Here are a few randomly selected recommendations among the many acts playing the Miami Music Festival. Visit MiamiMusicFestival.org for individual venue details. Many of these places you’ve never heard of are subdivisions of real venues, with made-up names just for festival purposes. Others venues are tents; Transit Lounge alone will host a…
Visit miamimusicfestival.org for more details. Individual showcase admission is $10, a three-day wristband costs $50 ($35 for students), and a one-day wristband costs $25 ($20 for students). The Big Bounce: With Miami residencies at the Florida Room, the Clevelander, and Blue Martini, quietly hip locals already know the Big Bounce is one…
Here are a few randomly selected recommendations among the many acts playing the Miami Music Festival. Visit MiamiMusicFestival.org for individual venue details. Many of these funky-named places you’ve never heard of are subdivisions of real venues, with made-up names just for festival purposes. Others venues are tents; Transit Lounge alone will host…
Here are a few randomly selected recommendations among the many acts playing the Miami Music Festival. Visit MiamiMusicFestival.org for individual venue details. Many of these funky-named places you’ve never heard of are subdivisions of real venues, with made-up names just for festival purposes. Others venues are tents; Transit Lounge alone will host…
You’ve probably never heard of of the Massachusetts trio Mindwalk Blvd. But, if like the rest of the world, you spend way too much of your cubicle time over at YouTube, you may have already seen one third of the band. Three years ago, the mother of drummer Tyler Hudson…
When rapper Noreaga turned into N.O.R.E. in the middle part of this century, at first it was, honestly, worrisome. Longtime fans adored him as half of the killer Queens duo Capone-N-Noreaga, who in the mid-to-late-’90s helped take back New York’s crown as the seat of real street rap. In the…
When rapper Noreaga turned into N.O.R.E. earlier this decade, it was worrisome. Longtime fans adored him as half of the killer Queens duo Capone-N-Noreaga, which in the mid-to-late-’90s helped take back New York’s crown as the seat of real street rap. In the face of adversity from West Coast gangstas…
No one would ever accuse Chris Palko, the New York rapper who goes by Cage, of coming across as warm and cuddly. From the beginning of his career on the circuit, he’s mined his own set of personal traumas for musical gold. He’s long discussed his fucked up childhood to…
Contrary to what you may be thinking, Boxwood is not what male boxes wake up with in the morning. Or it may be. But that’s not what this post is about. The Boxwood in question is one Jose Ferrer, and the artistic name for the one-man-band came from little more…
A guide to the inaugural Miami Music Festival
Here are a few randomly selected recommendations among the many acts playing the Miami Music Festival. Visit MiamiMusicFestival.org for individual venue details. Many of these funky-named places you’ve never heard of are subdivisions of real venues, with made-up names just for festival purposes. Others venues are tents; Transit Lounge alone will host…
Here are a few randomly selected recommendations among the many acts playing the Miami Music Festival. Visit MiamiMusicFestival.org for individual venue details. Many of these funky-named places you’ve never heard of are subdivisions of real venues, with made-up names just for festival purposes. Others venues are tents; Transit Lounge alone…
In an either extremely clever or just brave bit of scheduling, the inaugural edition of the Miami Music Festival launches this Thursday, less than a week after the onslaught of Art Basel Miami Beach. Despite the lack of a long recuperation lag, though, if you truly want to support South…
Last week was, of course, utter art, music, and media ridiculousness — so of course, it’s captured all over the social web. Missed out on a show? Don’t feel bad, practically all of the week’s musical events are on YouTube! Reading reviews of both OK Go’s electrified performance at Design…
If you missed it last week, please read our post last week on Help Mend a Heart, the social network effort to help save the life of Maureen Waters. After battling a flu for several days, the day after Thanksgiving, she was rushed to the hospital with what turned out…
-5 p.m.: The inimitable Exene Cervenka of X performs music and spoken word from her solo album Somewhere Gone at the Pulse Art Fair. Click here for details.-6:30 to 7 p.m.: OK Go performs again at Design Miami/. Click here for full details. -7 p.m.: G. Love plays at the Fountain Art Fair – and admission is only $5! Click here for…
Time for a cheesy joke about how Dre “forgot about Miami” or “forgot about Primary Flight” or something. Dr. Dre’s connection to the Primary Flight street art installation around Wynwood — more specifically its gallery version, Blue Print for Space, at the Art Center South Florida — was much hyped…
-6 p.m.: Vivian Girls with local openers Little Beard at the Pulse Art Fair. Click here for details.-6 p.m. to late night: Opening reception and party for the local-tastic Miami’s Independent Thinkers show. Bands like People From Venus play closer to midnight. Click here for details. -6:30 to 7 p.m.: OK Go…
Click here to view more photos from this event.Ebony Bones!At the annual Art Loves Music concert at Collins Park, Miami BeachWednesday, December 2, 2009Better Than: Yelle’s performance at the same event last year.The Review: The Art Positions sub-shot of the official Art Basel Miami Beach, with its avant garde galleries set…
In the mid-’90s, many considered the multimember New York City act King Chango to be part of the larger constellation of ska revival acts flourishing in the Big Apple. But the band’s musical roots ran deeper than those of many of its peers. Yes, the “Chango” in its name is…
Trying to track all the random shows and parties connected to Art Basel can be exhausting — so here’s one damn good reason to get away from them for one night. The Skinny Dip, at Kitchen 305, is a multiband celebration of life, whose proceeds benefit the Melanoma Research Foundation…
A guide to the major music events during Art Basel Miami Beach
