Slideshow and Super-Quick Recap: So Raw Festival 2 on Saturday Night

This Friday and Saturday marked the second annual edition of the So Raw Festival, which, along with its attendant warm-up one-offs, just scored a New Times nod for Best Concert Series. We adore a homegrown labor of love, and especially one that keeps the free-with-low-admission booze a-flowin’. Saturday night’s turnout was…

Head Spins: DJ Oren Nizri (New Mix Inside!)

​Tel Aviv has become something of a breeding ground for world class beat-keepers. Whether it comes from the psy-trance sweep of Infected Mushroom, or the minimal tech-house of Miami transplant DJ Lee Or, Israel’s second city is now a hotbed of beatitude. And no wonder — OUT magazine called Tel Aviv…

Six Questions with Jose Flores of The Getback

Jose Flores has been a fixture of the Miami punk rock scene since his outfit Pin Kai caused a stir in the leather jacket rockers of the mid-90’s. From there he went on to involvement with a myriad of bands (Pretend Milk, Rerun, Disney Violence, The Surf and Rock Dudes),…

XXL Magazine Top 10 Freshmen Winner Donnis Performs at LIV, June 30

Donnis is definitely a member of the Class of Kid Cudi, Drake, and company, a performer who’s neither commercial “rapper” nor obscure lyricism-obsessed “MC.” And still, thanks to a shrewd, intelligent-pop sensibility, the Atlanta resident appeals to both urban hipsters and girls who just wanna shake it at the club…

Local Motion: MadMartigan and Tim Charron

MadMartiganCall of the Wild (Self-released)www.iammadmartigan.com Pennies on the eyes of the dead and full-fledged rock and roll for we the living. As I’ve pointed out on numerous occasions, MadMartigan’s one of those outfits that have toiled in the South Florida music scene without committing studio time. Well, now I guess…

Album Review: Uffie Sex Dreams and Denim Jeans

UffieSex Dreams and Denim Jeans(Ed Banger/Elektra)When French electro label released “Pop the Glock,” a bratty club anthem by then unknown chanteuse Uffie, it was the sort of a carefree record that everyone could get into. That was 2006. In four years, Uffie still has a minuscule body of work, failing…

Kid Sister, Maluca at Grand Central June 26

The bookings just don’t stop over at Grand Central — let’s hope they are making money.We just received word that hipster-hop queen Kid Sister will be performing live at Grand Central next Saturday, June 26. The Chicago native sort of had Miami on overdrive back when she performed at Basel…

Hula Hula II with DS and Mr. Feathers at Bar Tonight

Do you like surf music? Do you like surf music as it’s skewered through the eyes of organizers Mr. Feathers (of Peasants With Feathers and Otto Von Schirach fame) and DS? Do you like Hawaiian-style hamburgers? Ladies, will you wear a flower in your hair? Ah…. You kinda should, it’ll…

Former 103.5 The Beat Director, DJ Launches Vanessa James Media

When the hip-hop and R&B station 103.5 The Beat flipped to 103.5 Super X this past May, many fans were left bewildered and utterly confused. Clear Channel claimed the switch was based on Miami’s growing Hispanic market, but few bought the “cultural emergence” argument. Before the flip, South Florida boasted…

Radioboxer, Boxwood Live at Jazid Tonight

If it’s Thursday and you’re reading this, it’s not too late. If it’s Friday … you better have a damned good reason, because it could mean that you missed a monumental occasion. You see, tonight not one, but two recent New Times Best of Miami winners will perform live together…

So Raw Festival

One of our favorite local music events last year was the So Raw Festival, a two-day summer jam that showcased some of the best local and international low-fi, garage, and straight-up rock ‘n’ roll around. Oh, and did we mention the promoters graciously included free booze with the low, low…

Christopher Lawrence

Trance-music don Christopher Lawrence is arguably the best-known name in dance music to come from the United States, a country with no shortage of topnotch DJ talent. Consistently ranked alongside the UK’s hottest jocks in DJ Magazine’s annual poll, in 2004 Lawrence checked in at number seven, placing higher than…