If you’re one of those people who complain about the dead Miami music scene, you probably don’t go out to support local bands. Indie bands and artists have always supported one another, and Snowmoon — the female-fronted local rock band by Jessie Allen, Andy Rodriguez, and Noel Hernandez attests — to this truth.
Did David Crosby, who will play the North Beach Bandshell this Sunday, always want to be a musician? “I wanted to be an actor once, but, yeah, I wanted to make music.” Is it true Dennis Hopper based his character in Easy Rider on Crosby? “Yeah.” Was he offended by…
You might expect Jermaine Dupri to be a little off his game when he performs at LIV this Friday. The legendary music producer and rapper is an Atlanta native and a longtime Falcons fan. He was even onstage for a halftime performance with Ludacris and Jeezy during the NFC Championship…
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.”
To live in Miami is to live in paradise. While the rest of the country gets up at the crack of dawn to shovel their cars out of the snow and endure freezing temperatures, a mid-February beach day isn’t out of the question for a South Floridian. And the organizers…
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.
When Barclay Crenshaw first began mixing hip-hop sets, it was for an in-house radio show at his Detroit high school, and fans weren’t exactly clogging the airwaves. “We could never get anybody to listen,” he laughs, “so we would buy a takeout pizza every week and give it to the…
Rock ‘n’ roll narratives are played out. The stories that permeate the rock canon have been regurgitated time and again, from the forward-thinking but troubled young artist who can’t outrun his own demons, to the established musician who mounts an unlikely comeback, and everything in between. There’s nothing new under…
John Legend will open a tour in Miami May 12 at Bayfront Park Amphitheatre, the artist announced today. The 38-year-old singer-songwriter, who is married to model Chrissy Teigen, will start the Darkness and Light tour in Miami and then travel to more than two dozen cities before ending in New Orleans in June.
Miami rappers have always done a solid job of representing the entire spectrum of hip-hop, from the deep and poetic words of conscious MCs to the mansion parties that nearly all rappers and their crews wish they could attend. South Florida’s established and rising rappers were able to show us these perspectives and everything in between this past week.
Rick Astley is back to remind us he’s good for more than just a joke.
Lamebot is the solo project of a local electronic musician, DJ, and producer who dresses in an outfit that’s a cross between an Image Comics vigilante and the Marvel supervillain Doctor Doom.
The Coathangers make fun music for pissed-off people. Seeing as the band — then consisting of Meredith Franco, Julia Kugel, Stephanie Luke, and Candice Jones — was conceived after an anti-Bush rally in the (relatively) halcyon days of 2006, it follows that a strong irreverent streak would follow. Early in the group’s history, this meant baking cookies and bringing along prizes for audience members at shows, to say nothing of their ballsy, impassioned onstage antics.
In a time when drops are celebrated over lyrics, pop is high art, and Migos is compared to the Beatles, rock ‘n’ roll sits perched on the edge of its death bed complaining of achy bones. It often seems the great guitar poets of bygone days spent their lives partying instead of procreating, especially in Miami, where most live musical entertainment plugs into Serato.
The political upheaval of the ’60s and ’70s begat some of the greatest and most enlightened rock ‘n’ roll ever recorded. Now, as the United States finds itself at its most divisive and politically charged moment since the great civil rights movement, many are looking to musicians to step up to the plate.
Vinyl heads are a dying breed. At a time when music lovers can carry around the entire discography of every artist they love on a keychain, it’s growing tougher for lovers of records to find a place to dive headfirst into a mountain of vinyl to search for something rare or forgotten.
When you’re the son of a famous father, it’s all but inevitable that comparisons will be drawn between you and your dad. And when your name is Guthrie — as in Woody Guthrie, the iconic folk singer — certain expectations inevitably follow. Arlo Guthrie has built a formidable career filled with classic albums, but the turmoil that’s gripping the nation inevitably prompts questions about what his pops would do.
Miami is a city overrun with DJs, clubs, and the expensive cocktails that come with the territory. With the revolving door of bar openings and closings that has accompanied Miami’s development boom, it’s been difficult to find a dive bar that feels like home — the kind you frequent…
Every year, the International Noise Conference descends upon Churchill’s Pub in Little Haiti for a week of alien frequencies, outré performance art, and late-night debauchery. After more than a decade of bizarre and frequently brilliant shows, the event has endeared itself to attendees and performers from Florida and beyond. It’s…
It was much like the line at Coyo Taco during Art Basel. About 2,500 neon-clad Groove Cruise passengers eagerly waited at Terminal D in PortMiami last week. An ocean of spandex, leopard print, and odd costumes was ready to flood the Carnival Victory, aimed for Turks and Caicos. Because 96 hours of dance music isn’t enough, some blasted beats from wireless speakers and held portable club lighting as they waited.
Singer-songwriter Dama Vicke has always felt a connection to the world of film. Before her former band became known as Dear Darling, its name was Huma Rojo — a reference to the sought-after actress in Pedro Almodóvar’s All About My Mother. Though she does not have a formal acting background,…
In a 1973 interview with Dick Cavett, Marlon Brando claimed that all people were constantly performing, not just out of habit but out of necessity. “We couldn’t survive a second if we weren’t able to act,” he said. “Acting is a survival mechanism; it’s a social lubricant. We act to…
