It’s 8:30 p.m. Saturday night, and Westchester is relatively quiet. Somewhere in Brickell, a group of scantily dressed girls are doing shots in preparation for a wild night out, but 15 minutes west, in the grassy armpit of the Dolphin and Palmetto Expressways, leathery Cuban men gather on sun-bleached porches…
Spring break is officially here. With all the college students flooding Miami to party hard in downtown and get reckless on the beach, it’ll be hard to drown out all the mind-splitting EDM that will boom from every club in Dade County for the next month. Are you hip-hop heads looking for an easy escape route? Then search no further.
Deaf Poets return with a new album, Lost in the Magic City, and video for “Celestine.”
February has been filled with nothing but love from our hometown rappers and artists.
You can’t overstate the enduring influence of Laura of Miami, AKA Laura Sutnick, on the local alternative dance music scene. From her tenure as a WVUM radio DJ to her event promotions company Nightdrive and Klangbox.FM internet radio station, she has championed lesser-heard sounds for more than a decade.
Elastic Bond has never been the kind of band to concern itself with limits, be they conventions of genre, language, instrumentation, or influences within the group’s music. Songwriters Sofy Encanto, from Honduras, and Andres Ponce, from Venezuela, exist in two spaces at once, influenced by the music they heard growing…
For Valentine’s Day, Miami MC’s delivered exactly what the people were asking for. DJ Khaled kicked off the week with his epic song with the royal couple, Jay Z and Beyoncé. Other top-notch rappers to take on V Day: Ball Greezy and Kent Jones, who both dropped mixtapes on February…
It might only be February, but this month’s first release from Richie Hell’s newly launched Gumbo Limbo Music is already poised to be one of the best local-label debuts of the year. This tasteful new slab, Future Blues, includes four slow-burning Delta blues-infused disco-house bangers and is an auspicious sign from the…
Love is seriously in the air — like Zika or some other disease — and some South Florida artists have contracted the bug just in time for the weekend before Valentine’s Day.
Instrumental fusion quartet Electric Kif is like Miami’s musical version of the United Nations. The band, which will play the Coconut Grove Arts Festival February 20, transforms four cultures into one sonic experience. “I’m from Mexico City,” bassist Rodrigo Zambrano tells New Times. “Our guitarist is from France, with all its gypsy culture; Jason [Matthews, the keyboardist] is from Philadelphia, which has its own thing with soul and R&B; and Armando [Lopez, the drummer] is from here, the Magic City.”
After dedicating his previous four albums to South Florida and his love for coffee beans, Biddines’ fifth album, The Local Café, allows him to further embrace his passion for a hot cup of coffee as he tells personal stories from his past.
Here are ten Miami hip-hop DJs who are planning valuable moves in 2017.
Coconut Grove Arts Festival music lineup includes Greyhounds, Locos por Juana, Electric Kif, and Patrick & the Swayzees.
Artists can learn about the legendary reggae label and how to get their own vinyl records pressed.
I remember the first time I heard Erykah Badu playing on my mother’s stereo in our little townhouse in Virginia. “Tyrone” echoed through the house while my mom cleaned the kitchen. I couldn’t help but think: Who the hell is Tyrone? Why does he need to be called? But then I became captivated by the sound of Badu’s soothing voice. It rang in my ears even after the song ended. “It’s called soul music,” my mom said. After that, I was hooked.
Radiohead fans were already excited that the English rock band will headline this year’s Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in mid-April. Now the band has announced an 11-date U.S. tour scheduled to kick off March 30 at the American Airlines Arena in downtown Miami.
A little more than a year ago, Gabriela Guerrero’s mother showed her a flyer for a Vevo DJing competition sponsored by Tiësto and encouraged her to register. Guerrero had messed around with her stepfather’s DJ equipment here and there, but had minimal experience in the booth. Still, she decided to…
Trina, Yung Simmie, Nell, and others release their latest.
Last week, Ed Calle — a Latin Grammy winner and one of Miami’s best-known musicians — found himself in hot water over a tweet in which he referred to President Barack Obama as “the Kenyan.” Now, it seems, that hot water has boiled over. Calle, who did not respond to an email from New Times seeking comment, resigned from Palo! — an Afro-Cuban funk band — this past Tuesday.
For the first time in more than 20 years, Stephen Marley will reunite with brothers Ziggy, Damian, and Ky-Mani onstage at Kaya Fest. The inaugural event will take place Saturday, April 22, 2017 at Bayfront Park Amphitheatre
Florida rappers know better than to sleep at the top of the new year. When the clock struck 12:01 January 1, South Florida artists such as North Miami resident Billy Blue and Hialeah native Eskeerdo refused to wait a minute longer to drop off their latest creations. Kiddo Marv not only celebrated 2017 but also put on for Haitians all over the nation via his video dedicated to Haitian Independence Day.
Friends of local musician Alex Diaz, better known as Xela Zaid, have started a crowdfunding campaign to raise money that will go toward helping Diaz recover from a stroke he suffered last month just before Christmas. Organizers ask that anyone who enjoyed Diaz’s work to donate to help the musician regain his ability to speak. He has been a staple of the Miami music scene for more than three decades.
