Have a case of the Monday blues? Well, get over it! You live in Miami. That means there’s always a pretty good party comin’ up. Just check out the five best concerts going down this week, from Futro’s Oscar G and Lazaro Casanova at Bardot to Cut Copy and Classixx…
Little Dragon With Lawrence Rothman Grand Central, Miami Thursday, June 12, 2014 Better Than: Watching the Miami Heat lose … Sob. On a night when parking was hard to come by (as a few blocks away an NBA Finals game was being played), a sold-out crowd still managed to pack…
Yes, Chvrches’ Lauren Mayberry is a lovely lady from lovely Glasgow with a lovely voice. So it’s only natural to develop a crush. But please, save yourself some embarrassment … And do not ask her to marry you via Twitter. That foolish mistake has already been made by many an…
Get giddy. Glaswegian indie-pop outfit Belle & Sebastian have announced a short, seven-city 2014 North American tour. “So since we’re in Austin in October,” the band teases in its official announcement, “we thought we’d drop by and say ‘hi’ to some of you good people in Florida, Atlanta, LA, and…
As half, along with Morgan Geist, of seminal NYC production duo Metro Area, Darshan Jesrani helped spawn some of nu-disco’s most timeless groovage. With its sleek, modern interpretation of vintage disco and boogie sounds, the pair’s eponymous 2002 debut long-player is widely considered one of the decade’s best dance music…
Trash Talk is undoubtedly one of the most hyped bands in (and out of) hardcore right now. The Cali crew is the product of spending most of this past decade in a van, traveling across the country to crush audiences, night after night. However, recent years have seen the group…
Ben Katzman, a South Florida native now based in Boston, got his start in the music world at a young age, booking his friends’ bands in high school. “We were 16 still, and we knew what it was like to have no one really care about you.” He recalls when…
When we were kids, our dads made us listen to a lot of classic rock and heavy metal. Of course, electronic producer Eats Everything of the Dirtybird crew has his own priorities. “I’d been playing techno into my wife’s belly all the way through the pregnancy,” says the proud father…
Since 2002, Jona Bechtolt has been churning out tunes under the name YACHT. But it wouldn’t be until six years later, when Claire Evans turned the solo project into a duo, that the band became a DFA classic. Mixing symbolism and religious iconography with catchy hooks, YACHT fits well with…
The time has come, as the men of Cut Copy insist, to “Free Your Mind.” Or, well, at least win free tickets to the Aussie outfit’s sold-out show with L.A. neo-disco duo Classixx at downtown Miami’s Grand Central next week. To paraphrase the ever-wise CC guys: “When you can’t go…
“Gonna be a crazy one.” And that’s a promise from the Trash Talk dudes. Tomorrow night, those Cali hardcore punks (AKA Spencer, Sam, Lee, and Garrett) are throwing a totally no-charge, all-ages rager at downtown Miami’s Grand Central, with the homie Left Brain of Odd Future. Oh, and it also…
The limo is loaded. The road-trip tunes have been recorded. And it’s time to hit the highway. With three whole months till the August 26 release of his latest garage-y psych-rock opus, Manipulator, the ever-frenetic Ty Segall is getting restless. Dude does not like downtime. So naturally, he’s crashing the…
Rob Base is a hip-hop pioneer whose hits with the late DJ E-Z Rock have sold so far out of this world that even aliens in outer space know that “it Takes 2 to make a thing go right.” He went from winning rap battles at nightclubs in the Bronx…
The weekend may come to an end, but in the Magic City, the music never stops. That’s why artists like New Zealand’s the Naked and the Famous, Sweden’s Little Dragon, and other international superstars make their way to the 305 just to put on a show for us beautiful people…
Behold The Violet Flame. Yes, it’s true that Erasure’s Vince Clarke and Andy Bell have offered only a glimpse of their impending Richard X-produced slab of synth-pop. (A single is set to be released in July.) But once summer’s fizzled, the entire opus will be revealed. And the English dance-pop…
Asked to sum up New Jersey’s the Everymen in a single sentence, singer and six-stringer Mike V says the band’s got “the hips of the E Street, the balls of Rocket From the Crypt, the heart of the Replacements, the soul of Reigning Sound, [and] the livers of Guided By…
It’s been said that all boats rise with the tide. And right now, Dusky is catching a serious wave. The London-based duo has found success as part of the groove-based house music resurgence. Of course, the Disclosure bros may be the darlings, but they’re not the only ones putting four-to-the-floor…
The last time that Cut Copy performed in Miami outside of Ultra Music Festival (which the Aussie outfit has played three times so far), it was for a couple of back-to-back concerts at downtown’s Grand Central. The band sold out one night. So the venue took a gamble and booked…
Waka Flocka Flame’s been busy, to say the least. Flocka’s been spending much of the year entrenched in the EDM scene with Steve Aoki, and released the collabo track “Rage the Night Away” with the cake-tossing club star. He also dropped the EDM-rap crossover “Slippin'” in late April. The Titan…
Maayan Nidam may be a celebrated house and techno DJ, but that’s only scratching at the surface of her musical interests and talents. For one thing, she’s always kept a soft spot for live musicianship. “As a teenager, I listened to a lot of rock — all sorts of rock:…
Next time you hit the streets for a dirty beat, get that shit with a side of Mustard. He’s the chart-topping L.A. studio maestro behind “Rack City,” “I’m Different,” “R.I.P.,” and “Show Me” — basically your entire summer soundtrack. You know his work for its characteristically minimal grime, heavy-on-the-edgy synths…
Cedric Gervais may have been born in Marseilles, France, but the Grammy Award-winning DJ is 305 all the way. That’s why he’s celebrating his 35th birthday at LIV and inviting all of you party people to “party and have fun” with him at the swanky Fontainebleau nightclub. Gervais may be…
