Can you hear it? That’s the roaring whoosh of tuneage sweeping its way through the Magic City this week. While you’ll still have to battle through the Monday rush for it to get here, your life will change (at least for the night) at the sound of that first note…
It’s gonna be a movie Nintendo game. Famous rappers love to boast about their x-rated, violence-addled, billion-dollar blockbuster lives, as if every day were a supersexy summer action epic. But rather than the Hollywood treatment… Maybe their flashy, larger-than-life, often ridiculous celebrity existences might be more adequately captured via candy-colored…
Who will be the next Ricky Martin? The Puerto Rican heartthrob started his career, shakin’ that bon-bon as a member of legendary Latin boy band Menudo when he was just 12 years old. Now lil’ Kiki is all grown up (actually, he’s 43) and he’s teaming up with Simon Cowell…
Remember when we all thought medical marijuana would pass in Florida, and then you were super-disappointed when Miami failed to get out the vote? Fear not, for American democracy is a revolving door, and the time to hit the polls is coming sooner than you think. The street soldiers of…
Freezing temperatures, an empty wallet, and the weekend… That’s what most of us faced this frigid cold morning. While we may have nothing but layers upon layers of sweaters to wear and spare change in our pocket, that’s not gonna stop us from partying it up this weekend — no…
Do you remember you first wiggle at the Electric Pickle? The Wynwood dance hangout has grown into a world-renowned deep house institution over the past six years. Even Richie Hawtin was like, “How come y’all don’t book me?” And the Pickle’s people were just like, “Because we don’t do techno,…
Miami is the future. Coast to coast, the United States seems destined to become a multilingual, multicultural nation that looks a lot like our own ciudad magia. That’s why Hispanicize, a conference for Latinos in media, marketing, entertainment, and tech, has chosen downtown Miami to be its staging ground. And…
If you spent any time in a legit nightclub in 2014, there’s a good chance you heard Danny Daze’s “Silicon.” The track was an infectious cut that blended sonic touches from Miami’s dance music scene — including repurposing the obnoxious horn FX, as well as techno’s rougher edges that some…
Space may be the final frontier, but it’s one of the first places on the list of must-sees for any Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week aficionado. It’s not just a nightclub. It’s a dance music institution. It stands to reason the downtown monolith would book a serious roster…
Miami is a budding metropolitan superpower, with a music scene that offers some of the best dance, hip-hop, and Latin music in the world. But did you know Miami is also a destination for today’s international, Grammy-winning jazz legends? For seven seasons, the Adrienne Arsht Center’s monthly Jazz Roots series…
Dancing. Driving. Napping. French touch pioneer Étienne de Crécy makes “electronic music albums that you can listen to anywhere.” His latest is Super Discount 3. It’s the third installment (and first in ten years) of his lauded SD series, which debuted in 1996 before seeing its sophomore release in 2004…
Dipset warned you. Last month, the Harlem rap crew dropped a comeback track, hollering “Have My Money.” And later this year, Juelz Santana, Cam’ron, Jim Jones, and Freekey Zekey will be putting out a new Dipset mixtape with bold-name cameos from Funkmaster Flex, Swizz Beatz, DJ Khaled, and DJ Mustard…
Poppin’ bottles in the club, bumpin’ and grindin’ till daybreak… That’s how hardcore 305ers love to spend their nights. And though it may only be Wednesday, our ability to party hard isn’t limited by the midweek slump. In fact, it’s exactly the motivation we need to make it through the…
“Liquor in the front, party in the rear.” That’s the motto of The Bend Liquor Lounge, a new ’70s-style boozing spot in Miami Lakes. But it’s also a snappy way to describe the former occupant of 6844 NW 169 St., a strip-mall dive (and 2013 recipient of New Times’ Best…
Cheese, wine, puff pastries, provocative movies; whatever it is the French are doing, they’ll give it their signature sumptuous twist. French dance music is no different. It’s sexy and artsy but not too high-brow. It’s simple in construction, and yet it has that je ne sais quoi. You know what…
As Hundred Waters would say: “Show us love.” Now signed to Skrillex’s OWSLA label and living in Los Angeles, this indie-tronica foursome — consisting of Nicole Miglis, Trayer Tryon, Paul Giese, and Zach Tetreault — actually got together in Gainesville. And in just two weeks, Ms. Miglis and Misters Tryon,…
Back in 2013, Jason Baez was New Times’ pick for Miami’s Best DJ on the strength of his powers as a selector. By all accounts, he was one of the most popular and in-demand on the local underground house and techno scene. But while he already had a couple of…
UPDATE The Miami Beach centennial has just added Flo Rida and announced VIP Tickets. Shake your body, baby. On Thursday, March 26, 2015, Miami Beach will turn 100. And the city’s throwing a “100-hour, non-stop” festival to celebrate its centennial. The whole shebang will climax on the Art Deco-lined streets…
Seth Troxler peddles the kind of funky, minimal, beat-driven music that one would expect from a man who’s admitted that “Richie Hawtin is my favorite DJ.” The producer, originally from Kalamazoo, Michigan, honed his sound while throwing techno parties in Detroit, and later moved to Berlin, where he’s continue his…
There’s no doubt Miami is the party playground of the South. And the home of some of the top nightclubs in the country. But Ms. Magic City is just as much a music snob as she is club royalty. That’s why everyone, from wannabe divas and Grammy-winning stars to up-and-coming…
UPDATE The music lineup has just been announced for the Miami Beach “100-hour” centennial. And it includes Gloria Estefan, Andrea Bocelli, Barry Gibb, and lots more. Welcome to Miami Beach. Over the last century, it has been home to industrialists, heiresses, politicians, gangsters, hustlers, drug traffickers, conmen, crooners, movie stars,…
So Hard. Now in its fourth year as a Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week mainstay, Gary Richards’ annual multi-day mini-fest, Hard Miami, has not softened. Since 2011, Richards — the Los Angeles DJ, producer, and superpromoter also known as Destructo — has spent WMC and MMW destoying the…
