The moon looks nice. You’re waxing emotional. Some butterflies flutter in your stomach. Stars are shiny. Maybe you’ve lit a candle, maybe three or four candles. You’ve gone all out, like, stir-fried shrimp and homemade pasta all out. Those trousers and button down are really well ironed, homie. You feel…
Alex Clare is no stranger to struggle. The English singer-songwriter, best known for his 2011 dubstep crossover hit “Too Close,” owes much of his success to the setbacks he had to overcome. Speaking on being dropped from Island Records early on in his career, Clare is insistent that he would…
10. Peppa Pig Live! Saturday, January 23, 5 p.m. The Fillmore Miami Beach, 1700 Washington Ave., Miami Beach; 305-673-7300; fillmoremb.com. Tickets cost $26.50 to $42.50 plus fees via livenation.com. Peppa Pig may be a pink animated character who hangs out with her British pig family and animal friends, but in the toddler world, she’s the Beyoncé…
Listening to Luis Vasquez’s three dark industrial albums as the Soft Moon, you would think he always lived in Berlin. But he originally hails from sunny Southern California. “I was born in L.A., where I watched MTV every morning. It was mostly glam rock like Poison, Mötley Crüe, Cinderella, and…
Pop punk hearts everywhere are beating fast right about now. Today, it was announced that Weezer will be joining Panic! at the Disco on a co-headlining tour hitting over 40 U.S. cities. The tour starts on June 10 at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion in Texas and ends August 6…
Steve Aoki founded his independent record label Dim Mak in 1996, at the tender age of 19. His aim was to sign the best names in punk, indie, and electronic. 20 years later, it’s hard to imagine, sitting in his UCSB college apartment, he ever saw it getting this big…
Acceptance, frugality, unabashed nostalgia, tolerance of others, fighting addiction and drug abuse, and eschewing crass commercialism: Those are not the typical tenets of a global rap superstar. Ben Haggerty, better known as the thrift-shop-loving Macklemore, has built his reputation and career on subject matter usually glossed over by hip-hop and…
In an era of one-trick ponies riding the bandwagon of a single trendy style, it’s rare to find artists that straddle both ends of the house and techno spectrum. But Russia’s Andrew Guyvoronsky, AKA Tripmastaz. is in the unique position of being associated with both the funky, jacking Chicago house…
In 1985, linebacker Marc Buoniconti of the Citadel — and son of NFL Hall of Fame linebacker Nick Buoniconti — suffered a spinal cord injury after colliding with running back Herman Jacobs of East Tennessee State. It was an accident that would leave Buoniconti paralyzed from the neck down for…
Keys N Krates have fond Miami memories of eating good Cuban food and playing a WMC party hosted by DJ Craze at a strip club. They love Florida and say the crowds are “lit.” Their mission statement reads, “make weird rap beats for the weird kids,” which would make the…
Making a living as a musician was considerably easier before the digital music revolution started killing record sales. These days, it’s particularly tough for idiosyncratic artists like Marco Benevento, a Berklee-trained keyboard virtuoso and songwriter who eschews pop formulas in favor of experimental jazz-rock forays. Fortunately for Benevento, his talent…
The first printmaking conference that I went to made me realize how punk rock printmaking is,” Kristine Leschper raves over the phone. “It’s really time-consuming. There are a lot of really cool techniques. It’s very nerdy. It’s a very old-school way of making art.” Leschper is speaking about intaglio, a…
Since the United States began its diplomatic thaw with Cuba in December 2014, we’ve seen a gradual exchange of culture between the two countries. Some developments were small, like when Netflix became available in Cuba. Or when the famous Havana cabaret, El Tropicana de Cuba, performed its first stateside show…
Jack Daniels is bringing its new Motel No. 7 experience to five different cities. And this Thursday, it makes its stop in Miami. What exactly is Jack Daniels Motel No. 7? Well, it’s not easy to explain. Still largely shrouded in secrecy, Motel No. 7 is the liquor brand’s attempt…
I only had an opportunity to see the late David Bowie once, at one of his rare South Florida appearances on November 17, 1972 when he and his Spiders from Mars (famously consisting of Bowie, guitarist Mick Ronson, drummer Mick Woodmansey and bassist Trevor Bolder) played Miami’s Jai Alia Fronton…
On Halloween 2007, Tallahassee PD received a noise complaint for a house nestled in the woods. When the police arrived, they discovered what Sebastian Solano calls “probably the biggest Halloween party Tallahassee has ever seen.” Solano puts the attendance around 5,000. “There were crowds of people walking in the street,”…
Unless you are a toddler (and if you are, may I compliment your excellent reading comprehension and ability to navigate the internet) or constantly around young ones, the name Peppa Pig means nothing to you. But at any tot lot or daycare center, the pink animated character is inescapable. The…
10. The Miami Chapter of the Buoniconti Fund to Cure Paralysis’ Seventh-Annual Block Party with People You Know. Saturday, January 16, 5 to 9 p.m. Hillstone, 201 Miracle Mile, Coral Gables; 305-529-0141; hillstone.com. Tickets cost $50 via thebuonicontifund.com/miami, or $60 at the door. Party for a cause and help the Miami Project and Buoniconti Fund to Cure…
An unlikely New Year tradition is well into its third year. Through the assistance of a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation’s Knight Arts Challenge, the recent installment of Ocean Drive in Vienna will once again mingle the sounds of Vienna with the tropical Latin American…
After an aspiring DJ named Danny Krivit met James Brown, the young Krivit’s vinyl hobby evolved into a full-blown profession. Raised in 1960s Greenwich Village by a jazz singer mother and a father whose music experience stretched from managing Chet Baker to owning the Ninth Circle disco club, Krivit was…
The concept of “the hustle” has always played an integral role in the mythologizing of music success stories. In the estimation of Roman, one-half of the Chicago-based electronic dance group Jump Smokers, it is the integral element for his group’s ascent up the EDM ladder. Since the Jump Smokers’ first…
Few artists have ever burst onto the scene with the intensity of Macklemore & Ryan Lewis. The beat of the duo’s 2012 smash single “Thrift Shop” — which sounds somewhat like a funky door hinge that could use a bit of oil — is forever ingrained in our minds. Even stranger,…
