As old-school as it may sound, radios are still key to discovering new music. While blogs and streaming services soak up most of the spotlight nowadays, radio, though not the giant it once was, remains relevant. Especially when it comes to local music, radio exceeds where websites like Spotify cannot…
“It’s all my fault,” Peter Stebbins, founder and president of the nonprofit local radio station Shake 108 (107.9 FM), tells New Times. He launched his humble radio station just less than two years ago, but now the beloved frequency faces a government-mandated obstacle. “The FCC recently did an inspection of…
According to Miami Beach High alumnus Rachel Goodrich, you can take the girl out of Miami, but you can’t take Miami out of the girl. In a 2008 New York Times profile, Goodrich was proclaimed “queen of the Miami indie rock scene.” But in 2010, she took off for the…
On any given day, scooting above the horizon along Miami Beach, they’re there: 260-horsepower, 1,100-pound machines of marketing fury, invincible to any and all ad-blocking technology with the exception of your everyday eyelid. In Miami, the aerial advertising capital of America, modified crop-dusters tow banners seven days a week, hawking…
From the street, Wynwood’s next Art Walk will be much like every other. An array of art enthusiasts will once again descend upon the area like well-dressed mosquitoes. Galleries will open their doors and lure pedestrians inside with the soft roar of air conditioning. And artists and dealers will push…
Ibeyi, the downtempo soul duo comprised of French-Cuban twins Lisa-Kaïndé and Naomi Diaz, have been everywhere in the last month. Five days ago, they opened Chanel’s controversial fashion show in Habana, singing “River,” their hypnotic ode to Oshun. Less than a month ago, they were sprinkled throughout Beyoncé’s visual epic, Lemonade, amongst…
We could smell the weed tucked away in sports bras and book bags four blocks away from Mana Wynwood. The name “Rolling Loud” suddenly made sense. A smoke-out was in full effect for Dope Entertainment’s Second annual Rolling Loud Music Festival, hosted by Miami’s YesJulz, and there was nothing the…
Though John Lennon once co-wrote a song about a Magical Mystery Tour, The John Lennon Educational Tour Bus only goes halfway with that philosophy. While it does hope to create magic, it also seeks to take the mystery out of the artistic process. Started by Yoko Ono Lennon 19 years…
Here’s a fun fact: Florence and The Machine (or Florence + The Machine, if you’d like) have never scored a number one single on the American Billboard charts. In fact, the highest the band has ever charted is twenty-one with “Dogs Days Are Over” back in 2008. And yet, the…
If you have recently seen Markus Schulz chasing seagulls on South Beach with a microphone, fear not. The world famous DJ is not losing his mind. He was simply recording sound samples for his latest album. Schulz’s sixth album, Watch the World, dropped on April 29, and the album release party…
It’s that time of the year again. Some of the best bands in the state of Florida gather to perform for four days on a beautiful piece of land in the middle of nowhere for the annual Orange Blossom Jamboree, a concert by Florida bands, for Florida bands. Sertoma Ranch…
Cedella Marley is one busy individual. As the first born daughter of Bob and Rita Marley, she could have easily sat back, basked in her parents’ fame, and, presumably, enjoyed her inheritance. Yet, she’s clearly no slouch. A singer, dancer, fashion designer, actress, and entrepreneur, she’s also a principal in…
If you know even the slightest amount of Spanish, it is impossible for Cinco de Mayo to sneak up on you. Unlike Thanksgiving, Easter, and St. Patrick’s Day, the holiday’s date is right in the name, and that date is drawing ever so closer. Cinco de Mayo, which commemorates an…
Last year, Dope Entertainment’s inaugural Rolling Loud Festival was a shitshow. Though the impressive lineup included hip-hop heavy hitters such as Action Bronson, A$AP Ferg, Juicy J, and Schoolboy Q, the festival was plagued by negative forces both in its control (production, planning, and customer service) and out of its…
On April 1, 2016, a single-seat plane circled over Miami Beach with an unusual banner in tow: “CLUB SPACE — PLEASE PAY YOUR BANNER BILL!” The not-so-subtle message was no April Fools joke, but rather the boiling point of a conflict that, according to the company Aerial Banners, Inc., had…
Typically, getting a peek into the inner worlds of a pair of 20-year-old artists is a task for someone with the patience of the Virgin Mother and the cleverness of Oscar Wilde. But twin sisters Naomi and Lisa-Kaindé Díaz of the sonic duo Ibeyi make interviewing easy. They speak excitedly…
“Oh, I think that I found myself a cheerleader.” Right there. We don’t have to say anything else. You’re already singing the rest of that song on your own, aren’t you? How could you not? Reggae artist Omi’s “Cheerleader” was one of the most ubiquitous songs of 2015. It reached…
In less than ten years, Armando Christian Pérez went from Mr. 305 to Mr. Worldwide, not just in name and on record, but in real life. As the most famous Cuban-American musician since Gloria Estefan, the man better known as Pitbull has escaped the trappings of his Miami upbringing and…
For centuries, mankind has attempted to tame nature with a heavy hand. Floridian developers have drained huge swathes of Everglades swampland, building so-called “McMansions” behind useless gates and endless arrays of one-story shopping centers where iguanas and alligators once reigned. And yet, that very development pollutes the water and air,…
With a focus on the positive and political in the early ’90s, Arrested Development was often brought up in defense of hip-hop whenever the mainstream media demonized rap as the soundtrack of so-called gangsters. With hits like “Tennessee,” “People Everyday,” and “Mr. Wendell,” Arrested Development delivered Afrocentric messages over Sly…
Thanks to the wonders of YouTube, anyone born after 1983 can relive the historic moment when Greg Wilson introduced the concept of DJ mixing to U.K. television viewers for the very first time during a broadcast of The Tube on Channel 4. “It would be a major moment in my…
This week’s best show isn’t a singular concert but an entire weekend of hip-hop mayhem instead. Rolling Loud is one massive mixtape come to life. The lineup for the two-day festival is a murderer’s row of high profile rappers and rising stars: Future, Young Thug, Ty Dolla $ign, Lil B.,…
