“North America, I am coming for you!” That’s Hardwell. And this morning, the superstar DJ hijacked massive LED screens in New York City’s Times Square to announce “the last chapter” of his I Am Hardwell world tour. The EDM megashow has already sold out in 19 countries, from Singapore to…
For over 40 years, Tavares has been one of the best Northern Soul acts in America, smoothest R&B groups in Europe, and most celebrated disco bands in the world. The live show has always impressed, and the five brothers who make up this band continue to harmonize for packed concerts…
If you got a dollar, then you got a dream. And enough scratch for a Seagram’s and 7. For the second straight summer, Southern spitter, Born Sinner, Jay Z protege, and Grammy nominee J. Cole will be staging his Dollar & A Dream Tour. There will be semi-secret shows in…
Deafheaven Churchill’s Pub, Miami Sunday, June 15, 2014 By this point, we’ve heard the lamentations, death knells, and obituaries for ye olde Churchill’s Pub, the alternative hub in the heart of Little Haiti, where a punk and experimental scene has flourished for decades on end. The club was recently sold…
El_Txef_A (pronounced elchefa) is quite the odd moniker. But it turns out to be a play on words based on the last name of its owner, Aitor Etxebarria, which means “new house” in his native Basque — rather fitting, considering this celebrated young producer’s decidedly new house music sound. Of…
YACHT With Otto Von Schriach and a DJ set by Juan MacLean Desperados’ #SeizeTheNight Friday, June 13, 2014 Toejam Backlot, Wynwood, Miami Better Than: Free beer. Before the recession hit, it seemed parties thrown by beer and spirits companies were the norm in Miami. They would put on these extremely…
Have a case of the Monday blues? Well, get over it! You live in Miami. That means there’s always a pretty good party comin’ up. Just check out the five best concerts going down this week, from Futro’s Oscar G and Lazaro Casanova at Bardot to Cut Copy and Classixx…
Little Dragon With Lawrence Rothman Grand Central, Miami Thursday, June 12, 2014 Better Than: Watching the Miami Heat lose … Sob. On a night when parking was hard to come by (as a few blocks away an NBA Finals game was being played), a sold-out crowd still managed to pack…
Yes, Chvrches’ Lauren Mayberry is a lovely lady from lovely Glasgow with a lovely voice. So it’s only natural to develop a crush. But please, save yourself some embarrassment … And do not ask her to marry you via Twitter. That foolish mistake has already been made by many an…
Get giddy. Glaswegian indie-pop outfit Belle & Sebastian have announced a short, seven-city 2014 North American tour. “So since we’re in Austin in October,” the band teases in its official announcement, “we thought we’d drop by and say ‘hi’ to some of you good people in Florida, Atlanta, LA, and…
As half, along with Morgan Geist, of seminal NYC production duo Metro Area, Darshan Jesrani helped spawn some of nu-disco’s most timeless groovage. With its sleek, modern interpretation of vintage disco and boogie sounds, the pair’s eponymous 2002 debut long-player is widely considered one of the decade’s best dance music…
Trash Talk is undoubtedly one of the most hyped bands in (and out of) hardcore right now. The Cali crew is the product of spending most of this past decade in a van, traveling across the country to crush audiences, night after night. However, recent years have seen the group…
Ben Katzman, a South Florida native now based in Boston, got his start in the music world at a young age, booking his friends’ bands in high school. “We were 16 still, and we knew what it was like to have no one really care about you.” He recalls when…
When we were kids, our dads made us listen to a lot of classic rock and heavy metal. Of course, electronic producer Eats Everything of the Dirtybird crew has his own priorities. “I’d been playing techno into my wife’s belly all the way through the pregnancy,” says the proud father…
Since 2002, Jona Bechtolt has been churning out tunes under the name YACHT. But it wouldn’t be until six years later, when Claire Evans turned the solo project into a duo, that the band became a DFA classic. Mixing symbolism and religious iconography with catchy hooks, YACHT fits well with…
The time has come, as the men of Cut Copy insist, to “Free Your Mind.” Or, well, at least win free tickets to the Aussie outfit’s sold-out show with L.A. neo-disco duo Classixx at downtown Miami’s Grand Central next week. To paraphrase the ever-wise CC guys: “When you can’t go…
“Gonna be a crazy one.” And that’s a promise from the Trash Talk dudes. Tomorrow night, those Cali hardcore punks (AKA Spencer, Sam, Lee, and Garrett) are throwing a totally no-charge, all-ages rager at downtown Miami’s Grand Central, with the homie Left Brain of Odd Future. Oh, and it also…
The limo is loaded. The road-trip tunes have been recorded. And it’s time to hit the highway. With three whole months till the August 26 release of his latest garage-y psych-rock opus, Manipulator, the ever-frenetic Ty Segall is getting restless. Dude does not like downtime. So naturally, he’s crashing the…
Rob Base is a hip-hop pioneer whose hits with the late DJ E-Z Rock have sold so far out of this world that even aliens in outer space know that “it Takes 2 to make a thing go right.” He went from winning rap battles at nightclubs in the Bronx…
The weekend may come to an end, but in the Magic City, the music never stops. That’s why artists like New Zealand’s the Naked and the Famous, Sweden’s Little Dragon, and other international superstars make their way to the 305 just to put on a show for us beautiful people…
Behold The Violet Flame. Yes, it’s true that Erasure’s Vince Clarke and Andy Bell have offered only a glimpse of their impending Richard X-produced slab of synth-pop. (A single is set to be released in July.) But once summer’s fizzled, the entire opus will be revealed. And the English dance-pop…
Asked to sum up New Jersey’s the Everymen in a single sentence, singer and six-stringer Mike V says the band’s got “the hips of the E Street, the balls of Rocket From the Crypt, the heart of the Replacements, the soul of Reigning Sound, [and] the livers of Guided By…
