Leave it to local punk and metal promotions powerhouse Speedfreek to convince Valencia, California’s Infest to fly cross-country to Miami for the band’s first show outside of its home state. Ever. Infest’s discography is meager, and the band never left California. But somehow the group has still reached every punk-rock…
Winter Music Conference is a rich tradition that, despite the ignorance of some younger rave fans, has been going strong for 28 years. Over the decades, it’s evolved quite a lot, and now the party has eclipsed the “conference” atmosphere of old. Robbie Rivera remembers how it used to be,…
From the album’s title, The Next Day, to the (mostly) straight-forward nature of the 14 tracks that compose it, David Bowie’s new album declares itself a reboot. The songs shine with ferocious life, even if they follow a simpler structure than one would expect from Bowie. Guitars by Earl Slick…
Thirtysomething goth rockers are an underexploited demographic.Let’s get real: the Jersey Guido bubble has already burst and Rednecks are the wasted-on-television teenage simulacrums du jour. And how long can that last? Pseudo-reality television producers need to wake up and smell the blogging (which, in case you were wondering, smells like…
What does it take to throw the perfect party? Ask Gary Richards, aka Destructo, AKA the man behind the curtain of all Hard events. He’s been in the music business since the ’90s, working with record labels, promoters, DJs, and everyone you could imagine. By now, he’s learned more than…
Every morning, there’s a halo hanging from the corner of our girlfriend’s four post bed. Today, it’s soiled in sadness because Mark McGrath, lead singer of Sugar Ray and former Extra co-host, has canceled his Nineties Nostalgia cruise. Scheduled to depart from Miami in October, the ‘Mark McGrath and Friends’…
Everybody loves trap music. It’s been around for decades on the Southern hip-hop scene, but 2012 saw the trap house get raided by electro and house producers. And despite the fact that the EDM trap phenomenon is barely a year old, Ultra Music Festival has already granted the genre its…
These days, Dirtybird Records is almost as famous for its grilled meats as its ass-clapping beats. Blame a successful ten-year run of the San Francisco crew’s infamous renegade Golden Gate BBQ parties, not to mention last year’s inaugural WMC installment which broke the party concept to Dirtybird’s legions of international…
Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week are swiftly approaching, and we are really starting to “Feel the Love.” We’re not sure if it’s the anticipation of a million mollies waiting to get popped, or the recent announcement of a warm-up show by UK sensation Rudimentary, but either way, we’re…
Of the over 8.2 million permanent inhabitants of New York City, and the nearly 51 million international and domestic tourists who visit each year, only one pinguo from Miami has around-the-clock protection from the city’s finest, the NYPD. That man is Rick Ross. According to TMZ (via Hip-Hop Wired), New…
EDM is a new music genre. And Skrillex invented bass music. Yeah, maybe if you’re a clueless American Gen Z glowstick raver. Because in the U.K., everyone and his grandmother knows electronic dance music has been going strong for more than three decades. Music historians even have a name for…
“There is a reason I have a stage name,” Alejandro Rose-Garcia (AKA Shakey Graves) admits. “There is something to be said about performing outside of yourself. I feel that when a lot of people get onstage, they become a bigger version of themselves. It’s the classic becoming the band.” But…
Marleys, 2 Chainz, and Future at Nine Mile Music Festival March 2
15th Annual Medical Marijuana Benefit Concert at Tobacco Road March 2
Wilson Phillips as Part of Ultimate Miami Voice at Magic City Casino March 2
Palo, Roofless Records, Others at Miami New Times’ Artopia 2013, February 28
Oh, Kanye… Mr. Kim Kardashian-in-waiting was performing at a show in France on Monday night when the Chicago MC decided to proverbially blow himself on stage, shooting a heavy load of arrogance from his cocky mouth and into the collective face of an unsuspecting Parisian crowd. “There’s no motherfuckin’ awards…
If a picture’s worth a thousand words, an electronic-dance-music site has to be in the neighborhood of $50 million, right? According to the New York Times, SFX Entertainment, which owns a stake in the Opium Group (Mansion, Set, Cameo) and is in the midst of negotiating a deal with Miami…
Coño, mira que ese Pitbull es tremendo tipo. The Miami-born, 305-based MC recently sat down with VEVO after becoming a 100 Million Certified artist, a distinction reserved exclusively for the website’s crème de la crème whose music videos have garnered more than 100 million views like Pit’s “Rain Over Me”…
Smoking ganja isn’t just a recreational activity. It’s a righteously stoned ritual. “The more you accept herb is the more you accept Rastafari,” the patron saint of tokers, Bob Marley, explained in a TV interview a few years before his death from cancer in Miami at the tragically young age…
Better than: 90 percent of your other options on a Tuesday night.”We do what we do for this, right here” decreed Every Time I Die lead singer, Keith Buckley, as he stood tall at the edge of Grand Central’s stage, extolling the sanctity of sweaty club dates. Buckley’s declaration was…
Hold on. Has it really been 23 years since Wilson Phillips knocked Madonna’s “Vogue” off the top of the charts? Yeah. And it’s even been more than two decades since Carnie Wilson, her sister Wendy, and their friend Chynna Phillips called it quits just a couple of years after becoming…
