III Points Festival 2014, Day Three With Mac DeMarco, Jamie Jones and Hot Natured, Tiga, Com Truise, and others Soho Studios, Wynwood, Miami Friday, October 10, 2014 Good morning, Dade County. Oh, you can’t hear me ’cause you’re still asleep and the bass is still tickling the inside of your…
Nothing sucks more than waking up in the morning thinking it’s Friday only to realize that it is, in fact, just Monday. We’ve all been there. And yes, it’s a crappy feeling. But hey, at least you’ve got some pretty good music to comfort you. Just check out the five…
III Points Festival 2014, Day Two With Jamie XX, Metronomy, Cashmere Cat, Chet Faker, and others Soho Studios, Wynwood, Miami Friday, October 10, 2014 It’s always been difficult to put on a compelling live electronic music show. And now, with more money made through performing than recording, many mainstream dance…
III Points Festival 2014, Day One With Lykke Li, Flying Lotus, Duke Dumont, and others Soho Studios, Wynwood, Miami Friday, October 10, 2014 Last night, III Points 2014 kicked off with the strongest musical lineup of the three-day festival. There were a few infrastructural hiccups. Many of the bars did…
We’ve “got a feeling inside…” It’s “a certain kind” of feeling we just “can’t explain.” That’s because British rock legends and Hall of Famers the Who have just announced their two-leg 50th anniversary tour and yep, they’re coming to the Magic City next spring. Check the cut for the Who’s…
There aren’t too many musicians left like Kaytranada, not in the big leagues, anyway. His sound is hard to classify as anything more than head-knockin’, and he loves to break the rules. He makes headlines for his noiseless drops, like the Whatever project, when he just dumped a file of…
When it rains in Hell, the ground cracks open and Satan’s blood flows up from Hades to soak the Earth. Maggots in the dirt gorge themselves on the devil’s plasma until their tiny, ugly bodies burst and microscopic eggs spray everywhere. Six days later, a new generation of long-haired black…
You don’t need to be banking in order to have a kick-ass weekend in the Magic City … All you need for three days worth of cheap booze and great music is a Hamilton. Just check out the ten best things to do under $10 in Miami this weekend, from…
Goop junkies, your time is nigh. The Life in Color Festival is back and bigger than ever, threatening a full two days’ worth of paint-splattering, beat-dropping madness. The fest has been slowly revealing its 2014 lineup with a neat series of live-painting portraits by L.A.-based artist David Garibaldi And what…
Bring out your Guy Fawkes masks and slutty pumpkin costumes … Halloween season has arrived in the 305. And with All Hallows’ Eve going down on a Friday night this year, we’re gonna be celebrating with a week’s worth of wild bashes filled with naughty pirates, sexy zombies, and, um,…
One of Germany’s leading electronic dance music trailblazers for two decades, Roman Flügel remains very much capable of reinventing himself and surprising listeners with each new release. For one thing, he swaps artist monikers as often as he does musical styles: Roman IV, Eight Miles High, Soylent Green, and Ro…
Groupie has come to be an ugly word, a misogynist dig that’s used all too casually by men and women alike. A groupie is a woman who doesn’t “do” anything; she gets all of her glamour via her association with a strong man, most often a rock star. How can…
You were born to the pulsing pound of your momma’s heart going thump. And today, the beat of a drum still brings you new life. Now multiply that phenomenon by 22, and you’ve got the estrogenergetic force of Venus Rising, South Florida’s premier all-female dance and drum group. After a…
The great state of Texas is known for many things, including football, barbecue, big oil, women with big hair, men with big hats, and the fact that, well, everything is supposedly bigger there. The latter assertion may be cause for debate, but one thing is beyond question: the Lone Star…
With III Points and Art Walk going down at the same exact time, Wynwood just might explode with more hipsters, art, and music than it can handle. That’s why we’re here to prepare you for the arty party apocalypse of the ‘Wood with the five best Second Saturday Art Walk…
In 1994, singer and guitarist Warren Haynes never imagined Gov’t Mule would still exist in the year 2014. “In the beginning, it was just a side project, because Allen Woody and myself were full-time members of the Allman Brothers Band,” Haynes says. “We had no ambitions or aspirations. It was…
St. Vincent Fillmore Miami Beach Monday, October 6, 2014 Better Than: Doing the Automaton Shuffle alone. “Hello to all of you men and women out there,” said St. Vincent, welcoming a few thousand art-rock acolytes to the Fillmore Miami Beach last night. “And,” she added, after a pregnant pause, “all…
The first thing you should know about Norma Moreno is she loves Chinese food. Tonight, it’s lo mein. And after a few bites, it’s evident Norma is not rocking her gold fangs. “I guess I’m not into wearing them as much as I used to,” she says. “They’re kind of…
Someone once said, “You go to New York to become someone, you go to L.A. when you are someone, and you go to Miami when you want to be someone else.” We like to think we’re somebody, but it would totally make sense if we found out we had been…
Meghan Trainor’s “All About That Bass,” has touched millions, including Miami’s own the Fly Boys, who decided to make their own version, called “All About That Ass.” It’s a dirty, explicit, and triple-x-filled sex romp that will either make you laugh or cringe. We caught up with the group’s Dino…
III Points, three days. The second annual edition of Wynwood’s music, art, and tech fest has finally made the big reveal of its 2014 music sked. Day by day. Hour by hour. So snatch up some last-minute tix. And check the cut for III Points’ music set times. See also:…
The last time that the Juan Maclean performed live in Miami, it was in 2009. At the then-new LIV nightclub at the Fontainebleau, he and DFA Records diva Nancy Whang were booked for the megaclub’s Dirty Hairy party, a weekly Wednesday-night party meant to mimic what was happening downtown, even…
