This coming weekend, the center of Florida’s entertainment universe will be at the Okeechobee Music and Arts Festival far from the city. The four-day event brings together some bright young things and a slew of classic acts. However, for those poor souls left behind during this musical rapture, we have…
The New World Symphony’s home in Miami Beach has seen many interesting performances over the years. But none of them matched the event Borscht Corp., III Points, Coral Morphologic, and Animal Collective, among other musicians, threw together for Friday night.
February has been filled with nothing but love from our hometown rappers and artists.
Lucinda Williams talks writing about heartbreak, loss, and politics.
You can’t overstate the enduring influence of Laura of Miami, AKA Laura Sutnick, on the local alternative dance music scene. From her tenure as a WVUM radio DJ to her event promotions company Nightdrive and Klangbox.FM internet radio station, she has championed lesser-heard sounds for more than a decade.
Angel Olsen is caustic and refreshingly candid. Coming off a relentless tour schedule in support of last year’s My Woman, she offers the same honesty that has endeared her to audiences since her breakthrough release, 2014’s Burn Your Fire for No Witness. She describes her involvement in “Our First Hundred…
Elastic Bond has never been the kind of band to concern itself with limits, be they conventions of genre, language, instrumentation, or influences within the group’s music. Songwriters Sofy Encanto, from Honduras, and Andres Ponce, from Venezuela, exist in two spaces at once, influenced by the music they heard growing…
It seems wrong that in this era, when just about every music act, from Hank Williams to Miles Davis, is getting its life story put on the silver screen, no producer has found a way to make a biopic of Exposé. The pitch would seem simple: It’s Dreamgirls taking place…
For a man who shortened his stage name to Sting, Gordon Sumner sure does seem to have a thing for wordy song titles. With his great New Wave band the Police, he burdened radio DJs with weighty names such as “Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic,” “Don’t Stand So Close to Me,” and, most brazen, “When the World Is Running Down, You Make the Best of What’s Still Around.” His solo career, with hits such as “If You Love Somebody Set Them Free” and “If I Ever Lose My Faith in You,” showed no more appreciation for brevity.
Come 6 a.m. tomorrow, Miamians will be pouring into LIV only shortly after other clubgoers have staggered out. The usual party favors and staples that come with a visit to LIV – champagne, discreet drug use, and the promise of celebrity cameos – will be eschewed in favor of açaí…
The rise and fall of some of Miami’s beloved music venues is a sensitive subject. Music fans will forever mourn the loss of Grand Central, Studio A, the Vagabond, Will Call, Tobacco Road, the Stage, and many others. But we are hopeful that Miami’s current stages will fill the gaping void.
Artist and producer Rico Love believes no human being should stop learning, especially in the music industry. The Grammy Award-winning songwriter and rapper is one of the most powerful minds at this year’s Next Level Music Conference. On March 5, Clear Vision Music Group will host the networking seminar at Cafe Iguana in Pembroke Pines.
The only thing shocking or scandalous about Coral Orgy is that it took this long for such a title to pop up in Animal Collective’s repertoire. Browsing through the band’s discography and song titles is an extended exercise in absurdity and surrealism, with names pulled straight from the pages of…
Thanks to tags and signatures, listeners know the names DJ Mustard, MetroBoomin, and Just Blaze. Those who still keep their ears to the radio know Mike Will Made-It produced the beat, because a faceless lady says, “Mike Will Made-It,” every time. It’s like sponsorship logos on soccer jerseys.
The mention of Sting, who will play the Fillmore this Saturday, often elicits a face-contorting “ew” or an apathetic shrug from nonbelievers. He doesn’t always get credit for a three-decade solo career that began with his departure from the Police in 1984.
As empty bottles pile up on the corners of tables, wine enthusiasts walking in for a tapas meal at Boca Raton’s Vino Wine Bar on Thursday nights are treated to singer Kendra Erika’s chameleonic musical transformation. Erika begins the night singing jazz standards and the songs of today’s retro-inspired divas — Sade, Amy Winehouse, Adele. But as the night progresses…
For Valentine’s Day, Miami MC’s delivered exactly what the people were asking for. DJ Khaled kicked off the week with his epic song with the royal couple, Jay Z and Beyoncé. Other top-notch rappers to take on V Day: Ball Greezy and Kent Jones, who both dropped mixtapes on February…
Pinball competitions, inexpensive drinks, and live rock don’t sound bad for a Sunday night, right? Now add free admission. Local record label Cheap Miami says, “Sundays are for rock ‘n’ roll, cheap drinks, and a killer time,” and we couldn’t agree more. If you’re looking for a cool way to say goodbye to the weekend or if you’re among the lucky ones who don’t have to work Monday, this is the perfect plan.
It might only be February, but this month’s first release from Richie Hell’s newly launched Gumbo Limbo Music is already poised to be one of the best local-label debuts of the year. This tasteful new slab, Future Blues, includes four slow-burning Delta blues-infused disco-house bangers and is an auspicious sign from the…
Urban Dictionary, the old bastion of the English language and Her Spellings and Grammars that it is, defines “inferion” as: “A person with low intellect and amazingly poor moral judgement. Often times [sic] ignores that which discomforts them and clutches to useless ideals for no reason. They have low…
Sometimes between late-night DJ sets and loud, sweaty rock shows; plane boardings and landings; hotel showers and studio sessions that blur into one another and out of society at large, Jesse F. Keeler thinks to himself: “What am I gonna do after I live this life?” Then, before he can answer, he finds himself reinspired and reinvigorated, and suddenly he’s back in the studio or standing behind another set of turntables, and he’s doing what he’s always done: his best at making it up as he goes.
Greyhounds hope to bridge audience and genre gaps when they headline Day 2 of the Coconut Grove Arts Festival.
