If you’ve been living in South Florida for the last fifteen years or so, chances are you’ve walked into a musical experience guided by Alex Caso. Young, handsome, full of energy and one of the most knowledgeable individuals when it comes to ALL types of music, Caso is a true…
A barista at Brew Urban Cafe’s Victoria Park location was struck by a moving vehicle over the weekend during the Broward County Critical Mass ride, according to several local sources. In a posting at South Florida Fixed, Crystal Ruiz-Mills is hospitalized with several broken bones in her back.A Paypal account…
It seems Miami hasn’t had a proper house music party since WMC, which is why we couldn’t pass up a shout out to this Friday night’s “Therapy” throw-down at the Clevelander Hotel in South Beach, featuring underground house favorites Hallex.M and Lisa Shaw, along with Saraswati Miami’s DJ Ivan Diaz…
Pitbull has the crowd going crazy to his version of “How Low Can You Go” live in this performance footage from a May 4 show at Fryshuset in Stockholm, Sweden.Maybe it’s not until you see this that you realize how big Miami culture is on a global scale. Keep in…
The story goes like this:A few of the principals behind Miami’s New World Symphony were sitting around discussing their dream of building a combination campus/concert hall that would be large enough to handle an ever-increasing crop of talent and bold enough to wow the world.At one point someone mentioned that…
We’ve all been to some kind of jam session–whether it be in a garage band’s garage, an intimate club or a full-on jam at a music festival. But bands usually only cover one or two songs. Not freestylin’, rhyme spittin’ ArtOfficial.Their new 12-track album “The Payback” (released April 23) covers…
Friend of New Times Ian Witlen took some excellent photos at Friday’s Dashboard Confessional extravaganza at Lynn University in Boca Raton that are now up at Spin.com. Read our wrap of the event, which honored the memory of students and faculty tragically killed in Haiti’s massive earthquake in January, here.In…
Van MorrisonHard Rock Live, Hollywood Wednesday, May 5, 2010 Preceded by a reputation as one of contemporary music’s most distinctive voices – as well as one of its most curmudgeonly characters — Van Morrison’s first visit to South Florida in recent memory promised to be an auspicious event. After all,…
New Times writer Esther Park wrote a profile of Trina and the activities surrounding the release of her triumphant fourth album, Amazin’. Read it here.TrinaAmazin’ (Slip-N-Slide Records) “Who is Trina?” — that’s the first thing you hear when you press play on Amazin’, the fifth full-length studio album from Miami’s…
A long time ago I came to the painful realization that my dreams and aspirations would go unfulfilled. Publishing a collection of original poetry titled “Fetch Me the Pliers” by downtown Kabul’s most exclusive post-Soviet literary house didn’t bring in the cash. So I did what many failed losers do…
Head Spins: Sire Esq.
Meet DJ Contra, resident DJ at LIV on Wednesdays and Purdy Lounge on Sundays
Pulling off the whole big-room commercial house music thing without falling into the lowest common denominator is no easy feat. (We’re looking at you, David Guetta.) Nevertheless, the Shapeshifters have succeeded in finding that difficult balance between mainstream appeal and true musical quality. The West London DJ/production duo of Simon…
There is little that’s revolutionary, either politically or musically, about Buena Fe, the Cuban duo of Rojas Fiel and Yoel Martínez Rodríguez. Perhaps that’s because the two are truly products of the studiously apolitical pop music scene in late Castro Cuba; they formed as a musical act in 1999 and…
The last three Tuesdays of May see Jazid hosting performers of the type of music that gave the venue its name. Local promoter KCC Productions has brought back jazz to Washington Avenue with a series of weekly shows that, let’s hope, will provide a regular gig for local fans and…
Mixtape of the Week: Gunplay’s new project with P-Cutta
Roni Size was the champion of drum ‘n’ bass through the late ’90s and early ’00s, one of the closest figures the scene had to a mainstream star. His watershed album was 1997’s New Forms, which he recorded with Reprezent, a drum ‘n’ bass collective he founded. After the album’s…
Electric Bunnies have been disappointingly quiet lately, but while the band hibernates, erstwhile member Teepee has taken flight as a solo artist. Born Eric Lopez-Zareno, he’s also sometimes known as That Guy Who Seems to Play in Every Band That Ever Plays at the American Legion. His solo work, however,…
If Jesus and the Devil are arm wrestling, then Miami is the table their elbows are on. Let’s face it, this place is pretty fucked up. Us humans have done a swell job of transforming a river of grass into a den of iniquity. But despite all the evil that…
Fans of anything Neil Young should plan on going to the Neil Young Tribute Show tomorrow at The Gibson Showroom. All proceeds from the event will be donated to Neil’s Charity, The Bridge School. You can expect performances and covers done by The Westar, Rachel Goodrich, Jacob Jeffries, Jim Camacho,…
Cinco de Mayo has long been a night of drunken debauchery and Mexican sombreros. Here, then, our list of the top five spots with music to go to this May 5.-Liv’s weekly Dirty Hairy party turns Dirty Sanchez—no, not that way–tonight with DJs Ross One, Contra and Jessica Who. Party…
Now, I don’t pretend to understand physics. Writers are inherently bad at math and sciences of all forms. So when I say I get Elastic Bond, you can take it for granted I’m not referring to a complex concept of atomic physics dealing with the distance between particles in a…..
