It’s been a while since The Juan MacLean has had a stop in Miami, and while he won’t exactly be playing live, we are still excited to hear him spin. Since his last release, 2005’s Less Than Human, we’ve only had a handful of tracks and remixes to hold us…
The fact that DJ Justin Sheppard is the son of a drifter makes sense when you consider the smooth, supple soulfulness he brings to his spinning. That he’s also got a degree in computer science, however, might not make as much sense, especially when you consider just how dizzying he…
SP Global Radio is a weekly show on www.miamibeatz.com hosted by local DJs JD and Rob Solomon. With over 40,000 iTunes podcast downloads per month worldwide, they are now hitting the airwaves with their eclectic mix of underground EDM. Tune in for their exclusive weekly broadcasts where you will hear…
Check out this live video of The Methodaires playing at Churchill’s. The Methodaires play a mix of ska, soul and rocksteady music, are currently gigging and have recorded material coming out this year. If you see their name on a flyer, go check em’ out, they’re worth it…
Local producer and PL0T resident DJ Alejandro Sab a.k.a. Sabox was a staple of the burgeoning downtown minimal scene in 2008. For those of you who missed out last year, here’s a killer mix encapsulating some of the sexy stripped-down funk sound patrons heard at White Room Fridays and other…
Much like his previous video, for “The Right,” featuring Jean Grae and Wrekonize, DJ I-Dee’s latest video is also based on his beloved early 16-bit video games. “Swollen Dome/1991” features another downtempo-ish track (mostly “Swollen Dome,” with “1991” just at the end), with just enough scratching, and the wunderkind battle…
Last week, I wrote a little preview on the Yo Majesty show set for next Tuesday at White Room, summarizing the duo’s on-and-off internal turmoil. MCs Shunda K and Jewel B sometimes refuse to pose for photo shoots together and do interviews separately, and then just as quickly seem to…
Finally, the movie on Notorious B.I.G. hits theaters today and it seems that the anticipation for the film’s release is running high. Notorious actors have been hitting the talk show circuit, Lil’ Kim is up in arms about how she was portrayed, Diddy is being all dramatic on YouTube, and…
At times I forget that Michigan native Iggy Pop now calls the Magic City home. In fact, last I heard he lived in the Village of El Portal, a small municipality located between Miami and Miami Shores — which also happens to be the area I grew up in.Well, Pop’s…
Should we be worrying, ya’ll? Economy is going to shit. Let’s hope Obama fixes things soon after he gives Bush the boot from the White House next week. Until then, there shall be more drinking and partying to forget we are on the verge of going broke.Here is what you’ll…
Nobody in Miami has been a bigger booster of the local quartet the Jean Marie than Lolo Reskin of Sweat Records. So where else would the band celebrate its latest album release than at the Vagabond’s Friday party, which Lolo helps throw? So this edition celebrates Annie Jump Cannon, the…
Federico Nessi, a.k.a DJ Healer, is an artist (see the latest Sweat Records installation) and a repatriated Miamian who likes to dance, but scoffs at the current notions of “indie.” Thus he and Ricardo Guerrero, a.k.a. This Heart Electric, a.k.a. that dude from Animals of the Arctic, a.k.a. DJ R3K+,…
In 2005, a recently separated (from Poplife) Ray Milian wanted to explore the b-sides, new cuts, and rare grooves of underground and so-called indie and electronic music. To do so, he created at a weekly party, Off the Radar, at the then-newly minted Buck 15. Then there were several venue switches (the Marlin,…
Brisco – Underground Money from Miami New Times on Vimeo. Follow Brisco from his performance onstage at the Miami Tattoo Expo 2009, through the Miami Beach Convention Center, and into the parking lot in this exclusive New Times music interview…
Little, it seems, can stop the improbable Tampa-based female party-rap juggernaut Yo Majesty — not even the occasional near-implosion of the group itself. Early last summer, some undefined internal meltdown sent home half of the duo, the gospel-trained vocalist-turned-rapper Jewel B. The group’s backbone, the verbose and sheerly ass-kicking Shunda…
Against my better judgment and sense of comfort and convenience, I went camping. Into the woods. Into the night. With fire. And “Beware of Bears” signs. Bears that want to open my sleeping bag and eat me like a pastelito de carne. A group of friends invited me to Wekiwa…
Like a pissed-off, mistreated dog, Travis Reilly yelps, “This is how downward spirals start!” Then he growls, “This is a convoluted attempt to find some source of hope.” Later he barks, “This is the best and worst things will ever get.” Reilly’s Long Island-based hardcore outfit, This Is Hell, seems…
Scottish indie rock act Bis’s 1997 single “Tell It to the Kids” rather neatly expressed the band’s overtures: “And now, coming through the airwaves into your home/Introducing the new transistor heroes.” San Francisco’s hey willpower lacks a similar expressive salutation, but it shares Bis’s affinity for trash culture, “kandy pop,”…
Journeyman singer/songwriter Alejandro Escovedo has performed solo for a number of years, but he sure has played in a lot of bands too. It’s a theme that recurs throughout his latest album, Real Animal. A loose memoir of sorts, the disc spans Escovedo’s 30-year musical career, touching on key locations,…
Even in the flannel-flapping grunge era, The Juan Maclean pretended he was I, Cyborg in his old band, Six Finger Satellite. A decade on, post-rock-band breakup and crack-rock breakdown, he again dons the chrome pate, made fashionable anew in a century populated by Daft Punk and the return of Battlestar…
Anybody who’s ever heard a track by Chuck Brown and the Soul Searchers knows the deep power of go-go, that mighty blend of pure funk and raw soul that could only come from the streets of D.C. It’s a heady mix of down-low and way-up-on-high that brings to mind nothing…
Sometime in the early 1990s, the Holy Terrors were playing at CBGB when an earnestly keyed-up Dee Dee Ramone stuck around and told the guys he loved their music. Dee Dee’s reaction seems to have been widespread among those who witnessed the Holy Terrors in the flesh; by all accounts,…
