At the end of December 2015, Icon Nightclub opened its doors. The new 30,000-square-foot, art-deco-inspired concept was taking over the Washington Avenue space once held by Mansion, which survived for 11 years before finally announcing its closure in August 2015. “We have a high bar to reach, as Mansion had…
The South Bronx was a war zone in the late ’70s, as ESG’s Renee Scroggins will tell you. But it was among its gang-ridden, dilapidated tenement blocks that hip-hop was born. Punk, no wave, electro, and disco were all being spawned in the surrounding boroughs as well, so it was…
To describe Frank Gossner, AKA Voodoo Funk, as just a DJ would be like calling Indiana Jones just an archaeologist. But Gossner, who hails from the southwest of Germany, is so much more. He began DJing in the mid-’90s in Berlin and soon after started spanning the globe in search…
Typically, the Germans are known for their punctuality and affection for rules. So when West Berlin native Ellen Allien called in slightly late for our phone interview, she wasted no time apologizing. “Hi Elvis, sorry I’m late for the interview. I’m very slow today and running behind,” Allien told us from somewhere in…
Producers often rely on collaboration. Some of the biggest dance hits of the past millennium feature guest vocalists. But sometimes, waiting around for others to help you achieve your dreams no longer makes sense. For Monterrey, a Miami-based producer with a lengthy resumé in the city’s music scene, that time…
Days before Merchandise’s debut performance at Gramps, and weeks before the release of the band’s new album, A Corpse Wired for Sound, we got the chance to talk to lead singer Carson Cox about the state of his buzz-worthy little Florida band. Merchandise, originally from Tampa, has been touring the…
Local trance DJ and producer, Denzo, will open up for a stacked lineup this Friday at Space. So, naturally, we wanted to talk to him about it, but the conversation inevitably veered toward a grander look at dance music as a whole. “We should burn the industry to the ground…
DJ, producer, blogger, party promoter, label and A&R manager — Andrew “Lovefingers” Hogge has worn practically every hat there is to wear in the underground dance music industry over the past decade. But if one thing has driven his myriad professional endeavors since the beginning, it’s the love of sharing…
Some of their albums include combinations of the words “abyss,” “blood,” “hate,” and “hell”; the graphic nature of their lyrics references controversial subjects such as genocide and necrophilia; and their music is blistering, concrete-shattering heavy-metal insanity. Slayer and every member of the legendary thrash band should be absolutely terrifying, right?…
The Instagram generation fills their profiles with carefully curated snapshots posing as candid moments captured in time. They post makeup selfies, videos of concerts they should have been actually watching instead, and way too many pictures of food. On social media, we’re all famous (or infamous) in the addictive search…
Miami’s garage-rock savants Jacuzzi Boys have been a fixture on the local scene for some time, disappearing to tour before popping up again in our neck of the woods every few months. We haven’t heard much from the trio lately, but that’s because the band has been busy toiling away…
When Mike Gardner walks through a room of well-connected Miami movers and shakers, a reasonable amount of fist bumps and handshakes can be expected. As president and CEO of Headliner Market Group, the party promotions company responsible for some of Miami’s most lavish bashes, Gardner makes sure the right people…
Singer and guitarist Warren Haynes assures us that no matter how many times you might have seen his jam band, Gov’t Mule, every show is completely different. “Each night we put together our set list by consulting our history. We see what we played last time we came to town,…
Bands with a single common noun as their name are usually either attempting to remain obscure or have a shit idea of what makes for good marketing. Of course, that’s only true until they hit it big and bury both Merriam-Webster and Oxford in Google search results. British bands have…
You don’t get to see a whole lot of Kanye West during the Kanye West concert. The light above him is hazy and pallid, somewhere between brown and yellow. Sometimes he’s just a spasming shadow. Instead, the real show is below him, where his floating stage lights up the general admission…
Hey, there. It’s me, weekend. What’s that? You’re bored and your ears and hungry for frothy melodies? Well, why didn’t you say something earlier? This weekend we’ve got the Miami Music Festival from Around the World happening all weekend at the Wertheim Performing Arts Center at FIU. It’ll be classy as hell,…
DJ EFN and the Crazy Hood crew continue their mission to explore hip-hop culture around the world in Coming Home: Vietnam. Last night, on September 15, Crazy Hood Film Academy hosted a private screening of the fourth installment of EFN’s docu-series — which has previously tackled countries like Cuba and Haiti…
The words “Design District” and “free” go together about as often as “Kanye West” and “humble.” It’s not exactly an area of Miami known for its live music, either. So, you can imagine our surprise when we found out about this weekend’s upcoming Day Into Night celebration happening in Miami’s swankiest district…
At one point in his life, if you were to ask Mel Buckley, AKA King Buckley, where he saw himself in ten years, he might have said on the basketball court. The former University of South Florida basketball player once earned a living playing ball overseas. But things changed, and Buckley…
Now entering its tenth year, Miami’s messiest concert, the “World’s Largest Paint Party” known as Life in Color, is moving to Wynwood. After starting at a house in Tallahassee, LiC has taken over the newly renamed Hard Rock Stadium for much of its existence. But for the next installment of the neon Bukkake…
Miami suffers from a severe lack of live music. That’s not an opinion, that’s a well-known and discussed fact. The 305 leads in electronic music and even benefits from a worldwide reputation in rap, but when a Miamian wants to leave his or her house and hear a full band…
Zika is the scariest new four-letter word in Miami — worse than the “rent” in Brickell or “rain” during a wedding reception at Vizcaya. But, when examined from a wider perspective, all the hype hardly seems proportional. Over the last week or so, the number of Zika-related cases in a…
