The city of Hialeah is known for many things — its large Latin population, a rich history, and streets that are numbered seemingly without regard to the rest of Miami Dade County, making it easy to lose your way if you’re not a local. Now however, it has another attraction…
Pay better attention to your Classics professor, for the Greeks really knew how to create lasting myths and character types. Take Narcissus, the boy who loved himself. Strikingly handsome and thoroughly vain, Narcissus was lured to a still pool where he fell for his reflection. According to different tellings of…
“Hello from the other side.” Of the pond, that is. That’s how Adele greeted her 24.3 million Twitter followers this morning as the singer announced her first North American tour in five years. Back in late November, the singer revealed via a minute-and-20-second video that she was “of course coming…
10. Scraping Teeth with Bad Dream House, B.C., Michelle Forever, Randy Piro, and Smut. Wednesday, December 16, 9 p.m. Churchill’s Pub, 5501 NE 2nd Ave., Miami; 305-757-1807; churchillspub.com. Admission is free. Only “the worst band in America” will pay you to see their show. No, really. Miami’s Scraping Teeth was given the title by Spin…
What a time to be in Miami. New Year’s Eve in the Magic City is always a big deal, and this year is no different. Pitbull, Questlove, and the Weeknd are but a slice of the artists coming to town on December 31, but the biggest name on the 2016 marquee…
Oh, Cleveland. You may sometimes be derided as a desolate wasteland of snow and pale people, but you’ve given us some great things. You gave us LeBron (though you did eventually take him back). And you also helped grow Nine Inch Nails. But maybe best of all you birthed Bone…
“Ultra Music Festival” is a name you either love to hear or hate. Our music editor spent the better half of a weekend coming to terms with the event that all but overruns Miami every March. Others eagerly blow $300 on tickets plus a few bucks here and there for…
Psychomagic’s latest record came together fast — maybe too fast. “We only had three weeks to write the songs and three days to record it,” singer and guitarist Steven Fusco says. But they were able to pull it off. The album, Bad Ideas, mixes and matches garage rock with psychedelia…
The 2016 Virginia Key Grassroots Festival returns to South Florida for the fifth year in a row, and it once again promises a wide array of headlining artists, both local and national. Next year’s gathering will take place February 18 through the 21 in its familiar locale midway between Downtown…
Not familiar with grindcore? Here’s a brief definition from Fuck the Facts guitarist Topon Das: “It’s a frame of mind of really fast easily relatable musical expression.” He is quick to clarify, however, that his Canadian five-piece is not a textbook example of the musical genre. “I don’t think we’re…
Corey Jones called his older brother to let him know he’d be late. His SUV had broken down near the southbound I-95 exit ramp to PGA Boulevard. It was 2:52 a.m., and Corey had pulled onto the shoulder to wait for help. His older brother, Clinton Jr., would call back…
With two nights featuring over two dozen bands, 305 Fest aims to be a showcase for all that is punk and hardcore about South Florida. The night’s roster will include just about every face from the local scene you could imagine, as well as some out of town legends, like…
With a 6:30 a.m. flight and a total of seven shows over the course of Art Basel week, Aidan Kennedy is going to be a busy man. Still, for his first trip to both Art Basel and Miami, he couldn’t be more pumped. “I’ve heard a lot about how amazing…
“Welcome to Miami, no bras, no panties.” That must have been the line Carolina Villalba, dressed loudly in a tiny neon green bathing suit, dropped on the unsuspecting tourists from Atlanta lounging on South Beach. It’s exactly the sentiment she and Linda Attias represent with their rap duo Basside, and…
Life and Death isn’t a label known for playing by the rules. Founded by Manfredi Romano (DJ Tennis) and Greg Oreck (50% of New York’s Thugfucker), the label has a reputation for producing dark, psychedelic tunes, tracks that take time to burrow deep inside your brain, to foreign regions dance music rarely…
You may not know the Yeats poem from which Silver Apples took its name, but chances are you’ve felt the group’s influence stretching across the globe, inspiring the creation of genres like krautrock and the use of experimental electronics in music. The outré duo of instrumentalist Simeon Coxe and drummer…
TJ Mizell is a DJ. You probably haven’t heard of him. But you have heard of his father, Jason Mizell. He went by the name Jam Master Jay and was one-third of one of the most important hip-hop acts of all time, Run-D.M.C. You might expect a descendent of rap…
Some of the most exciting announcements of Art Basel tend to be last minute. And, sure enough, last Friday brought news of one of the most stacked musical events coming to Basel this year. Art Basel veteran and board member of the Brooklyn Museum Swizz Beatz and Bacardi have teamed up…
Five years ago a rugby accident left Florida Atlantic University student James “Woody” Beckham paralyzed from the chest down. But despite the long road that injury would set Beckham down, the injury hasn’t defeated the Coconut Grove resident. “Sometimes I got worn out and tired,” he says. Shortly after his…
It’s that time of year again where people across the nation gather around their dinner tables to give thanks, only to then trample each other the very next morning over meaningless deals. But for one local band, the season inspires a different approach to the holiday. Together with a lineup…
Basel is rapidly approaching this city like a dark cloud full of expensive art and pretentious New Yorkers. But, there’s a silver-lining to this cloud: music. Because while we’ll have to suffer through insufferable traffic and long lines next week, we also get some pretty great shows. You can check…
A year ago, I sat down with Travis Acker and Trace Barfield, two lifelong musicians with years of experience playing in bands and busking on the street. They’d recently warmed to the wonders of electronic production and rededicated themselves to merging the best of IRL and URL into a cohesive,…
