Miami singer/songwriter Gabriela Sotomayor has music in her DNA. This daughter of a Nicaraguan vocalist and a deep-house DJ has been singing and writing for as long as she can remember. With the release this year of her debut EP, Daytime Odyssey (produced by her friend E Ric), Gabriela has…
After 13 years of selling vinyl and shaping Miami’s music scene, Lolo Reskin and Sweat Records have decided to record and release that music themselves. Reskin speaks to New Times about how Sweat Records Records was born.
The Best Life Festival announced this morning that R&B up-and-comer H.E.R. will headline the inaugural Best Life Festival on September 15. H.E.R. joins a previously announced lineup of rising R&B talent including singer Ella Mai — whose song “Boo’d Up” has recently made a slow but steady climb up the pop charts — along with Florida-raised singer R.LUM.R, New Times‘ Best R&B Singer of 2018 Savannah Cristina, and others.
After almost ten years of inspired dance floor madness, the Electric Pickle will be closing next year, June 2019.
The local R&B singer is emerging as a deeply thoughtful voice for the underrepresented, predominantly black community.
After months of being asked the same question over and over again, Christina Michelle and her bandmates are finally able to give a concise answer: September 28. This past Monday, Gouge Away, the posthardcore group that hails from South Florida, dropped a bunch of new content and information, including an album-release date, within the span of a few hours.
For the last five years, the effervescent music, art, and technology festival, III Points, has showcased both homegrown and internationally acclaimed acts. This past May, the festival announced it would skip 2018 and return in February 2019. And this year, the festival is doing things a little bit differently. For the…
For the past six years, Miami native Tiffany Miranda’s local nonprofit organization, Girls Makes Beats (GMB), has worked with young girls ages 8-17 to train them in music production, DJing, and audio engineering. The organization, which recently expanded and established another chapter in Los Angeles, is cultivating the next generation of women in music with the help of Miami chapter leader Christine Miranda and Los Angeles chapter leader Whitney Taber, with Tiffany Miranda at the helm.
The last time Maya Arulpragasam performed in Miami, it was fresh off the heels of her comeback album of sorts, Matangi, at Ultra Music Festival 2014. She released her fifth studio album, AIM, in 2016, and is about to release her long-delayed documentary, MATANGI / MAYA / M.I.A, September 28. The British rapper…
In the depths of West Kendall, just past the chain restaurants your parents love, lies a layer of pride buried beneath the surface of its residents. What’s cooking up behind its suburban corners isn’t just a really great happy hour at Bahama Breeze. There’s an untapped wealth of major talent on the rise.
Have you been dancing to the new Enrique Iglesias song featuring Pitbull, “Move to Miami”? Of course you have. It’s everywhere. And Nitti Gritti, the man who started the song, has come up with a new remix of it.
Miami New Times has immediate openings for writers covering the world of Miami music. If you have a passion for local bands, attend every major tour that comes to town, know your techno from your trance, or keep a mental map of the best underground parties — or all of the above — New Times might be looking for you.
At age 19, singer and performer Layla Bessito, also known as JuJu Pie, was totally broke and living in North Carolina. The Miami native’s mother had passed away the year before, and, she says, “I was faced with all of these emotions that I had repressed my whole life because she…
Following a successful first outing along the shores of Virginia Key Beach last year, Rakastella has announced the initial lineup for its forthcoming second edition in December. The brainchild of two internationally adored techno labels, Innervisions and Life and Death, along with local promoters PL0T, Secret Garden, and the…
LunchMoney Lewis previews his upcoming album and shares some ideas and projects he’s working on.
The Rockadictos are a little frustrated. The trio has been playing in South Florida for about a decade, but hasn’t found Miami to be a great place for a rock band to establish a fan base. They say the scene for Latin rock groups pales in comparison with those for EDM…
September will mark the two year anniversary of the death of iconic Miami Marlins pitcher José Fernández, after a tragic boating accident off the coast of Miami Beach. Fernández not only left behind his family, a then-pregnant girlfriend and a baseball organization starved for young talent, but also a legacy…
When Luis Fonsi’s song “Despacito” topped the U.S. singles charts for a significant part of 2017, there was talk it might lead to a multicultural epiphany — that America was finally ready to open its ears to Spanish language songs. But though the success of “Despacito” might turn out to…
“Take me to the water, in your new rover/ I’ll grab the surfboard and invite some friends over for tacos and ice cream,” Del Pelson frontman Cal Nelson croons on the band’s stand-out track “Tacos & Ice Cream.” The warm, summer-centric song off the group’s latest release, Wide World EP, is perhaps South Florida’s catchiest summer anthem of 2018.
Robert Allen was seen outside Riva Motorsports around the time the murder occurred.
Huge lines formed to see the slain performer.
This is the first time an artist has posthumously topped the Hot 100 since the Notorious B.I.G.’s “Mo Money, Mo Problems” in 1997, more than 20 years ago.
