Nas With Theophilus London Spotify’s Music Loves Art Ricochet Bar & Lounge Thursday, December 1, 2011 Better Than: Seeing Nas perform from a distance greater than ten feet. It was only $14,000. No big deal. Nas slapped a bit of watercolor and scribbled some washable marker onto an oversized sketchpad,…
It’s been five full years since Time Magazine named Daddy Yankee to its list of the 100 most influential people on the planet. And using the mag’s metaphor, the recording industry’s registers were ringing like mad over reggaeton in 2006. “Yankee has sold 2 million copies of his album Barrio…
MOCA LA Beach Bash with SoulwaxWednesday, November 30The Raleigh, Miami BeachBetter than: Being surrounded by candy ravers at Ultra.We’ll start out by saying that MOCA LA’s Beach Bash is one of the parties you couldn’t get into unless you were invited. Or a member of the media who sent an…
Yes, suave Frenchman and electronic stud Cedric Gervais is one of Planet Earth’s top disc jockeys to the stars, especially the TV types, sports celebs, talking heads, professionally sexy people, and tabloid regulars who totally love to dance during prime time. He regularly mans the decks as celebutantes and their…
Santigold With Wale Wednesday, November 30 LIV Better Than: Waiting in line at a Basel party for free drinks. Nightclubbing … Aside from the 1977 Iggy Pop track, we pretty much hate everything about it. The stringent dress codes, blatant superficiality, remixed dance versions of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic…
UPDATE Au Revoir Simone’s Miami show will now be totally free! Even though shocked status updates, email blasts, and half-drunk texts might’ve pushed the rumors of Mamushka’s demise into overdrive for a period of about 12 hours, there hasn’t been any major fallout in the wake of that premature closing…
It’s been approximately four and a half weeks since downtown hangout Grand Central announced that DFA Records exec and former LCD frontman James Murphy would be kicking off the club’s Basel week with Special Disco Version. And tonight, the disco ball finally drops on Mr. Murphy’s arty party co-starring ex-LCD…
Ever since Sean Michael Anderson snatched up a mike and spit some rhymes, this 23-year-old rapper from Detroit has seemed to be dropping hints about the enormity of his future plans. He began by adopting the not-so-humble stage name Big Sean. He coaxed notorious egomaniac Kanye West into giving him…
It might seem like a really rad idea to spend the next four days scorning sleep, sucking down free shots, and shuttling at top speed between endless arty parties, secret shows, and secretly arty lap dances. But if you don’t put together a real plan and, uh, fucking pace yourself,…
Is this really the end of Judas Priest? Apparently it’s not. According to lead screamer Rob Halford, the Epitaph Farewell Tour is merely the band’s last nonstop worldwide trek before he and his metal minions enter semiretirement. Still, though, as we at New Times have shouted lo so many times:…
Whether you’re dropping mad bills on contemporary art at such-and-such satellite fair or stalking celebrity art collectors at the Miami Beach Convention Center, there’s one thing about Basel week that everyone can agree on — it’s all about the afterparty. Case in point: Electric Pickle. Next week, the North Miami…
The night of Thursday, December 1, 2011, a waxing crescent moon will hang, dead and icy, in a jet-black winter sky as the souls of a thousand damned witches scream for mercy while being burned at the stake inside an abandoned house consumed by fire. And it’s gonna sound amazing…
There’s a pretty solid chance that in James Murphy’s personal day planner, the first week of December is perennially empty, except for a short, four-word phrase, presumably written in fat, blood-red block letters: Art Basel Miami Beach. Last year, mere months before officially and finally disbanding his adored dance-rock band,…
When French electro-pop outfit Yelle last visited Miami in 2008, it gave the city a one-two punch, performing at the Polish American Club and then returning barely two months later to perform at Art Basel’s Art Loves Music event. So does Yelle have a little crush on the Magic City?…
After the Wu-Tang mother ship crashed full force into pop culture with the release of the 1993 gangsta rap classic Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), the first order of business was to send out the pods. Method Man was the first to strike out solo with 1994’s stellar and intensely…
Your nasty ass can call her Ms. Jackson. Offstage, she’s a soft-spoken, seemingly genteel lady. But onstage, she’s a sassy little powerhouse who is every straight (and gay) man’s wet dream. The youngest of a nine-child talent tribe, Janet Damita Jo Jackson went from being a sweet, smiling schoolgirl on…
Art Basel Miami Beach is a horrible, crippling beast. It stands, hovering over the first week of December, forcing free drinks down your throat, making you listen to terrible music and look at bad art. Sometimes, though, every once in a while, it takes a step back and shows you…
About a month and a half before Twin Sister packs its dreamy indie-pop into a van and treks across the United States for a 22-city tour, the Long Island quintet figured a stop at Midtown Miami’s Bardot would be a fitting warmup. Scheduled for December 15, this show is part…
Get Hard ’cause it’s almost time to cruise. Nine months ago, Crossfade reported that the Los Angeles party posse, electronic music festival, and touring club event run by Gary Richards (AKA Destructo) was planning to take its electro steez to the high seas aboard the MSC Poesia, sailing out of…
It seems like everyone’s throwing a party during Basel. From invite-only open bars to intimate musical performances, the exclusivity at some of these events is downright nauseating. That’s not the case when New Times throws a party, though. If you’re willing to drop $10 on a day pass ($15 for…
Late last night, rumors concerning the demise of Mamushka’s Midtown began filtering through the local scene via shocked status updates, email blasts, and half-drunk texts. On the venue’s official Facebook page, a few members of Miami’s music and boozing community started eulogizing the hangout in a mix of English, Spanish,…
In 2011, it’s been virtually impossible to escape the sounds of Culprit on international dancefloors. Not that you’d want to, because the Los Angeles-based imprint is responsible for some of the year’s most banging cuts by tech-house luminaries like Lee Foss, MANIK, Shonky and Inxec. Behind the label is Droog,…
