What do you hear in your head when you read the word “saxophone”? It’s “Careless Whisper,” isn’t it? It’s one of the most iconic saxophone melodies in pop music history. To some, the first four notes alone instantly summon sex, evoking the kind of smoldering passion you’d…
After leaving the heavy-metal band Attila in 1970, Billy Joel found himself working as a lounge singer in a piano bar. In painstaking detail, he recounted that chapter of his life in the song that shot him to fame: “Piano Man.” It’s one of the saddest songs ever, describing people…
As 2016 mercifully comes to a close, Miami-born and Tidal-approved rapper BZZY (née Lazaro Camejo and formerly known as Bizzy Crook) prepares to welcome the new year with his most lavish endeavor yet. On January 5, the 25-year-old hip-hop artist will release the video for “If You Only Knew,” the first single from his 2016 project, A Part of Everything.
Another year has come and gone, and what’ve you got to show for it? A pocketful of unused drink tickets and an addiction to Tylenol? Oh, Miami, you party so hard. Look, 2017 will be different. You’ll be all about living that #FitLyfe, going to bed at a decent hour,…
When Caitlin Krisko moved her rootsy rock band the Broadcast from New York City to Asheville, North Carolina, it took some getting used to. “My mom moved me to New York City when I was a freshman in high school,” Krisko tells New Times while she sips a glass of wine. “New York is an exhausting place. Asheville is a lot quieter and slower, which can drive me crazy,” she laughs.
As soon as those first seven words come on — “Oh, baby, you got what I need” — the 1989 hip-hop classic “Just a Friend” will stay lodged in your head for the rest of your waking hours. Written and recorded by the gravelly voiced Biz Markie during the golden age of hip-hop, the song has a timeless quality that sounds like drunken nights and unrequited love.
For the most of the United States, December 26 is Christmas hangover day. The presents have been opened, our bellies are bloated with eggnog (or coquito), and the millionth viewing of It’s a Wonderful Life is finally, thankfully, over. It’s time to slog through airport security and head home or…
Singer Adi Elcida Hernandez and guitarist Ernesto Paez have known each other since high school. After getting married four years ago, they decided to form the band Modern Mimes. “I’ve been in metal bands since I was 13,” Paez says. “She’s always been a singer-songwriter. Two years ago, we said…
For weeks, we’ve heard stories of performers from Elton John to members of the Rockettes giving their invitations to perform at President-elect Trump’s January inauguration a hard pass. Now, reports indicate that many of those same performers could be headed to Miami instead, for a collaborative live concert designed to coincide…
The holiday season is a time of tradition: decorating the Christmas tree, taking stupid selfies at Santa’s Enchanted Forest, getting embarrassingly drunk at the annual office party. But a new tradition is emerging in Miami: the annual release of a holiday-themed music video from Otto Von Schirach, Juleisy y Karla, and the…
Some people plan to stay at home during Nochebuena so they can wake up early and help to prepare their family’s Christmas meal. But we have a better option for your Saturday night: Cut a Rug. As the name indicates, Cut a Rug is a party that intends to make…
South Florida’s budding stars intend to wake you up and shake you senseless with their fresh music. Bizzy Crook wants the world to snap out of its stupor and provide major assistance for victims of war in Aleppo, as he vented in the form of a letter. SIN called out…
Ricco Black says his band Pandora Black is influenced by Massive Attack, Berlin, and Depeche Mode. Indeed, you can hear it in the dark and moody debut album Into the Shadows. But when he tells New Times his biggest inspiration was the ’80s rockabilly band the Stray Cats, that takes some explaining. “They were able to take 1950s sounds into the ’80s. We want to take ’80s sounds into the new millennium.”
The first time viewers see lead singer Megan Morrison in Dorothy’s Surrender’s new music video for the band’s song “Dirty Stayout,” she’s onstage playing to a sweaty, raucous Churchill’s crowd. When viewers see her offstage, she’s in her fishnets chugging Jameson from the bottle in broad daylight.
As we all prepare for the end of the garbage year that was 2016, the one thing keeping many of us going is the promise of a work-free holiday. But not Questlove. That’s because Quest, real name Ahmir Khalib Thompson, has about 25 jobs. His CV reads a little something like this: drummer and joint frontman of the Roots, the in-house band for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon; author; DJ; music professor at New York University; and journalist. The guy might never sleep, let alone relax with a cup of eggnog.
What is neo-Cuban blues? It’s what local singer-songwriter Sol Ruiz calls her Spanglish sound that mixes music from two countries that are so close yet so far apart. “My parents are Cuban, and I was born and raised in Miami Beach, so I was interested in my roots,” Ruiz tells New Times.
While many Miamians complain they have to leave home to make it in the music business, Steven A. Clark landed a track on Pitbull’s latest album, Climate Change after moving here from North Carolina. “I was seeking culture,” the sensual singer-songwriter says. “I just wanted to live. I just wanted…
For all the awful stuff that happened this year, rest assured of one thing: Miami’s music scene is alive and well. Whether it’s dance, hip-hop, rock, metal, or everything in between, 305’s artists made themselves heard with an amazing body of work that had listeners in awe. If your knowledge of Miami music goes only as far as Pitbull and Rick Ross, now is the time to get to know the acts who actually made the most of 2016.
It’s our favorite time of year in South Florida: Fake snow spouts from mall rooftops, Santa’s Enchanted Forest is in full swing, Christmas music blares in retail stores, and holiday office parties loom. Though Christmas in Miami means 80-degree weather and beach days, we do still enjoy the holiday spirit. Try ugly-sweater-themed parties, dreidel-shaped disco balls, and numerous reasons to get drunk. If you’re looking for an escape from your family this year, here are a few places you can wear some reindeer antlers and blow your Christmas cash.
Jason D. Shaw encounters an obvious question an awful lot at his bar, Cash Only, the new Fort Lauderdale spot for which he’s marketing director. Patrons waddle to the bar, a guilty look on their faces, and ask the bartender whether the place accepts any type of payment other than…
Food at music festivals usually consists of barely warm pizza, questionable kebabs, and greasy arepas. And the fact that your meal costs twice as much as what you would have paid for it elsewhere adds insult to injury. However, there is hope for music-festival munchies. The appropriately named F+M Festival, the brainchild of local party purveyor Poplife, aims to make festival food the star of the show alongside a stacked musical lineup January 28 and 29 on the sand adjacent to the North Beach Bandshell.
You remember the scene. It’s the moment in the famous 1988 flick Big when a 13-year-old wishes he were a grownup and then wakes up in Tom Hanks’ adult body. If you’ve seen it, you surely remember the iconic scene where Hanks plays “Chopsticks” with his feet on a giant…
