Drummer Eddie Zyne’s a South Florida boy who’s played with some of the best in the biz – Hall & Oates, Todd Rundgren and the Monkees among them. Ironically, his original career choice was the priesthood. He even went so far as to enroll in a seminary. Nevertheless, fate had…
The cattiness between girls ends after high school. Or, at least, it should. But while you’re signing your so-called friend’s yearbook with a fake “Have a good Summer! I’ll miss you!”, these recent high school graduates are planning an event to empower and remove the feeling of competition between women…
The Miami Gay Men’s Chorus (MGMC) invites you to take a trip down the rabbit hole with its spring concert, Alex in Discoland. The show premieres tomorrow night at the newly renovated Miami Senior High School Theater. The whimsical concert tells the story of Alex, a young man living in…
Olde Time Religion doesn’t need the glamour of sold out shows. Though the duo are newcomers to the Miami music scene, the brooding, easygoing yet no bullshit sounds of South Miami’s own of Gerard Di Paolo and Garman Ranck are making South Florida music fans take note. The bluesy, hard…
With his older brother DJing in the family garage, a teenage Alex Niggemann learned about techno music through osmosis. But it wasn’t effortless. There was obviously a lot of sweat mixed in as well, the classically trained pianist and Berlin-based DJ told New Times. As he prepared for his sojourn…
Now that the last ferry has long since departed from Randall’s Island, the balloon arches have been popped and the crushed-to-blithereens Miller Lite cans have been swept up along with the rest of the festival’s evidence, it’s time to look back on the best music moments at Governors Ball 2015…
Miami New Times music section is looking to expand its roster of freelance writers. We’re looking for enthusiastic and reliable freelancers who can generate pitches and take assignments covering events throughout Miami’s diverse music scene. If you are passionate about the 305’s local music scene, are knowledgeable about the issues…
Summer festival season isn’t off to the best start for Ten Walls, AKA Marijus Adomaitis. Creamfields, Sonar, PITCH, and Urban Art Forms have all dropped the Lithuanian producer from their bills following a recent homophobic Facebook rant where he referred to the gay community as “people of different breed” and…
Free concerts are a rare thing. Any time we hear about one, we think: Sure, but what’s the catch? We want to see free live music just as much as the next guy, but we don’t want to have to give away our social security number in the process. Well suspicious…
Halloween is the last time DJ Erick Morillo remembers playing Miami’s Club Space. He started on the turntables at 2 a.m. and played for 12 hours — straight. That next afternoon, he saw a guy there dressed like Jesus, his hands raised in the air, looking up at the sky…
It was a typically dreary evening in the Colombian capital—cold and drizzling. Yet that didn’t stop thousands from coming out on May 17 when Colombian sensation Bomba Estéreo gave Bogotá a sneak peak of its new album Amanecer (“Daybreak,” in English) at a massive open-air, mountainside dance party on the…
The Great Escape was planned. Then postponed. And now canceled. After a breakout 2014, with the release of her debut full-length album, The New Classic, and monster summer hit “Fancy,” Iggy Azalea announced her first solo headlining tour, dubbed The Great Escape. It was set for 24 North American cities…
Paris Hilton wants to get you “High Off [Her] Love.” That’s why the Hilton empire heiress will be debuting her latest Cash Money Records track at Wall Lounge this Saturday. Featuring a verse from CM label boss Birdman himself, “High Off My Love” is the sex tape star-turned reality TV…
Say “Slow Roast.” And what comes to mind? Are you salivating at the thought of crunchy, fall-off-the-bone pork slathered in spicy, tangy sauces? Are you scrubbin’ the ground with dat fat booty, humming a riddim that sticks to your ribs? Both make sense, because not only is slow-roasted meat the…
Madonna’s been a bad girl. Basically, her entire life. Right now, though, we’re referring specifically to the bad, bad, bad news that this bad, bad, bad girl just broke about having to cancel her Rebel Heart Tour kickoff shows, a two-night stand in Miami. But that’s not all. Naughty Ms…
Though the Strokes are still together, frontman Julian Casablancas, like most of his bandmates, has spent the last few years on other endeavors. With only seven festival shows scheduled through 2015, the essential early-2000s rock band has no plans for a new album. Instead, guitarist Albert Hammond Jr. is prepping…
Kaskade doesn’t just believe in Miami’s music scene. He’s bought into it. Super Music Group is a 305-based management company that started as a means to represent Amtrac. Since 2010, founders Derek Walin and Brandon Kesslar have expanded the mission and the roster to include Craze, Robb Bank$, DZA, Sluggers,…
The blues has given modern music any number of iconic individuals over the course of the past 100 years, but none were more beloved and respected than Riley B. King, better known as B.B. The legendary guitarist died on Thursday night at his Las Vegas home from complications due to…
DJ Craze needs no introduction: Miami’s three-time DMC solo champ is an effin’ boss. So much so, he almost named his latest Baby Gurl EP after his track, “Bow Down,” featuring the 305 Mayor, Trick Daddy. “That was the original name, but we didn’t turn in the paperwork on time and…
Miami nightclubs aren’t known for their longevity. Usually a glossy, expensive party palace or trendy underground venue will open to huge hype, do solid business for a year or two, struggle for a similar stretch of time, and then close, suddenly, while clubbers shrug to show their lack of surprise…
Is it getting caliente in here? Yes, hot and sweaty and crazy, papo. Because iHeartRadio Fiesta Latina, the annual Latin music-focused mini-festival from the internet radio platform owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. (formerly known as Clear Channel Media and Entertainment), has just revealed a secret: It’s moving the party to the American…
The Miami sun is a multifaceted muse. It’s typical for our locale to spawn glammed-out techno or hip-hop party anthems, but travel a bit off the beaten path and there’s a whole new array of beachy wonders to unearth. Case in point: Wynwood’s own Jellyfish Brothers, a local no-wave outfit…
