Bastille With Wolf Gang Fillmore Miami Beach Thursday, May 15, 2014 Better Than: Standing out in the heavy rain. If you ever wondered what the long term effects of Coldplay might be, you need look no further than Bastille. The chart topping synth heavy four piece are led by singer/songwriter…
Just because your wallet may be a little on the slim side doesn’t mean you have to spend the entire weekend getting your fingers orange from eating too many cheese puffs and watching reruns of ¿Qué Pasa, U.S.A.? on repeat. When you live in the Magic City, being broke is…
Modest Mouse Fillmore Miami Beach Wednesday, May 14, 2014 Better Than: Getting caught in an actual pit of rats. Scurrying like buzz-hungry rodents to the sugar nozzle, Modest Mouse fans cheerily clawed and crawled through the Fillmore Miami Beach, searching for the perfect spot in which to nest while waiting…
One hit is all it takes for an established musician to become an international star. For Bob Marley, it was “Judge Not.” For Shaggy, it was “Oh, Carolina.” For Trinidadian ragga soca artist Bunji “The Fireman” Garlin, that song is “Differentology.” “The purpose was to transcend beyond the season of…
It’s amazing how much the 305 has had its hands in the perpetuation of established underground genres.
“Nomen,” says Kompakt Records cofounder and DJ-producer Michael Mayer, “est omen.” Or in other, non-Latin words, one’s moniker is a sign of destiny. So while “Kompakt started out,” Mayer recently told us, “as a record store in 1993” by the name of Delirium, it was soon relaunched, relabeled, and began…
It is difficult to believe that when Cher first topped the charts, LBJ was in the White House and America was taking its first steps into the quagmire of Vietnam. She is one of an elite few in the annals of pop history who aptly deserves to be called a…
Two years isn’t forever. But in clubland, it might as well be a lifetime. Most weekly nightlife ventures are lucky to last six months. A full 24 means that you’ve built something special. Miami’s Slap & Tickle is the Tuesday party with a reputation for wild nights and unique sets…
“Nooooooo! We party! We party! We party!” Those shrieks are just the desperate pleadings of Miami music fans collectively panicking at the news that Afrobeta’s Cuci Amador and Tony Smurphio might be splitting, like so many promising 305ers, for friendlier (and possibly more profitable) West Coast climes. Don’t worry, though…
The Lube’s for sale. Smoothing late-night interaction for just over a year at 167 NW 23rd Street, Wynwood’s The Social Lubricant Lounge is already being peddled to entrepreneurial bidders looking to slip into the ‘Wood hood. But for anybody wanting to purchase this particular location in “the most exciting and…
Take some life advice from Blackalicious’ Gift of Gab and Chief Excel: “Don’t let money free tickets change ya!” Just like fast women, faster cars, and famous friends, it’s crazy how quick comp tix for classic rap shows, like Gab and Excel’s joint at Grand Central, can gas a homie’s…
If Germany has dominated techno since the turn of the millennium, it’s thanks in no small part to the enduring influence of one label: the legendary Cologne-based Kompakt Records. Launched in 1998, Kompakt artists would marry ambient electronica’s abstract, hypnotic sound design with driving four-to-the-floor beats to spawn the minimal…
Dat Lil’ Chico is the new Dick Clark. The Cubano rapper born Armando Christian Perez will host Pitbull’s New Year’s Revolution, an end-of-the-year fiesta broadcasting all across los Estados Unidos from Miami on Fox. “The world needs to get ready to un-mute New Year’s Eve, because we are taking the…
Of the wild and weird animals in Miami’s menagerie of heavy bands, Cave of Swimmers (formerly known as The Tunnel) is a particularly unique anomaly. Childhood friends Arturo Garcia and Guillermo Gonzalez have taken the power duo concept to a completely unexpected place. Expanding and exploring their respective musical palettes…
Phillip Seymour Hoffman, playing the legendary rock journalist Lester Bangs in the film Almost Famous, once said the most brilliant thing about modern music. “They’re trying to buy respectability for a form that is gloriously and righteously dumb. The day it ceases to be dumb is the day it ceases…
Maybe you woke up this morning to discover your body decorated in colorful bruises. Maybe you’ve taken three showers, but still don’t feel particularly clean. And maybe you have an aggressive ringing in your ears that won’t let up. Well, then you were probably at the Jacuzzi Boys’ last show…
As Ms. Lily Allen says: “It’s hard out here for a bitch.” But that doesn’t mean the Brit pop provocateur’s about to let herself be beat down by slimeball demands that every woman be some rich, size six that can cook and shake ass. Nope. She’s starting shit. She’s fighting…
As we slog ever nearer to the pending change of ownership that looms over Churchill’s Pub, it would appear patrons have splintered into two distinct camps. There are the deniers who believe the punk landmark can only flourish with its current patronage and practices intact, and that any alterations by…
Longer days, getting a tan on your walk from the car to the office, and kick ass shows almost every single night of the week … That’ summer in the Magic City for you. And with music from indie rockers Modest Mouse, British pop destroyers Bastille, and hip-hop legends Sugar…
This is the final round, gamers. All that frenzied, Mountain Dew- and Fruity Pebbles-fueled nominating action is over. But it’s still Game On! for New Times’ Best of Miami 2014 readers’ poll. So loosen up those stiff wrists. Massage that that worn-out trigger finger. And chiropracticize your precious button thumb…
Welcome to the ‘Wood, Brick House! The bar may be Wynwood’s latest watering hole, but everything about the drinking den is vintage, from antique National Bohemian beer cans to the building that it calls home. Dating back to the 1920s, the house on 187 NW 28th Street has been around…
“Iz u down? Iz u down? Uhh, uhh.” That’s just Kid Ink (government name Brian Todd Collins), the 28-year-old Cali rapper, runnin’ game ’cause he could tell “it’s something on yo expression lookin’ like you need a taste of that ass some free concert tickets.” Kicking off Miami’s annual weeklong…
