Carol City’s Gunplay released his debut studio album, Living Legend, today alongside a fantastical video for the track “White Bitch.” In the video, we see Gunplay team up with the last standing Cocaine Cowboy, Mickey Munday, to move weight from the jungles of Colombia to somewhere in South Florida. In…
Adam Duritz and the Counting Crows love Miami so much, they not only visit South Florida with some regularity, but they also wrote a song bearing the city’s name. It’s the type of wistful and sweeping pop rock the group has been known for over the course of its twenty…
Hypoluxo. With Tailings and Chaucer. Friday, July 31, 10 p.m. Shirley’s at Gramps, 176 NW 24th St., Miami; 305-699-2669; gramps.com. Admission costs $3. Ages 21 and up. Get your dose of “experimental bedroom-pop death drone Kanye West lo-fi shoegaze weird pop” with West Palm Beach’s Hypoluxo at Gramps. A band on the move, the young indie rockers will…
It’s not easy for American bands to break through to pop success. When the Backstreet Boys got started, they were strategically marketed in Europe first, then brought back to the States after they’d already built a fan base. Imagine, then, the near-insurmountable odds stacked against a French-speaking electro-pop band. You’re…
When he was seven-years-old, Michael Barksdale’s father gifted him a guitar. Ever since, he’s been tinkering with sounds. Now known as Culture Prophet, the electronic producer who grew up in Greenville, South Carolina, and Atlanta, Georgia, decided when he made the move to South Beach last September that he wanted to change…
Kind of like when Clark Kent loses the glasses, adorns his cape and becomes Superman, Sam Young morphs into Vanilla Ace before our very eyes when he drops the needle on a 118 BPM house track with an Isaac Hayes sample. While Sam Young has played 30-plus open format sets…
Playing at Churchill’s Pub is a rite of passage for Miami musicians. When Modernage had the opportunity to perform at the legendary Little Haiti dive ten years ago, the band released recordings of the night’s performance — its first ever release — calling it Live at Churchill’s. The group hasn’t looked…
Thanks to Bob Dylan, plenty of rock and roll fans are familiar with the name Hollis Brown. His 1964 hit, “Ballad of Hollis Brown,” is the dark tale of a South Dakota farmer who escapes poverty by killing his family and then himself. These days however, Hollis Brown is a…
The guys of My Morning Jacket are legendary live performers. Given that they’ve been going strong since ’98 and released seven albums, you’d expect them to put on a stellar show. Still, no matter a group’s longevity, stage presence and charisma are rare in music. They’re inherent skills, ones not…
They say you have your whole life to write your first album and two years to write the next. Luckily for ghetto-tech beatmaster Justin Martin, he never got the memo. “I think I’m more relaxed, like almost a little bit too relaxed,” he says. His 2012 full-length debut, Ghettos &…
Each year, we at New Times get together at our annual Iron Fork event, give our stomachs a pep talk, and get ready to stuff as much food as possible into ourselves. The annual event, which will take place this year at the Hyatt Regency, features food from almost 100…
On Monday afternoon, a makeshift stage was set up between the volleyball courts on the sand off of Ocean Drive on South Beach, between 8th and 9th. Complimentary Dunkin’ Donuts iced coffee shots were handed out to those lucky souls who weren’t wedged into a cubicle, and at 2:45 p.m. and at…
Music and mental health have a complicated, reciprocal relationship. Songs can simultaneously settle and exaggerate moods, augment intellect, numb pain, recall thoughts good and bad. Many of music’s most magnificent figures have grappled with various degrees of mental instability, experiencing the revelatory peaks and troughs of the human condition. Counting…
Diplo, in the voiceover for his 2011 BlackBerry ad, marveled at his life and busy schedule — conveniently organized by his Canadian-designed smartphone. “I can’t believe that people are actually paying me to leave my house and go somewhere like Austria to DJ for them,” he mumbled between quick cuts…
When Notorious Nastie releases a new music video, brace yourself. You really never know what you’re going to get. His work ranges from the bloody “Jesus Was a Jewish Zombie” to the Iggy Azalea parody “I’m So Nasty.” It’s brash, rude, offensive, and, well, just plain nasty. His most recent…
Crobot is everything that is right about hard rock, pushing the limits with its music and high energy shows. The bearded group is definitely in demand on the festival and touring circuit, going on the road this year with Anthrax and Black Label Society. Crobot feels just as comfortable in…
Kendall is kind of like the Miami music scene’s middle child. We all know it’s there, but we either don’t notice it, or just don’t care. That’s a shame. Because there is some talent coming out of our neglected southern sibling. For proof, look no further than Sigh Kicks. Sigh…
The Mowgli’s. Presented by Dunkin’ Donuts’ DD Summer Soundtrack. Monday, July 27, 2:30 to 4 p.m. Ocean Drive, between 8th and 9th. Admission is free. All ages. There’s nothing more refreshing than free iced coffee from Dunkin’ Donuts in the middle of a sweaty afternoon and live music from the Mowgli’s right…
There’s nothing worst than putting your blood, sweat, and tears into a studio album only for some fool to leak it and have hundreds of thousands of people download your music for free. And even though the days of Napster are long gone, chances are you haven’t paid for a…
On the day of the Miami Girls Rock Camp’s inaugural session, the Miami Beach Community Church is buzzing with a different kind of music than it’s used to. A bunch of little rock ‘n’ roll queens, ages eight to seventeen, are getting acquainted with their instruments and learning what it’s…
Sealion. With Red Nectar, Party Static, and Milkspot. Presented by Cheap Miami Records. Friday, July 24, 10 p.m. Gramps, 176 NW 24th St., Miami; 305-699-2669; gramps.com. Admission costs $5. Get ready for some “Heavy Fizz” and “margarita punk” with Dallas’ Sealion. Then stick around for some “smooth indie-tinged fuzz rock”…
The Smashing Pumpkins and Marilyn Manson Bayfront Park Amphitheatre Wednesday, July 22, 2015 Better Than: If you went to a Kiss/Cheap Trick co-headlining tour in 1995. In their peak years The Smashing Pumpkins and Marilyn Manson would have never toured together. Though they are both of the same genre, the…
