In December, you start hearing about how people forget the true meaning of Christmas, but what about Labor Day? Does any one out there even know why we get the first Monday of September off every year? Did we win a battle of some kind? Did William Taft just hate…
If, perhaps on Family Feud one day, you find yourself face-to-face with the category: Former jobs of folk musicians, you might yell at Steve Harvey things like English teacher, health food store cashier, or, most likely the number one answer, pot dealer. But Keith Johns, a former physicist, would prove…
Though Bro Safari is a DJ name that connotes all kinds of stereotypes of the EDM scene, Nicholas Weiller told the New Times he didn’t put too much thought of social criticism into his handle. “I didn’t intend to call myself Bro Safari for a long time. I had a…
Last month when the National Trust for Historic Preservation, in collaboration with Heineken USA, began their Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign to raise money to restore Miami Marine Stadium, they promised donors two tickets to a yet to be announce concert. Yesterday, the mysterious artist at that concert was finally revealed: ScHoolBoy Q…
In 2000, a record emerged onto the scene asking a simple question: Who Is Jill Scott? 16 years later, we’ve got an idea. One part neo-soul, one part hip-hop, and another part deep poetic verse, the answer was a timeless talent. “I’m Barbara Streisand and Bette Midler’s child” was how…
Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival, the four day event that drew thousands last year, will be holding a second edition. The 2017 dates are March 2 through 5, backers announced Tuesday. Pre-sale tickets go on sale Wednesday morning, August 17 at 11 am at okeechobeefest.com. 4 day general admission passes…
Asked how his club has achieved the herculean task of keeping its doors open for 18 years in Miami, Luis Morera, Score’s co-owner, credits his club’s ability to play offense. “We keep evolving with what goes on in the culture.” Score, a gay nightclub, opened in 1998 on Lincoln Road as…
“We want it to be for the freaks and for the people who want something off the beaten path,” Miami Music Club cofounder Rob Goyanes says. For the past few months, the Miami Music Club has partnered with the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) to do just that with a…
Throughout its history, the Netherlands has not always been known as a hotbed of musical talent and innovation. Before the EDM explosion, Americans largely visited to get high or to wile away hours during a layover. But in the past decade, the country’s soundscape has been dominated by one of…
There was once a time when South Floridians could go to Lollapalooza without buying a plane ticket. In the ’90s, Lollapalooza was a traveling music festival where, each year, alternative music fans could compare piercings and watch bands from Pearl Jam to the Beastie Boys tear shit up in their…
Josh Simkowitz has written fifty songs in the year and a half since he took up the moniker Chaucer. “I have a song in my head, but they usually come out as a different song than I thought they would,” the ultra-prolific Palm Beach native tells New Times. Inspiration can come…
Heavy Drag is doing its best to live up to its name. “Pop music can be found in any part of music,” Michael Ruiz-Unger tells us. “It’s a little harder to make something more of a bummer.” Spawned out of the ashes of another local act called Lil Daggers, Heavy…
After finding success with Wynwood’s Latin-themed El Patio (which we named Best New Bar this year), Nicolas Hoyos and Berto Perez were searching for a different motif when they found a new space off Biscayne and 55th St., where News Lounge once stood. “The area is flourishing nicely and we…
Opened in 1963 and closed nearly three decades later, Miami Marine Stadium on Virginia Key gave spectators a seaside view of some of the biggest names of the 20th Century. Elvis Presley, the Rolling Stones, and Richard Nixon all graced the stage, which used to float a few dozen feet…
“You know how on Facebook you get these sponsored messages? I kept getting an ad for Ted Nugent’s show at Pompano Beach Amphitheater,” Tony Landa, bassist for Humbert, tells us. “One day after seeing it I yelled, ‘Fuck Ted Nugent!’ and then I thought: could that be a show?” Turns…
“Does Miami have any punks?” director Penelope Spheeris wondered in a phone call with New Times. “I’m surprised when there are any in these fancy resort cities.” Apparently Spheeris has never been to Churchill’s. But she has seen her fair share of punks. Her 1981 documentary, Decline of Western Civilization,…
Double headlining shows like Modest Mouse and Brand New seem to only make sense financially. You get two bands who might not be able to sell out a venue as large as Bayfront individually, and clump them together for a big turnout, even if it is kind of weird. And,…
Last year Zack Bush, co-owner of Little Havana bar Ball & Chain, was devastated after the death of Sandra Bland, an African-American woman who was arrested and later found dead, hanging in her prison cell. At the time, Bland was just the latest in a string of police killings involving…
Quintron is a jack of many trades. He made a name for himself with experimental musical performances, like his puppet shows with his wife Miss Pussycat or his gangsta rap album featuring one of his blind neighbors. But the New Orleans resident is also an inventor. “I’ve always been building…
Bernz was never tempted to record a solo album. After founding Miami hip-hop crew ¡Mayday! in 2003, the MC was content with his crew. But things change, and with his debut LP, See You On The Other Side, set for release on July 8, Bernz is wishing he didn’t take so…
In these dog days of summer, Trade wants to help cool down fans of techno and house music with one hell of a value deal. “We wanted to give back to the dance floor community this July,” Coloma Kaboomsky, one of Trade’s partners, says. “Normally our cover for one show…
This Independence Day, there will be fireworks (both illegal and sanctioned) from Key Biscayne to North Miami. But if you want to celebrate America with loud noises and bright colors, you don’t necessarily have to look up. The Fourth of July falls on a Monday this year, which means you’ll…
