It’s a few hours till showtime at the Fillmore Miami Beach. Doors will open for Coheed and Cambria at 8 p.m., and around 4 p.m., the production team is inside readying the stage, running through a never-ending checklist of preshow preparations. Backstage, in the narrow hallway that cuts through the…
Even though the Jacuzzi Boys have been together since 2007, lead singer Gabriel Alcala refuses to believe that the trio can really already be the Miami rock scene’s elder statesmen. “I like to think we’re still fresh and new, but yeah I guess other bands do ask for advice. I…
Record Store Day, the annual celebration of all things vinyl, will be broken into two parts this year at Sweat Records. The day portion on April 16 will give music junkies the chance to purchase rare and reissued collectible albums beginning with an 8 a.m. opening. Owner Lauren Reskin, as usual,…
Though many blamed an abnormally slow and under-attended Miami Music Week on the fact that it overlapped with South by Southwest, the Austin music conference wasn’t all bad news for the Miami music scene. As we saw ourselves, many bands made the journey west to participate in SXSW, giving the…
President Obama traveled to Cuba last Wednesday in an historic effort to restore diplomatic relations with our communist neighbor. But Obama wasn’t the only high-profile figure to visit the island that week. On Friday, the Rolling Stones rocked some 450,000 (or 500,000 or 700,000, depending on who you ask) people…
“Right now I’m heading over to a studio in downtown that I’ve been working out of…It’s actually Pitbull’s spot. He’s fucking with me now. He believes in me and gave me his spot to work out of,” Bobby tells us over the phone. Joevanny Astorga, 28, AKA Bobby Biscayne, is…
Little Haiti is quickly becoming known for many things in Miami. I’m sure most most of you can fill in your own blanks, but I bet you one serpent and two rainbows that a festival celebrating spiritual and physical health wasn’t high on your list. Enter Rikki Kamensky, a strong-minded and almost unbelievably optimistic…
It wasn’t a love for old Robin Williams movies that inspired Calvin Cyrus to perform as MC Jumanji, the Miami rapper explains to New Times. “When I was in high school I was a smart-ass who tried to curse without cursing. Jumanji became my curse word. I’d tell people ‘Jumanji…
DJ Khaled’s career has always been a bit of an anomaly. From the outside, his rise to fame has been a confusing ordeal that is both fun to watch and hard to explain. And over the last year, his success on Snapchat has allowed him to reach a national fame…
With throngs of spring breakers set to invade the 305 for nonstop partying this Miami Music Week, it’s hard not to be in awe of how quickly dance music has been commodified. The genre is now also a lifestyle that can be sold by energy drinks and liquor brands. Then…
Gorky Aguila and Lia Villares, members of Cuban rock band, Porno Para Ricardo, were detained for 24 hours upon returning to Cuba’s Jose Marti Airport. The activists were coming back from Miami, where they performed shows at Cuba 8 Museum and Performing Art Center and Market Gallery. “When they got there, they…
Fifteen years isn’t very long. You still can’t legally drive a car or do any fun adult things. Unless, of course, you’re a tattoo shop, and more specifically, a tattoo shop on Calle Ocho. “After the Furious Dudes show at Sidebar back in December, I talked to Raul about doing…
Going on a year now, clubgoers seeking respite from Miami’s formulaic commercial nightlife soundtrack have been able to find it at the Electric Pickle every Tuesday, thanks to the folks behind the weekly Love Below. Those folks would be Manuvers, Pazmal, Gamma Bot, Telescope Thieves, and Jun-Ill, the beloved DJ/producers…
We first learned of Major Lazer’s plans to throw a Havana concert back in January of this year. And just last week, the Rolling Stones told the world that it planned to do the same. With time, each big leap in American and Cuban relations becomes less jarring. Even news…
“We all grow and evolve on many levels, and I’ve always found refuge in the spiritual realm,” Alex Diaz says. “It’s always saved me from the insanity of the world, and helps me find peace within. At the time of recording Orange Violet, I felt I was outgrowing many things…”
If, like Mitt Romney once said, corporations are people, then why can’t one make a music video? Well, that’s exactly what LIV just did. Miami’s most successful nightclub has released a three and a half minute-long music video that is both a thoughtful critique on social injustice as well as…
When Miami-based promoters PL0T began party planning in 2007, founder Rebeca Lange and her crew focused their efforts around some simple ideas. “PL0T has been doing events in Miami for nine years. We decided nine years ago to produce events with music and people we love that was not being…
The words “folk music” and “Miami” are rarely uttered in the same sentence. There was sadly no sunscreen strong enough to bring Bob Dylan to South Beach. If one tries hard to picture a Miami folk scene, an image pops up of some old guys in pony tails strumming away for a…
Just over a month after it was announced that Major Lazer would be giving Cuba its first major EDM show, another massive concert is coming to Cuba. On Friday, March 25, 2016, British rock legends the Rolling Stones will play a free, outdoor concert at the Ciudad Deportiva de la…
He caused an underground uproar five years ago over the state of the scene, claiming Miami venues sucked a certain part of the human anatomy. He released one last album as This Heart Electric in 2013, and then went into hiding for two years after that to record. He finally…
As an artist, Daniel Gomez, better known as Danny Daze, is not easily satisfied by his own work or by those around him. Talking to the Miami-based DJ, producer, and electronic music extraordinaire about the current state of the Miami music scene, the lone and iconic line from DJ Shadow’s…
“The classical guitar of today is not only classical any more. You can find numerous interpreters and composers who go beyond the limits of what you may call normal music and acquire the most avant-garde techniques of interpretation,” says Carlos Molina. Molina was born in Havana and is the founder…
