If you, for some reason, have spent any time snooping around the Montreal music scene, you’ve likely encountered the jagged garage stylings of Mark Sultan. A jangly crooner with a taste for the craggy intersection of punk energy and blues caterwauling, Sultan has been jamming around the Great White North…
Techno, by definition, is futurist music — a forward-pushing technological soundtrack for the fast pace of life in today’s postindustrial globalized society, ever advancing toward its sci-fi vision of the future. But in Latin America, a new vanguard of artists uses electronic music to instead look back at the pre-industrial…
Just when you thought they were done, III Points slaps you with another lineup update. Today, over 30 artists joined the three-day lineup, with the biggest name among them being Vince Staples, who’s quite possibly the most hyped rapper of 2016 — and for good reason. Keeping the rich tradition…
On May 24, 2006, former Vice President Al Gore debuted a 118-minute documentary that would introduce a new term to the American vocabulary: global warming. Somewhere, presumably on an island sponsored by Bacardi, sitting on a couch stuffed with used bikinis and frozen margaritas, Armando Christian Pérez, a then-25-year-old rapper…
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…
It’s morning in Oslo, Norway, and Hans-Peter Lindstrøm wakes ups, climbs out of bed, drags himself to the coffee pot in the kitchen, pours a cup, takes a sip, and closes his eyes for a moment before silently admitting it will soon be noon and he better get to the…
I’ve been reading Donald Trump’s The Art of the Deal, which was ghostwritten by Tony Schwartz, who channels Trump’s daily deal-making in what is basically a window into the life of a more charmingly juvenile version of Gordon Gekko. I like this book a lot, if only because it reads…
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…
For lack of a better word, Italian singer/songwriter, Laura Pausini is a phenomenon. The world renowned popstar made her professional debut in the late ’80s at the age of 12 and made her name in the ’90s with top charting hits across Europe and Latin America. Over the course of…
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…
Juggalos know how to hustle. At their annual Gathering, just about anything you could ever possibly need to have a good time, from drugs and booze to more, uh, creative fare, is available for purchase from wicked clowns advertising their wares via hand-lettered cardboard signs. Here’s a small sampling of…
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…
Argentinian electronic rock hybrid Altocamet have been a successful band in Argentina and South America for over twenty years. On the group’s first U.S. tour and their first ever performances in Miami, Altocamet see themselves as ambassadors for the sound of the seaside town from which they hail. The band…
Sunday might be the most important day of the weekend. How you spend it will set the tone for the rest of your week. And what better way to use your last day of freedom than enjoying some live music in the heart of Little Havana at Ball & Chain’s new…
Of all the ways I thought I would be describing my first Gathering of the Juggalos, “like my first rave” was not on the short list. But after less than 24 hours among the fans of Insane Clown Posse, that’s how I’m feeling. It’s like I’ve traveled back in time…
Heavy Drag is doing its best to live up to its name. “Pop music can be found in any part of music,” Michael Ruiz-Unger tells us. “It’s a little harder to make something more of a bummer.” Spawned out of the ashes of another local act called Lil Daggers, Heavy…
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…
After finding success with Wynwood’s Latin-themed El Patio (which we named Best New Bar this year), Nicolas Hoyos and Berto Perez were searching for a different motif when they found a new space off Biscayne and 55th St., where News Lounge once stood. “The area is flourishing nicely and we…
