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…
via miamimusicfestival.orgIn 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…
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…
You know what this means….-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…
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…
Vivian Girls play an afternoon set at Pulse.-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…
Photo by Ian WitlenClick 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…
In the mid-’90s, many considered the multimembered New York City act King Chango to be part of the larger constellation of ska revival acts flourishing in that city. But the band’s musical roots ran deeper than many of its peers’. Yes, the “Chango” in its name is indeed a nod…
Trying to track all of the random shows and parties connected to Art Basel can be exhausting — so here’s one damned good reason to get away from them all for one night. The Skinny Dip, at Kitchen 305, is a multiband celebration of life whose proceeds benefit the Melanoma…
The hipster-approved, Berlin-based thumping house producer Jesse Rose plays an event sponsored by — who else? — Scion. The real star, here, though is Rose’s label, Made to Play. Each of the artists playing tonight (with the exception of local hero Induce) have put out tracks with the imprint, and…
via myspace.com/bluetechmusicThe Hawaii-based producer Bluetech can be considered part of the extended constellation of the jam band scene, playing and collaborating with other hippies-gone-electronic like EOTO and Flying Lotus. Still, Bluetech is fiercely experimental, citing the likes of Brian Eno, the Orb, and even Erik Satie as influences. He performs…
OK Go plays tonight at Design Miami/.As the week wears on, every morning we’ll post our recommendations for the best public music-related and club events taking place during Art Basel Miami Beach.Wednesday, December 2-6:30 to 7 p.m.: OK Go performs at Design Miami/. Click here for full details. -8 to 10…
Art Basel week is the time of surreal collaborations and appearances, so when New York mag reported a supposed “Sex Pistols concert on the beach,” it seemed plausible. Still, they only got it 25 percent right. One Pistol will, indeed, be performing, at the very swish new Opium Group poolside…
Yes, that’s “Stewie” as in the misanthropic infant star of The Family Guy. And while this event’s connection to “art” is rather tenuous, who among our very coveted young demographic doesn’t like The Family Guy? So stay with me here while I explain the concept of this Wednesday night party…
Tomorrow, Miami New Times will bring you the full scoop on this year’s edition of Primary Flight. But to summarize, it’s one of the most interesting satellite happenings during this year’s Art Basel Miami Beach extravaganza, a show that is literally at the street level. Starting today, you can check…
via myspace.com/millionyoungmusicThe term “chillwave” might have been coined sarcastically by the parody blog Hipster Runoff, but the music blogosphere has taken it and run with it. A sort of 2k9 reiteration of the old “downtempo,” these producers are influenced more by Animal Collective than Massive Attack, and create tracks with…
via myspace.com/dreaheartsmusicMillion Dollar Mano was already a favorite on Chicago’s free-spirited house/hip-hop crossover scene. His new project, though, might get even wider attention, thanks to the addition of a little female energy in the form of frontwoman Drea Smith. Together they are He Say She Say, and over squelching electro-pop,…
Kinky remains one of the best Mexican exports of crossover acts who fuse their country’s native sounds with contemporary rock and dance sounds. Mala Rodriguez, meanwhile, is a fierce female rapper from Spain whose sound relies heavily on flamenco. Together, they provide the soundtrack to a multiculti night of music…
As we promised yesterday, here’s a holiday giveaway of two more tickets to see Ras Kass in a comeback gig at White Room on Friday. Click here to read yesterday’s post with all the details.The rules again are, leave a comment on this entry, and then e-mail me your name…
If you missed Kid Sister’s performance not long ago at LIV, here’s an opportunity to check her out again in a slightly more relaxed setting. Giant Step always curates quality events, and for Art Basel the label is putting on Chicago’s favorite femme fatale electro-rapper at the Delano. She and…
