Dutch producer Martyn Deykers already boasts releases on groundbreaking electronic music labels like Brainfeeder, Otsgut Ton, and his own 3024. But signing to the legendary Ninja Tune label puts him in the company of some truly seminal acts, especially of the boundary-pushing and genre-defying variety — think Coldcut, Amon Tobin,…
Morrissey Adrienne Arsht Center, Miami Saturday, May 31, 2014 The Moz is beloved as the undisputed master of post-punk balladry, louche melodrama, and biting lyricism. But he’s just as revered (and loathed) for his proclivity toward provocation on a great many subjects, including the consumption of meat and the futility…
Don’t you just hate it when you wake up thinking it’s Friday only to realize it’s actually Monday? Yeah, we’ve all been there, and from experience we can say it really sucks. But one thing that doesn’t suck are all of the good shows going down this week, from shirtless…
Miami’s Grammy-winning DJ Cedric Gervais is turning 35. And for this milestone birthday, he’s celebrating in straight-up 305 celeb style — by throwing a mega bash under the bright, flashing lights of the Fontainebleau’s fanciest nightclub, LIV. “It’s a family,” the birthday boy says about the club. “They’ve been supporting…
Sorry, Roger Sanchez fans, your boy has been possessed by S-Man. “There’s a season for everything,” Sanchez suggests. “Just like there’s a day, there’s a night. You need to have the darkness to appreciate the light.” It’s been 20 years since the iconic spinner first had the idea for S-Man,…
As Waka Flocka Flame likes to say: “Yea, I’m on that fuck shit those free tix.” The perpetually shirtless ATL party boy has always repped that life. Well, at least since 2010, when he got famous for “go[in’] hard in the motherfuckin’ paint.” Now he’s wilin’ out ’round the U.S.A…
Prepare for a blizzard of glitter and the heat of The Violet Flame. In just a few months, English dance-pop pioneers Erasure, otherwise known as Vince Clarke and Andy Bell, will be revealing their 16th studio album, a ten-track electro-pop opus recorded in New York and London, and produced by…
Oh, Morrissey. Though, on record, he is often compared to a lyrical Oscar Wilde, his day-to-day outbursts occasionally make him seem like a particularly grouchy Truman Capote. From slagging off the British Royal Family and bitching about carnivores to addressing his sexual identity, the Moz has never been shy about…
Kill the Zo Grand Central, Miami Friday, May 23, 2014 It’s not uncommon for two or more DJs to band together in an attempt to form some sort of supergroup. The most obvious and commercially successful would be the late Swedish House Mafia. Hanbraekes is a personal favorite, combining the…
There’s nothing like waking up and realizing you don’t have to go into the office today because it’s Memorial Day! That means that the rest of the four-day work week is gonna fly by as quickly as the arrival of summer, especially when you’ve got all these great shows to…
Holiday vacay in the club! In just a couple of weeks, Miami and South Beach will be swarmed with famous rappers, slow jammers, reggae heads, and bad girls wearing bikinis to the beach, bikinis on the streets, bikinis in the VIP. Sometimes known as Urban Beach Week. Also, Memorial Day…
Is the EDM scene kind of played out and boring? Kill the Noise think so, “everything from the guys on the stage to the crowd.” “Pretty much the whole thing, right from the second you walk up to the door, is all a routine that we’ve all been through a…
Microsoft versus Apple. That is one retail rivalry that will never be put to rest. But how does Microsoft win over its customers? By celebrating the grand opening of its eighth Florida store with a free ticket giveaway to see Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, live in concert. See also: Macklemore:…
As part of Hercules & Love Affair’s original lineup, Kim Ann Foxman helped rekindle the flames of our passion for classic house sounds in the late 2000s. But as a solo producer and DJ, Foxman is showing us house music’s future, and it sounds sexier than ever. Sultry vocal hooks,…
III Points Festival is back. And promising “68 acts, one warehouse, three days.” Last year’s inaugural celebration of music, art, and technology was by most accounts a success. But some communication and organizational kinks are two things the III Points team is working hard to overcome for its sophomore 2014…
As Brand New once mused: “Gave up my body and bed/All for an empty hotel free concert tickets.” This Long Island indie pop-punk crew, known for 2000s emo anthems like “The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows,” has recently reconvened after several years of being unsigned and inactive. Now…
Porter Robinson says: “I literally fucking love you.” Actually … He says it a lot. Especially when he’s feeling “so caffeinated” and “over-earnest.” The 21-year-old producer was set to be the next epic thing in EDM. But then he decided to reject “the boring, functional music for DJs,” as he…
Time to grind in the 305. It’s Memorial Day weekend, AKA Urban Beach Week. As usual, South Beach and the mainland will be offering a great variety of new and old, ratchet and refined, as well as some straight gangsta lineups. So start practicing your twerk, get your 26-inch chrome…
Tamar Braxton Fillmore Miami Beach Friday, May 16, 2014 Better Than: Watching an episode of Tamar & Vince. “People don’t know I can get turnt up and drop it like it’s hot.” That’s the kind of performance the youngest of the Braxton sisters promised to put on for her Tamartians…
It’s been less than a year since Bizzy Crook made the move from Miami to New York. The plan was to expand his exposure in the Mecca of hip-hop littered with talent that departs as fast has it arrived. A few months after the releases of ’84 and ’84: Off…
Memorial Day weekend is among us … For us 305 peeps, that means we’re either gonna run for our lives and avoid SoBe at all costs, or start our summer vacay early with Kid Ink, Sunghosts, Beenie Man, and the rest of the artists putting on kick ass shows for…
When the dance music world heard bass monster Kill the Noise and melodic house kid Mat Zo were teaming up for a tour, the reaction was a collective wut? “We weren’t really too sure ourselves,” says KTN’s Jake Stanczak. “Mat comes from a different world, I come from a different…
