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PATTI SMITH REFLECTS ON LIFE, ART, AND THE UNIVERSE
Miami New Times - Cover Story
It's the day Hurricane Milton is about to make landfall on Florida's west coast, and my phone rings as I am walking my dog one last time before the storm. Although South Florida isn't expected to suffer a direct hit from the storm, the air is sharp and heavy, and the crows are trying to find refuge by an apartment building on Biscayne Boulevard.
I'm so distracted by the scene that by the time I grab the phone, I have missed the call.
THE MARSHALL PLAN
Miami New Times - Cover Story
Chan Marshall (A.K.A Cat Power) on the role of the artist in tumultuous times.
It's 11:30 on a Saturday morning, and I'm waiting at Soho Beach House for Chan Marshall, who is running fashionably late. The August air is thick, and the time feels like it's going by very slowly while I sit at the outside bar.
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A BRIEF GUIDE TO THE PSYCH ROCK SCENE IN CHILE
Bandcamp Daily
Meaningful music tells a story, and Chilean psychedelic rock has a hell of a story to tell. The sound bears the baggage of death, genocide, and cultural oppression, mostly marked by the 16th century Spanish colonization and, beginning in 1973, the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. But they balance that darkness with moments of beauty, finding inspiration in the country’s countless, majestic mountains and vast, rolling deserts.
ATOMIC BLONDE
Miami New Times - Cover Story
It's a warm October morning in Miami, and Debbie Harry picks up the phone. Her voice sounds particularly sweet and humble despite her icy-blonde stage persona. The unmistakable clink of porcelain objects — like a teacup placed gently on a saucer — is clearly heard over the line as if it were tea time with punk royalty.
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DIVING INTO MIAMI’S DOOM AND SLUDGE SOUND
Bandcamp Daily
When people think of Miami, they might think of paradise: a postcard-perfect city synonymous with year-round warmth, beautiful beaches, sun-baked Art Deco buildings, and towering palm trees. And yet, deep within this blissful, balmy setting lies an unlikely—and surprisingly strong—undercurrent, one that’s rushing in the opposite direction. We’ve explored the wider Miami underground before, but here, we focus on Miami’s sludge-doom scene: a small, devoted circle of bands who inject the genre’s rugged, low-and-slow approach with Caribbean grooves and unkempt energy.
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JARED SWILLEY OF THE BLACK LIPS TALKS CHURCHILL’S AND RECORDING “SING IN A WORLD THAT’S FALLING APART”
Miami New Times
Sing in a World That’s Falling Apart is an appropriate title for a record released at the beginning of 2020. While the Senate commences the impeachment trial the U.S. president, 17-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg reminds world leaders at the World Economic Forum that “our house is still on fire,” and new fears stir around a contagious pneumonia-like virus. The truth is that the world has always been on fire; what's setting the tone for the day is that we're acutely aware of it all.
LOL TOLHURST: “THE CURE BECAME MY GANG”
Too Much Love
Most of the iconic bands of the past generations have many stories of demons and redemption to tell; and The Cure, of course, is one of them. Laurence “Lol” Tolhurst, former drummer and keyboard player of the band, recently released a memoir titled “Cured: The Tale of Two Imaginary Boys,” where he shares key moments of the formation of the group in Crawley, his friendship with Robert Smith, and the struggles that led him to leave The Cure behind.