On January 20, a misogynist Cheeto took the oath of the president of the United States. Just as important, the next day, millions of women took to the streets to protest his plans. Around the world, women marched to show their strength and made their voices heard. A trio of…
“A lot of DJ documentaries have a glossier perspective of what we do. I wanted a warts-and-all perspective,” Dubfire says of his aim for the new documentary, Dubfire: Above Ground Level. The 77-minute movie, which will screen at the Miami Film Festival Wednesday night, begins with a career retrospective showing Dubfire’s first snippets of fame…
Folk music and punk rock don’t seem to go hand in hand. One is slow; the other is fast. One conjures images of flowing dresses and acoustic guitars; the other makes you think of ripped jeans and safety-pin piercings. But because both genres stem from protest, they often find a…
In its first year, everything went wrong at the Rolling Loud festival — driving rain, a flooded venue, a smoke alarm that rang throughout the entire festival, all sorts of sound issues, and the unfortunate placement of a barbecue smoker that caused everyone inside to smell like brisket. During the hip-hop festival’s second year, we learned it had been charging young rappers anywhere from $500 to $5,000 for what ended up being a disappointing 15 minutes of stage time for some. Then, this past February 25, TMZ published a story claiming Danielle Bregoli — or the “Cash Me Ousside” Girl, as she’s known in the world of internet memes — was being paid more than $40,000 to do a meet-and-greet at the fest in May.
When DMX takes the stage at the 9 Mile Music Festival this Saturday, some audience members might experience a little cognitive dissonance. 9 Mile is historically a peace-and-love-friendly affair, a festival that requires attendees to donate canned goods to charity just to get through the gates. Meanwhile, DMX doesn’t exactly…
As underground personalities go, Damian Lazarus qualifies as royalty. He’s a DJ, a producer, a label boss, and frontman for the Ancient Moons. But during Miami Music Week, his most important skill is that of epic party planner.
At times, Okeechobee Music and Arts Festival felt like the tale of two worlds. You had your relatively-clean VIP and artists, and then you had your smelly, dirt-rotting GA camping hoards. You had your shoe gazing, indie darling, folk music hipsters, and then you had your rebel rousing, totem-touting professional…
The weirdos were out in full force at Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival. Minds were pushed as far to the edge of sanity as socially acceptable. In festie land, anything goes. George Clinton and his legendary Parliament Funkadelic lit the fuse on Okeechobee’s rocket ship Saturday with a funkdafied performance on the Now stage.
For 24 years, the 9 Mile Music Festival has been the premier reggae event in Miami. Since its inception in 1993, the event, better known by its unofficial title, Marley Fest, is a yearly party with the Marley family. It honors their patriarch’s legacy.
Dirty ankles, warm beer, tank-top sunburns, and never-ending groove. Yes, Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival is in full swing. Once again, the quiet community of Sunshine Grove is filled with tens of thousands of hip-hop heads, beat freaks, rock jocks, and all manner of folks looking for a good time.
When Ballaké Sissoko and Vincent Segal perform at the North Beach Bandshell this Sunday, they’ll be doing so under the cover of a shadow of nativism and xenophobia that has engulfed the United States. The celebrated world music duo will be performing as the first featured artists in The Rhythm…
When singer Dan Lotti and guitarist Mike Sivilli first gigged around Charleston, South Carolina, in 2005, they didn’t want to take themselves too seriously. So they chose a name that made them laugh: Dangermuffin. But something unexpected has happened over the past decade.
Florida’s status as a metal-music mecca relies on a perfect storm of time and location — those being the late ’80s and Tampa. Broward County has had some acts, but Miami’s scene has been overshadowed by more popular forms of danceable stuff.
Nigerian-born British vocalist Jacob Banks is one of soul music’s brightest rising stars. That’s ironic considering he was never interested in a music career or even soul music, for that matter. “I started singing through my friends, just asking me to do shows here and there,” he says. I was never much of a musician… My friends pushed me into it.”
Too few female performers mar an otherwise exciting Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival lineup.
Unless you’re adept at scalping tickets, you might be out of luck if you had a hankering to see the Kings of Leon, Usher, Wiz Khalifa, and other acts at this weekend’s Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival. Florida’s largest camping fest has no more tickets, sponsors announced Wednesday afternoon. It is the second year in a row for the gathering that’s held two hours north of Miami in Sunshine Grove.
With their DJ battle live at Sidebar this Saturday, March 4, DJ Premier and Pete Rock will match the hype of the recent Swizz Beats and Just Blaze battle.
Miami Music Week, Winter Music Conference, and Ultra Music Festival will attract DJs, electronic musicians, and producers from all over the world. There will be everything from easily digestible EDM to heady techno. If Art Basel is the art world’s cultural apex in the Americas, then MMW is Mecca for dance…
If football is life, the New England Patriots give breath to every living Bostonian. And Ken Casey, the raspy voice behind the Celtic punk-rock band Dropkick Murphys, is no exception. “I feel so great about the Pats winning the Super Bowl,” Casey brags of the Patriots’ victory over the Atlanta…
Describing David Grisman means figuring out how to explain how he combines bluegrass, klezmer, jam bands, and jazz. But that’s what the virtuoso mandolin player has done in a 50-year career during which he has played with, among others, fiddler Vassar Clements, French jazz violinist Stéphane Grappelli, klezmer clarinetist Andy Statman, and close friend Jerry Garcia — the legendary Grateful Dead guitarist.
Cuban singer Danay Suarez was born a poet. She doesn’t speak in sound bites, as many singers in the digital age do in interviews. Instead, she answers questions about her music and message with all the thoughtfulness and seriousness of someone giving a speech at the United Nations, occasionally sprinkling…
For the past two years, Steve Aoki and the Dim Mak crew have held an epic Miami Music Week bash at Nikki Beach. Last year was a particularly huge milestone for Aoki’s label. It celebrated its 20th anniversary with a mega-lineup that performed for 17 hours.
