Mike Diaz – better known by his stage name, Millionyoung – has always championed for Miami. Though he travels for shows regularly, The Magic City will always be home for the chillwave solo artist. “Miami is somewhat undefined right now, which is exciting,” he told us. “It feels like a…
Over the past 20 years, the electronic music scene has exploded and evolved. It has left the sweaty warehouses and basement clubs and leaped into the spotlight via megastar producers and events such as Ultra Music Festival. One man who has witnessed the peaks and valleys of it all is…
Even Lori Garrote’s day job involves rock ‘n’ roll. On a recent afternoon, she juggles questions not only from New Times but also from her co-workers at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood. The onetime singer of the New and AKA is now concentrating on a solo…
Nag Champayons. Rising Sounds of a Sinking City CD release party with Ackdaddy. Wednesday, June 24, 10 p.m. Bardot, 3456 N. Miami Ave., Miami; 305-576-7750; bardotmiami.com. Admission is free. Ages 21 and up. Jam out to the “Afrogalactic tropidelic sounds” of the Nag Champayons as Little Haiti’s “world garage” funk crew celebrate the…
Dear Miami, don’t fret. That subtle shock of sexual energy you experienced last night was not the ancient gods of libido trying to claw their way out of the earth’s crust. It was only the scientific reaction of Flume’s music meeting the live-wire hormones of about 1,000 nubile screaming superfans…
You’ve already got your tickets to III Points 2015, right? No? Well, you might want to not hesitate any longer as the festival has now revealed it s full lineup, which includes a who’s who of Pitchfork-approved acts that will have any music nerd salivating. Headlining the 2015 festival includes…
The War on Drugs with The Everymen Fillmore Miami Beach Tuesday, June 16, 2015 Better Than: Staying home and hate-watching LeBron James lose another NBA Finals. It’s safe to assume the Philadelphia-based rock band that played the Fillmore last night came up with the name The War on Drugs ironically…
As he walks his newborn daughter to sleep John Hancock III is excited that he’s finally going to attend one of these Third Thursday Poplife Social events at the Perez Art Museum Miami he’s been hearing so much about, even if it’s only because he’s headlining it. The monthly concerts —…
Her wardrobe may malfunction from time to time, but Janet Jackson is an unbreakable act. Her 1989 album Rhythm Nation 1814 helped popularize socially conscious music while her sexual provocation sparked controversy with conservatives. Despite her brother’s towering status, the youngest Jackson child was never overshadowed by her family name…
Asaf Borger has been a lot of things. The 27-year-old DJ’s nearly decadelong career as his alter ego, Borgore, has taken him many places. He started his very own record label, Buygore Records, collaborated with pop superhero Miley Cyrus, and has released tracks on some of EDM’s biggest labels. His…
Lana Del Rey’s Endless Summer Tour with Grimes. Tuesday, June 16, 7:30 p.m. Coral Sky Amphitheatre, 601-7 Sansburys Way, West Palm Beach; 561-795-8883; ticketmaster.com. Tickets cost $19 to $73.50 plus fees via livenation.com. Brace yourself for some Ultraviolence with Lana Del Rey. Take a ride to West Palm (you can visit your grandma on the way) as…
Hot Sugar’s work can be considerably icy and bitter — at least nominally so. Track titles like “Addictions,” “Trauma,” and “Dead Inside” certainly seem to point to a darker section of the human condition, a running theme in his work. But the actual sound of the Grammy-nominated NYC producer (born…
Miami and Las Vegas are different worlds, but the two cities do have some things in common. Both are hot. Like, unbearably, ridiculously ice cream cone-evaporating hot. Both cities can get weird when the sun goes down. And Miami and Vegas both share a massive love of dance music. There…
David Crosby. Tuesday, June 9, 8 p.m. The Fillmore Miami Beach, 1700 Washington Ave., Miami Beach; 305-673-7300; fillmoremb.com. Tickets cost $45.50 to $65.50 plus fees via livenation.com. Go on what David Crosby hopes will be “a little voyage where the words of the songs come out” at the Fillmore as…
“It’s Michael Jackson through a different perspective, from someone who grew up in a totally different background and culture.”
Art Basel, WMC, III Points. That’s the holy trifecta as the III Points camp would have you believe, and with two successful Octobers behind them, they’re not far off. The music, art, and technology fest has emerged from Wynwood’s streets as something of a show-stopper, and this year, organizers promise…
DJ Irie’s hyping up the crowd has become as much a fixture of Miami Heat games as Pat Riley or Burnie the mascot, so it’s hard to believe when he was first offered the job to be the team’s official inhouse DJ he turned it down. “When the Heat moved…
The War on Drugs is still very much Lost in the Dream of its breakout year. Since the release of its gorgeous, expansive, and undoubtedly brilliant album in 2014, the Philadelphia band has spent the majority of its time dancing on the positive side of almost every critical tongue and clocking…
Rise and shine, 305! June has finally arrived. Though the official start of summer may be another 20 days away, we like to get the party started early in the Magic City. So if you aren’t already pumped up for the Most Epic Summer Ever, your music pros at New…
Looking back on the past 50 years, there are many indelible iconic images of David Crosby that come to mind. There’s the beaming young man in a cape with the mischievous look in his eyes who gazed with a kind of beatific innocence from the covers of those early Byrds…
Third Eye Blind’s long-time drummer Brad Hargreaves remembers an odd time between the band’s third and fourth albums. A time when he was on the road with another band, Year Long Disaster, touring in a tiny van and struggling. Then somewhere around Pittsburg, he came up with an idea for his…
Unlike the UK, where rave culture blazed through the mainstream like a wildfire following the late-’80s acid house explosion, American rave remained a comparatively smaller, self-contained underground subculture. It’s therefore possible to trace its origins to a mere handful of key players. One of them is certainly San Francisco DJ…
