This year Subtropics marks its 21 year anniversary and 20th edition (more on that later) of bringing together sound minds in South Florida. The conference features performances, lectures, networking opportunities and exhibits for audiophiles and the uninitiated alike. Artistic Director of the festival Gustavo Matamoros, a sound educator at the…
photo by Justin Namon, www.thepopnessparty.comTo read past installments of Miami According to Brooklyn, click here. I think I’m gonna talk about the Miami Beach Police and how they just worry about the petty shit and don’t see the big picture. Like yesterday, I’m driving down West Avenue and get pulled…
via www.nicholasmonaco.comIt’s time to dig into the back of the closet, pull out a flannel shirt grab your chain wallet and pick up a 12 pack of Red Dog in preparation of tonight’s throwback to ’90s grunge rock at the Hurricane Bar and Lounge in Delray. Fort Lauderdale based Grindstone…
Cosmic. Karmic. Ghettotech house. These are a few of the words used by local duo Afrobeta to describe their sound. An ambient blend of disco, funk and house with underpinnings of various other electro styles ranging from breaks to trance and even bit of gabba, Tony “Smurphio” Laurencio and Cristina…
This week’s installment of Soultech at Skybar presents Berlin-based Polish techno producer/DJ Martin Czubala. Not your run-of-the-mill minimal techy, Czubala comes from an extensive background in classical music, having performed in over 300 European concerts in the early ’90s before delving into EDM production. While grounded in minimal house and…
photo by Chad Tenorio, via www.justinnozuka.comThe New York-born, Toronto-raised singer-songwriter Justin Nozuka boasts an entertainment-world pedigree that will perhaps forever haunt him in blurbs such as this. His mother, Holly Sedgwick, is sister of actress Kyra — which makes Kevin Bacon his uncle, and Edie Sedgwick a cousin. His brother,…
Naming his label Size Records, DJ/producer Steve Angello set himself up for criticism if he couldn’t lay down the magnitude of tracks necessary to command a room like Mansion, where he will help commemorate the club’s fifth birthday on Saturday. Luckily, Angello’s brand of breezy, big room progressive house perfectly…
In a world where divas are bionically enhanced, the bloom of marquees and floodlights can be seen from space, and the energy crisis has been averted by harnessing the kinetic motion of dancefloors, power house is the genre of choice. And those who choose power house choose DJ Boris, who…
Ryan Smith, a.k.a. Induce, is a great DJ, a skilled rapper, a damn fine singer, a super producer and he puts out a very nice mix(tape) from time to time. This edition is the second Valentine’s/Lovey – dovey – mushy version. The first one was purportedly made only for his…
Image via MySpaceThings will get hairy with Kid Sister Febrauary 25 at LIV.Call us nightlife anthropologists, because our assessment of downtown’s nightlife set being courted by glitzy South Beach continues to be reinforced. We wonder if we can present this as a thesis for our doctoral research?The ever-expanding Poplife, plus…
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I guess this is a week for me listening to local DJ’s get down on mix tapes. I know they aren’t mix tapes anymore, but that’s how I think of them. There used to be little kiosks in Manhattan that us bridge and tunnel kids would flock to in order…
Noise, art, sound, dissonance, resonance, bass, high shelf, low pass, amps, tables, hacked electronics, loops, synths, midi, speakers. Sound nerds of the world unite. The 20th edition of the Subtropics festival, breaking windows in the MIA since 1989, is upon us. Starting with an opening night reception on February 26th…
A few week ago we issued a new trend alert for downtown Miami’s hipsterati being asked to host and promote parties at the usually uptight South Beach nightclubs. But this week we are uncovering an even newer trend, former Miami nightclubs moving north to Broward County.Remember crobar? The infamous Chicago…
via www.windishagency.comDJ and producer Darren Emerson was once in dub-strewn acid house collective Underworld. And lest you forget, he opens and closes his new mix compilation, GU36: Bogotá with the then-progressive trio’s 1993 epic “MMM Skyscraper I Love You.” The two CDs this bookends are Emerson’s third entry for Global…
via www.citizencope.comClarence Greenwood is everywhere and nowhere. Turn on the television or go to the movie theater, and you’re certain to hear his driving choruses or melodic refrains leit motifing all kinds of popular culture (see Entourage, Teton Gravity Research, Acura commercials, and others). Greenwood, who records under the name…
It’s hard to overstate the influence of the long-running Norwegian band Satyricon on the world’s extreme heavy metal scene. Its tenacity alone is amazing — the core of the band, frontman/songwriter Satyr and drummer Frost, has been playing together continuously since 1992. On albums and tours, an all-star cast of…
No ifs, no ands, and definitely no buts about it — when DJ Jonathan Brody is asked to define his genre, he comes back with a quick and decisive “disco, disco, disco!” Sure, it swings “from new disco to Italo Disco disco-house,” but in the end it’s clear: this cat’s…
via www.ironmaiden.comMaiden fans, despair not: The band’s added, last-minute, a South Florida gig as the very last one of its current Somewhere Back in Time tour. And yes, fans will know that this is Iron Maiden’s first show in Florida in 13 years! The tour was initially set to end…
via www.tomjones.comYou’d be hard pressed to find a human being on the planet with more “cool” than Tom Jones. Countless hip hop artists claim to have the lock-down on the swagger, but each of them must bow their heads in reverence to Mr. Jones. There’s not a person alive who…
Back in 92′, that’s 17 years ago, Snoop wasn’t the Doggfather, DRE wasn’t unfuckwithable and Luke got tried on wax on a track called “Fuck Wit Dre Day” on The Chronic. The diss apparently stemmed from a song on Luke’s first solo cd, I Got Shit On My Mind, where…
Ximena Sariñana is nothing if not precocious. The Mexican actress/singer-songwriter claims her love affair with music began at the age of 2, when she attended an Ella Fitzgerald concert and at 7 she was enrolled in singing lessons with famed vocal coach, Ricardo Sanchez at the urging of her neighbor,…
