If you don’t know who Björk is, where have you been the past three decades? The Icelandic musician, artist, and sometimes actress is an icon at this point in her solo career, which has spanned three decades. She’s defied expectations and created music and accompanying visuals that have withstood the…
His act started as a joke, but now the 18-year-old Indonesian rapper is leading a new Far East movement.
An LCD Soundsystem show is much like the typical James Murphy attire: business casual with no pretense. It’s fun and relaxed like his white T-shirt but serious and straightforward like his blazer. Essentially, he embodies the old adage of what you see is what you get. Perhaps that’s why when the band announced a reunion…
South Florida remembers Scott “Daisy Berkowitz” Putesky on his passing. The founding member of Marilyn Manson and the Spooky Kids was a beloved musician who lost a four-year battle with cancer.
“Let’s jump right into some existential dread, shall we?” Against Me! frontwoman Laura Jane Grace laughed at Culture Room this past Tuesday night.
Ibeyi’s spiritual music has gained popularity even as American appetites for religion are at an all-time low.
Faced with the opportunity to become a producer for Billboard-ready pop acts, Rune Reilly Kölsch chose to break from the constraints of radio-friendly hooks. Long ago, his house track “Calabria,” which was released under the name Rune RK, became a pop crossover hit.
A detuned warble that sounds like it’s coming from an old-time gramophone provides an unsettling backdrop as Wifisfuneral mumbles a couple of bars. Then the kick drum drops, and his enunciation becomes razor-sharp, his flow furious. “Steady relapse into my old ways,” he raps. “In the third grade, I got punished for sour play.”
If Stevie Nicks ran away from Fleetwood Mac to join the Stooges in a parallel timeline, she would have released an album like L.A. Witch. The band, a multimedia love letter to the fuzzy reverb and 35-millimeter warmth of the ’70s, embraces its influences, all the while exuding its own attitude. When it comes to postpunk, after all, somehow women musicians are often described as “derivative,” while men are “inspired.”
Here’s the bad news: No video cameras were allowed inside Insane Clown Posse’s show at the Hangar last week. If you didn’t have a ticket, you’d never know exactly what went down when South Florida’s Juggalo army convened in downtown Miami. But here’s the good news: New Times’ most colorful video…
The big news that followed Porter Robinson this year was that he “disowned” nearly all of his earlier work. In January, he tweeted, “No disrespect but this is the canon. Everything else is unofficial now.” The tweet included a screencap that showed only 11 songs, leaving out fan favorites such…
We’ve got a lot of returns this week, meaning you should stop putting off the chance to see some of your favorite folks in concert. The Weeknd is headed to Miami after ruling the BB&T Center in May, Bone Thugs N Harmony are back to fill Sidebar, and Ibeyi are playing the North Beach Bandshell again after the release of their new album, Ash.You can also catch some epic returns to the stage with Fergie at the Fontainebleau BleauLive stage and LCD Soundsystem at the James L. Knight Center.
In a world of terrible raps, Pembroke Pines rapper Sam Stan gives listeners a breath of fresh air.
Self-titled after the Japanese philosophy of “Kaizen,” which translates to “change for the better,” Miami producer KAIXEN is always changing. On his debut album, Pecado, Julian Steven Munro experiments with a fusion of pop, electronic R&B, hip-hop, and indie rock that underscores his growth as both an artist and as a…
Nu Deco is a hybrid ensemble playing the works of Vivaldi alongside the music of Prince and David Bowie.
Miami loves to party, and this city has the tricks and treats to make your fright night a delight. The whole week leading up to October 31 is packed with freaky fun. Get the most out of your costume by attending a few graveyard smashes. Or if you’d never be caught dead in the same costume twice, make even more! The point is to get out there and ghost. Here are some grade-A parties to haunt.
“About 40 minutes from where we’re from in Bogotá, there is a salt mine,” singer Juliana Ronderos says. “The workers in the mine would build shrines to pray at since their job was so dangerous. They built a cathedral made completely of salt, and they dedicated the area to it moving the mine away.”
“We thought Miami was a good place to start,” Conor Oberst said at his last South Florida show, at the Fillmore in 2011. Six years later, the Bright Eyes founder and emo-Americana legend will return to South Florida, this time to perform at the Culture Room in Fort Lauderdale on the…
When it comes to concerts and music festivals, there seem to be two Miamis: one populated by hipsters and the other that’s a little more ratchet. The former is artsy and pretentious and politically correct while dressing like an expensive laundry pile. The latter gives zero fucks and only wants…
Until this weekend, when III Points took over Wynwood, I had never been to a music festival. They’re a right of passage for American youth, yet I’ve managed to stay away for 22 years. How? Well, for one, I’m a poor millennial who can barely afford to eat, let alone…
Against Me!’s Atom Willard remembers Tom Petty and talks his bandmate Laura Jane Grace’s cultural influence.
For those who were too young to experience the Brooklyn postpunk revival of the 2000s but are too old to unreservedly love mumble rap, the path to LCD Soundsystem fandom is a well-trodden one. In the late ’00s and early ’10s, you might have first heard “Daft Punk Is Playing…
