Last year, dance music icon Fatboy Slim celebrated the return of his Big Beach Boutique festival, a summer event that helped define the aesthetic of his Big Beat movement in the ’90s. This bigger, better edition hit the new Amex Stadium in his native Brighton, England for a two-day stand, packing in tens of thousands [...]

Glitter freaks, leather-clad fops, half-naked gender benders, and normal-seeming nerds and geeks will all descend on Churchill’s Pub for this year’s International Noise Conference. This free four-day long “music” “festival” features over 130 acts that test the ears as much as the spirit, and is guaranteed to shatter egos and spur its fair share of [...]

Olds — i.e., anyone over the age of 25 — who grew up on hardcore, take heart. Sure, much of the mid- to late-’00s were a very dark time, full of a confusing array of sub-sub-sub-genres that bore little resemblance to the original thing. The jokes really wrote themselves as the Warped Tour and similar [...]

This is a fairly busy week around Wynwood and the surrounding environs. There’s Electric Pickle’s four-year anniversary, featuring Blood Orange tonight and Seth Troxler tomorrow, along with Gramps’ grand opening, stuff at Lester’s, and more. Here’s a quick roundup of wallet-friendly choices from among all that — entry to all of these will set you [...]

“Rollicking adventure” is one of those ridiculous terms that no one actually says in normal conversation but which reviewers love to use (“madcap romp” and “laugh-out-loud hilarious” are some other favorites). I hate to use such a cliché when describing Dave Barry’s Insane City. However, that is the perfect way to describe the Pulitzer Prize-winning [...]

You might think of Electric Pickle, that North Miami Avenue staple, as a place for underground house and techno. And you’d be right — those deep dance sounds form the core of its programming. But the creative minds behind the club, which celebrates its fourth anniversary this weekend, have never limited them to a particular [...]

The Foreign nominations in the Oscars has always been a bit weird. Essentially, it’s one category for the rest of the world, but somehow Britain always makes the cut on Best Picture, giving the sectioning a neo-colonial bent. Last year, the Academy awarded A Separation with an Oscar. It was the second Iranian film to [...]

Roger “Speedfreek” Forbes, the man behind Speedfreek Productions, doesn’t have to spend his spare time and money on promoting gnarly music in a city not exactly known for supporting it. Yet he continues to book and promote rare-treat shows out of love. And without his bookings, Miami would have a whole hell of a lot [...]