The CD seems destined for obsolescence. Sales continue to decline. Profits too. And people are starting to discover that crusty old coffee-table coasters can be conveniently replaced with compact discs. But vinyl is booming. For the seventh straight year, the format’s sales have increased. (In 2014, there were 9.2 million…
Trick Daddy is a passionate man. He’s passionate about his city, his community, hip-hop, and he’s definitely passionate about his food. “Tilapia, that’s a new fish,” he says. “I don’t even remember when tilapia came out. That’s not a fish we ate. Growing up in the ghetto, we ate grunts, we…
Shroud Eater has been, without a doubt, one of the steadiest forces on South Florida’s contemporary metal scene. The trio’s informed doom is tempered by flourishes of melody, yet grounded in the cavernous and thunderous roll of sludge and stoner metal. Founded by Jean Saiz and Janette Valentine, respectively playing…
Ever been tempted to take a time machine back to 1950s Havana, but the only thing keeping you in 2015 was you wouldn’t be able to dance to Pitbull in the ’50s? Well, now the 1950s and Pitbull’s music don’t have to be mutually exclusive. This Friday, April 10, Pitbull…
Liberty City’s Pork ’n’ Beans Projects are a historic landmark in the worlds of street life, music, and entertainment. But for Project Stacks they’re also a home to be proud of. The rapper, known for his My Block mixtape series, can be found hosting and performing at Take One, Coco’s,…
It isn’t a crossover. More than maybe any other Latin pop act, Maná represents what the Top 40 charts could look like in a couple of decades, as the U.S.’s Spanish-speaking population continues to explode. The Mexican rock band sings only en español. Unlike Shakira, Ricky Martin, Enrique Iglesias, and…
It’s been seven decades since anyone actually stepped into the Buena Vista Social Club, a members-only hangout in Havana, where some of the island’s most skillful singers and musicians pioneered a distinctively Afro-Cuban mezla of jazz, mambo, charanga, cha-cha-cha, rumba, and son. The club closed in the 1940s, long before…
Thirteen is a number considered by many to be unlucky, but the organizers of the 13th-annual Heineken TransAtlantic Festival see themselves as incredibly fortunate. When this world music-focused fest was launched in 2003, it seemed unlikely that a decade-plus run lay ahead. But as Rhythm Foundation director Laura Quinlan explains,…
“I had been in various bands since 1987 and the last band I was in, Killer Kane, showed early signs of the direction I wanted to go in musically. I wanted to emphasize rawness, heavy guitars, feedback and distortion. At that time, I was listening to bands like the Laughing…
Move over magic clowns, Trick Daddy Dollars is about to take over the birthday game. True Miami boy and avid music lover Eric Faden is turning 24. That’s why on Friday, April 10, he will be turning Wynwood’s LMNT into a 305 free-for-all of music, food, and entertainment. There’s gonna…
Edwin Farnham Butler III is a son, brother, husband, father, and bandmate. Born to a family with deep musical roots, he is also the heir to a century-old tradition of artistic pursuit that began with his grandparents: Alvino Rey, a pioneering jazzman known as the Father of the Pedal Steel…
Much like music, noise is everywhere. “People are so used to listening to noise that they’ll sit for hours and see it [on film],” Frank Falestra AKA Rat Bastard claims. “Take away the picture, and it’s just noise.” Sitting in the living room of his South Beach apartment-turned-recording studio, the…
“Thank you, South Beach.” Those are the words currently tacked to the famous Cameo marquee. Built in 1936, it was originally a movie theater. In the ’80s, it became a punk and hardcore venue where Black Flag, Circle Jerks, Dead Kennedys, D.O.A., Bad Brains, and even the Red Hot Chili…
Only 48 hours left. Don’t cry. Don’t hyperventilate. Don’t despair. We know it seems Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week is oh-so-quickly coming to an end. But there’s still plenty of party time to go. You will realize your wildest WMC and MMW dreams. You will fist-pump underwater. You…
Contrary to what your physician may suggest, after three straight days of partying, you do not need a dark room, a warm bed, some rest, a good cry, and an IV dose of 1000 milliliters of normal saline. All you need is more partying. Lots more partying. And even more…
George Clinton is one of the God particles of hip-hop. Like James Brown before him, his crucial contributions to the world of funk form the basis of rap as we know it. Not just the samples, the breaks, the ripoffs, and the re-writes, but the classics. From De La Soul’s…
Good morning, party people. You’re probably the super-serious sort of nightlifers. And that means you will have already been celebrating that weeklong holiday known as Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week for about 46 hours now. There has been no sleep. (Except for five-minute power naps in VIP poolside…
Ever since joining Major Lazer, Walshy Fire has been circling the globe, dropping bass, and inciting international party crowds into wild, explosive, and twerkelated versions of themselves. It’s the logical progression for a Jamaican kid from Carol City who picked up on music early and never let it go. First…
Splish, splash, and uhntz-uhntz. Every year, when Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week come ’round, picking the right H2O bash to show off that cute “I’m in Miami, Bitch!” bikini and matching shades can be a daunting task. Luckily, we at New Times have taken many trips to the…
George Clinton has fought so many lawyers, he can smoke a spliff rolled in a Habeas Corpus and still know every word printed on it. For decades he has fought for legal and monetary justice over song copyrights he says were fraudulently signed out from under him and then exploited…
Do not stop dancing. Maybe you haven’t heard (and maybe you live in a padded, soundproof room with no internet, a busted TV set, and boarded-up windows), but that annual 144-hour dance marathon known as Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week is about to swarm South Beach, downtown, Wynwood,…
White sands. Neon. Bikini bottoms on babes of both sexes. This is Miami Beach, a land of sun and fun, late nights and megaclubs, humble coconut vendors, and princelings of excess, where the waves roll forever, the mojitos are always cold, and it’s perfectly acceptable to stroll through the streets…
