If you spent any time in a legit nightclub in 2014, there’s a good chance you heard Danny Daze’s “Silicon.” The track was an infectious cut that blended sonic touches from Miami’s dance music scene — including repurposing the obnoxious horn FX, as well as techno’s rougher edges that some…
Space may be the final frontier, but it’s one of the first places on the list of must-sees for any Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week aficionado. It’s not just a nightclub. It’s a dance music institution. It stands to reason the downtown monolith would book a serious roster…
Miami is a budding metropolitan superpower, with a music scene that offers some of the best dance, hip-hop, and Latin music in the world. But did you know Miami is also a destination for today’s international, Grammy-winning jazz legends? For seven seasons, the Adrienne Arsht Center’s monthly Jazz Roots series…
Dancing. Driving. Napping. French touch pioneer Étienne de Crécy makes “electronic music albums that you can listen to anywhere.” His latest is Super Discount 3. It’s the third installment (and first in ten years) of his lauded SD series, which debuted in 1996 before seeing its sophomore release in 2004…
Dipset warned you. Last month, the Harlem rap crew dropped a comeback track, hollering “Have My Money.” And later this year, Juelz Santana, Cam’ron, Jim Jones, and Freekey Zekey will be putting out a new Dipset mixtape with bold-name cameos from Funkmaster Flex, Swizz Beatz, DJ Khaled, and DJ Mustard…
Poppin’ bottles in the club, bumpin’ and grindin’ till daybreak… That’s how hardcore 305ers love to spend their nights. And though it may only be Wednesday, our ability to party hard isn’t limited by the midweek slump. In fact, it’s exactly the motivation we need to make it through the…
“Liquor in the front, party in the rear.” That’s the motto of The Bend Liquor Lounge, a new ’70s-style boozing spot in Miami Lakes. But it’s also a snappy way to describe the former occupant of 6844 NW 169 St., a strip-mall dive (and 2013 recipient of New Times’ Best…
Cheese, wine, puff pastries, provocative movies; whatever it is the French are doing, they’ll give it their signature sumptuous twist. French dance music is no different. It’s sexy and artsy but not too high-brow. It’s simple in construction, and yet it has that je ne sais quoi. You know what…
As Hundred Waters would say: “Show us love.” Now signed to Skrillex’s OWSLA label and living in Los Angeles, this indie-tronica foursome — consisting of Nicole Miglis, Trayer Tryon, Paul Giese, and Zach Tetreault — actually got together in Gainesville. And in just two weeks, Ms. Miglis and Misters Tryon,…
Back in 2013, Jason Baez was New Times’ pick for Miami’s Best DJ on the strength of his powers as a selector. By all accounts, he was one of the most popular and in-demand on the local underground house and techno scene. But while he already had a couple of…
UPDATE The Miami Beach centennial has just added Flo Rida and announced VIP Tickets. Shake your body, baby. On Thursday, March 26, 2015, Miami Beach will turn 100. And the city’s throwing a “100-hour, non-stop” festival to celebrate its centennial. The whole shebang will climax on the Art Deco-lined streets…
Seth Troxler peddles the kind of funky, minimal, beat-driven music that one would expect from a man who’s admitted that “Richie Hawtin is my favorite DJ.” The producer, originally from Kalamazoo, Michigan, honed his sound while throwing techno parties in Detroit, and later moved to Berlin, where he’s continue his…
There’s no doubt Miami is the party playground of the South. And the home of some of the top nightclubs in the country. But Ms. Magic City is just as much a music snob as she is club royalty. That’s why everyone, from wannabe divas and Grammy-winning stars to up-and-coming…
UPDATE The music lineup has just been announced for the Miami Beach “100-hour” centennial. And it includes Gloria Estefan, Andrea Bocelli, Barry Gibb, and lots more. Welcome to Miami Beach. Over the last century, it has been home to industrialists, heiresses, politicians, gangsters, hustlers, drug traffickers, conmen, crooners, movie stars,…
So Hard. Now in its fourth year as a Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week mainstay, Gary Richards’ annual multi-day mini-fest, Hard Miami, has not softened. Since 2011, Richards — the Los Angeles DJ, producer, and superpromoter also known as Destructo — has spent WMC and MMW destoying the…
Paradise Garage. As DJ Joey Llanos explained to New Times yesterday: “It was a sanctuary where people of all backgrounds, races, colors, creeds or sexual orientation were accepted on the the dance floor as one. They all came there for one purpose, and that was to hear the greatest sound…
Miami hip-hop unite! Crazy Hood’s DJ EFN has a new album, Another Time, that matches the best underground talent in America with some of the godfathers of the genre to make an indelible classic on wax, tape, CD, and digital. With two decades of mixtape mastery, artist management, marketing, promotions,…
When one thinks of the sensitive singer/songwriter types who thrived in the early 1970s, certain artists come to mind: James Taylor, Joni Mitchell, and Neil Young were the big buzz, and yet, though their songs embodied a starry-eyed sensibility, none of them could squeeze more pathos from their platitudes than…
It’s no coincidence that Friday the 13th falls on the eve of Valentine’s Day this year. That’s because something supernatural is about to happen in the Magic City… Cheap weekend parties. Some even free. Sure, it’s a strange phenomenon, but hey, we’ll take it. So leave your superstitions behind. Grab…
Larry Levan and NYC’s seminal Paradise Garage nightclub are now the stuff of legend — a source of nostalgia for a bygone golden era of dance music culture, even among the younger generation that never got to experience it. But an invaluable oral history of that time and place endures…
Does Wynwood really need a piano bar? Well, Yvette Naranjo and the Cafeina Wynwood Lounge crew think so. And soon, enthusiasts of ivory tickling can spend one night a week on NW 23rd Street, singing along to Billy Joel’s “Piano Man” with a real-life piano man. “There’s no neighborhood bar…
With 52 years of experience, the Coconut Grove Arts Festival need hardly prove itself as a credible destination for artists, patrons, crafters, or appreciators. Tradition shows it’s a great place for families and friends to congregate and glimpse the colorful works and offerings of Miami’s many creatives. But what about…
