The patio of Ice Palace Studios, the home of NADA Miami, is a haven for cool liberal dads and artsy couples. Picnic tables and grassy knolls create a homey cookout vibe for the colorful and large-spectacled patrons of NADA. In shorts and accompanied by Jim Wilbur with acoustic guitars, Superchunk’s Mac McCaughan is the cool liberal dad of the afternoon.
When Lee Burridge found himself disappointed by the minimal sounds dominating electronic music, he decided to do something about it. The British house and techno DJ sought out music with a more emotional response. Out of that yearning came his record label, All Day I Dream.
Janet Jackson, especially during the Control era, laid out the blueprint by which the pop stars of today rebel against their creative limitations.
Art Basel visitors can expect to hear scratching sounds coming from the old-fashioned turntables at Las Rosas this Thursday. Scratches That Matter, debuting during Miami Art Week, is a party designed to present female-identifying DJs and turntablists and to raise scholarship money for underprivileged youth.
If you were were 13 to 16 years old in 2007, there’s a chance Paramore was then the most important band in the world to you. Maybe you read articles on WikiHow such as “How to Be a Scene Kid” and scribbled on your Chucks with a Sharpie. Maybe you even took a certain photo of Williams to the Regis salon at Dadeland Mall and told the stylist, “I want this haircut,” and regretted it for years.
Performance art will abound throughout Miami during the weekend of Art Basel, but few performers are as committed to putting on an insane show as Daikaiju, which will return to South Florida when it plays Saturday night at Kill Your Idol. The band’s show at the same venue this past October poured onto the street, where the band, audience, and pedestrians became entwined with volume and flames.
With wild performances, a tumultuous relationship, drugs, and genuine style, Royal Trux’s Jennifer Herrema and Neil Hagerty offered an authentic alternative to ’90s alt rock. From 1987 to 2001, the then couple made beloved albums like Twin Infinitives and Pound for Pound and performed memorable antics that placed them in dictionary under “Fuck…
Over the past decade, the epicenter of Miami Clubland has shifted noticeably westward. While the promise of the ’80s kitsch and cooling winds of South Beach once defined a late night (or early morning) out on the town, Miamians and curious out-of-towners have migrated to the mainland in search of…
Did Björk just dab? Going into Mana Wynwood Tuesday night, I wasn’t sure what to expect from Björk’s DJ set. She’s not known as a DJ in the traditional sense of the word, and her live shows can feel frenetic on their own.
What’s keeping you at home during Miami Art Week? Is it that a lot of events are “by invitation only,” and the thought of having to schmooze your way in seems exhausting? Or is it the exorbitant prices some venues are charging? That’s why this week is so great. There’s something for every…
Backed by a green screen and a beat, Super Deluxe streamed Alvarez’s rap for 26 hours on its website and Facebook Live.
Every year, Art Basel Miami becomes a bigger, brighter clusterfuck of pretentious, velvet-roped, invite-only events. It makes sense. Art is all about speculation, and celebrity is all about exclusivity. But director Gil Green knows plenty of celebrities, and he thinks that whole A-list, expensive scene is just a racket. That’s…
For a classic hip-hop group, Wu-Tang Clan has remained surprisingly relevant, but not due to any new music the group has released — not to the public, at least. In 2015, they famously auctioned off the only pressing of their long-awaited LP, Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, to the…
There’s no doubt Miami Art Week will be filled with plenty of art in all shapes and forms, from blue-chip works to esoteric performance pieces. The well-heeled Art Basel crowds will be looking for the next hot artist to add to their collections.
Lookas likes to party. The young music producer from Palmetto Bay cut his teeth as a DJ at house parties all over Miami-Dade before EDM emerged as an ultrapopular genre.
Just when you thought you had your Art Basel plans set, NADA Miami is blowing up your schedule. The fair announced yesterday that Mac McCaughan and Jim Wilbur of the North Carolina cult favorite Superchunk will play an acoustic set Thursday at the Miami Beach Convention Center. The show will mark the band’s first South Florida performance in more than 20 years.
This weekend, Riptide Music Festival took over Fort Lauderdale Beach for the second year. Organizers significantly expanded the event both artistically and geographically, showing their ambition to make the fest a mainstay.
The trance legends have sold out the RC Cola Plant twice already.
Lady Gaga’s fans go to great lengths for their favorite pop star.
Winners of Best Unknown Band in New Times’ Best of Miami 2017, J.M. and the Sweets offer the lofty vocal talents of the 24-year-old Josh Miles. This year, the band appeared in public significantly more around South Florida, thanks in large part to its debut EP, Sol Village. This young soul singer’s career will come full circle with an appearance at Arts Garage in Delray Beach December 10.
There’s no way to overstate the importance of crossover acts. They combine their influences into a digestible, usually pop package that provides listeners the context, permission, and imagination to dive more deeply into the vast and bottomless pool that is music geekery. Just as David Bowie turned people on to the works of Jacques Brel and Robert Fripp, hip-hop madman Kanye West has long made younger listeners unlikely fans of artists such as Steely Dan and, uh, Robert Fripp.
For about ten years, English DJ and producer Nic Fanciulli fretted over making a debut album of original music. In the meantime, he did what anyone would do: earn a residency in Ibiza, start a record label, launch a music festival, get nominated for a Grammy, and consistently hop around the globe like the dance music version of a Jules Verne character.
