You already know this: while earning your college degree was informative and pleasant enough, plenty of us head in a different direction. Or maybe the experience wasn’t so awesome or helpful, but we’re sticking, steadfast and stubborn, to what we set out for in the first place. Joshua Miller, the executive director and founder of [...]
Tortuga Music Festival, Day One: The Sun Came Out, the Rain Let Up, and We Were Getting Dry
For me, I suppose the festival began at noon at the Galleria Mall in Fort Lauderdale. I valeted my car there and waited along with a dozen or so other folks bound for Fort Lauderdale Beach and the two-day, country-heavy music festival. In their bathing suits and bikinis, and I in my garish Hawaiian [...]
Point Blanco: Mykki Turns Bardot Out
Previously on Bardot: a chic bachelor pad laden with masculine brio and attendantly hetero-pornish decor proved an unwelcome space for Juan Maclean’s queer-friendly house music. Outdated, old-fashioned, and unfortunately all too familiar, it was a fail. Last night was a different story. Michael Quattlebaum Jr. a.k.a. Mykki Blanco a.k.a. Black Sailor Moon (a.k.a. a million other [...]
Review: Infest at Churchill’s Pub
When it was announced that powerviolence pioneers, Infest, had finally been convinced to perform outside California’s borders, the cogs of the internet hype machine were immediately set in motion. The fact that the band was performing again and outside of California would have been a big enough deal to stir up some serious hype, but the fact that this [...]
Review: Songs Stole the Show at the Monk & Coltrane Tribute Friday
As accomplished as the performers were, the songs were the real stars of Friday’s Monk & Coltrane tribute at Miami’s Adrienne Arsht Center. After all, the transformative music of Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane long ago entered the modern-jazz canon and forever altered the idiom. But certainly, having performers with close personal ties to the [...]
John Cage Centennial at the New World Symphony: Chance, Chaos, and an Amplified Cactus
Last night, the internet and airwaves slowly drowned in a sea of content related to the Grammys, a celebration of celebrity, of commercial viability, of music forged mostly on easily palatable, recognizable pop structure. But in the heart of South Beach, a neighborhood hardly known for its creative daring, an event celebrating nearly the polar [...]
Femi Kuti Kicked Off His 2013 Tour With an Explosive Opening Salvo at Grand Central, Miami
“Fasten your seat belts,” commanded Femi Kuti last night at the beginning of his performance at Grand Central, the downtown Miami venue where he kicked off his 2013 tour with his band, Positive Force. It was an appropriate warning from this heir to the Afrobeat throne created by his father, the late, great Fela. Those [...]
“Yoga Night at the New World Symphony” Married Healing and Art
On Friday night an original and sublime occurrence transpired at the New World Center in Miami called “Yoga Night at the New World Symphony!” The inaugural event combined a 30-minute symphonic performance inside the concert hall with a one-hour yoga class outside on a grassy pavilion known as SoundScape Park. At 7 p.m., the Frank [...]
Holly Hunt’s Album Release Party for “Year One” Torched Churchill’s
Wearing short pants, short sleeves, and a neck bandage over a brown-spider bite, Matt Preira lamented still not being able to escape the humidity, and the sweat pouring out during his frenetic errand running — from making sure the plugs on the back patio work to smoothing over line-up issues — suggested he would melt [...]
Unfortunately, No Homo at Juan Maclean Show at Bardot Saturday
It may be 2012, but queer artists remain shadow warriors. While house music has long been an exception, boasting multicultural backgrounds and a safe space for the queer-identified, other artists like Gaga continue Madonna’s lip service to queer subcultures, and EDM largely seems like hetero stomping grounds. For example, take the 2010 anti-Ed Banger rant about French [...]
