Life and death. Mortality. Pretty heavy subject matter for dance music, right? But then, it’s not really conventional dance music that’s being put out by the Life and Death label. This is heady, brooding, emotional stuff. It might be carried by that uhntz-uhntz beat, but it will bend your mind…
Wiz Khalifa 2050 Tour With Juicy J, Chevy Woods, Lola Monroe, Tuki Carter, and Berner BankUnited Center, Miami Saturday, December 1, 2012 Better Than: Ridin’ slow through your hood puffin’ on endo, bumpin’ Wiz in the trunk. Rap game Steven Tyler. That’s the first thing that came to mind as…
Lee Fields and The Expressions With Ketchy Shuby Presented by Sweat Records and M.O. The Stage Miami Saturday, December 1, 2012 Better Than:Ray starring Jamie Foxx; Watching re-runs of Soul Train on YouTube; and Barack Obama singing Al Green’s “Let’s Stay Together” at the Apollo Theater. This past Saturday night,…
Story Nightclub, the newest premiere party destination on South Beach, hasn’t even opened its doors. And yet this joint has already announced an absolutely epic end-of-year lineup. The new hot spot, formerly Amnesia, is going in on 2013 mad hard, pushing a full week of non-stop superstar DJ action. Seriously,…
CANCELED Psychic TV will no longer be playing at The Vagabond Miami during Art Basel Miami Beach week. However, Merchandise is still currently slated for the show. Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (born Neil Andrew Megson) is a trailblazing freak. Since the late ’60s (following the founding of COUM Transmissions, the performance…
Oh. My. God. The Orange Bowl Committee just announced via press release that Luke Bryan is going to headline the Bud Light Championship Game Day Fan Zone outside of Sun Life Stadium before the BCS National Championship Game! We did it, Miami. The 348-member non-profit organization heard our cry for…
Tiësto is larger than life, an EDM demi-god of epic proportions. You’ll almost never get the chance to meet a DJ as big as Tiëstbro Well, unless you head on over to Lincoln Road Mall’s Guess store on Saturday, December 8. That’s where the house giant will be hanging out…
Of Montreal Presented by Mute Miami The Stage Miami Wednesday, November 29, 2012 Better Than: A 3D Muppet Babies musical remixed by Diplo and Wavy Gravy. Of Montreal is one of the most photogenic bands around today. The wild color schemes and patterns empolyed as a visual supplement to their…
He’s considered one of the most prominent creative forces behind independent, D.I.Y filmmaking, and an inspiration to aspiring filmmakers everywhere. But Robert Rodriguez also plays a mean “Malagueña Salerosa.” “For years, I wanted to record it,” Rodriguez said before performing his version of the Mexican folk song with his band,…
On August 11, Miami rock and experimental music mainstay Dan Hosker passed away due to injuries he sustained during a terrible car accident. Hosker left behind a prodigious discography and performance legacy that stretched from grungy pop-punk to bludgeoning noise music and ol’ timey swamp country. There was seemingly not…
Everclear at Culture Room November 29
Beatdown 2012 at BB&T Center November 30
Wiz Khalifa at BankUnited Center December 1
Scott Weiland at Ricochet Lounge December 2
Wanna “Feel the Rush”? Well, all you gotta do is party like a reality TV star. And luckily, according to an all-caps press release from South Beach megaclub Mansion, “REAL HOUSEWIVES OF MIAMI FAN FAVORITE, ADRIANA DE MOURA, [IS] DUE TO DAZZLE THE CROWD WITH THE FIRST LIVE PERFORMANCE OF…
Drug smokin’, Lower East Side squattin’, dumpster divin’ crust-metal pop-punk crew Leftover Crack is a band that’s mastered the art of branding. For 14 years, these dudes have made themselves synonymous with unwashed, disgruntled vagabond youth culture, playing left-field ska-punk laced with death metal and infinite allusions to hardcore. They’ve…
Attention, Miami DJs! Do you think you might have what it takes to play with the likes of Benny Benassi, Diplo, and R3hab? Can you read a crowd, turn ’em out and have them going gaga for some paint to the face? Well, get to steppin’, because Miami’s Life in…
You know what EDM needs? More sex kittens. Like, if you’re going to be banging out, you need some eye-candy with a hard edge. And that’s where fierce Chicago trio Krewella comes in handy. This threesome is pushing a trendy mix of hard dub and house productions with catchy sing-rap…
When Danny Brown tells you to rub them titties at Bardot, you will motherfucking obey. That’s because you’ll be inundated with propaganda of the highest order. And when we say “propaganda of the highest order,” we mean a VJ set from graphic art star Shepard Fairey. Yeah, Brown and Fairey…
2 Chainz’s B.O.A.T.S. Tour With Trigg Da Kidd and Cap 1 Fillmore Miami Beach Monday, November 26, 2012 Better Than: No Chainz. Or even 1 Chainz. The doubters said 2 Chainz was a hardcore dummy with weak lyrical skills. But with the full fucking endorsement of Lil Wayne, Nicki Minaj,…
If there’s one thing we learned from Cheers, it’s that “sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name.” And nowhere in Miami is that sense of belonging stronger — especially for J Alvarez — than at La Covacha, New Times’ two-time Best Latin Club award winner. Alvarez, the…
If Nicolas Jaar has been pigeonholed as a dance music producer, it’s primarily because his auspicious first releases were put out by NYC deep house label Wolf + Lamb. Admittedly, these were records with a four-to-the-floor beat. But Jaar’s ever-evolving sound has since eluded categorization, instead offering a kaleidoscopic tapestry…
