Pablo Alvarez could feel his throat swelling. His tonsils were becoming raw and enlarged, and his sinuses started to clog. “I didn’t understand that part. My body was shutting down on me — I could tell.” But he still had many hours left to go. Alvarez, of the Miami bred,…
Julieanna “YesJulz” Goddard’s hustle as Miami’s premiere party host and Snapchat queen is taking a turn into a new medium: radio. In between flying around the country and throwing her infamous “1AM Vibes” party, the reigning it girl is busy building her brand new radio station on DJ Skee’s Dash Radio. It will…
Back in the day, South Florida had a wealth of concert venues both large and small, all suitable spaces for attracting national and international touring bands that came from both near and far. We still have a few left, of course, but those of us who went to concerts back…
Part family, part group of friends, part business venture, a band can be a sticky relationship. And like any relationship, it’s not easy for a musician to leave a band, especially one heading straight toward success. Vocalist and guitarist Luigi La Rocca experienced this firsthand when he recently parted ways…
With as many fingers as she has in so many different pies, Kim Cameron might as well be a baker. Adding yet another title to her resume wouldn’t be wholly unexpected as the Miami Beach resident and L.A. native, is a singer/songwriter, children’s author, and radio personality. She’s also taken…
Miami artists like DJ Khaled and Ky-Mani Marley brought all corners of hip-hop together this week. Throughout the week, DJ Khaled has been dropping verse after verse from the best lyricists in the rap game with singles like “Holy Key” and “Do You Mind.” Meanwhile, reggaeton star Farruko and Miami’s own Ky-Mani…
I remember the first time I saw DJ Khaled in person. It was in the small auditorium of Citrus Grove Middle School, just a few blocks west of Marlins Park, where, six months later, he’d open for Beyoncé at one of the biggest concerts Miami’s seen in decades. But back…
From the start, Elizabeth Ann Clark, AKA Virgo, has taken care to craft herself visually as well as sonically. First through the self-portraits that presented her as an extraterrestrial siren, and later through her Water Planet video game. Virgo is as much as something to listen to as it is to…
Josh Simkowitz has written fifty songs in the year and a half since he took up the moniker Chaucer. “I have a song in my head, but they usually come out as a different song than I thought they would,” the ultra-prolific Palm Beach native tells New Times. Inspiration can come…
If you thought Tara Long’s music-cum-performance art project Poorgrrrl was just a temporary thing, Long is back to prove you wrong. Not that she ever really went away. After a buzzy — and busy — Art Basel this past December, Long opened for rising queer rapper Le1f at Bardot back…
The most talented and big-hearted soul I’ve ever had the privilege of calling a friend has passed away. Kairo Gudino, aka Chalk, was a producer with releases on Nervous Records, Mr. Nice Guy, Loveless, and more. He was a DJ, singer, rapper, artist, designer, and all-around creative human. He was…
Wynwood’s role as the makeshift art capital of Miami is now a well-worn cliche. And while the neighborhood is now attracting its fair share of corporate interest and apartment buildings, one of the neighborhood’s older establishments, Wynwood Cafe (AKA the Wynwood Warehouse Project) is giving a voice to the local…
Miami’s top tier artists like Pitbull and Rick Ross have dropped off monumental records throughout the week. And while we wait for DJ Khaled to drop his next single off Major Key, rising artists like Bizzy Crook, Bobby Biscayne, and Denzel Curry hold it down for Dade County with fresh…
Miami’s hip-hop scene has evolved significantly since the days when 2 Live Crew, Trick Daddy, and Trina were the only rappers representing Dade County on a national level. As the aforementioned revolutionaries encouraged a new generation of Miami artists like Rick Ross and Denzel Curry to grab the mike, rappers…
When University of Miami senior and jazz vocalist Zoë Fromer discusses her adopted home, the imagery of a “plastic wonderland” is frequently invoked. “A lot of Miami is fabricated for tourists — not a lot of it is real,” Fromer says. “[Miami’s] been around for a long time, yes, but……
For many of Disney’s 90-plus years, diversity came only with respect to species. Sure, you could watch a crab share a scene with a mermaid, but good luck finding a black person. Luckily, that changed in 2009 with the release of The Princess and the Frog, a film featuring Disney’s…
Just under a year ago, Florida made its relationship with Pitbull official. Visit Florida, our state’s private/public tourism promotion group, struck an undisclosed deal with the Miami native to make Pitbull Florida’s official tourism ambassador. So far, his relationship with Visit Florida has been most visible through social media, where…
If you happen to come across a squadron of tween and teen girls armed to the teeth with guitars and drumsticks, fear not. Put aside your Children of the Corn nightmares, for it’s probably only the Miami Girls Rock Camp. MGRC, a Miami summer camp where young ladies learn the…
Opened in 1963 and closed nearly three decades later, Miami Marine Stadium on Virginia Key gave spectators a seaside view of some of the biggest names of the 20th Century. Elvis Presley, the Rolling Stones, and Richard Nixon all graced the stage, which used to float a few dozen feet…
It’s Monday, which means you’re probably nursing a hangover and doing your best not to think about the fact that you’ve got a full work week waiting for you. But, whatever it is you did this weekend, it probably can’t compare to Eskeerdo’s two-day pachanga in the official visual adaptation…
Dance music and Miami have been bedfellows pretty much from the start, from way back to its R&B and disco roots to its current EDM form. To have a conversation today about dance music without mentioning Miami is to leave out a very important chunk of the genre’s development. From…
Finding success in the competitive world of film scoring is challenging enough. But coming up with a completely new type of musical invention with which to play one’s craft is likely even more daunting, especially in a universe where seemingly every sound and sample has already found a practical use…
