Yo, for real … WTF?! Our stupefied disbelief refers to the latest announcement from Speedfreek, Miami’s leading connoisseur of metal, hardcore, and every combination of every permutation of both genres and their extended, interwoven family trees. Just yesterday, we were crapping our Amebix butt-flaps at the news that The Freek…
By now, there’s not much King Britt hasn’t done musically in a career spanning almost three decades. As one of Philadelphia’s electronic dance music pioneers, Britt enjoyed massive commercial success in the ’90s, through his Sylk 130 project and as half of E-Culture with fellow luminary Josh Wink, with whom…
He was asking for a “big booty ho” on his birthday, but we’re pretty positive that 2 Chaniz wrote Santa for a couple of “dem strippers” this Christmas. The lucky bastard just booked a gig at New Time’s favorite strip club, King of Diamonds. Hip-hop’s explicitly heterosexual equivalent of disco’s…
Are you mad bro? It’s understandable. Have you seen the state of dubstep lately? It’s all big drops and wobble sirens and buff dudes in silly tank tops. But it’s OK ’cause The Vagabond and its Get Low crew are going to make all the bad feelings go away. They’ll…
Life in Color at Miami Beach Convention Center December 28
Leftover Crack at Churchill’s Pub December 28
Bright Light Social Hour at Culture Room December 30
B.B. King’s New Year’s Eve at Broward Center for the Performing Arts December 31
Way back in 1987, when the members of Capitalist Casualties — one of California’s most revered first-wave powerviolence crews — were coming up with a name for their band, what do you think was the inspiration? Are they talking about victims of capitalism? Or is the moniker a reference to…
Fang With No Fraud, Powerhouse, To Be Hated, Out of Sorts, and FWA Presented by Idle Hands Churchill’s Pub, Miami Saturday, December 22, 2012 Better Than: An Xmas weekend spent with anything besides loud abrasive music and old friends, reminiscing about those who are no longer here, in a sea…
Damian Lazarus’ Crosstown Rebels is a world-class dance music institution by now — a regular shoo-in for best international label on yearly polls like Resident Advisor’s, and a permanent presence on the global scene through its myriad transatlantic artist bookings and formidable Get Lost and Rebel Rave lineups. It follows…
Mr. Nice Guy Records’ Second Anniversary at Mansion December 20
SkaPocalypse at Talent Farm Studios December 21
End of Days Party at Grand Central December 21
Carrie Underwood at BB&T Center December 22
Photo by Liz TracyIs that Jarvis Cocker? Nah … Just Gaslamp Killer. No one’s really interested in reading about the actual performances taking place on this musical ship of contradictions, the S.S. Coachella, amirite? Instead, you want a spoonful of gossipy anecdotal sugar, straight from the decks of this funny…
Sure, DJ sets at clubs are fun. But DJ sets inside convention centers are funner. Especially when you’re covered in someone else’s sweat and buckets of non-toxic paint while rolling face with your absolute favorite mix-masters. Benny friggin’ Benassi, dirty boy Diplo, and motherflippin’ R3hab are bringing the noise, beat…
There’s a veritable tsunami of electronic dance music coming out of Berlin. After all, it’s the techno capital of the world. But amid this overwhelming wave of white noise, one of the artists currently standing out on the international charts and club bills is Till Von Sein. It helps that…
Photo by Ian WitlenJarvis Cocker and Pulp aboard the S.S. Coachella.The S.S. Coachella set out to sea rather unceremoniously. There weren’t horns, not a streamer in sight, and no one smashed bottles against the body of the ship. But we’d all been aboard the Celebrity Silhouette for about four hours…
Pig Destroyer With Priapus, God Harvest, Implosive Disgorgence, and Maruta Churchill’s Pub, Miami Saturday, December 15, 2012 Better Than: Thurston Moore doing anything in Miami. Churchill’s Pub had itself a busy weekend. Right on the heels of Friday night’s Torche/Holly Hunt album release party, the legendary Pig Destroyer laid siege…
Holly Hunt’s Year One Album Release With Torche, Post Teens, and The Tunnel Churchill’s Pub, Miami Friday, December 14, 2012 Better Than: Any episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation that didn’t have to do with a spaceship battle or a malfunctioning holodeck. Over the weekend, Miami was given a…
The commercial success enjoyed by Visionquest since the label’s 2011 inception might be a testament to how much the mainstream EDM industry underestimates people’s taste in music. The notion that the masses want to be spoon-fed the sonic equivalent of junk food via the likes of David Guetta and LMFAO…
