Miami’s Best Concert of the Week: Toro y Moi at Bardot

Eight years into his career, that there doesn’t seem to be a genre out there that Chaz Bundick, better known as Toro Y Moi, doesn’t love. Under the moniker of Toro Y Moi, Bundick has now released four LPs, with his sound evolving completely since his debut record, Causers of…

Robert Schwartzman Has Had to Rediscover His Love for Rooney

Robert Schwartzman has not always been as enthusiastic about Rooney as he is today. “I’ll tell you this,” he says. “I remember being onstage in Rooney years ago and playing these songs and not feeling inspired… I needed to take time away from this project to realize how much I…

What This III Points Rookie Learned Last Weekend

As a lifelong music addict who mainlines concerts for sustenance, I’ve been to my fair share of music festivals, and I’ve seen it all. I’ve been to festivals where families have picnics by their RVs, and I’ve been to others where young people’s crater-wide pupils make it pretty obvious why…

Does III Points Owe LCD Soundsystem Fans a Refund?

I won’t keep you waiting in suspense to the question asked in this headline: No. Why? Because you didn’t buy a ticket for an LCD Soundsystem show; you bought a ticket for a music festival that happened to feature LCD Soundsystem on the bill. All weekend long, New Times received…

The First-Annual III Points Awards

III Points ended less than 24 hours ago, the fire in our dancing shoes still glows hot, and the Red Bull shakes are just now starting to subside. And while it’s all still fresh and stinky, let’s take this opportunity to dish out some accolades. Thus, we present our first…

The Winners and Losers of III Points 2016

Well III Points 2016 is officially in the books. Hopefully you’ve been keeping up with our day-to-day reviews, but now it’s time to take a step back and examine the festival from a larger perspective.  In the end, who came out on top and who got the short end of…

III Points 2016, Day One: Complications Linger, but the Show Goes On

Down its biggest headliner and plagued by last-minute hiccups, III Points limped into day one, badly wounded. The forces of god, nature, and misfortune had seemingly unloaded their entire arsenal on the Wynwood festival this year in the form of wind, mosquitoes, and cancelled flights.  Year four would be the…

Machinedrum Owes His Music Education to South Florida

Machinedrum is the sort of band name that should belong to an industrial metal outfit. It’s cold, digital, and robotic. And yet, the man behind the avant-garde IDM project, Travis Stewart, couldn’t be warmer and more affable if his heart was a soft, glowing baby sun powered by harp-wielding angels. When…

Black Kvlt Festival Promises Death and Destruction at Churchill’s

After the underwhelming collection of wind and rain South Florida was calling Hurricane Matthew, the city could use an adrenaline boost. Thankfully, the  fourth annual Black Kvlt Festival is upon us. “I’m not a Satan worshipper, but I like the dark, evil shit,” Ira Ochacher says when asked why he…

The Most Exciting Female Musicians Coming to III Points

The electronic music world has, in the past, been both fairly and unfairly targeted as a sausage fest granting women little access into its world. But truthfully, most music genres we’re familiar with today have such a history, and they’ve taken decades to try to rectify their lack of inclusivity…

Scuba Is Practically a Miamian

We sat down with Paul Rose, AKA Scuba, last Sunday night following his set at Beta Nightclub in Denver, where he dropped four hours of techno tracks for the glossy-eyed club goers that gathered on the dance floor. While the Colorado crowd was either taking it easy or super blazed;…