing Miami’s Club Space. He started on the turntables at 2 a.m. and played for 12 hours — straight. That next afternoon, he saw a guy there dressed like Jesus, his hands raised in the air, looking up at the sky…
It was a typically dreary evening in the Colombian capital—cold and drizzling. Yet that didn’t stop thousands from coming out on May 17 when Colombian sensation Bomba Estéreo gave Bogotá a sneak peak of its new album Amanecer (“Daybreak,” in English) at a massive open-air, mountainside dance party on the…
The War on Drugs is still very much Lost in the Dream of its breakout year. Since the release of its gorgeous, expansive, and undoubtedly brilliant album in 2014, the Philadelphia band has spent the majority of its time dancing on the positive side of almost every critical tongue and clocking…
The Great Escape was planned. Then postponed. And now canceled. After a breakout 2014, with the release of her debut full-length album, The New Classic, and monster summer hit “Fancy,” Iggy Azalea announced her first solo headlining tour, dubbed The Great Escape. It was set for 24 North American cities…
Paris Hilton wants to get you “High Off [Her] Love.” That’s why the Hilton empire heiress will be debuting her latest Cash Money Records track at Wall Lounge this Saturday. Featuring a verse from CM label boss Birdman himself, “High Off My Love” is the sex tape star-turned reality TV…
Rise and shine, 305! June has finally arrived. Though the official start of summer may be another 20 days away, we like to get the party started early in the Magic City. So if you aren’t already pumped up for the Most Epic Summer Ever, your music pros at New…
Looking back on the past 50 years, there are many indelible iconic images of David Crosby that come to mind. There’s the beaming young man in a cape with the mischievous look in his eyes who gazed with a kind of beatific innocence from the covers of those early Byrds…
You know you’ve had a legit night out in the Magic City when your party bender ends with the sunrise on the beach. But what really makes your night quintessentially Miami isn’t so much staying up till daybreak — it’s what you did in between those late hours. And if…
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…
