De la Ghetto is a master of Latin urban and reggaeton music. His new album, Mi Movimiento, set for release this Friday, September 28, features a unique mix of genres and collaborations. Born Rafael Castillo to a Puerto Rican family in New York, he is a singer and rapper who grew from humble roots and understands what it is to work hard.
Ultra Music Festival has just announced that tickets for its 2019 edition are on sale. The festival had limited sales earlier this year that gave fans an opportunity to buy tickets at the lowest price possible. However, beginning today, tickets will sell until they are gone or the date of the festival arrives — whichever comes first.
III Points, the festival that for the past half-decade has kicked off the season when music gets interesting in Miami, won’t take place next month. This past in May, promoters announced they would forgo the fall event for new dates in February. The change came after a multitude of obstacles hampered III Points in its first five years.
For a band that has never visited Miami, let alone performed in Florida, Hinds has more connections to the tropical town than its members realize.
In 2014, Franco Parente ran a filmmaker’s dream of a Kickstarter campaign. After it was announced Churchill’s Pub was changing owners, he sought funding to make a documentary about the legendary bar with the clever title Little Haiti Rock City. There was anxiety over the future of the venue that had been Miami’s live-music oasis since 1979…
The last time the Broward-based goddess of silky-smooth alternative R&B set foot onstage was in 2016. Since then, the singer, songwriter, and producer did a brief stint in Tampa, moved back to South Florida, and gave birth to a beautiful baby girl named Harmony. After a short hiatus, the new mother is back with a punch, serving up her signature dose of sensual bedroom-produced jams with a new track, “Little Bit of Love,” featuring Smkrsroom.
Christina Aguilera, David Byrne, Father John Misty, and more of the best concerts in Miami September 24 through September 30.
Tom Petty had a complicated relationship with his hometown of Gainesville. He was born, raised, and spent his formative years in the North Florida university town. In the ’70s, he and his band Mudcrutch played all around Gainesville, but once they relocated to Los Angeles in 1974, it seemed Petty…
People of Miami, put away your Drake merch. The much-anticipated performance by the superstar rapper today and tomorrow has been postponed. No, this is not a drill. Drake was supposed to appear at the American Airlines Arena in downtown Miami with Migos for concerts scheduled for tonight…
The visceral sound of a Nick Klein record isn’t something that can be easily sourced or replicated. This is due in part to Klein’s approach to texture, volume, and recording: In his hands, the medium becomes shaped by the material in an inescapable way — evidenced by Klein often recording…
Musical influences are cyclical. There have been stages in rock history when everyone was trying to sing like Bob Dylan and other eras when everyone channeled their inner Lou Reed. But among the indie rockers who’ve pushed boundaries and topped the charts since the turn of the century, one has…
Earlier this month, the posthardcore innovators of Thrice released their tenth album, Palms. It is their first for Epitaph Records. Next Thursday, September 27, they’ll return to Fort Lauderdale’s Revolution Live. Thrice’s drummer, Riley Breckenridge, recently spoke with New Times about the bandmates’ two-decade career…
The swoon-worthy tween heartthrobs who once made up Britain’s One Direction in some ways define the word “millennial.” Five teenage boys grew into young men sitting on a gilded pop throne, their names forever associated with the group’s enormous success. Nowadays, more than two years after One Direction shook its…
In the hyperaccelerated and social media-fueled hellscape of 2018, it sometimes becomes difficult to recall what happened two years ago, much less two weeks ago. For instance, you probably don’t remember that before singer-songwriter Josh Tillman — better known as the acerbic Father John Misty…
Asked how his rock band got its name, singer/guitarist Albae Camino recites the dictionary definition of “analog.” The gist is that “computers are digital devices; humans are analog,” he says. “We brainstormed short, simple names representing the way we sound. The four of us go for a pure…
The indie-pop double-header of Børns and Twin Shadow at Revolution Live Tuesday evening was a Coachella-loving, flower-crown-wearing hipster’s dream come true. Both artists are touring with new records, and both could easily headline a show in any number of midsize rock clubs around the nation, but it was clear that Børns was the unquestioned object of adoration this night.
Grammer’s the Good Parts Tour hits the Revolution stage with tunes and… poetry?
In the era of pop auteurs such as Beyoncé, Lady Gaga, and Rihanna, it should be remembered that much of that change began with Christina Aguilera, who was only 21 years old when she recorded the album that remains her most culturally significant: 2002’s Stripped.
She approaches most things in life that way. Raunchy and emphatically real both in her music and her public image, the Brooklyn-born West Indian Junglepussy styles herself in exuberant tropical colors and patterns and changes her weave to match her mood, all while emanating a spiritual-guru level of self-assurance: It’s the power of the Pussy.
Blowing money on trips and chains is cool, but giving back to charity is even cooler.
Rainbow Kitten Surprise might sound like something on your child’s Christmas wish list. But it’s not. The latest band to hit the indie scene boasts a tour de force of high-energy shows and mystic lyrics. They hail from the mountains of Boone, North Carolina.
Like many first-generation Americans of Cuban descent, married couple Christina “Cuci” Amador and Tony Smurphio — also known as the musical duo Afrobeta — were taught that Cuba was not on their travel agenda. After being exiled from their homeland in the ’50s, their parents, like many others, never returned. It was a sort of fuck-you to Fidel Castro and his crew.
