It’s been a while since the Phase One acts for Ultra Music Festival 2011 were announced. So, what’s taking so long? Well, the wait will soon be over, as our sources tell us to expect something next week. We aren’t entirely sure who will be on the Phase Two lineup…
Easily one of the most multitasking players in the contemporary jazz field, Joseph “Jowee” Omicil returns to South Florida, this time to delight art patrons at the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami. Multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger, producer, and educator, it’s easy to lose focus that he is primarily one…
To Be Hated, Fortitude, ENOUGH!, Gorilla Pussy, and The 707’s: These South Florida hardcore punk rock bands play hard, fast, and because they love it.If you want to enjoy the sound and the fury of America’s fastest form of rock’n’roll, then go to Churchill’s Pub next Friday when all those…
As an Iranian-American teen caught up in Washington, D.C.’s 1980s music scene, Ali Shirazinia became a fan of hardcore and New Wave. But when that decade died out, the kid switched, like a lot of ex-punks, to electronic noise. He learned to DJ, eventually adopted the stage name Dubfire, and…
In 2010, deep house was the sound of the electronic dance music zeitgeist, and German DJ-producer Nick Curly played no small role in bringing that sound back to the forefront of the transatlantic scene. In just a handful of years, Curly has helped put his hometown of Mannheim, Germany, on…
Does Barry Manilow even exist? Or was the Manilow concept brewed by aesthetes in the Laboratory of Cool to give record-store clerks and music snobs a clear enemy to rail against? It might be something like Saddam Hussein circa 2002, only instead of WMDs, we’re dealing with the globally relevant…
Don Omar is a platinum-selling reggaeton artist based out of San Juan, New York City, and Miami. He’s also the guy who trumped Britney Spears for most albums sold during an in-store appearance at Disney World’s Virgin Megastore. And now the Puerto Rican playa and owner of Orfanato Music Group…
For most people, punk rock is a teenage phase. But for San Francisco’s NOFX, it’s a blueprint for living long and growing old. Back in the mid-’90s, when punk was going mainstream, the band refused a move to the majors, stuck with Epitaph, and eventually landed on its own label,…
The story of DJ Bad Boy Bill is like the history of house music itself, a Chicago music subculture that spread across America and the world to become an international mainstream phenomenon. Schooled in DJing during the Chi-town house boom of the mid ’80s, Bill first made a name for…
It’s a typical scenario nowadays: A Canadian band crosses the border to market itself to the masses and becomes a pop sensation before it has even hit its prime. Yet somehow, between the full-lengths, EPs, and fame, Tokyo Police Club has managed to solidify its sound — and its audience…
Why choose between Winter Music Conference and Ultra Music Festival, when you can have both? DJ Mag has decided to do exactly that this year as it once again takes over the Shelborne, and its nightclub Shine, for two weeks worth of parties.Highlights include the return of DJ Mag’s Recession…
If you choose to party with Robbie Rivera and the Juicy Beach freaks, be prepared to wake up drunk and blistered with a fistful of sand in your pants, an uncut Key lime in your mouth, and absolutely no memory of the last 17 hours. Kicking off Thursday, March 24…
We already broke the news that Hard was returning to the Magic City — only this time it’s going to be a proper club event at Grand Central on Thursday, March 24. Now the lineup has popped up. And while Simian Mobile Disco in nowhere in sight (not that we…
Most of your American friends don’t know composer Yann Tiersen by name. But play a couple of ten-second clips from songs like the melancholy accordion-and-piano piece “La Dispute” or the waltz-y whirlwind lament “J’y Suis Jamais Allé” and your test subject will almost immediately identify him as “that guy who…
One of Miami’s most collaborative musicians, Jorge Rubiera, has decided to create his own personal labor of love. For years, he’s been performing alongside longtime pals in Pygmy, the Down Home Southernaires, and Animal Tropical. But now he’s created Can’t Stop. Only a month ago, the band played its first…
2010 marked not only the quartercentennial anniversary of Miami’s Winter Music Conference but also 25 years of Detroit techno, the seminal EDM movement that spawned the worldwide techno phenomenon. And this year is also a significant one for Detroit techno, as it marks the 20th anniversary of Carl Craig’s Planet…
Sleigh Bells, the noise pop duo from Brooklyn whose debut album, Treats, generated a shit-ton of blog buzz last year, including Pitchfork’s “Best New Music” award, and a nearly perfect review in Paste, is hitting the road this spring for a North American tour with CSS. But when Derek Miller…
Does Barry Manilow even exist? Or was the Manilow concept brewed by aesthetes in the Laboratory of Cool to give record store clerks and music snobs a clear enemy to rail against? Something like Saddam Hussein circa 2002, only instead of WMDs, we’re dealing with the globally relevant threat of…
The story of DJ Bad Boy Bill reads like the history of house music itself. It tells exactly how this Chicago music subculture spread across America and the world to become an international mainstream phenomenon. Schooled in the Chi-town house boom of the mid ’80s, Bill first made a name…
View photos from Washed Out’s performance at Eve here.Washed OutWith ANREve, Miami Friday, January 21, 2011 Better than: Chilling on chillwave — at home.We didn’t really know what to expect last night at Eve. Sure, Washed Out frontman Ernest Greene has done a solid job of being the poster boy…
It seems like only a few years ago that the international EDM scene was in some sort of minimal techno dark age. The sounds were cool and slick and oh-so-Berlinesque, but they just weren’t very fun. Fast-forward to 2011 and Boston’s Soul Clap have helped kick-start a veritable clubland renaissance…
Don Omar is a platinum-selling reggaeton artist based out of San Juan, New York City, and Miami. He’s also the guy who trumped Britney Spears for most albums sold during an in-store appearance at Disney World’s Virgin Megastore. And now the Puerto Rican playa and owner of Orfanato Music Group…
