Minimal has been orbiting the heart for the Latin indie rock scene for quite a while. Not just in Miami, but on a national level. And this much respected four-piece has recently released its fourth, and perhaps greatest album, Fauna, produced by Multiple Grammy Award winner Rafael Lazzaro, and recorded in…
After decades of sociopolitical rhetoric, conscious rappers like Chuck D and Talib Kweli still spit about the injustices crippling our country. From police brutality to capitalism and miseducation, these old-school dudes hold no punches and confront the system head on. But there’s a new breed of rapper repackaging conscious hip-hop…
Summer has always been our winter. These are the months we Floridians dread going outside for fear of being reduced to a sunburnt ball of sweat. Tourists flock back to their native lands. Restaurants experience their slowest months of the year. And, sadly, the music scene suffers too. But luckily…
It was a hot Sunday afternoon, and passersby may have wondered at the commotion. The intersection of Biscayne and NE 33 Street was taken over by a parked cop car and a pop-up film set. At five ’o clock, the scene was still. The crew, already tired from a long…
In the early morning of January 1, 2015, Mohamed Youness Adlan, a 22-year-old Moroccan student from Rhode Island, was found unconscious and beaten outside Miami Beach’s Cameo nightclub. The beating left Adlan, who was visiting Miami on vacation, in a coma for three months. While police at first had no…
While our local public radio station WLRN (91.3 FM) is now mostly talk, it still provides listeners one daily dose of music. Every weeknight, from 9:30 p.m. to 1 a.m., Tracy Fields helps Miami unwind from the long day with Evenin’ Jazz. The show started 13 years ago but Fields took…
Concert promoter John McHale has taken on the role of label owner with the advent of Eighty-Sixed Records.
It’s been a few years in the making but it finally arrived: Gunplay’s solo debut, Living Legend. The Carol City rapper and childhood friend of Rick Ross first rhymed to the world on Ross’ 2009 album Deeper Than Rap. His first breakout single, “Bible On The Dash,” had fans itching…
In a small one-bedroom Brickell apartment, Elizabeth Ann Clark, dressed in all white, sits in front of her studio equipment — a Virus synthesizer, a voice box, a MIDI controller, and a couple of microphones that feed into her Mac Pro. “Let me play you the track I worked with…
Sixteen years ago, Michelle Leshem flew direct to Miami from Toronto, and she’s never looked back. “I’m a snowbird who turned into a flamingo,” she jokes. In her day job as the leading lady at SuperMarket Creative — the agency behind many of Miami’s wildest nightlife adventures — she helps…
Despite what wandering tourists will tell their friends back home, downtown Miami and South Beach are not the same place. As locals, we understand that, and so does Amtrac. He’s not technically a local, but as far as Miami’s nightlife is concerned, he might as well be. He spends most…
It isn’t just hall of fame football players like Michael Irvin and Jim Kelly or action movie stars like The Rock and Sylvester Stallone that have walked across The University of Miami’s campus. There are also a boatload of renowned and acclaimed musicians who attended class in Coral Gables. And…
Machine Gun Kelly. Road Trippin’ Tour. Presented by Dope Entertainment. Thursday, August 27, 8 p.m. Grand Central, 697 N. Miami Ave., Miami; 305-377-2277; grandcentralmiami.com. Tickets cost $30 plus fees via ticketweb.com. All ages. Ohio’s own Machine Gun Kelly is living the dream. Signed by Diddy in 2011, the rapper eventually landed on the cover of XXL magazine…
“You know how a lot of people are always walking around taking pictures? I’ve always been that way with sound,” Emile Milgrim says. In her new project, Archival Feedback, the Miami native is collecting everyday sounds she captures around Miami and mixing it into a surreal electronic groove. “The way…
ArtOfficial. Live on the Pineapple Stage with DJ Edward. Presented by Miami Boheme. Friday, August 21, 9 p.m. Ball & Chain, 1513 SW 8th St., Miami; 305-643-7820; ballandchainmiami.com. Admission is free. Ages 21 and up. The 305’s jazzy hip-hop funk crew, ArtOfficial “thrives on originality.” As stated on their Facebook bio, the homies craft music…
When you think Jacuzzi Boys, you think Miami. Anyone familiar at all with the music scene down here knows that the tropical garage rockers have become just as synonymous with the Magic City as Cuban sandwiches and hypodermic needles. The Miami-bred trio’s fuzzy, beachy sound is the perfect soundtrack for that South…
Before he knew a word of English, Arnie C found himself drawn to American and British rock and roll. Though he couldn’t understand what the singers were screaming about, the message came through to him clear as day. “When I was six-years-old Pink Floyd was my favorite.” he told us. “I…
Miami is known for a lot of things: sun, beaches, the hedonistic excess of vice — but it was only very recently that we’ve become known as a haven for art. However, what the New York Times and all the other news outlets drooling over Art Basel don’t seem to…
Last year, iHeartRadio — the annual Latin music-focused mini-festival from the internet radio platform owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. (formerly known as Clear Channel Media and Entertainment) — held its first-ever Fiesta Latina in Los Angeles, starring Ricky Martin, Pitbull, J. Balvin, and many more. Back in May, iHeartRadio announced that they’d…
“Electronic. Booty. Makes you feel a type of way.” That’s how Miami’s new four-piece electronic band Kodiak Fur describes its sound. Born in the recording studio almost by accident, Kodiak Fur is certainly among the more charismatic acts hanging around the Miami music scene these days. When Steven Sanz and Christopher…
As a teenager in the late ’70s, Miami-based musician Tomas Diaz was one of many Cuban youths captivated by American rock ‘n’ roll and what it signified: freedom of expression. Diaz risked his life with every secretive listen and street performance of Jimi Hendrix’s music, and his love of a…
“We’re bad at math. We really started in May 2013,” Chuck Livid, founder of TuffGnarl.com, says. You could say his music blog — which New Times declared 2015’s best — is running on Miami time. “Last year’s was in late summer too,” Livid says while trying to remember the foggy…
