You can’t possibly attend all of the flashy, A-list-celebrity-frequented bashes that go down in Miami every weekend. That’s why the Magic City throws so many of ’em almost every night of the week. Just check out the six best parties to crash on South Beach. See also: Five Best Concerts…
“Hey, you got to hold on…” That’s just Alabama Shakes singer and axe slinger Brittany Howard asking y’all to keep calm and exercise a lil’ patience. She and her band buds — guitarist Heath Fogg, bassist Zac Cockrell, and drummer Steve Johnson — can hear you screaming, “I don’t wanna…
This weekend The Stage Miami is celebrating three years of music, and the approximately 624 parties they threw in about the past 1,000 days. Since its inception, this little club under the highway has ushered in a new era of live music and DJs in the heart of the City…
Kurt Vile & The Violators With VBA, Band in Heaven, and Beach Fossils Grand Central, Miami Friday, November 1, 2013 Kurt Vile is the unassuming anti-rock star for a new generation. As a guitarist, Vile brings an understated athleticism to his playing that perfectly suits the charming and often revealing…
Sure, Mondays are cruel and unusual punishment for us working folk, but when you have great music and concerts to look forward to, you may actually catch yourself saying something bizarre like, “I can’t wait for Tuesday.” Just check out the five best shows going down in South Florida this…
“What is 11?” That’s the mysterious tagline for a new club that’s apparently set to take over the old Goldrush nudie bar property at NE 29 NE 11th Street (just across the street from Space) in Downtown Miami. It seems (based on the official trailer) that this new nightspot will…
Halloween is one of the biggest party nights of the year. So if you head out on All Hallow’s Eve in Miami, prepare yourself for all kinds of spooktacular sights. Are those zombies really zombies? Or have they just drunk themselves near death? The answer, dear partier, is yes and…
“Space,” Oscar G insists, “was all I ever wanted.” No doubt, during his decades in the dance music game, the 305 house legend has achieved far more significant things (like, say, 12 top-ten hits in 17 years with Ralph Falcón on Billboard’s Hot Dance Club Songs chart) than a residency…
So you spent all of your cash on Halloween tricks and shenanigans last night. Sure, seeing all those ladies dressed up as Playboy models get wild and dudes in Harry Potter costumes dance till the liquor ran out was all worth it, but now you’re broke, with barely any money…
Kurt Vile likes to weave a lot of subtle texture through his songs. It can be as simple as the squeak his fingertips make by rubbing the nylon strings on the neck of his acoustic guitar. Or it can be as other-worldly as an electric pulse from a Moog phaser…
Happy Halloween, Miami! All of the city’s horny black cats are prowling the streets and dressed to the 9 lives. Long before tonight, the 305 has been raging in costumes glorious enough to make the professionals jealous. You guys really went all out this year. So we’ve compiled some of…
Tobacco Road is so old that when it first opened way back in 1912 there were only 48 U.S. states. So old that when Abraham Lincoln turned 18, he hitchhiked to Miami and had his first beer there. (OK, that’s a lie.) So old that Miccosukees canoeing the Miami River…
On his song “hYena,” Miami’s Nik SB raps: “All my bitches do drugs and I love ’em for that/Especially when she pop two of her sex appeals/Or Ms. Sims’ first name for the extra thrills/I know her brother praying that she change/But what he expect when she watched him sell…
In the beginning, there was Jack, and Jack had a groove. And from this groove came the groove of all grooves. And while one day viciously throwing down on his box, Jack boldly declared, “Let there be house!” Thus preached the Reverend Chuck Roberts in 1987. And if the gospel…
When musicians, comedians, and Friends of Nature gather to party, you know it’s gonna be a true tree-hugging bash, especially with holistic-minded headliners like Café Tacvba. “We as humans and society belong to nature and Mother Earth, and we have to be cautious and try to take care of it…
By his own admission, Domingo “Sunny” Ortiz has a great gig. While most working Americans are quick to grouse about their jobs, Ortiz, the percussionist for Atlanta-based band Widespread Panic, exudes a level of enthusiasm that would likely make most people bitter with envy. “I can’t think of anything better,”…
If you absolutely abhor Miami’s hipster culture, you can probably blame the defunct nightclub Soho Lounge for its existence. At the turn of the century, it was the center for the kind of Miami nightlife “cool” that was soon co-opted by the rest of downtown and, eventually, South Beach. Classic…
Brush up on those Cabbage Patch skills, and relive the days of bologna sandwiches and kickball — we’re going to Recess! It is Blackbird Ordinary’s Saturday daytime party, where you can “come out and play” and be a cool kid again. “The grown folks’ playground,” says DJ Fly Guy, the…
“It’s still exciting,” insists Widespread Panic’s Domingo “Sunny” Ortiz, “even after 27 years.” That’s right … For the last quarter century, Ortiz and the rest of the outfit — vocalist/guitarist John Bell, vocalist/keyboardist John “JoJo” Hermann, guitarist Jimmy Herring, drummer Todd Nance, and bassist/vocalist Dave Schools — have been rocking…
It’s that time of the year in Miami, when surprisingly attractive reanimated corpses, demonically possessed street walkers, evil noise-addled punks, regurgitating ravers, and centerfold models mob the bars and clubs to get drunk, stupid, and possibly naked in remembrance of the dead. Yeah, yeah, yeah, there are probably better ways…
Vernon Harginy, also known as VURN, sits at the table outside of a Five Guys in North Miami with fellow Pro Club rapper B.Way. Initially, his silence is as strong as the bars on songs such as “Bang” and hYena.” But then he cracks a chuckle when Crossfade poses the…
Kurt Vile has to be one of the more down-to-earth musicians currently working the indie rock scene. From his Philadelphia home, tending to his 1-year-old baby girl, the youngest of his two daughters, he is a breeze to talk with. The 33-year-old Vile has no problem entertaining questions about creative…
