Five… Four… Three.. Two… One… ¡Dale! That’s how Pitbull will be ringin’ in 2016 at Bayfront Park for his New Year’s Eve Revolution countdown. Televised nationally on FOX, the pachanga will headline the two-day Norwegian Worldwide Food & Wine Party that’s serving as Miami’s definitive New Year’s Eve countdown. But of…
Los Herederos, an afro-Cuban band based in Miami, have made it their job to share Yoruba culture with the world. “My grandma always said I would inherit something. Of course, in that moment I was too small and did not understand. As I grew older, I started realizing, wow, I…
It’s easy to shove Miami music into a corner. Perhaps you think it’s all Latin rhythms or DJs in big, loud clubs. But the music in Miami, like the city itself, is stunningly diverse. With that in mind, we’ve rounded up the best songs Miami musicians have released this year…
The last time Abel Tesfaye visited Florida, he was adjusting to stardom and attempting to establish his onstage identity. Touring for his second studio LP, Kiss Land, under his drugs and sex obsessed alter ego, The Weeknd, Tesfaye was, at that time, a little stiff. Most of the movement came…
If you find yourself in Walmart this week searching for Rick Ross’ eighth studio album Black Market, you may have a hard time finding it. Walmart reportedly pulled Ross’ album from shelves earlier last week and it’s not available on their website either. Various outlets started reporting the story this…
10. Red Nectar. Presented by Ladies Night. Wednesday, December 23, 10 p.m. Kill Your Idol, 222 Española Way, Miami Beach; 305-534-1009; facebook.com/killyouridolmiami. Admission is free. Ages 21 and up. From folding denim at American Apparel to shredding it at a club near you, Red Nectar is on top of its game. Although the two-year-old band…
If asked to name two formative musicians who’ve opened the floodgates for noise and experimental music today, you would be hard-pressed to come up with two better entries than Bill Orcutt and Chris Corsano. Free-form guitarist Orcutt brought his avant-garde din to the Magic City in the late ‘80s and…
Gavin Lynch – the electronic musician otherwise known as Matador – started young and started standard. After frequenting a number of local teen discos in his native Dundalk, Ireland, Lynch turned to his own turntables, began constructing a record collection, and commuting long distances (like over an hour to Dublin)…
He might be a man of few words when it comes to interviews — as we found out ahead of Friday’s Miami debut show at Bardot — but really, Galcher Lustwerk is the spoken word don of contemporary deep house. The laid-back, self-styled vocals he sprinkles over sultry stripped-down beats…
Grand Central and I reverse-synced our time in Miami. I left to New York City for college the same year Grand Central opened. And of course, about a month before I returned, the venue shuts its doors. But, at least I enjoyed it while I could. Every break included at…
New Year’s Eve is rapidly approaching, folks. And if the only plans you have so far is to meet at David’s house at 8 p.m. to pregame, you’re in trouble. You know David ain’t even gonna have cups, and everyone will be forced to drink champagne out of their hands…
No, that is not a newsstand that has opened up on the site that once housed Railroad Blues and PS 14. Not really, anyway. It’s a slightly more lucrative scheme than print media. While it might appear to be a vendor selling candies, old copies of New Times, and vintage…
Ultra Music Festival has just dropped an early Christmas present for everyone — the phase one lineup, which includes a lot of familiar names with plenty of surprises spread throughout. Afrojack, Tiësto, Avicii, Carl Coz, Knife Party, David Guetta, Martin Garrix, and more are all returning, and the will make plenty…
The city of Hialeah is known for many things — its large Latin population, a rich history, and streets that are numbered seemingly without regard to the rest of Miami Dade County, making it easy to lose your way if you’re not a local. Now however, it has another attraction…
Miami is one of the nation’s most in demand New Year’s Eve destinations. Why? Simply put: weather. Readily available cocaine probably doesn’t hurt either, but as New Yorkers prepare for snow, Miamians will brace for a low of 66º on January 1. We’re also all going to be underwater soon,…
The last time we spoke with Cavity bassist Dan Gorostiaga, his band was gearing up for an April 10 benefit show that he insisted would be a one-time reunion. But since then, the local sludge legends have already played one show at New York City club Saint Vitus back in…
Until just a few months ago, the space at 1235 Washington Ave. was known as Mansion. In its heyday, it was one of South Beach’s hottest party halls, where barely clothed women swung from the ceiling till the wee hours of the morning. Before that, in the early ’70s, it…
Pay better attention to your Classics professor, for the Greeks really knew how to create lasting myths and character types. Take Narcissus, the boy who loved himself. Strikingly handsome and thoroughly vain, Narcissus was lured to a still pool where he fell for his reflection. According to different tellings of…
In 1927, at 1306 N. Miami Ave., the rays of dawn washed over downtown as the Sunrise Bar and Grill served early-morning drinks to dirty men who sought a bit of relaxation after their night shift at the Port of Miami. It’s a historic bar that, over the years, changed…
“Hello from the other side.” Of the pond, that is. That’s how Adele greeted her 24.3 million Twitter followers this morning as the singer announced her first North American tour in five years. Back in late November, the singer revealed via a minute-and-20-second video that she was “of course coming…
The layman might have expected a very different sort of “305 Fest.” By inserting Miami’s area code into the name of 305 Fest, the punks and headbangers behind the two night extravaganza challenged an outsider’s expectations of what Miami music all about. If some poor schlub strolled into Churchill’s this…
10. Scraping Teeth with Bad Dream House, B.C., Michelle Forever, Randy Piro, and Smut. Wednesday, December 16, 9 p.m. Churchill’s Pub, 5501 NE 2nd Ave., Miami; 305-757-1807; churchillspub.com. Admission is free. Only “the worst band in America” will pay you to see their show. No, really. Miami’s Scraping Teeth was given the title by Spin…
