During the chorus of the song “Celebrate,” lead singer and frontwoman Emily Haines of Metric sings, “Who wants to celebrate?/and who’s just fine to sit and wait?/I gave it everything/cause I just wanted you.” The fourth cut from the band’s latest effort, Pagans in Vegas, “Celebrate” represents not only where…
Last November, when the New York City electro quartet Brazilian Girls left the stage of Ball & Chain after a fantastic set that had the crowd chanting, “Pussy, pussy, pussy, marijuana” (the chorus of the band’s single “Pussy”), singer Sabina Sciubba promised that the band would come back to Miami…
Camila Luna can’t stop giggling. She’s sitting across from me, in the middle of a Starbucks. People are starting to look at us. “I’m not that weird,” she keeps repeating while mixing Splenda and sugar together in her coffee. “It’s both healthy and sugary, a half-and-half thing,” she explains. It…
There are three things Trick loves more than anything else: 1) The Kids 2) Good food 3) Booty It’s taken him 42 years, but he’s finally found a way to merge these loves into one satisfying business venture. He’s up in his kitchen right now, cookin’ up a storm with…
With the plethora of themed musical cruises popping up practically every day, it was inevitable that an established band like the Moody Blues should jump on the proverbial bandwagon — or in this case, the luxurious cruise ship, the NCL Pearl — and host an outing of their own. “The…
Ben Folds is a musical chameleon. Since the early days of the Ben Folds Five, when he was banging out cheeky, college kid, punk rock for nerds, Folds was paying homage to his heroes – namely George Gershwin – while deftly misdirecting our attention to his honest and often clever…
Metric. Monday, November 2, 8 p.m. The Fillmore Miami Beach, 1700 Washington Ave., Miami Beach; 305-673-7300; fillmoremb.com. Tickets cost $32.50 plus fees via livenation.com. Metric’s got five Juno Awards — that’s the Canadian equivalent of a Grammy for us ‘Mericans — to its name. In just over 15 years, vocalist Emily…
Let’s check in with Rick Ross, shall we? It’s been an interesting year. His legal trouble, including assault and kidnapping charges, were perhaps his biggest headlines of the 2015, and it remains to be seen how the drama will end for the Carol City native. He’s currently walking free on…
Were there music snobs in 1790 who went to hear Mozart play in a fancy opera house and said, “Bah, I remember when he only played small, grimy pubs.” Sure, seeing Chris Cornell play in as clean and classy an establishment as the Arsht Center last night was a strange…
Halloween falls on a Saturday this year, which means Miami will be crawling with more costumed freaks than it has seen in years. There’s a whole lot of party options on the table already, and to help you make a choice, we’re compiling a list of every single Halloween party…
Put on your slutty pumpkin costume (that How I Met Your Mother reference will never get old), hit up the Magic City’s streets, and get your party on — it’s Halloween! And for this year’s spook bash, New Times has rounded up the wildest All Hollows’ Eve ragers that will…
Portland’s Mean Jeans have rapidly become darlings of the punk rock scene with their energetic live shows, touring and a large discography released throughout the band’s roughly eight year career. They might be self-described “goofballs,” but since relocating to Portland from the DC-area, singer and guitarist, Billie Jeans, and drummer,…
Strange Wilds. With the Bearings, Dénudés, Euro-Asia, In Oculus, Fulltime Motherfucker, and DJ Barba Roja. Presented by Cheap Miami Records. Sponsored by Jolt Radio and PBR. Friday, October 30, 10 p.m. Kill Your Idol, 222 Española Way, Miami Beach; 305-534-1009; facebook.com/killyouridolmiami. Admission is free. Ages 21 and up. It doesn’t get stranger than Washington state’s band…
Without much mental gymnastics, it’s easy to connect Chris Cornell to some of the most pivotal figures of the past 25 years of rock music. Simply put: Chris Cornell is the Forrest Gump of the music industry. Just as Gump popped up in the biggest moments in 20th-century history, Cornell…
One day you come home and your dog is barking and snarling at you like you’re some kind of threat. You say, “Chill, Dog. It’s me. You licked pizza grease off my fingers last week.” But she won’t listen. She keeps barking and running around the couch, chest out, teeth…
I wasn’t sure I even wanted to go. I’ve seen Duke Dumont DJ a few times, and every time it was good, but hearing about his new live set triggered something in my brain. It’s like I started to consider him a “live artist,” in the vein of Disclosure or…
Uncle Luke called it “the best bass party” he’s ever attended. “That shit was dope,” DJ Craze told us. Our own Kat Bein called it the “party of the fucking century.” And, trust us, she’s been to a lot of parties. Red Bull’s United States of Bass, which featured a…
There are some things that I, as a 25-year-old male, can never fully understand. A few examples: childbirth, the Disney channel, Forever 21, bangs, a world where John Travolta isn’t creepy, sexy vampires, and, among many other things, Taylor Swift. I’m not saying Taylor Swift has no appeal to men…
Miami’s hometown heroes of electronic dance music are in the habit of ditching us for greener pastures once they blow up internationally. Take heavyweights like Maceo Plex and Danny Daze, who skipped over the pond to stake their place in Europe’s more lucrative club and festival circuit. One artist reversing…
Metric has steadily built a career straddling the line between indie and pop without ever pandering to either audience. The Canadian quartet’s newly released sixth album, Pagans in Vegas, doubles down on the synth-forward sounds of 2012’s Juno Award-winning Synthetica, eschewing guitars in favor of glitchy analog synths that carve…
Despite the constant influx of new music themed cruises, there’s an upcoming outing that ought to find favor with folks who maybe have been reticent to get their feet wet with any offering so far. In effect, it allows passengers to wet their gullets instead. That would be the forthcoming…
Paper Diamond is not one to talk about the past. “You can find most things about me if you do some research online,” The electronic music producer told New Times. Instead he was more interested in discussing his present and future. “I’ve been on the road three years straight, but…
