House-music DJ/producer Josh Butler was a regular on the dance floor before moving to the DJ throne. For the self-admitted raver, his college experience in Leeds was of the six-year variety. Like the legendary house parties there, undergrad careers extend past the standard time frame.
Before they were slinging mud at each other on escalating dis tracks, Jay-Z and onetime mentor Jaz-O were collaborating on one of Jaz-O’s more successful singles, “Hawaiian Sophie.” It’s the sort of goofy, good-time pop rap from the late ’80s that’s almost embarrassing if it weren’t for some truly smooth…
Robby Robb is on a mission to make a music festival that celebrates local bands — whether they’re from Miami or somewhere else. This November 18, Robb will inaugurate his Imaginary Radio Music & Arts Festival at Gramps.
Jay-Z’s 4:44 Tour finally makes it to Miami this Sunday. It’s in support of his 13th album of the same name, which, like Magna Carta Holy Grail, wasn’t teased with any singles before release. But then again, when you inhabit the upper echelons of superstardom like Shawn Carter does, you don’t have to bother with singles.
It has a long and storied history, first as Miami Beach Municipal Auditorium, then the Theater of Performing Arts, and later the Jackie Gleason Theater. But 2017 is the tenth year the building at 1700 Washington Ave. has been known as the Fillmore Miami Beach. To mark the occasion…
Juan Carlos Girl, a legally blind local activist and Paralympic athlete with cerebral palsy, is suing Ultra Music Festival. He claims the festival’s website and live events are inaccessible to visually impaired patrons, which violates Title III of the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA).
Catch three Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees at this weekend’s RockFest 80’s.
According to NME, QTY is the NBT. That sentence might not make sense to many, but Dan Lardner, the lead singer of NYC two-piece QTY, would probably love it. Joined by guitarist and longtime friend and collaborator Alex Niemetz, the 27-year-old Lardner will make his first trip to Florida as…
One of John Gregory’s great recent frustrations in life was that he couldn’t find a drum ‘n’ bass night in Miami. “I’d been doing events all over South Florida and I found the last couple years there really wasn’t anything I wanted to go to,” the man who was in…
It can’t be easy to be a soft-spoken singer-songwriter today in America, with our appetite for screaming pundits, whirlwind synth, and infinite streams of information. But Sam Beam has made a success of it under the moniker Iron & Wine. With Beam’s whispery vocals and guitar, Iron & Wine has…
The man who sang youth anthems such as “My Generation” and “The Kids Are Alright” is now 73 years old, but the Who’s Roger Daltrey approaches performing his classics the same as always. “When I sing ‘Baba O’Riley,’ a song I’ve sung a thousand times, I’m singing it for the first time. That’s always been my method. I have to sing them like it’s the first time.”
The legendary rap group will perform at Mana Wynwood as part of III Points’ Basel concert series.
On the heels of Paul van Dyk’s performance at Heart last week, the Berliner club invasion continues with Ellen Allien’s Terrace debut at Club Space Saturday, November 4. The DJ, producer, and BPitch Control record label owner is slicing an apple in her Berlin apartment when she talks to New Times…
Puerto Rican singer-songwriter iLe has been called an “old soul.” It is a fitting description for a woman who at age 28 has already experienced a full career with her brothers in the alternative hip-hop act Calle 13 and won a Grammy with her first solo offering, Ilevitable. Born Ileana…
If you are unaware who up-and-coming rapper Lil Peep is, don’t feel too bad. His internet-grown fan base skews young, but they are definitely a faithful bunch. With over 100 million streams, the emo rapper seems to come out of nowhere to most people. But after a series of successful…
I can’t hear the term “first of the month” without being transported back to my summer-school graduation in 1995. Cap in tow, sporting my Cross Colors and a mullet, I would bump Bone Thugs-N-Harmony in my Camaro IROC-Z as I cruised the Grove with my homies.
Van Dyk’s story is one of resolve, perseverance, and love since his near-fatal from a stage in February 2016. That story is told in his new album, From Then On, which dropped October 20. He’ll perform in Miami at Heart Nightclub Saturday, October 28.
Fergie returns with her sophomore solo album, Double Dutchess, after several world tours and albums with the Black Eyed Peas, marriage, separation, and motherhood.
If you don’t know who Björk is, where have you been the past three decades? The Icelandic musician, artist, and sometimes actress is an icon at this point in her solo career, which has spanned three decades. She’s defied expectations and created music and accompanying visuals that have withstood the…
His act started as a joke, but now the 18-year-old Indonesian rapper is leading a new Far East movement.
An LCD Soundsystem show is much like the typical James Murphy attire: business casual with no pretense. It’s fun and relaxed like his white T-shirt but serious and straightforward like his blazer. Essentially, he embodies the old adage of what you see is what you get. Perhaps that’s why when the band announced a reunion…
A detuned warble that sounds like it’s coming from an old-time gramophone provides an unsettling backdrop as Wifisfuneral mumbles a couple of bars. Then the kick drum drops, and his enunciation becomes razor-sharp, his flow furious. “Steady relapse into my old ways,” he raps. “In the third grade, I got punished for sour play.”
