We first learned of Major Lazer’s plans to throw a Havana concert back in January of this year. And just last week, the Rolling Stones told the world that it planned to do the same. With time, each big leap in American and Cuban relations becomes less jarring. Even news…
DJ, producer, frontman for The Ancient Moons, label boss, and epic party organizer, Damian Lazarus is one of the most revered and respected figures not just in underground house music, but in the U.K. dance scene in general. Like a Dylan Thomas poem come to life, Lazarus has built a…
10. Sinatra Sings Sinatra: A Multi-Media Centennial Celebration with Frank Sinatra Jr. Presented by Jazz Roots. Friday, March 11, 8 p.m. Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, 1300 Biscayne Blvd., Miami; 305-949-6722; arshtcenter.org. Tickets cost $25 to $130 plus fees via arshtcenter.org. From Frank Sinatra’s 100th birthday celebration with special dinners and Jack Daniel’s at the…
“We all grow and evolve on many levels, and I’ve always found refuge in the spiritual realm,” Alex Diaz says. “It’s always saved me from the insanity of the world, and helps me find peace within. At the time of recording Orange Violet, I felt I was outgrowing many things…”
Burger Records’ Burger Revolution is back this month for the fourth year since its conception. Every March, the California-based independent record label has dedicated a day to local musicians, encouraging cities all over the world to put on live shows and listening parties. The series is returning to Miami for…
The Color Before The Sun, the latest album from proggy, poppy post-hardcore outfit Coheed and Cambria, marks the first time one of the group’s records has broken from telling the story of The Amory Wars, the ongoing science fiction saga penned by frontman Claudio Sanchez from which the quartet derives…
If, like Mitt Romney once said, corporations are people, then why can’t one make a music video? Well, that’s exactly what LIV just did. Miami’s most successful nightclub has released a three and a half minute-long music video that is both a thoughtful critique on social injustice as well as…
When Miami-based promoters PL0T began party planning in 2007, founder Rebeca Lange and her crew focused their efforts around some simple ideas. “PL0T has been doing events in Miami for nine years. We decided nine years ago to produce events with music and people we love that was not being…
Fifteen minutes before the scheduled interview time, the phone rings. “Yo! You already know who it is.” The voice came through exuberant and joyful, an instantly contagious happiness. Over the phone, Silentó oozes the exact same infectiousness of his viral video smash hit “Watch Me.” The track’s official dance move…
Miami New Times and New Times Broward-Palm Beach are looking for a part-time clubs listings editor. The job involves keeping track of bars and music in two of the most dynamic markets in the United States for our website. It involves mostly remote work, but presence in the office is…
The words “folk music” and “Miami” are rarely uttered in the same sentence. There was sadly no sunscreen strong enough to bring Bob Dylan to South Beach. If one tries hard to picture a Miami folk scene, an image pops up of some old guys in pony tails strumming away for a…
Before he suddenly and mysteriously died last year, Miami nightlife fixture and Ultra Music Festival cofounder Alex Omes was fighting to regain control of the popular electronic music event he helped create. After being pushed out of his role as president of the festival, Omes sued the festival for $33 million,…
Marques Toliver was in New York City for one week before he realized he wasn’t leaving. The natural-born violinist left his hometown of Daytona Beach on a whim in 2007. He quickly began busking on Williamsburg’s trendy street corners, but it was mid-November and the Florida kid didn’t even have…
Zach Lamar has been making some real strides in the Miami music community lately. Hailing from Philadelphia, Lamar is a guitar player with an unusual vision and drive who graduated from the University of Miami’s Frost Music school on scholarship and has been kicking as with and without the guitar ever since. Lamar is currently crafting…
Just over a month after it was announced that Major Lazer would be giving Cuba its first major EDM show, another massive concert is coming to Cuba. On Friday, March 25, 2016, British rock legends the Rolling Stones will play a free, outdoor concert at the Ciudad Deportiva de la…
In this age of Facetime and high definition streaming, it takes a lot to get you to leave the comforts of your couch and your gadgets. Right now, Google maps is telling us it’ll take two hours and 22 minutes to get from our office in Wynwood to the campgrounds…
He caused an underground uproar five years ago over the state of the scene, claiming Miami venues sucked a certain part of the human anatomy. He released one last album as This Heart Electric in 2013, and then went into hiding for two years after that to record. He finally…
The second incarnation of genre-defining horror-punk band the Misfits was (and probably always will be) a polarizing thing for punk-rock fans, but one thing that was never really in question was whether the band’s second singer, Michale Graves, was anything but a true talent. An athletic vocalist and electrifying frontman,…
The Historic Virginia Key Beach Park’s palm tree amphitheater was the perfect setting for one of Miami’s best concerts of the infantile 2016. Ocean views, mangroves, and the natural setting beautifully matched the one love vibes coming from the stage. At 1 p.m., when the gates first cracked open, a…
As an artist, Daniel Gomez, better known as Danny Daze, is not easily satisfied by his own work or by those around him. Talking to the Miami-based DJ, producer, and electronic music extraordinaire about the current state of the Miami music scene, the lone and iconic line from DJ Shadow’s…
10. Carnaval on the Mile with Humming House, Raquel Sofia, Volcan, Con Brio, la Santa Cecilia, Picadillo, Anna Palmerola, Brothers of Others, Problem Kids, Sam Savage, Suenalo, Stokeswood, and others. Saturday and Sunday, March 5 and 6, 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Miracle Mile, Ponce de Leon Blvd. and Le Jeune Rd., Coral Gables…
After years of playing in Southern California punk bands, singer and guitarist Nick Winfrey eventually found himself writing lyrics and music that were much less aggressive. Time and experience had softened him. He immediately shared this new musical vision with his old high-school friends Daniel Quintanilla and M.M. Sina, and…
