After a couple years of eardrum-hammering from the relentless-banger-addicted sect of the indie/dance crossover scene, acts like Aeroplane come as a welcome shot of sweetness and light. Hailing originally from the somewhat unlikely region of Wallonia — that’s French-speaking Southern Belgium — the duo of Stephan Fasano and Vito Deluca…
It may surprise those who haven’t kept up with the hard rock legends of yesteryear, but Scorpions never actually went away. In fact, with their current “Get Your Sting and Blackout” World Tour, they’re just now getting around to retiring. And they’re doing so in appropriately bombastic fashion, with worldwide…
As the dubstep phenomenon continues to blow up stateside (in Miami it’s been eagerly taken up as a formidable 21st-century successor to Miami bass) it’s easy to forget the genre’s geo-specific roots. But dubstep can be traced all the way back to a very precise point of origin: the London…
This past Saturday, Get Some at the Electric Pickle hosted Mayday for an hour-long set in the upstairs of the club. Wynwood was banging from a heavy-traffic art walk, the night was steamy as a hot bath, and the club was full of people. It should have been awesome.Live sound…
Oh, hai Miami! Not sure if you are aware, but we are in the nightlife photog business now with our new mini-site Clubchaser.com, where you’ll be able to check out how down and dirty Miami gets once the sun sets.This week our cameras stopped by Crystal Cadillac’s live performance at…
You’ll probably recognize Vampire Weekend’s keyboardist/guitarist and backup vocalist Rostam Batmanglij in the video above, where he talks to Converse about his musical beginnings. You can catch him along with the rest of the band on October 13 with Beach House. But if you can’t wait that long, Batmanglij has…
Award season may be well behind us, but then, Univision doesn’t really know the meaning of the word “season” does it? After all, between the Latin Grammies, Lo Nuestro, Juventud and possibly a few others we’re forgetting, they seem to air one a week. Still, this one–Premio Juventud, for those…
The story of DJ Bad Boy Bill (born William Renkosik) reads like the story of house music itself, and namely how this once geo-specific Chicagoan music subculture disseminated itself across the greater American and international cultures to become the mainstream phenomenon it is today. Schooled in the Chicago house boom…
DJ Obscene has probably accomplished more at age 22 than most of the DJs doing it today. Getting an early start, he was the resident for two years at one of Miami’s best parties in recent memory: Miami Live at Santos, which was voted Best Weekly Party in New Times’…
Hey White Room. Long time no see. This is sort of embarrassing, because I used to talk about you all the time. Things seem to have cooled between us, but in reality I still think about you all the time and I don’t want to see you leave.I saw that…
Despite being pushed back a couple weeks, it looks like Rick Ross’ Teflon Don album will, in fact, come out July 20. (Then again, that’s over a week away, and this is the hip-hop industry, so anything could happen, but fingers crossed). And where else would he celebrate but the…
For those of you that haven’t turned on the TV, listened to the radio, read a newspaper, or spoken to anyone else today, Ohio native LeBron James is signing with the Miami Heat. There have been numerous celebrations, outcries, outrages, jersey burnings, and then some since last night’s announcement, but…
We know you love New Times’ Best Of Miami issue. We know you pine for it each and every year. And that’s why we work so hard to bring you the very best Miami has to offer in one spectacular issue, so that your months of gazing longingly at saved past issues…
You don’t need to be the most devoted fan of rock en español to know La Secta Allstar, especially if, between 2005 and 2006, you turned your radio dial to any Spanish-language station for even five minutes. And if you did, there’s at the very least a strong possibility you…
The Electric Zoo festival, which launched just last year, is New York City’s somewhat latecoming answer to Detroit’s Movement Electronic Music Festival and Miami’s own Ultra — better late than never, right? 2009’s successful inaugural event at Randall’s Island Park in Manhattan summoned over 26,000 concertgoers and 50 international acts…
Marlins Super Saturdays are an awesome series of post-game concerts that happen on Saturday ballgames played in Miami. No bullshit, they are a great show. Fireworks explode in an amazing pyrotechnic display, the arena bass drops like a West Coast Impala, and there ain’t no screen like a stadium big…
Anyone who knows of 50 Cent, knows how often he’s gotten into arguments and/or picked fights with people. From making skits to songs deliberately crushing his enemies, he’s pretty much run the gamut. But now he may have just run out of people to have beef with — or maybe…
Miami artist David Lebatard, or LEBO as most know him, may as well be part of the local music scene. He’s always been in and around it, never too far from the action. Sure, he did work for the Mayfair in Coconut Grove, Las Olas Riverfront Complex, Burdines and others…
Remembering music industry great Bill Aucoin
New Orleans-born, L.A.-based DJ/producer Trent Cantrelle is a bit of a chameleon. His work generally leans toward the big, peak-hour style of progressive, as heard on tracks such as his recent release, “Siren Says,” but he’s also fully capable of going deep and dirty for a late-night set. Cantrelle’s mixes…
Longtime Miami music fans approaching an impending “certain age” might forever speak wistfully about the early-’90s South Beach scene around the Stephen Talkhouse and the local star it birthed: Nil Lara. Yes, it was a hallowed time, and Lara, the scene’s perceived savior, almost broke it huge with his multiculti…
While Miami’s techno scene becomes increasingly robust, most of the major out-of-towners rolling through ply similarly minimal, relatively low-bpm styles. Still, an entire internationally growing subgenre has been largely ignored in the city, even during Winter Music Conference. So-called Schranz or hard techno hails from the same country — Germany…
