Is the EDM scene kind of played out and boring? Kill the Noise think so, “everything from the guys on the stage to the crowd.” “Pretty much the whole thing, right from the second you walk up to the door, is all a routine that we’ve all been through a…
Microsoft versus Apple. That is one retail rivalry that will never be put to rest. But how does Microsoft win over its customers? By celebrating the grand opening of its eighth Florida store with a free ticket giveaway to see Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, live in concert. See also: Macklemore:…
As part of Hercules & Love Affair’s original lineup, Kim Ann Foxman helped rekindle the flames of our passion for classic house sounds in the late 2000s. But as a solo producer and DJ, Foxman is showing us house music’s future, and it sounds sexier than ever. Sultry vocal hooks,…
III Points Festival is back. And promising “68 acts, one warehouse, three days.” Last year’s inaugural celebration of music, art, and technology was by most accounts a success. But some communication and organizational kinks are two things the III Points team is working hard to overcome for its sophomore 2014…
As Brand New once mused: “Gave up my body and bed/All for an empty hotel free concert tickets.” This Long Island indie pop-punk crew, known for 2000s emo anthems like “The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows,” has recently reconvened after several years of being unsigned and inactive. Now…
Porter Robinson says: “I literally fucking love you.” Actually … He says it a lot. Especially when he’s feeling “so caffeinated” and “over-earnest.” The 21-year-old producer was set to be the next epic thing in EDM. But then he decided to reject “the boring, functional music for DJs,” as he…
Time to grind in the 305. It’s Memorial Day weekend, AKA Urban Beach Week. As usual, South Beach and the mainland will be offering a great variety of new and old, ratchet and refined, as well as some straight gangsta lineups. So start practicing your twerk, get your 26-inch chrome…
Tamar Braxton Fillmore Miami Beach Friday, May 16, 2014 Better Than: Watching an episode of Tamar & Vince. “People don’t know I can get turnt up and drop it like it’s hot.” That’s the kind of performance the youngest of the Braxton sisters promised to put on for her Tamartians…
It’s been less than a year since Bizzy Crook made the move from Miami to New York. The plan was to expand his exposure in the Mecca of hip-hop littered with talent that departs as fast has it arrived. A few months after the releases of ’84 and ’84: Off…
Memorial Day weekend is among us … For us 305 peeps, that means we’re either gonna run for our lives and avoid SoBe at all costs, or start our summer vacay early with Kid Ink, Sunghosts, Beenie Man, and the rest of the artists putting on kick ass shows for…
When the dance music world heard bass monster Kill the Noise and melodic house kid Mat Zo were teaming up for a tour, the reaction was a collective wut? “We weren’t really too sure ourselves,” says KTN’s Jake Stanczak. “Mat comes from a different world, I come from a different…
Bastille With Wolf Gang Fillmore Miami Beach Thursday, May 15, 2014 Better Than: Standing out in the heavy rain. If you ever wondered what the long term effects of Coldplay might be, you need look no further than Bastille. The chart topping synth heavy four piece are led by singer/songwriter…
Modest Mouse Fillmore Miami Beach Wednesday, May 14, 2014 Better Than: Getting caught in an actual pit of rats. Scurrying like buzz-hungry rodents to the sugar nozzle, Modest Mouse fans cheerily clawed and crawled through the Fillmore Miami Beach, searching for the perfect spot in which to nest while waiting…
One hit is all it takes for an established musician to become an international star. For Bob Marley, it was “Judge Not.” For Shaggy, it was “Oh, Carolina.” For Trinidadian ragga soca artist Bunji “The Fireman” Garlin, that song is “Differentology.” “The purpose was to transcend beyond the season of…
“Nomen,” says Kompakt Records cofounder and DJ-producer Michael Mayer, “est omen.” Or in other, non-Latin words, one’s moniker is a sign of destiny. So while “Kompakt started out,” Mayer recently told us, “as a record store in 1993” by the name of Delirium, it was soon relaunched, relabeled, and began…
Take some life advice from Blackalicious’ Gift of Gab and Chief Excel: “Don’t let money free tickets change ya!” Just like fast women, faster cars, and famous friends, it’s crazy how quick comp tix for classic rap shows, like Gab and Excel’s joint at Grand Central, can gas a homie’s…
If Germany has dominated techno since the turn of the millennium, it’s thanks in no small part to the enduring influence of one label: the legendary Cologne-based Kompakt Records. Launched in 1998, Kompakt artists would marry ambient electronica’s abstract, hypnotic sound design with driving four-to-the-floor beats to spawn the minimal…
Maybe you woke up this morning to discover your body decorated in colorful bruises. Maybe you’ve taken three showers, but still don’t feel particularly clean. And maybe you have an aggressive ringing in your ears that won’t let up. Well, then you were probably at the Jacuzzi Boys’ last show…
As Ms. Lily Allen says: “It’s hard out here for a bitch.” But that doesn’t mean the Brit pop provocateur’s about to let herself be beat down by slimeball demands that every woman be some rich, size six that can cook and shake ass. Nope. She’s starting shit. She’s fighting…
As we slog ever nearer to the pending change of ownership that looms over Churchill’s Pub, it would appear patrons have splintered into two distinct camps. There are the deniers who believe the punk landmark can only flourish with its current patronage and practices intact, and that any alterations by…
“Iz u down? Iz u down? Uhh, uhh.” That’s just Kid Ink (government name Brian Todd Collins), the 28-year-old Cali rapper, runnin’ game ’cause he could tell “it’s something on yo expression lookin’ like you need a taste of that ass some free concert tickets.” Kicking off Miami’s annual weeklong…
Of Montreal With Boogarins Grand Central Miami Wednesday, May 7, 2014 Better Than: Of Montreal’s recorded material. Of Montreal is one of those critically acclaimed bands whose dozen-album deep catalog is impossible to dive into. That is, unless you see them live. Such an occurrence will baptize you into the…
