When I was 12, I was a proud Moonie. I spent three-quarters of my free time in class drawing scenes from Sailor Moon mangas, and the rest of it writing my own Sailor Moon Fan Fiction. I avidly collected every single episode of the Japanese series on VHS tape. My…
Throughout its history, the Netherlands has not always been known as a hotbed of musical talent and innovation. Before the EDM explosion, Americans largely visited to get high or to wile away hours during a layover. But in the past decade, the country’s soundscape has been dominated by one of…
Daddy Yankee is an international superstar who has sold nearly 20 million records worldwide, winning dozens of awards along the way. However, Ramón Ayala Rodríguez might be something of a mystery to those who are familiar with only his club bangers “Gasolina” and “Lo Que Pasó, Pasó.” For that reason,…
Come next year, lead guitarist Ryan Primack and drummer Chris Hornbrook will celebrate 20 years of Poison the Well. From the early days as a hardcore punk band through a trend-setting evolution to metalcore before, finally, settling and pioneering a melodic and more rock-oriented post-hardcore sound, PTW boasts a five-record…
Rudiments are the essentials, the foundation of a subject. Consequently, Rudimental, a genre-hopping outfit from northeast London, take the foundations of drum and bass to craft dance music that’s essential listening. First coming to prominence in 2012 with the massive hit single, “Feel The Love,” featuring vocalist John Newman, Rudimental…
In the heart of Overtown, the Historic Lyric Theater has long stood as the cultural pulse of Miami’s historically black neighborhood. Count Basie, Sam Cooke, Ella Fitzgerald, and many more of America’s greatest entertainers have graced its stage since the theater’s opening in 1913. Now, the Lyric is giving Miami’s…
Let’s face it, although we love to complain about the sticky Miami summer there’s one thing that helps us overcome the pain: pool parties. And alcohol. Fine, two things. And if you haven’t experienced the Confidante’s weekly pool party, Frankie Says, then now is you chance. Hosted by Wynwood’s Electric…
With as many fingers as she has in so many different pies, Kim Cameron might as well be a baker. Adding yet another title to her resume wouldn’t be wholly unexpected as the Miami Beach resident and L.A. native, is a singer/songwriter, children’s author, and radio personality. She’s also taken…
Miami artists like DJ Khaled and Ky-Mani Marley brought all corners of hip-hop together this week. Throughout the week, DJ Khaled has been dropping verse after verse from the best lyricists in the rap game with singles like “Holy Key” and “Do You Mind.” Meanwhile, reggaeton star Farruko and Miami’s own Ky-Mani…
Despite playing host to one of the most vibrant and financially successful club markets in the world, Miami has had more than its fair share of nightlife misfires. In the cutthroat world of capitalistic enterprise, one’s product needs to not only be better than the rest, but downright spectacular. In…
I remember the first time I saw DJ Khaled in person. It was in the small auditorium of Citrus Grove Middle School, just a few blocks west of Marlins Park, where, six months later, he’d open for Beyoncé at one of the biggest concerts Miami’s seen in decades. But back…
There was once a time when South Floridians could go to Lollapalooza without buying a plane ticket. In the ’90s, Lollapalooza was a traveling music festival where, each year, alternative music fans could compare piercings and watch bands from Pearl Jam to the Beastie Boys tear shit up in their…
If you, for some reason, have spent any time snooping around the Montreal music scene, you’ve likely encountered the jagged garage stylings of Mark Sultan. A jangly crooner with a taste for the craggy intersection of punk energy and blues caterwauling, Sultan has been jamming around the Great White North…
Techno, by definition, is futurist music — a forward-pushing technological soundtrack for the fast pace of life in today’s postindustrial globalized society, ever advancing toward its sci-fi vision of the future. But in Latin America, a new vanguard of artists uses electronic music to instead look back at the pre-industrial…
Just when you thought they were done, III Points slaps you with another lineup update. Today, over 30 artists joined the three-day lineup, with the biggest name among them being Vince Staples, who’s quite possibly the most hyped rapper of 2016 — and for good reason. Keeping the rich tradition…
On May 24, 2006, former Vice President Al Gore debuted a 118-minute documentary that would introduce a new term to the American vocabulary: global warming. Somewhere, presumably on an island sponsored by Bacardi, sitting on a couch stuffed with used bikinis and frozen margaritas, Armando Christian Pérez, a then-25-year-old rapper…
From the start, Elizabeth Ann Clark, AKA Virgo, has taken care to craft herself visually as well as sonically. First through the self-portraits that presented her as an extraterrestrial siren, and later through her Water Planet video game. Virgo is as much as something to listen to as it is to…
It’s morning in Oslo, Norway, and Hans-Peter Lindstrøm wakes ups, climbs out of bed, drags himself to the coffee pot in the kitchen, pours a cup, takes a sip, and closes his eyes for a moment before silently admitting it will soon be noon and he better get to the…
I’ve been reading Donald Trump’s The Art of the Deal, which was ghostwritten by Tony Schwartz, who channels Trump’s daily deal-making in what is basically a window into the life of a more charmingly juvenile version of Gordon Gekko. I like this book a lot, if only because it reads…
Josh Simkowitz has written fifty songs in the year and a half since he took up the moniker Chaucer. “I have a song in my head, but they usually come out as a different song than I thought they would,” the ultra-prolific Palm Beach native tells New Times. Inspiration can come…
For lack of a better word, Italian singer/songwriter, Laura Pausini is a phenomenon. The world renowned popstar made her professional debut in the late ’80s at the age of 12 and made her name in the ’90s with top charting hits across Europe and Latin America. Over the course of…
If you thought Tara Long’s music-cum-performance art project Poorgrrrl was just a temporary thing, Long is back to prove you wrong. Not that she ever really went away. After a buzzy — and busy — Art Basel this past December, Long opened for rising queer rapper Le1f at Bardot back…
