“I CANNOT WAIT!” Oh yes, all caps and exclamation points… That’s how excited Taylor Swift is about her 1989 World Tour. Another reason Ms. Swift is stoked: The 24-year-old record sales machine just released 1989, her fifth studio album (named, obvi, for the year of her birth), and it’s already…
Shockingly and suddenly. Just an hour ago, Wood Tavern owner and Wood Tavern Group founder Cesar Morales announced that he is shutting down both of his most recent nightlife ventures, Bizerq and Benchwarmers. Located in the former Soho Lounge building at 175 NE 36th St., Morales’ club and sports bar…
Marnie Stern With Killmama and Kazoots Presented by Brooklyn Brewery’s Mash 2014 Gramps, Wynwood Saturday, November 1, 2014 Sure, it was a downright brisk November night, and many of us were undoubtedly still feeling the burn from spooking up the city on Halloween. But that wasn’t going to stop the…
For over a decade, Interpol has been one of the premier outfits flying the ever-vague flag of indie rock. In 2002, when the group’s debut full-length, Turn on the Bright Lights, dropped, it showcased a band that was mostly without peer in its ability to pump new life into post-punk…
Still recovering from all those candy corn shots and endless Pixie Stix you consumed over the weekend? So are we. That’s why we’re hooking you up with the ultimate hangover/sugar rush cure: a little bit of music. Just check out the five best concerts going down this week, from the…
Blowfly is so old that hieroglyphics on Egyptian pyramids show him and Cleopatra having oral sex. Legend has it that’s where he wrote the lyrics to his classic “Girl Let Me Cum in Your Mouth.” Both Snoop Dogg and the RZA have cited his profound influence on the world of…
Rise and shine, you little monsters … It’s Halloween! With All Hallows’ Eve falling on a Friday this year, you may have already spent most of your cash on candy corn shots and Pixie Stix. That doesn’t mean you’ll have to stay home and give away free candy to all…
Because he emerged alongside the UK dubstep explosion of the late 2000s, it would be an easy mistake to pigeonhole Scottish DJ-producer Rustie (AKA Russell Whyte) as a member of that trendy contingent. Glass Swords, his critically acclaimed debut album from 2011, may have fit the basic textbook definition of…
Break out the party favors. And hide your grandmas. ‘Cause it’s almost time for Fool’s Gold Day Off. Last year, this annual Art Basel Miami Beach week get-down brought out 305 legend Trick Daddy and nearly the entire Fool’s Gold crew for thousands of rap fans, hipsters, and arty partiers…
Don’t you just hate it when dumb TV funnymen joke about DJs being nothing but “professional iPod controllers”? Just because a few lazy douchebags get paid millions to fist-pump, mix overplayed tracks, and strike Christ poses … It doesn’t mean that “DJing is easy,” And the 305’s own DJ Craze,…
Les Claypool has been the driving force behind funk metal outfit Primus since 1984. In that time, he has also written a book, South of the Pumphouse, directed a film, Electric Apricot, and become synonymous with the sounds of animated TV shows Robot Chicken and South Park. Now he’s remade…
Remember Bar? It was the nightlife spot on NE 14th Street that became one of the city’s most infamous watering holes until it closed in July 2011. A lot of people were involved with it, but the main contributors were Raul Sanchez (now of Peachfuzz fame), Pres Rodriguez, and the…
Just as seasons change, so do musical fads. What is stylish eventually grows passé before becoming cool again. However, legendary singer-songwriter Emmylou Harris has never paid any mind to waves of popularity. Over the course of her four-decade career, she has been too concerned with staying true to herself, no…
Ten months of working and spending time in America was all it took for the Moscow-born, Australia-based, half-Dominican electro-soul singer Fantine to perform in front of Michelle Obama. “The First Lady was at an event in Miami Gardens, and what happened was, a few days prior, I was singing the…
“This is a music festival that can truly call itself jazz.” For a second-consecutive season, Miami Beach Jazz Festival founder Carmen J. Cartiglia has indeed assembled a fine lineup of modern masters. Last year, celebrating the inaugural edition of the fest, he tapped headliner Michelle Coltrane, the only daughter of…
Miami New Times is looking for a writer and editor to oversee coverage of all things related to art, theater, and other cultural happenings in America’s hottest city. The job entails working closely with a pool of freelancers to produce Night+Day, our weekly print guide to the city, while editing,…
Halloween may be just a few days away, but in the Magic City, the freak show never ends. So grab your crew of bikini clad monsters and tri-breasted vampires and get your spook on. Here are the six best club parties going down this week, from Drake and Marco Carola…
Her skull was fractured. And her leg was broken. However, beyond those basic facts, the seriousness of security guard Erica Mack’s injuries, sustained during a gatecrashing incident at Ultra Music Festival 2014, was unknown. At least until yesterday, when Mack spoke for the first time, after seven months of silence,…
In the late ’70s, California bands like the Screamers and the Unit were creating what we currently refer to as synth punk. Meanwhile, South Florida — often maligned for its geographical and cultural isolation — was witness to the creation of a similar (if not more refined) sound through the…
Every mash ends with a bash, are we right? If you’re Brooklyn Brewery, you’d be inclined to agree, given that your mash was already a weeklong series of beer-themed parties. And what better way to wash down all those hops than with a final blowout featuring none other than New…
Midnight Magic is their name, and that funky disco groove is their game. Founded by production veterans Morgan Wiley and W. Andrew Raposo, fronted by soulful chanteuse Tiffany Roth, and backed by a stellar ensemble cast of musicians, the group has been making major waves on the NYC underground dance…
On Friday, March 28, 2014, Erica Mack, a 29-year-old security guard working Ultra Music Festival was critically injured when she was trampled by a stampeding horde of gatecrashers. “I suffered two fractures in my skull. A temporal fracture and a fracture at the base of my skull,” she tells Crossfade,…
