Rise and grind, Miami. A new week has begun, and with it, a brand new slab of concerts to check out. Now, as fellow music junkies, we know that picking out which shows you’re actually going to attend can be a challenge. That’s why we’re narrowing it down to the…
Moms are caring, intelligent, beautiful, nurturing creatures, but showing how much you love them can be hard. Sure, hand mom a construction paper heart with some raw macaroni haphazardly glued all over it and she’ll gush like Old Faithful, but giving mom sloppy arts and crafts is so elementary school…
Last night, Ryan Adams made a rare stop in the Magic City, with what is, on paper, one hell of a tour. By pairing two of the most brilliant American singer/songwriters in the business today on the same bill, it was an absolute treat for the music lover. Ideally, this…
Miami resident Nicolas Troncoso has already made a name for himself as a budding tech-house producer with releases on hotly tipped international labels like Neim and Superfreq. But as the A&R mastermind behind Miami’s Prisoner of Love label, he’s also emerging as one of our local underground dance music scene’s…
The Magic City works hard, but parties even harder. That’s why the arrival of the weekend always calls for a celebration in the 305 Sure, you could go buck wild on the Beach and party it up for 48-hours straight… Or you can have an equally fun weekend jam-packed with pretty…
Booze, weed, molly, ’shrooms, powder, rocks, downers, uppers, trippy shit. This is just a small sampling of the many legal and illegal substances used by party people to alter their consciousness (or get fucked up) while attending major music festivals. Now, it’s no secret that drugs and concerts go together…
Locos Por Juana formed in the year 2000 and in complete defiance of the then remaining concerns over the Y2K bug, forged on to become one of South Florida’s most successful bands. The two-time Grammy nominated band has continued to redefine itself as a myriad of musical influences have helped…
Editor’s Note: Photography isn’t allowed at Neutral Milk Hotel shows. So we at New Times recruited Miami’s most skilled live concert drawer, Brian Butler, to capture the idiosyncratic magic of Jeff Mangum and company last night. Neutral Milk Hotel With Mind Brains Olympia Theater at Gusman Center, Miami Wednesday, May…
A man don’t need to rap to be rich. Even if he is, in fact, a rapper. After all, in recent years, the world’s wealthiest hip-hoppers, as tracked by Forbes Magazine, have been those homies with a flair for big business, like Diddy and Dr. Dre, who’ve basically retired from…
May is shaping up to be the most important month in pop star Ciara’s life. On May 1, she teamed up with First Lady Michelle Obama to empower Detroit children on College Signing Day as part of Mrs. Obama’s Get Schooled initiative. She’s about to unleash her latest venture, a…
Happy Cinco de Mayo, cabrón! But forget fake Mexican food like nachos, burritos, fajitas, chimichangas, and Taco Bell’s Doritos Cheesy Gordita Crunch. The only honest way to celebrate this holiday (especially considering it was most recently popularized in the United States as a way to sell cerveza to gringos) is…
Wanna be the world’s next top EDM superstar? Just let Tiësto and Your Shot show the way. They are launching a new DJ talent show, streaming on Vevo and sponsored by 7UP, open to any aspiring jock over the age of 18 who resides in the United States. And apparently, “you…
Niko Javan’s recent pornographic vegetable EP? There’s an app for that. The fearless “multimedia warrior” has his hands in music production, visual arts, music videos, and t-shirt design, but he’s still got an uncontrollable urge to push himself to new creative frontiers. He was looking for a new project, a…
“We will finally achieve the Desired Effect,” Brandon Flowers wrote in a Magic Marker note recently posted to his official website. “Ariel and I have been collaborating in the studio, working twogether in the spirit of conversation, contention, and at long last, sweet contrition. No one has yet seen or…
As Kraftwerk would say: “Wir fahr’n, fahr’n, fahr’n auf der Autobahn.” Or as the non-Deutschländers among us might intone: “We drive, drive, drive on the motorway.” Yes, those are lyrics from the pioneering German electronic band’s essential 1974 album, Autobahn. But they are also rudimentary directions for how to arrive…
Old-school hip-hop, graffiti, and sneaker battles. That was the craze back in the day for Takeout Tuesday at the now-defunct South Beach party spot, Buck 15. “At the time, old-school hip-hop wasn’t really being played that much at the clubs,” recalls DJ Keen One, the party boy who started it…
Miami’s music scene is as diverse as the hardcore 305ers that call the Magic City home. That’s why there’s always a pretty good show to check out almost every single night of the week, from indie rock to alt-country to rap. Sure, it sounds like a pretty eclectic mix, but…
It really is a crying shame how the blogosphere treats Ryan Adams these days. Seems as though everyone is so completely distracted by the prolific singer/songwriter’s (admittedly hilarious) antics and private life that they’ve forgotten why we all give a shit in the first place: He’s a modern musical treasure…
Have you ever seen Trina, the Diamond Princess, flying around on rainbow-colored mechas, kicking at seemingly nothing with giant metal vices stuck on her feet, weaving in and out of view from behind a giant uterus? Of course not, unless you were at the Perez Art Museum Miami Thursday night…
Say what you wanna say, but truth is, weekends are always magical in Miami. That’s because no matter how broke you may be or how many zeros may be missing from your bank account, there’s always a surplus of cheap, at times even free parties to crash. But not just any…
As booty-shaking beats rumble through the Wynwood streets, you hop out of a cab. You skip toward a supersize beer pong table. On the way, someone hands you a big puff of cotton candy. “It’s free!” they shout, just before you see some good friends who just arrived. And what’s…
Bayfront Park is polluted. There is lead, arsenic, and other toxins in the soil. This contamination was actually discovered during last year’s survey of the City of Miami’s 112 public parks, which followed the discovery of poison ash in Coconut Grove at the former site of the Old Smokey municipal…
