Recently, in an interview with the Guardian, Moby said he experienced anxiety, depression and insomnia while touring. The traveling lifestyle was so hard on Avicii, he’s hanging up his headphones at age 26. But not Clyde Sergio Narain, a DJ who you probably know better as Chuckie. “So many artists…
Throughout its history, the Netherlands has not always been known as a hotbed of musical talent and innovation. Before the EDM explosion, Americans largely visited to get high or to wile away hours during a layover. But in the past decade, the country’s soundscape has been dominated by one of…
Daddy Yankee is an international superstar who has sold nearly 20 million records worldwide, winning dozens of awards along the way. However, Ramón Ayala Rodríguez might be something of a mystery to those who are familiar with only his club bangers “Gasolina” and “Lo Que Pasó, Pasó.” For that reason,…
Come next year, lead guitarist Ryan Primack and drummer Chris Hornbrook will celebrate 20 years of Poison the Well. From the early days as a hardcore punk band through a trend-setting evolution to metalcore before, finally, settling and pioneering a melodic and more rock-oriented post-hardcore sound, PTW boasts a five-record…
Rudiments are the essentials, the foundation of a subject. Consequently, Rudimental, a genre-hopping outfit from northeast London, take the foundations of drum and bass to craft dance music that’s essential listening. First coming to prominence in 2012 with the massive hit single, “Feel The Love,” featuring vocalist John Newman, Rudimental…
In the heart of Overtown, the Historic Lyric Theater has long stood as the cultural pulse of Miami’s historically black neighborhood. Count Basie, Sam Cooke, Ella Fitzgerald, and many more of America’s greatest entertainers have graced its stage since the theater’s opening in 1913. Now, the Lyric is giving Miami’s…
Let’s face it, although we love to complain about the sticky Miami summer there’s one thing that helps us overcome the pain: pool parties. And alcohol. Fine, two things. And if you haven’t experienced the Confidante’s weekly pool party, Frankie Says, then now is you chance. Hosted by Wynwood’s Electric…
If you, for some reason, have spent any time snooping around the Montreal music scene, you’ve likely encountered the jagged garage stylings of Mark Sultan. A jangly crooner with a taste for the craggy intersection of punk energy and blues caterwauling, Sultan has been jamming around the Great White North…
Techno, by definition, is futurist music — a forward-pushing technological soundtrack for the fast pace of life in today’s postindustrial globalized society, ever advancing toward its sci-fi vision of the future. But in Latin America, a new vanguard of artists uses electronic music to instead look back at the pre-industrial…
Just when you thought they were done, III Points slaps you with another lineup update. Today, over 30 artists joined the three-day lineup, with the biggest name among them being Vince Staples, who’s quite possibly the most hyped rapper of 2016 — and for good reason. Keeping the rich tradition…
On May 24, 2006, former Vice President Al Gore debuted a 118-minute documentary that would introduce a new term to the American vocabulary: global warming. Somewhere, presumably on an island sponsored by Bacardi, sitting on a couch stuffed with used bikinis and frozen margaritas, Armando Christian Pérez, a then-25-year-old rapper…
It’s morning in Oslo, Norway, and Hans-Peter Lindstrøm wakes ups, climbs out of bed, drags himself to the coffee pot in the kitchen, pours a cup, takes a sip, and closes his eyes for a moment before silently admitting it will soon be noon and he better get to the…
I’ve been reading Donald Trump’s The Art of the Deal, which was ghostwritten by Tony Schwartz, who channels Trump’s daily deal-making in what is basically a window into the life of a more charmingly juvenile version of Gordon Gekko. I like this book a lot, if only because it reads…
For lack of a better word, Italian singer/songwriter, Laura Pausini is a phenomenon. The world renowned popstar made her professional debut in the late ’80s at the age of 12 and made her name in the ’90s with top charting hits across Europe and Latin America. Over the course of…
Juggalos know how to hustle. At their annual Gathering, just about anything you could ever possibly need to have a good time, from drugs and booze to more, uh, creative fare, is available for purchase from wicked clowns advertising their wares via hand-lettered cardboard signs. Here’s a small sampling of…
Argentinian electronic rock hybrid Altocamet have been a successful band in Argentina and South America for over twenty years. On the group’s first U.S. tour and their first ever performances in Miami, Altocamet see themselves as ambassadors for the sound of the seaside town from which they hail. The band…
Sunday might be the most important day of the weekend. How you spend it will set the tone for the rest of your week. And what better way to use your last day of freedom than enjoying some live music in the heart of Little Havana at Ball & Chain’s new…
Of all the ways I thought I would be describing my first Gathering of the Juggalos, “like my first rave” was not on the short list. But after less than 24 hours among the fans of Insane Clown Posse, that’s how I’m feeling. It’s like I’ve traveled back in time…
Heavy Drag is doing its best to live up to its name. “Pop music can be found in any part of music,” Michael Ruiz-Unger tells us. “It’s a little harder to make something more of a bummer.” Spawned out of the ashes of another local act called Lil Daggers, Heavy…
With its myriad opportunities and exaggerated qualities, Miami has a tendency to elicit both the best and the worst from those who pass through it. For an insular trust-fund baby with a legion of Maseratis at his command, time in Miami might be marked by powdery white lines and sizable…
Now in its sixth year, the Overtown Music and Arts Festival is one of the city’s biggest gatherings of art and culture outside of the annual Calle Ocho Fest. The free event holds blocks worth of local art, food, and music — with this year’s headliners including Estelle, Jeremih, Kelly Price,…
“You know how on Facebook you get these sponsored messages? I kept getting an ad for Ted Nugent’s show at Pompano Beach Amphitheater,” Tony Landa, bassist for Humbert, tells us. “One day after seeing it I yelled, ‘Fuck Ted Nugent!’ and then I thought: could that be a show?” Turns…
