I, for one, am psyched to check out Disclosure’s new album, Caracal, when it drops this Friday. The U.K. pop-house duo are one of my favorite acts in dance music, and one of few still making full albums in a world of singles. So when their latest track, “Omen,” debuted…
Back in 2013, perennial indie rock gods Arcade Fire caused a stir in Miami when they descended upon a couple of mid-sized venues in downtown and Little Haiti as the mysterious masked band The Reflektors. The impromptu shows, which sold out in minutes, came as part of a handful of…
It’s Friday!!! Which means I have officially made it through my first week as new Music Editor of this fine and fair blog. While I am extremely excited to help breathe some new life into our coverage of the local music scene and the best concerts in town each week,…
Back in May of 2012, The Weeknd started off his tour at Revolution in Fort Lauderdale. He had just played his first live show at Coachella and released his first three mixtapes, which were still only available as free downloads via his website. No singles. No songs on iTunes. No…
“Today I was a little worried because we had football and we had a Jewish holiday, but it turned out being even better than the first one,” said Hollywood Vine-yl Society organizer and local music encyclopedia Steve Toth on Sunday afternoon at the second edition of a new quarterly meet-up…
Adam Foster is a South Florida-based DJ and producer, founder of twilightnotes.com, and entertainment director for the Restaurant People. He was named best DJ of 2014 by New Times Broward-Palm Beach. Follow him on Twitter, and like him on Facebook. With Labor day coming up in a couple weeks, this…
Adam Foster is a South Florida-based DJ and producer, founder of twilightnotes.com, and entertainment director for the Restaurant People. He was named best DJ of 2014 by New Times Broward-Palm Beach. In the Booth is his new column about electronic music, DJ culture, and South Florida nightlife. Visit him on Facebook…
Adam Foster is a South Florida-based DJ and producer, founder of twilightnotes.com, and entertainment director for the Restaurant People. He was named best DJ of 2014 by New Times Broward-Palm Beach. In the Booth is his new column about electronic music, DJ culture, and South Florida nightlife. Visit him on Facebook…
If ever there was an individual destined to be a singer/songwriter, it would likely have been Robert Bidney. For one thing, he trained for it in a very practical sense. Working in an advertising agency his creative impulses were encouraged by writing the jingles for such big name clients as…
It was a typically dreary evening in the Colombian capital—cold and drizzling. Yet that didn’t stop thousands from coming out on May 17 when Colombian sensation Bomba Estéreo gave Bogotá a sneak peak of its new album Amanecer (“Daybreak,” in English) at a massive open-air, mountainside dance party on the…
What is a remix? At its most basic definition, a remix is a new version of a song that already exists. However, the lines between remixing, sampling, making edits, mashups, white labels, and bootlegs have blurred. These days, it’s hard — maybe even impossible — to make something truly original…
It’s official: summer is upon us, and June is right around the corner. That doesn’t mean much for us South Floridians. It just goes from being pretty hot to really hot. For the rest of the country though, summer time is special. It means festival season, beach season, boat season. No…
Marilyn Manson is Broward’s surrogate son. So when he’s in the news, we brag about him. We resisted reporting the supposedly unprovoked punch to the face he received at a Denny’s in Alberta last month, but now he’s released a new music video and we’re prey to his temptation. “The…
In just a few weeks, mid-May to be inexact, the Lake Worth art hub UNIT 1 will close its doors — at least in its current incarnation. New Times sat down with the owner of this fledgling cultural beacon, Jacques de Beaufort, to discuss what the short, happy life of…
Roger Houdaille apparently doesn’t sleep. At least that’s the assumption one could make based on a prodigious output that includes five albums in a mere six years with his band Ex Norwegian — and before that, various outings with his earlier outfit, the equally inexplicably tagged Father Bloopy. Drawing on…
Last saturday night I made my way to Stache in downtown Fort Lauderdale to hear DJ Patrick M, a part owner of Xima Records and Space Miami resident. The sidewalk outside the ’20s-style speakeasy/nightclub hybrid buzzed with the pulse of the bass coming from inside. I could feel it before…
What’s the saying? April showers bring May flowers? Well that’s all good and fine, but this April, we weren’t paying attention to the weather. No, we had our ears pressed against speakers in hopes of finding the April’s best dance tracks. Here are the songs that stuck with us this…
The South Florida festival scene is getting stronger. The last two months have brought our tip of the state Ultra Music Festival and Tortuga Music Festival. And the next few weeks will bring us West Palm Beach’s SunFest and Tampa’s Big Guava Music Festival. When it’s all said and done,…
We share this world with a variety of people of varying mental capacities and affectations including (but not limited to) airheads, cokeheads, deadheads, eggheads, hotheads, knuckleheads, metalheads, potheads, redheads, shitheads, turtleheads, warheads, soft baby heads, and of course, cheeseheads. But then, somewhere in the middle of that list, clutching a…
There’s something special about a local band that makes it big. Fans feel a unique connection to the hometown kids who manage to do what so many can’t. In Broward and Palm Beach Counties, we don’t have many national acts to be proud of. But one of the bands that…
Many driving down US1 this Saturday were confused by the long line snaking out of Radio-Active Records. Why, on one of the hottest days in months, were these folks waiting patiently on the concrete skillet of Federal Highway? They were doing it for Record Store Day — all in the…
There’s a particular image we tend to conjure up when considering the typical indie record store. It’s so exact, in fact, we don’t feel the need to describe it in detail. But there’s also the antithesis of this, an indie record store that strives to be and anything but typical…
