Minimal has been orbiting the heart for the Latin indie rock scene for quite a while. Not just in Miami, but on a national level. And this much respected four-piece has recently released its fourth, and perhaps greatest album, Fauna, produced by Multiple Grammy Award winner Rafael Lazzaro, and recorded in…
It was a hot Sunday afternoon, and passersby may have wondered at the commotion. The intersection of Biscayne and NE 33 Street was taken over by a parked cop car and a pop-up film set. At five ’o clock, the scene was still. The crew, already tired from a long…
In the early morning of January 1, 2015, Mohamed Youness Adlan, a 22-year-old Moroccan student from Rhode Island, was found unconscious and beaten outside Miami Beach’s Cameo nightclub. The beating left Adlan, who was visiting Miami on vacation, in a coma for three months. While police at first had no…
While our local public radio station WLRN (91.3 FM) is now mostly talk, it still provides listeners one daily dose of music. Every weeknight, from 9:30 p.m. to 1 a.m., Tracy Fields helps Miami unwind from the long day with Evenin’ Jazz. The show started 13 years ago but Fields took…
Concert promoter John McHale has taken on the role of label owner with the advent of Eighty-Sixed Records.
It’s been a few years in the making but it finally arrived: Gunplay’s solo debut, Living Legend. The Carol City rapper and childhood friend of Rick Ross first rhymed to the world on Ross’ 2009 album Deeper Than Rap. His first breakout single, “Bible On The Dash,” had fans itching…
In a small one-bedroom Brickell apartment, Elizabeth Ann Clark, dressed in all white, sits in front of her studio equipment — a Virus synthesizer, a voice box, a MIDI controller, and a couple of microphones that feed into her Mac Pro. “Let me play you the track I worked with…
Sixteen years ago, Michelle Leshem flew direct to Miami from Toronto, and she’s never looked back. “I’m a snowbird who turned into a flamingo,” she jokes. In her day job as the leading lady at SuperMarket Creative — the agency behind many of Miami’s wildest nightlife adventures — she helps…
It isn’t just hall of fame football players like Michael Irvin and Jim Kelly or action movie stars like The Rock and Sylvester Stallone that have walked across The University of Miami’s campus. There are also a boatload of renowned and acclaimed musicians who attended class in Coral Gables. And…
“You know how a lot of people are always walking around taking pictures? I’ve always been that way with sound,” Emile Milgrim says. In her new project, Archival Feedback, the Miami native is collecting everyday sounds she captures around Miami and mixing it into a surreal electronic groove. “The way…
When you think Jacuzzi Boys, you think Miami. Anyone familiar at all with the music scene down here knows that the tropical garage rockers have become just as synonymous with the Magic City as Cuban sandwiches and hypodermic needles. The Miami-bred trio’s fuzzy, beachy sound is the perfect soundtrack for that South…
Before he knew a word of English, Arnie C found himself drawn to American and British rock and roll. Though he couldn’t understand what the singers were screaming about, the message came through to him clear as day. “When I was six-years-old Pink Floyd was my favorite.” he told us. “I…
Miami is known for a lot of things: sun, beaches, the hedonistic excess of vice — but it was only very recently that we’ve become known as a haven for art. However, what the New York Times and all the other news outlets drooling over Art Basel don’t seem to…
“Electronic. Booty. Makes you feel a type of way.” That’s how Miami’s new four-piece electronic band Kodiak Fur describes its sound. Born in the recording studio almost by accident, Kodiak Fur is certainly among the more charismatic acts hanging around the Miami music scene these days. When Steven Sanz and Christopher…
“We’re bad at math. We really started in May 2013,” Chuck Livid, founder of TuffGnarl.com, says. You could say his music blog — which New Times declared 2015’s best — is running on Miami time. “Last year’s was in late summer too,” Livid says while trying to remember the foggy…
Quick — think of a drummer. No, that Muppet doesn’t count. It’s hard, ain’t it? Certainly not as easy as naming a guitarist or a lead singer. “Drummers don’t get a chance to stand out. I thought it would be cool to give drummers I respect 15 minutes to come…
Classical musicians have been trying for years to figure out how to hook younger generations. They might want to give Jackie Rodriguez a call. The clarinetist and cofounder of 8 Bit Wave had a full house of Miami Dade College students during one of the school’s orchestra shows. She even…
Otto Von Schirach worships at the alter of the avocado. If you follow the king of the Miami bass freaks on Instagram, surely you already know this. And surely you too have watched his bizarre 12 second videos praising the fruit gods and been left both confused and craving a…
There’s strength in numbers. Most often in life, this is true. Two is better than one, and collaboration always breeds better ideas. But sometimes finding like-minded folk to collaborate with can be easier said than done. Bribery Corporation, an up-and-coming Miami-based label, is in the early stages of recruiting its…
A week ago, Afrobeta debuted their new music video before a live crowd at Miami’s new late night lounge, Libertine. A day before the Magic City duo’s set, we visited their home and recording studio, stepping over the garden and narrowly avoiding amputation via their fearless nine-pound guard dog, Suki,…
Next time your landlord gives you shit about few nails in the wall or a chip in the paint, you should take them over to Bruiser’s pad. The local experimental trio turned their house in Miami’s historic Buena Vista neighborhood into, essentially, a very hardcore Airbnb. “The landlord didn’t like the…
Back in September, on the set of the N.W.A biopic Straight Outta Compton, cameras rolled in the parking lot of the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium as actors playing prudish protesters hoisted signs (“Crap Rap N.W.A”) and ran over a pile of the group’s records with a steamroller. A little later,…
