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…
Kick back, relax, and get your party juices flowing … It’s Friday! By the end of the weekend, you would have gotten your eggs fried at the Electric Pickle (you’ll understand what we mean in a few seconds), jammed with the Jacuzzi Boys at Churchill’s, and busted a move with…
Remember when DJ Khaled was just some loud motherfucker on Miami’s 99 Jamz, restarting every track about five times, and yelling at us to “Listennn!” even though the greatest impediment to actually paying attention was his own obnoxious cries? He used to just be our disruptive big boy. But ever…
Miami’s rap scene is making headlines once again, this time for a music video showing an 18-year-old unsigned hellion waving AKs and pounds of cocaine in the air. Stitches, named for his sewn-up Glasgow Smile tattoo, has garnered more than 8 million views for “Brick in Yo Face” on WorldStarHipHop…
Of Montreal With Boogarins Grand Central Miami Wednesday, May 7, 2014 Better Than: Of Montreal’s recorded material. Of Montreal is one of those critically acclaimed bands whose dozen-album deep catalog is impossible to dive into. That is, unless you see them live. Such an occurrence will baptize you into the…
To say Kraftwerk are a band of few words is kinda like saying they’re a band of few sounds — both would be right and both would be wrong. Both would also be a compliment. Why? Well, in the first place, Kraftwerk (that is, co-founder Ralf Hütter) rarely grants interviews…
The Sunshine State was a breeding ground for some pretty cool ska acts in the ’90s. You would almost think the state invented the genre. Maybe it is our proximity to the Caribbean and a large presence of Jamaicans that made the feat possible. Who knows? The reggaefied punk trend…
Sometimes, the best bands have the worst effing names. From unpretentious rodents to bows and arrows and bread to awkward punctuation, there are way too many musical outfits trying way too hard to be clever, selecting monikers that are nonsensical, pretentious, and even straight-up stupid. So with that gripe in…
Meet Odd Future’s Earl Sweatshirt. Only 20 years old, he has a life story that already unfolds like an historical drama, and his skills as a wordsmith go arguably unmatched. He’ll perform at Revolution Live this weekend, so we listed just a few reasons Earl might be the most interesting…
The Head and the Heart With Lost in the Trees Fillmore Miami Beach Tuesday, May 6, 2014 Better Than: Worrying all night about whether we should’ve worn our Lil Bub tee. The whole folkie Americana indie fad of the moment (e.g. Mumford & Sons, The Lumineers, Edward Sharpe and the…
Bring out your peacock-feathered dresses and panda costumes, and get ready for Wynwood’s Second Saturday Art Walk. After you’ve unleashed your inner art snob with work from some of the most creative minds in the city and scored free booze alongside Miami’s fashionable hipsters, party it up at the five…
