It’s certainly no secret that jam bands are in love with visiting South Florida. In fact, it seems like every band with a nouveau-hippie following makes it down here at least once a year, so it’s rarely big news. This announcement though, it’ll make some fans go weak in the…
Looking for something to do outside of the Basel grind? Did you lose interest now that the Stooges and the Dolls aren’t opening things up? Like metal, hardcore, punk, grind, thrash? Could you possibly give less of a fuck about a DJ set by a washed up group that you…
Time for a cheesy joke about how Dre “forgot about Miami” or “forgot about Primary Flight” or something. Dr. Dre’s connection to the Primary Flight street art installation around Wynwood — more specifically its gallery version, Blue Print for Space, at the Art Center South Florida — was much hyped…
-6 p.m.: Vivian Girls with local openers Little Beard at the Pulse Art Fair. Click here for details.-6 p.m. to late night: Opening reception and party for the local-tastic Miami’s Independent Thinkers show. Bands like People From Venus play closer to midnight. Click here for details. -6:30 to 7 p.m.: OK Go…
Brooklyn-based DJ/producer Adrian Michna a.k.a. Egg Foo Young started his musical career DJing parties and gigging in bands on the NYC bar circuit before migrating to Miami in the mid-’90s. It was in our neck of the woods that he co-founded the pioneering hip hop/electronic outfit Secret Frequency Crew, which…
Click here to view more photos from this event.Ebony Bones!At the annual Art Loves Music concert at Collins Park, Miami BeachWednesday, December 2, 2009Better Than: Yelle’s performance at the same event last year.The Review: The Art Positions sub-shot of the official Art Basel Miami Beach, with its avant garde galleries set…
With the countless musical offerings served up alongside delectable little slices of art around the city for Basel this weekend, it’s hard picking exactly where to dive in and gorge. Luckily for you, chanteuse Cucu Diamantes, of Yerba Buena fame, is giving fans and art show goers three different opportunities…
After disappearing briefly and temporarily to record its debut album, local indie-glam party band People From Venus is back. And totally energized by the new slab of future pop in its ass pocket, the Miami Beach-based crew seems set to re-stir the supercharged ions of hype still lingering from being…
Tomas Ceddia spins at Aquabooty’s annual Fuck Art, Let’s Dance throwdown
Jesse Rose headlines a Made to Play showcase at Rokbar in Miami Beach Sunday
South Florida chillwave artist Millionyoung plays during Art Basel week
Trying to track all the random shows and parties connected to Art Basel can be exhausting — so here’s one damn good reason to get away from them for one night. The Skinny Dip, at Kitchen 305, is a multiband celebration of life, whose proceeds benefit the Melanoma Research Foundation…
In the mid-’90s, many considered the multimember New York City act King Chango to be part of the larger constellation of ska revival acts flourishing in the Big Apple. But the band’s musical roots ran deeper than those of many of its peers. Yes, the “Chango” in its name is…
For a couple of years in the mid-’00s, it was good to be Adam Lazzara. The Taking Back Sunday frontman ruled the burgeoning third-wave emo scene while being embroiled in a feud with scene-mates Brand New, former bandmates Shaun Cooper and John Nolan, and pretty much every ex-girlfriend he ever…
OK Go performs a laser light show nightly at Design Miami/
A guide to the major music events during Art Basel Miami Beach
South Florida lately seems to be a haven for jam bands. Hot new acts such as the Heavy Pets are making their mark, the Jam Cruise has announced its biggest lineup yet, and Langerado folded when it dropped the jam. The Perpetual Groove people are coming to cash in on…
Remember the movie Titanic? You know, the one which countless millions of people flocked to the theaters over and over again to see people who never let go? Aside from catapulting a few actors into superstardom and making millions of soccer moms secretly resent their loveless lives, Titanic also helped…
Roofless Records has got a cunt for Miami. A Megacunt.Friday, December 19 at the American Legion/Harvey’s By The Bay (6445 NE Seventh Avenue, Miami) at 9 p.m., for free, five groups you’ve never heard of will destroy, annihilate, poundfuck your eardrums into submission and then pee on your shoes and…
Miami New Times, the Southeast’s top alternative news weekly, is giving away $4,000 in awards to local artists. As part of our annual Artopia® celebration, artists of all stripes — filmmakers, fashion designers, visual artists, performance artists, writers – can apply for a MasterMind Award. It’s easy to enter: Applicants…
The hipster-approved, Berlin-based thumping house producer Jesse Rose plays an event sponsored by — who else? — Scion. The real star, here, though is Rose’s label, Made to Play. Each of the artists playing tonight (with the exception of local hero Induce) have put out tracks with the imprint, and…
The Hawaii-based producer Bluetech can be considered part of the extended constellation of the jam band scene, playing and collaborating with other hippies-gone-electronic like EOTO and Flying Lotus. Still, Bluetech is fiercely experimental, citing the likes of Brian Eno, the Orb, and even Erik Satie as influences. He performs in…
