Do you ever go to a concert and find yourself wishing the band wouldn’t play the hits, that it would dispose of the popular classics that everyone wants to hear and unleash its most experimental, unsung material?
Most of us don’t do very interesting things with our time off. We might watch TV or read a book or just sit around and do absolutely nothing. Robin Pecknold, however, decided to do something a bit more adventurous: visit Mount Everest. “I just did a trek to base camp,”…
Ahead of this year’s Oscars, we look into what the film’s shocking victory has meant for black films, LGBTQ films, and Miami.
In the wake of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the city of Parkland has been engulfed by sorrow and anger, but also support from both within and outside of the community. Now the local music scene has pitched in by setting up a concert to benefit the victims and their families.
This year’s edition of III Joints will also include a set by DJ Earl and a live kung fu movie score from RZA.
For some millennials, attending a Tyler the Creator show is either a rite of passage or a bucket list item. They remember the raucous Odd Future shows on Adult Swim’s Loiter Squad, when Tyler and other members of the massive hip-hop group would launch off the stage into the crowd.
Last summer, Tyler the Creator seemingly made a startling personal admission on his latest album, Flower Boy. It came in the exact middle, the seventh song of 14 tracks, “Garden Shed.” “Them feelings that I was guardin’/Heavy on my mind/All my friends lost/They couldn’t see the signs,” he writes. “Truth…
The 15-person boy band represents no less than the total future of American pop music.
The Atlanta rapper has a distinct voice in a crowded hip-hop ecosystem.
Nobody is sad to see 2017 go. It was a chaotic year of political anxiety, social change, and warmongering. If there’s one bright spot, it’s that music seems to be rebuking the call for nationalism. In fact, music has never been more diverse, and it can thank Miami for that…
From A for Asahd to X for XXXtentacion, here’s the best and worst this year in rap had to offer.
“This ain’t no joke team, I ain’t panicking, I just gotta figure it out.”
The Russian techno DJ is known for her unconventional sets.
The new charges stem from witness tampering and might send the rapper to prison for decades.
When you grow up here, you see Basel as a kind of abstract happening. It’s something your rich friends get to go to while you’re stuck at home prepping for Christmas and Hanukkah. Beyond the beaches and the walls of Wynwood, life goes on and celebrity sightings are nil. It’s just another week, but with worse traffic.
The legendary rap crew issued a barrage of hits during its Art Basel show.
We seek out the best of Basel that anyone can enjoy.
On the Institute of Contemporary Art Miami’s third floor, visitors are greeted by two nearly identical paintings by one of the most famous artists of the 20th Century. They depict the same image — an artist drawing a woman in his studio — and make use of the same vibrant color palette. A viewer can notice subtle distinctions in the lines and shapes used to build the scenes. But the style is impossible to confuse with any other artist’s: They were painted by Pablo Picasso.
The trance legends have sold out the RC Cola Plant twice already.
Last night, I rolled up to the Hangar at 9 p.m. and rushed to the entrance because I was worried about missing Lil Pump, who ended up not going on until 45 minutes after he was supposed to perform. In my Zen-like focus to see a rapper whose big thing is saying “Gucci Gang” 53 times in his hit song, I disregarded warning signs about what would happen to people who don’t pay for parking.
X is awaiting trial on four charges, including aggravated battery of a pregnant woman.
New Times visited the building ahead of its official opening December 1.
