Activity creates opportunity and Hialeah native Juliette Helen Amador is active. She’s calculated and deliberate, on her way to music industry bad ass. Amador cut her teeth on FIU student radio, then hosted at Electric Pickle. She currently manages social media for Revolution Radio while finishing a master’s degree in…
New Times’ eighth-annual Brew at the Zoo is headed for Zoo Miami on Saturday, May 6, from 7 to 11 p.m. There will not only be food and more than 100 local, international, and craft beers, but also some pretty fine tunes.
What started as a small beach party in 1999 that took advantage of all the DJ’s visiting Miami during Winter Music Conference has become a global brand with editions in Brazil, China, Croatia, Korea, Japan, Australia, and more. But Ultra Music Festival’s Miami party in March is still the crown…
If you were holding off on deciding whether to attend Rolling Loud, start looking for a scalper. Festival organizers announced today that tickets for the third edition of the hip-hop festival, taking place May 5 through 7 at Bayfront Park, have sold out. Perhaps organizers can thank the publicity they received after…
Mario Ochoa takes smashing hi-hats, darkness, rays of sunshine, and sounds from South America to Heart Nightclub April 28.
Ask any Red Hot Chili Peppers fan which album is the band’s best and, invariably, you’ll get Blood Sugar Sex Magik or Californication or maybe even By the Way. Some might even say the latest, The Getaway, reigns supreme, if only to hype themselves up for the band’s latest tour, which stops in Miami this Saturday. But although those records can be called good, maybe even great, they pale in comparison to Stadium Arcadium, the Chili Peppers’ 2006 seminal, colossal double album.
Achieving a “one on one” audience experience at a venue as large as American Airlines Arena sounds like an impossible task. But if any musician can pull it off, it’s Paul McCartney.
The Latin music industry is booming, and technology may be responsible for this trend. Currently, seven out of the top 20 music videos on the YouTube Billboard Chart are Spanish-language songs or feature a Latin artist. What does that mean? How about for the future of the industry? These are…
Following a tragic 2016, Surfer Blood’s John Paul Pitts is learning to chill out. For many people in the United States, 2016 was a shit year. For John Paul Pitts, frontman and vocalist of Surfer Blood, it was an especially rough 12 months. Last May, founding band member and guitarist…
Desiigner’s Twitter feed is, above all else, loud. The New York rapper types in all capital letters, showing his excitement to share his fans’ love, the three new songs he dropped at once, and recent interviews he’s done with well-known radio hosts. His Instagram reflects the same, with emojis of fire…
The new spot from the owners of Byblos promises an intimate club experience three nights a week.
The Marley brothers reunited on stage for Kaya Fest, a festival promoting education about cannabis, along with performers Lauryn Hill, Wyclef Jean, Sean Paul, and others.
The final week of April is here, and the month goes out with a big bang thanks to the Red Hot Chili Peppers who bring their tour to the American Airlines Arena on Saturday in support of their 11th album, The Getaway.
Dance music has a long history of comforting the afflicted. From the debauched drag balls in 1970s New York City to early mornings spent seeking refuge and release from a world made mad by the HIV/AIDS crisis of the 1980s, dance culture has always served as a place of inclusivity and shelter when the world could offer neither.
Big Sean gave his followers high praise and motivation during his final show of his I Decided tour at the Fillmore.
A full decade after the release of their last album, Miami’s favorite funk fusion instrumentalists, Spam Allstars, have finally issued their sixth record, Trans-Oceanic. “Our last album came out in 2007,” says the band’s mastermind, DJ Le Spam. “I was burnt out, and most of my downtime from gigging was spent recording other people in the studio.”
Ondatrópica recently dropped its sophomore album and will stop by the Floyd to give Miamians a taste of what the duo is all about.
Usually, a fresh-on-the-scene, up-and-coming band has to wait a while for the dream gig. They play locally for a while, build a set full of decent songs, and maybe record them if they can find the funds to lock down studio space. And then, finally, they get to open for a marquee name.
If you’re looking for an unforgettable way to spend your 4/20 weekend, the Marley brothers have you covered. Stephen, Damien, Julian, Ziggy, and Ky-Mani Marley will reunite for an epic performance at the inaugural Kaya Fest, hosted by Sway Calloway. The reggae/dancehall music gathering spearheaded by Bob Marley’s son Stephen is expected to fill Bayfront Park with the smooth sounds of Caribbean music, along with a dense cloud of marijuana smoke.
North Beach will be all about the international this weekend. The 15th TransAtlantic Festival will offer everything from a Malian guitarist known as “the Hendrix of the Sahara” to an all-female band that plays the Haitian Easter/festival music called rara.
Though he calls his current project “Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness,” Andrew McMahon is a man who knows exactly where he is, where he’s been, and where he’s going.
I have a confession: I’ve never done drugs. I’ve never snorted blow or dropped acid or even lit up a joint. I’m not straight-edge or anything, and I’ll happily have a drink at the right time and place. But anything beyond that has never really appealed to me, not even…
