Ever since joining Major Lazer, Walshy Fire has been circling the globe, dropping bass, and inciting international party crowds into wild, explosive, and twerkelated versions of themselves. It’s the logical progression for a Jamaican kid from Carol City who picked up on music early and never let it go. First…
Splish, splash, and uhntz-uhntz. Every year, when Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week come ’round, picking the right H2O bash to show off that cute “I’m in Miami, Bitch!” bikini and matching shades can be a daunting task. Luckily, we at New Times have taken many trips to the…
Legendary EDM duo Deep Dish quit working together in 2007, much to the disappointment of music fans around the world who’d grown up on their trend-setting studio work and massive skills at murdering a party crowd. Early last year, Sharam and Dubfire, having established themselves as individuals capable of twice…
George Clinton has fought so many lawyers, he can smoke a spliff rolled in a Habeas Corpus and still know every word printed on it. For decades he has fought for legal and monetary justice over song copyrights he says were fraudulently signed out from under him and then exploited…
Do not stop dancing. Maybe you haven’t heard (and maybe you live in a padded, soundproof room with no internet, a busted TV set, and boarded-up windows), but that annual 144-hour dance marathon known as Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week is about to swarm South Beach, downtown, Wynwood,…
White sands. Neon. Bikini bottoms on babes of both sexes. This is Miami Beach, a land of sun and fun, late nights and megaclubs, humble coconut vendors, and princelings of excess, where the waves roll forever, the mojitos are always cold, and it’s perfectly acceptable to stroll through the streets…
Straight outta Harlem, Dipset is in the house, they’ve got Diplomatic Immunity, and they’re going to rock Grand Central like straight drop in pyrex. Fresh from a headline set at Austin’s SXSW. Jim Jones, Cam’ron, Freekey Zekey, and Juelz Santana are setting the hip hop world on fire with their…
Watching Ultra Music Festival’s idyllic official after-movies, you might get the impression that UMF is some kind of utopian music-based society where the young and beautiful run only in slow motion, where everyone is welcome and everything is pleasant. In some ways, this is true. You’re more likely to have…
Dutch DJ-producer Joris Voorn blew up on an international level in 2010, thanks in no small part to the exuberant tech-house remix of Nalin & Kane’s “Beachball,” which he broke during that year’s Miami Music Week. Fast-forward to 2015 and Voorn is returning to Miami not only as one of…
Mekka, the longstanding Park West nightclub, will close its doors after Winter Music Conference 2015. Owner Michael Slyder confirmed the news to New Times this morning via email, saying, “Our landlord, Miami Worldcenter, is set to begin construction in April or May and our building, along with many others, will…
It’s been nearly 38 years since Fleetwood Mac appeared in Miami with Christine McVie, whose smooth vocals and strident keyboards were so essential to the sound of the hybrid UK/US band. That was at the long-gone Miami Stadium for the band’s hit album Rumours. Now, all these decades later, the…
Underground house music, tacos, and tequila. That’s what you’ll find at Coyo Taco when Oscar G and the Murk crew take over the Wynwood taqueria’s secret bar for Murk Mondays. “First, we ate there, which probably helped the matter,” Oscar jokes. “I think more so than anything, we just really…
Bring out your kandi masks and raver gear — the 305’s Winter Music Conference, Miami Music Week, and Ultra Music Festival madness has officially begun. While we know you can’t get enough of that uhntz-uhntz, the key to getting through seven days of non-stop fist pumping is a healthy balance…
Firebeatz & Friends. With Crespo, Dubvision, Jay Hardaway, Julian Jordan, Kenneth G, and special guests. 11 p.m. Tuesday, March 24, at FDR at the Delano, 1685 Collins Ave., Miami Beach; 305-674-5752; delano-hotel.com. Tickets cost $15 plus fees via wantickets.com. Ages 21 and up. Octopus Recordings Showcase. In the club’s Room…
Who’s feelin’ Jazzy? We at New Times certainly got a tingle in our booty. So do Erykah Badu, Run-D.M.C.’s Joseph “Run” Simmons, and Darryl “D.M.C.” McDaniels, R. Kelly, Toni Braxton, Maxwell, Sheila E, D.L. Hughley, Rickey Smiley, and even Celine Dion duet partner Peabo Bryson of “Beauty and the Beast”…
“On March 12, 2005,” marvels Lolo Reskin, “Sweat Records first opened its doors to the public!” Whoa, we can’t believe it’s been a whole decade since Little Haiti’s little music shop started selling vintage vinyl, new pressings, limited-editon CDs, and many other fine collectible items with the talismanic power to…
“Hod is not an acronym. It is not H.O.D. It is Hod. Can we all get it straight now? Hod is creating what the world needs and fears the most; REAL FUCKING METAL!!!” So says Hod’s Facebook bio page and as we’d find out, there is some meaning to the…
Feeling pumped up this morning? Well you should ’cause it’s Friday! And in just a few hours, you’re gonna ditch that suit and tie, escape the confines of your cubicle, and hit up the Magic City streets for some beats and booze action. But before you do that, put on…
Eight days and 40 minutes. That’s exactly the waiting time left till Ultra Music Festival 2015, party people. Too long? Getting antsy? Getting dancey? Well, the fest’s got just the thing to keep your uhntz-uhntz-ing asses pleasantly preoccupied for the next week and a day and a little less than…
Elvis Costello Au-Rene Theater at Broward Center For The Performing Arts Wednesday, March 18, 2015 Better Than: Most singer/songwriters going it alone. There’s an old expression that suggests a leopard will never change its spots. I’m not exactly sure how a leopard could change its spots, even if it were…
Fleetwood Mac’s recent reunion with formerly retired vocalist/keyboardist Christine McVie marks just another notable transformation for the notoriously tumultuous rock outfit. The significance of having all of the members of Fleetwood Mac’s classic lineup on stage at the American Airlines Arena in Miami this weekend will not be lost on the…
The time for “Big Decisions” has come. So has the hour of My Morning Jacket’s new album, The Waterfall. Last week, Jim James and company debuted the record’s lead single. And they’ll be releasing the entirety of their seventh full-length effort in only another couple of months on May 4,…
