With coheadliners the Smashing Pumpkins and Marilyn Manson, the End Times Tour is a traveling history museum of ’90s rock. In fact, no two bands could represent the rock world’s issues of the 20th Century’s final decade quite like they do. As the ’90s began, the main musical debate involved…
Damian Darlington’s first exposure to Pink Floyd was hearing “Another Brick in the Wall” in 1979. “That was an unlikely song to be number one during Christmas in the U.K. Hearing the chorus of ‘We don’t need no education’ really interested me.” A couple years later when he was thirteen…
To an audience, the pedal steel guitar appears to have more in common with a keyboard than a guitar. Positioned horizontally, it produces a strong, twangy sound from its strings, which are plucked by finger or pick. The vibrations then ooze through a magnetic converter and out an amp. Don’t…
New Times readers have spoken. During our Best Of 2015 Readers’ Choice poll, with a resounding click of the mouse, they chose the garage/surf rock four-piece SunGhosts as Miami’s best band. The honor had SunGhosts’ singer/guitarist Nik Balseiro — who discovered the achievement one morning in Chattanooga, Tennessee — humbled and…
They might be fans of Baywatch, but the three members of local rock group Bleeth did not name their band after one of that show’s stars, Yasmine Bleeth. “We wanted something that when you heard it, you didn’t have anything to relate it to or have some preconceived idea of,”…
If you are a literalist and head to Trade tonight expecting to hear Pachanga music, you will be sorely disappointed. If, however, you wish to dance the extended night away to a medley of electronic waves and beats, The Pachanga Boys will not let you down. Made up of native…
Advertising a performance as a burlesque show will surely draw some people looking to ogle scantily clad women, but Diana Lozano, director of Circ X, is quick to explain that the root of the word “burlesque” is derived from a Latin phrase that means “to make fun of.” “Burlesque is…
Even Lori Garrote’s day job involves rock ‘n’ roll. On a recent afternoon, she juggles questions not only from New Times but also from her co-workers at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood. The onetime singer of the New and AKA is now concentrating on a solo…
Fans of 1980s Captain America comic books might remember the Bar With No Name. In the superhero realm, it was a dive establishment where colorfully costumed villains could shoot pool, drink beer, plan evil schemes, and talk about that one time they almost kicked Iron Man’s metal-plated keister. Sadly, the…
The War on Drugs with The Everymen Fillmore Miami Beach Tuesday, June 16, 2015 Better Than: Staying home and hate-watching LeBron James lose another NBA Finals. It’s safe to assume the Philadelphia-based rock band that played the Fillmore last night came up with the name The War on Drugs ironically…
As he walks his newborn daughter to sleep John Hancock III is excited that he’s finally going to attend one of these Third Thursday Poplife Social events at the Perez Art Museum Miami he’s been hearing so much about, even if it’s only because he’s headlining it. The monthly concerts —…
Cold War Kids Lou La Vie, Miami Thursday, June 12, 2015 Better Than: Anything else you can get for free. Only Miami’s most punctual freeloaders were able to witness fourteen songs of high-energy rock and roll last night. At 8:15 p.m., on the corner of 14th and Biscayne, hundreds of…
With his older brother DJing in the family garage, a teenage Alex Niggemann learned about techno music through osmosis. But it wasn’t effortless. There was obviously a lot of sweat mixed in as well, the classically trained pianist and Berlin-based DJ told New Times. As he prepared for his sojourn…
DJ Irie’s hyping up the crowd has become as much a fixture of Miami Heat games as Pat Riley or Burnie the mascot, so it’s hard to believe when he was first offered the job to be the team’s official inhouse DJ he turned it down. “When the Heat moved…
Editor’s Note: Photography isn’t allowed at Neutral Milk Hotel shows. So we at New Times recruited Miami’s most skilled live concert drawer, Brian Butler, to capture the idiosyncratic magic of Jeff Mangum and company last night. Neutral Milk Hotel With Mind Brains Olympia Theater at Gusman Center, Miami Wednesday, May…
When offered the assignment of interviewing Johnny Cash, I had a moment of insane excitement as I imagined asking questions about “A Boy Named Sue” and Sun Records. But then I remembered the Man in Black had been dead for over a decade. The Johnny Cash with whom I would…
Growing up in Little Havana, Aura Peralta found inspiration in the unlikeliest of places, an episode of The Simpsons. “Watching Lisa Simpson play the sax back in sixth grade, that’s when I knew music was what I wanted to do,” she recalls. Now grown up, she sings in a band…
Ever been tempted to take a time machine back to 1950s Havana, but the only thing keeping you in 2015 was you wouldn’t be able to dance to Pitbull in the ’50s? Well, now the 1950s and Pitbull’s music don’t have to be mutually exclusive. This Friday, April 10, Pitbull…
Thirteen is a number considered by many to be unlucky, but the organizers of the 13th-annual Heineken TransAtlantic Festival see themselves as incredibly fortunate. When this world music-focused fest was launched in 2003, it seemed unlikely that a decade-plus run lay ahead. But as Rhythm Foundation director Laura Quinlan explains,…
It’s hard to imagine how the founders of Miami Beach envisioned their island paradise a century in the future. It’s unlikely that they foresaw Miami Beach residents in 2015 using selfie sticks or drones. They also probably could not see Flo Rida coming. But Flo, along with fellow 305 superstar…
You’d think the man who wrote and performed the reggae fusion smash “It Wasn’t Me” might have trouble convincing his love interest that he can be an honest man. Shaggy laughs at that notion. “I had a girlfriend when I wrote that song. She knows I’m a big storyteller and…
We here at New Times always figured it was just a matter of time before local band-gone-big Jacuzzi Boys’ lead singer and guitarist Gabriel Alcala’s artistic endeavors would be seen on a late-night talk show. But we just figured it would be as lead singer of the Jacuzzi Boys, not…
