It isn’t just hall of fame football players like Michael Irvin and Jim Kelly or action movie stars like The Rock and Sylvester Stallone that have walked across The University of Miami’s campus. There are also a boatload of renowned and acclaimed musicians who attended class in Coral Gables. And…
“You know how a lot of people are always walking around taking pictures? I’ve always been that way with sound,” Emile Milgrim says. In her new project, Archival Feedback, the Miami native is collecting everyday sounds she captures around Miami and mixing it into a surreal electronic groove. “The way…
When you think Jacuzzi Boys, you think Miami. Anyone familiar at all with the music scene down here knows that the tropical garage rockers have become just as synonymous with the Magic City as Cuban sandwiches and hypodermic needles. The Miami-bred trio’s fuzzy, beachy sound is the perfect soundtrack for that South…
Before he knew a word of English, Arnie C found himself drawn to American and British rock and roll. Though he couldn’t understand what the singers were screaming about, the message came through to him clear as day. “When I was six-years-old Pink Floyd was my favorite.” he told us. “I…
Miami is known for a lot of things: sun, beaches, the hedonistic excess of vice — but it was only very recently that we’ve become known as a haven for art. However, what the New York Times and all the other news outlets drooling over Art Basel don’t seem to…
“Electronic. Booty. Makes you feel a type of way.” That’s how Miami’s new four-piece electronic band Kodiak Fur describes its sound. Born in the recording studio almost by accident, Kodiak Fur is certainly among the more charismatic acts hanging around the Miami music scene these days. When Steven Sanz and Christopher…
“We’re bad at math. We really started in May 2013,” Chuck Livid, founder of TuffGnarl.com, says. You could say his music blog — which New Times declared 2015’s best — is running on Miami time. “Last year’s was in late summer too,” Livid says while trying to remember the foggy…
Quick — think of a drummer. No, that Muppet doesn’t count. It’s hard, ain’t it? Certainly not as easy as naming a guitarist or a lead singer. “Drummers don’t get a chance to stand out. I thought it would be cool to give drummers I respect 15 minutes to come…
Classical musicians have been trying for years to figure out how to hook younger generations. They might want to give Jackie Rodriguez a call. The clarinetist and cofounder of 8 Bit Wave had a full house of Miami Dade College students during one of the school’s orchestra shows. She even…
Otto Von Schirach worships at the alter of the avocado. If you follow the king of the Miami bass freaks on Instagram, surely you already know this. And surely you too have watched his bizarre 12 second videos praising the fruit gods and been left both confused and craving a…
There’s strength in numbers. Most often in life, this is true. Two is better than one, and collaboration always breeds better ideas. But sometimes finding like-minded folk to collaborate with can be easier said than done. Bribery Corporation, an up-and-coming Miami-based label, is in the early stages of recruiting its…
A week ago, Afrobeta debuted their new music video before a live crowd at Miami’s new late night lounge, Libertine. A day before the Magic City duo’s set, we visited their home and recording studio, stepping over the garden and narrowly avoiding amputation via their fearless nine-pound guard dog, Suki,…
Next time your landlord gives you shit about few nails in the wall or a chip in the paint, you should take them over to Bruiser’s pad. The local experimental trio turned their house in Miami’s historic Buena Vista neighborhood into, essentially, a very hardcore Airbnb. “The landlord didn’t like the…
Back in September, on the set of the N.W.A biopic Straight Outta Compton, cameras rolled in the parking lot of the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium as actors playing prudish protesters hoisted signs (“Crap Rap N.W.A”) and ran over a pile of the group’s records with a steamroller. A little later,…
People seem to forget that Miami used to be a swamp. Since then, European explorers, waves of people from all over the world, and Pitbull have been poured into and over it, creating a wild west on the southeastern tip of this country like no other place. However, all that glitter…
When Kat Reinhert held the final copy of Spark in her hands, it was surreal. She’d put nothing short of blood, sweat, and tears into her second LP, and its triumphant message of courage and strength was more important than ever given her recent divorce. She’d done all of this…
At 8:30 p.m. the parking lot for the Frost Museum of Science seemed exceptionally full. Walking towards the lobby a security guard warned passersby, “All the shows are sold out.” A sign scotch taped on the entrance reiterated the same message. It was Saturday night, the final night of the…
Richard Mason and Laz have come a long way together since the ninth grade Hialeah High School science class where they first met. “I was in a talent show and Richard saw me perform,” Laz remembers. “He convinced me to join the chorus and we’ve been singing together ever since.”…
If you drove around Miami in the 1990s, you probably remember the name DJ Ballistic Billy. At 7 and 9 on the dot every night on Power 96, he would play his mixes, mashing up rock with hip-hop and house. Though he found himself broadcasting on a major radio station…
Though the quirky name hasn’t changed, local soul outfit Ketchy Shuby’s appearance Thursday at Bardot will be the debut of an almost entirely new lineup. “Me and the bass player [Matt Pyatt] are the only original members,” Ketchy Shuby’s outspoken singer/guitarist Jason Hernandez-Rodriguez says. The band has added a new…
The members of Soundwall are excited. I had arranged to meet with one of them to discuss the unique new creation, but when I arrive, there are four members of the Miami music scene’s new “artist’s collective” seated at the table for our lunch meeting. All four are local musicians…
Carol City’s Gunplay released his debut studio album, Living Legend, today alongside a fantastical video for the track “White Bitch.” In the video, we see Gunplay team up with the last standing Cocaine Cowboy, Mickey Munday, to move weight from the jungles of Colombia to somewhere in South Florida. In…
