Hundred Waters is magically enigmatic. Here’s a band that uses modern technology, meticulously produced synthesizers and pianos, to create a kind of music that could only be achieved at this moment in history. Yet it also sounds as though it should’ve been world famous 50 years ago. Think Nat King…
Four years ago, Ultra Music Festival made waves when it split from the usual date range of Winter Music Conference. Traditionally, the festival and the conference took place during the same week. In 2011, though, the two entities feuded and scheduled separate stretches during the month of March. Thus, the…
It can’t be easy to leave a good band just when they’re about to hit it big. And once that’s happened, there’s never a chance to get back in and enjoy what you helped start. Or is there? Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist Rickey Medlocke has been living out that rare chance…
There’s still another month until Miami degrades into a giant Winter Music Conference/Miami Music Week mess, but the list of parties is already longer than the city is wide. We can tell you from experience that such a list is daunting, especially when it’s scattered around the Interwebs. How are…
“Oh, won’t you stay with me?” With his debut studio album, last year’s In the Lonely Hour, and his melancholic meditations on love desired, love consummated, and love lost, English pop crooner Sam Smith has emerged as an unlikely pop phenomenon. He’s moody. He’s brainy. And he doesn’t do choreography…
The Ultra Music Festival 2015 party plan is finally complete. Last month, the EDM festival’s organizers confirmed 113 acts for this year’s musical roster, from Avicii to Afrojack, Die Antwoord, Deep Dish, Loco Dice, Röyksopp, and Kygo. Now the UMF folks have revealed their Phase Two lineup. Among the additions:…
A year ago, Telescope Thieves’ Mario De Los Santos was feeling pretty lonely. “I always felt like the odd guy out,” he says. “At the time, if you were a producer or a beat maker, you’d get booked for shows and be the only beat maker among guys with bands.”…
Feeling fancy? Well, that’s convenient. Because it’s nearly time for New Times’ Artopia 2015, the latest edition of our annual jubilee in honor of “Miami’s best artists, musicians, fashion designers, culinary masters, and cocktail creators.” As we’ve done on this occasion since 2010, we will also be giving out MasterMind…
Happy Pickle Day! Well, almost. The Wynwood dance institution won’t actually kick off its dauntingly named Sixth-Anniversary Three-Day Bender for about another 60 hours. But we’ve already got some serious anticipatory tingles. And you should too. Because the Pickle crew is offering free passes for the entire weekend’s festivities. It’s…
Crews are the backbone of rap and hip-hop. Sure, you can be a solitary rapper, but there’s strength in numbers, and who doesn’t want a gaggle of talented homies to have his back? Rap and hip-hop has been around since the ’70’s, so crews are no new thing. There’ve been…
Ain’t no party like a lot party. That’s why Russ Bruce and the crew over at Steam Miami and Railroad Blues are launching Lot 14, an outdoor music hall smack in the heart of downtown, officially opening March 1. “It’s more of an industrial vibe,” Bruce says of the new…
Go into a dark room with a bunch of strangers and have your mind blown by the power of music and cinema. This is what happens when the Miami International Film Festival hits town. But with more than 100 events in 10 days, it can be tough to select the…
Miami native Danny Dueñas is the co-creator of My Mixtapez, the number-one hip-hop mixtape app for Android, iPhone, and Windows operating systems. With his brothers Juan and Ricky, Danny launched the mobile service in 2011, giving fans a resource for discovering, downloading, streaming, sharing, and favoriting the freshest, dopest beats…
“It’s going down for real.” That’s what Flo Rida tells us. And yep, he’s talking about Miami Beach’s “100-hour, non-stop” centennial festival. As the latest headliner added to the beach’s landmark b-day celebration, Flo will join Gloria Estefan, Andrea Bocelli, Barry Gibb, and Wyclef Jean for the fest’s finale at…
Were it not for the extroverts, rock ‘n’ roll piano players would be at a decided disadvantage. Though a frontman who wields a guitar has the mobility to move about the stage and pose and posture, your average keyboardist is forced to remain in a stationary position due to the…
Can you hear it? That’s the roaring whoosh of tuneage sweeping its way through the Magic City this week. While you’ll still have to battle through the Monday rush for it to get here, your life will change (at least for the night) at the sound of that first note…
It’s gonna be a movie Nintendo game. Famous rappers love to boast about their x-rated, violence-addled, billion-dollar blockbuster lives, as if every day were a supersexy summer action epic. But rather than the Hollywood treatment… Maybe their flashy, larger-than-life, often ridiculous celebrity existences might be more adequately captured via candy-colored…
Who will be the next Ricky Martin? The Puerto Rican heartthrob started his career, shakin’ that bon-bon as a member of legendary Latin boy band Menudo when he was just 12 years old. Now lil’ Kiki is all grown up (actually, he’s 43) and he’s teaming up with Simon Cowell…
Remember when we all thought medical marijuana would pass in Florida, and then you were super-disappointed when Miami failed to get out the vote? Fear not, for American democracy is a revolving door, and the time to hit the polls is coming sooner than you think. The street soldiers of…
Freezing temperatures, an empty wallet, and the weekend… That’s what most of us faced this frigid cold morning. While we may have nothing but layers upon layers of sweaters to wear and spare change in our pocket, that’s not gonna stop us from partying it up this weekend — no…
Do you remember you first wiggle at the Electric Pickle? The Wynwood dance hangout has grown into a world-renowned deep house institution over the past six years. Even Richie Hawtin was like, “How come y’all don’t book me?” And the Pickle’s people were just like, “Because we don’t do techno,…
Miami is the future. Coast to coast, the United States seems destined to become a multilingual, multicultural nation that looks a lot like our own ciudad magia. That’s why Hispanicize, a conference for Latinos in media, marketing, entertainment, and tech, has chosen downtown Miami to be its staging ground. And…
