Howard Hardee
Miami New Times
Madison, WI, United States
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The Claypool Lennon Delirium Sets Out for Sea and Space on the Jam Cruise
The collaboration between Primus figurehead Les Claypool and Sean Lennon will be performing on the psychedelic music-oriented Jam Cruise, which departs from Miami on Tuesday, January 7. → Read More
Futuristic Jazz Duo Twyn Returns With Raw Cuts From the Studio Floor
By the standards of two accomplished jazz players such as Glueckauf and Matthews, these are simple, bare-bones songs that are intended to be less heady and more primal than their previous work together. → Read More
Post-Hardcore Veterans Cursive Are Back Again With an Anxiety-Fueled Album
Band frontman Tim Kasher says the 24-hour news cycle and a steady diet of surreal headlines is contaminating the stream of consciousness he calls upon when writing the emo and post-hardcore group's music. → Read More
Things to Do in Miami: Diane Ward & the Band of Virgos at Luna Star Cafe Miami September 21, 2019
It's hard to shake the sense that Diane Ward never received the recognition she deserved as a Melissa Etheridge-style singer-songwriter in a South Florida music scene defined by electronic sounds and Afro-Caribbean rhythms. → Read More
Things to Do in Miami: The Coathangers at Gramps Miami September 18, 2019
The Coathangers have been pushing their deceptively precise and always catchy garage rock for almost 14 years. → Read More
Things to Do in Miami: Electric Kif at Lagniappe House September 14, 2019
The Miami-based instrumental fusion band's new record never gets too heady or loses sight of the groove. → Read More
Long-Running Hardcore Band Ceremony Switches Up Its Sound, Again
Long-running hardcore punk band Ceremony has historically focused on causing a ruckus rather than atmospherics. → Read More
Beloved Welsh Rock Band the Alarm Returns to South Florida for First Time in 34 Years
To the chagrin of local New Wave devotees, the beloved '80s band the Alarm hasn't played in South Florida since 1985. → Read More
Claptone's Globetrotting and Marathon Sets Test the DJ's Endurance Behind the Decks
The globetrotting DJ plays 200 to 300 shows a year and gets much of his sleep on airplanes. → Read More
Things to Do in Miami: Magic City Hippies at the Fillmore Miami Beach August 16, 2019
In a sign of how far they've come, Magic City Hippies recently rubbed elbows with big-name bands like The Strokes and Tame Impala at Lollapalooza in Chicago. → Read More
Miami-Based "Jazztronica" Duo Twyn Drops Hyper-Futuristic Double Single
For the past several years, Twyn has been impressing local audiences with live sets that rely on looping and fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants improvisation. → Read More
Things to Do in Miami: Queen + Adam Lambert at BB&T Center August 17, 2019
Adam Lambert has proven himself a technically flawless singer with crystal-clear intonation and the ability to hit all the absurdly high notes, but he's just not very rock 'n' roll. → Read More
Wifisfuneral Doesn't Give an Inch to the Haters on New EP, Ethernet 2
Wifi clearly has the chops hip-hop purists value so much, but he wades through superfaded phrases as a matter of choice, switching up styles in a manner that feels like entering different levels of consciousness. → Read More
The Get Up Kids Are All Grown Up, but Still Singing About Relationship Drama
Now that the band itself is well past its 1990s heyday and its members are entering middle age, Pryor is still using other people's relationships as musical inspiration. → Read More
Broward County Rapper Splash Zanotti Is Raging Against the Machine
The Broward County rapper's loathing is based on his personal experiences, both on the streets and as a musician, of being an outsider looking into a gated community. → Read More
Interview with Kat Dahlia, Miami-Born Singer, Songwriter and Rapper
Dahlia's breakthrough came in the form of 2013 single "Gangsta," which, together with 2015 single "I Think I'm in Love," racked up hundreds of millions of streams across multiple platforms. → Read More
Canadian Hip-Hop Duo 88Glam Cultivates Alien Sound and Aesthetic
The duo favors sparse trap beats and a hybrid style of singing and rapping, which is heavily manipulated in the studio for an unnatural-sounding effect. → Read More
How Tame Impala Taught Me to Love Pop Music
Tame Impala's third album, "Currents," helped me view pop music in a whole new light — eventually. → Read More
Things to Do: Tame Impala at the Fillmore Miami Beach May 7
"New Person, Same Old Mistakes" was covered by Rihanna, and he's since collaborated with the likes of Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson and Travis Scott — the kinds of artists I probably would have sneered at before I fell in love with Currents. → Read More
Miami-Based Tropical-Rock Band Locos por Juana Releases New Single, "Don't Tell Me No"
Locos por Juana has always dabbled in equal parts cumbia, funk, and reggae, but the bandmates are embracing the music of Jamaica more than ever. → Read More