DJ Irie’s hyping up the crowd has become as much a fixture of Miami Heat games as Pat Riley or Burnie the mascot, so it’s hard to believe when he was first offered the job to be the team’s official inhouse DJ he turned it down. “When the Heat moved…
The War on Drugs is still very much Lost in the Dream of its breakout year. Since the release of its gorgeous, expansive, and undoubtedly brilliant album in 2014, the Philadelphia band has spent the majority of its time dancing on the positive side of almost every critical tongue and clocking…
Rise and shine, 305! June has finally arrived. Though the official start of summer may be another 20 days away, we like to get the party started early in the Magic City. So if you aren’t already pumped up for the Most Epic Summer Ever, your music pros at New…
Looking back on the past 50 years, there are many indelible iconic images of David Crosby that come to mind. There’s the beaming young man in a cape with the mischievous look in his eyes who gazed with a kind of beatific innocence from the covers of those early Byrds…
Third Eye Blind’s long-time drummer Brad Hargreaves remembers an odd time between the band’s third and fourth albums. A time when he was on the road with another band, Year Long Disaster, touring in a tiny van and struggling. Then somewhere around Pittsburg, he came up with an idea for his…
Unlike the UK, where rave culture blazed through the mainstream like a wildfire following the late-’80s acid house explosion, American rave remained a comparatively smaller, self-contained underground subculture. It’s therefore possible to trace its origins to a mere handful of key players. One of them is certainly San Francisco DJ…
Slow Roast Records lived up to its name Sunday by hosting the dopest BBQ Blowout of Memorial Day Weekend in Miami. Craze and the gang teamed up with L.A. party smashers The Do-Over and invaded Brickell’s Sidebar for a night of sipping, dipping, and more roasted lechón than a person…
Don’t ask Chris Carrabba why his band Dashboard Confessional is making a comeback. Never mind the fact that he and his outfit have been on a self-imposed hiatus for the past six years and that they haven’t had a tour or a new album since late in the last decade…
Happy Memorial Day, party people! Yes, today is the day when the nation remembers our fallen troops. But in the 305, it’s also the day when Miami partiers raid Publix for subs and Coronas, hit the beach to shows off their rock-hard bods, and kick off summer — as if…
It is officially Memorial Day Weekend in Miami — AKA Urban Beach Week. But while the cops frantically erect barricades, establish checkpoints, and orchestrate traffic loops in preparation for a South Beach onslaught of hip-hop heads, bikini babes, and lime-green lowriders, we here at Miami New Times Music are feverishly…
Like fellow boogie meisters PillowTalk and Nick Monaco in the Crew Love collective, Life on Planets is bringing a fresh if retro approach to dance music, self-described as “dawning a long-awaited return to authentic songwriting” in the genre. “So much of vocal songwriting in modern dance music lacks poetry,” the…
It seems like every day in recent memory has been met with the announcement that another iconic music group is getting back together, despite so many of these acts having so often addressed the possibility of a reconciliation with a “highly unlikely” or “no, never!” Between the draw of reunions for…
Memorial Day weekend in Miami, colloquially known as Urban Beach Week, is almost upon us. So yes, we must honor our fallen troops. But we must also get set for beats, bangers, public intoxication, near-naked insanity, and pimped-out Chevys causing gridlock on Ocean Drive. There are two ways to deal…
In recent years, the Fillmore Miami Beach has hosted some of EDM’s heaviest hitters. Whether it’s Excision bringing down the roof with his ridiculous sound system, RL Grime’s futuristic turn up, 12th Planet and Skrillex dropping bass-heavy sets for the wob-hungry masses, or the Disclosure brothers translating their slick garage…
You know it’s gonna be a good day when your morning starts off with a shot of cafecito and your favorite song. But the moment you realize the next few days are filled with nothing but live music from some pretty talented artists, chances are you’ll actually find yourself looking…
Being a global techno icon with a hectic international touring schedule can take its toll on the best of them. After a decade of exponential momentum, the globetrotting DJ lifestyle certainly caught up with Hotflush Recordings boss Scuba, AKA Paul Rose. “The whole of 2014 was a pretty difficult time…
Oh, the magic of the weekend … Three nights filled with endless possibilities of fun. When your wallet is filled with nothing but old receipts and random business cards, though, the weekend becomes a constant reminder of how broke you are. Especially when it’s 10:30 p.m. and the most fun…
When Waze & Odyssey dropped their bootleg of R. Kelly’s “Bump n’ Grind” in 2012, the pair’s garage rework was so piping hot, it actually brought major label Sony Music running to give it an official release with the blessing of R. Kelly himself two years later. It was one…
It’s often said those seeking money should follow their passion because money will follow. But sometimes, you’ve got to learn the hard way. “You learn by your mistakes,” says Jabba, DJ for New York City’s Hot97 and cofounder of Miami’s annual Best of the Best Concert. The reggae-centric celebration marks it’s…
Zeit zum feiern! And the cause for such celebration: “Due to overwelming demand,” Live Nation just announced, “electro pioneers Kraftwerk have added a second show in Miami on the upcoming North American run of their multimedia 3-D Concert Tour.” Still scheduled to stop at downtown Miami’s Olympia Theater at Gusman…
Miami, meet Twinki. Corporate salesperson by day, the “Bubble Booty POP” star rips off the business suit at night, straps on some stilettos, and transforms into Jacksonville’s “sexxxcore, drag raunch” rapper. “She’s my alter-ego persona,” explains Carl Cochrane, the man behind the woman. “Twinki is a drag-queen rapper.” On May…
“This is for all the motherfuckers who have there since Blue Chips 1,” said Action Bronson, standing center stage at Grand Central in downtown Miami. Dope Entertainment sold out the club this past weekend by bringing out Flushing, Queens rapper and chef extraordinaire Action Bronson in support of his major…
