Poet, journalist, musician, scenester — all that and more. Adam Matza has been a member of South Florida’s music scene in one shape or another for a handful of decades. Now he has a new gig: integral member of the tricounty noise music scene, as both host and performer. After…
Last September, precocious 18-year-old and Seventeen magazine cover boy Shawn Mendes sold out Madison Square Garden’s nearly 21,000 seats. This Wednesday, he will unleash his boyish charms and angsty, lovelorn pop hits on Miami. And though he hasn’t quite broken MSG numbers with this week’s concert at the American Airlines…
It has been more than eight years since Eric Garcia’s anti-blues band Juke put together a recording its founder has felt proud to share. “I haven’t liked anything we recorded since the first album,” Garcia tells New Times. That record, Lungbutter – The Blues Basement Tapes, is the only album he believes captures the spirit of Juke, which in essence reflects Garcia’s love for blues music and his hatred for what it has become.
Our music scene has experienced a resurgence within the last year, with new venues quietly popping up around town. While some of our favorite places have been casualties of our ever-evolving music scene, most recently the legendary Jazid on South Beach, we hope these new spots will fill the crater-sized holes of the fallen.
“I think probably what’s happened is that society has just sort of caught up to the things I’ve been complaining about for years,” Isbell says. “Had my last record come out now, I think people would feel the same way.”
Five years ago, Lebron James and Dwyane Wade were still with the Miami Heat and we re-elected Barack Obama. In retrospect, it feels like a simpler, safer time to have been alive. But just because we’re in a social nosedive doesn’t mean 2012’s legacy doesn’t live on. Take Cheap Miami,…
Oski Gonzalez is a man of many opinions. No topic gets him as fired up as what it takes to put on a music festival. The former booker at Tobacco Road, Gonzalez has put together bills for shows up and down South Florida for more than a dozen years. As…
On July 25, an international pop music mega-star will swoop down upon American Airlines Arena. He’s sold millions of albums and drawn countless screaming fans to his side, and it’s likely you’ve never even heard of him. His name is G-Dragon, and he’s the most popular singer in South Korea…
Following an exciting debut that brought some much-needed post-election salve to Miami vis-a-vis the Flaming Lips and Crystal Castles, House of Creatives Music Festival will be returning to Miami on November 11 and 12 for a second weekend of quality tunes and sand-seeped toes. Although the lineup for this year’s iteration…
Latin music fest MegaRumba may have changed its location, but it’s still the same massive block party. This year, organizers moved the festival from Tropical Park to Mana Wynwood and expanded from a Colombian Independence Day celebration to one for all nationalities — Latinos in particular. Nevertheless, Miami’s Colombian-American community…
What do you picture when you hear the word “Brochella”? Frat boys, perhaps? Glistening biceps coming out of pastel tank tops atop board shorts that are tragically also a pastel color? At BroLife Music Group’s Brochella Weekend, that couldn’t be much further from the truth. Head to the BroLife website…
Singer-songwriter Victoria Blue is embracing the unknown these days. In a not-so-distant past life in marketing, she quit her day job, sold her house, and got to work building a solo singing career. Blue wrote and recorded for the first time at just 11 years old. Her family’s neighbor…
Without doubt, the highlight this week is Kehlani’s show at Culture Room on Monday, July 17. The R&B singer is riding high on the strength of her debut album, SweetSexySavage. Seems South Florida is liking what it’s heard so far, because the show is sold out. This being…
Here’s the not-so-subtle secret to Pink Floyd’s success and perennial popularity: by merging the grandiosity of progressive rock with the everyday concerns of the working man and the dorm room philosopher, the unlikely English quartet struck a chord with just about anyone with a semblance of compassion or intellectual curiosity…
Bribery Corporation brings synthwave to Miami and the internet at large with a new compilation, zine, and fashion look-book.
The Cirque du Trump and rain, rain, rain might be hard to ignore, but there’s some actual entertainment coming to Miami this weekend. The highly anticipated Overtown Music & Arts Festival, which attracted more than 9,000 people last year, returns Saturday, July 15.
“Life is life,” Chris Wong Won said in an interview in 2000. “There’s only X amount of time to shine.” Wong Won, also known as Fresh Kid Ice and one of the founders of 2 Live Crew, has died. He was 53 years old. Along with rap mogul (and New Times columnist) Luther Campbell, Wong Won and several others made history in 1989 with their album As Nasty as They Wanna Be.
Fudakochi’s latest album, Love Invasion S.P., dropped last week and is available on Apple Music, Spotify, and fudakochimusic.com.
Some band names are downright ridiculous: Butthole Surfers, Diarrhea Planet, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, for example. Dinosaur Pile-Up, a British three-piece rock band from Leeds, falls into this category. Frontman, founder, and lead vocalist Matt Bigland named the band, as a sort of joke, after a scene in…
Party Favor, who’s set to perform at Florida International University this Thursday for SummerFest, the school’s annual EDM concert, is a South Florida regular. The DJ/producer has what he calls “more or less a residency” at E11even, one of Miami’s premier dens of debauchery. Having just made an appearance in the club’s main room last Friday, he’s well acquainted with the city.
The last presidential election separated the red and blue states, demarcating two very different American lifestyles. There’s the America that wants its big red Solo cups full of something sweet or boozy, its tanks filled with gas, and its guns on its hips. Then there’s the America that dreams of…
Even when it was open, the only indication of Bardot’s existence were the hordes of people gathering under the small red awning in the parking lot behind the North Miami Avenue strip mall that houses a furniture store and the late-night eatery Gigi.
