Elton John

Murs Talks Real Rap: "The Only Reason I'll Do an Arena Tour Is Having My Own Private Bathroom to Take a Shit In"

The current state of the game isn't strong. Back in the late '90s, stagnant rap got a righteous kick in the gonads from the whole "backpack" movement. Now in the 2000s, the hip-hop scene has become rife with repetitive ring-tones and IQ-lowering catch phrases. And there ain't much opposition out ... More >>

WTF Florida Awards: 2012's Worst Politicians and Best Sex Scandals

Ten Gay Rappers Breaking Down Barriers and Bringing Dat Heat

Hip-hop has rarely been heralded for its acceptance of the gay community, but all things must change with time. Lots of rappers and hip-hoppers are speculated to be gay. Lil B seemed like he was coming out when he dropped a mixtape entitled I'm Gay (I'm Happy), but denied it. Meanwhile, Frank Ocean ... More >>

The 15 Richest Musicians: From Jay-Z to Rihanna, Justin Bieber, and Dr. Dre

Forbes just released its list of the "World's Most Powerful Celebrities," a somewhat arbitrary compilation that ranks everyone from athletes to movie stars to radio personalities "based on entertainment-related earnings plus media visibility (exposure in print, television, radio and online)." Acco ... More >>

Quantic, Pedrito Martinez, and Mr. Pauer at the Heineken TransAtlantic Festival 2012

The cool sea breeze whipped through the North Beach Bandshell on Saturday night as Afro-Latin rhythms bounced off the circular wall of the oceanside, outdoor venue. Colombia's Quantic Sound System and NYC's Pedrito Martinez Group rang in the Heineken Transatlantic Festival's 10th anniversary with c ... More >>

We Bought a Zoo: Matt Damon needs your love

Röyksopp Gets Cosmic at Ultra Music Festival 2011

​Röyksopp albums, like all good things in life, come to those who wait. The duo of Svein Berge and Torbjørn Brundtland first began experimenting with synthesizers together as kids in their small, sub-Arctic hometown of Tromsø, Norway. "I remember seeing this documentary when I was seven, I th ... More >>

Royksopp at Ultra Music Festival March 25

Amanda Lepore, Justin Bond, and Cazwell Ringing In New Queer's Eve at Lords South Beach

Courtesy of Peace BisquitCazwell and Amanda Lepore​In a recent episode of NBC's 30 Rock, Jenna was sad 'cause she was going to miss out on going to Elton John and Tom Ford's New Queer's Eve. She had broken up with her cross-dressing boyfriend Paul, just as they were planning to go together as ... More >>

Castro Death Meter: Fidel Is Only 32 Percent Dead and Might Never Shut Up, Scientists Believe

Fidel Castro has put aside the too-old-to-care tracksuits and unearthed his old olive-green military uniforms. He has returned to his weathered rut in front of the Cuban parliament, back on television, ranting incessantly again. As Elton John would say: The bitch is back.

Local Album Review: Jacob Jeffries Band - Waiting for the Piano Movers

​Jacob Jeffries Band ...Waiting for the Piano Movers...Eleven:11 Entertainment Jacob Jeffries is absurdly young -- barely out of his teens -- to be so abundantly talented. And despite his age, he's clawed his way to the top strata of South Florida's pop elite, thanks to last year's aptly titled ... More >>

Watch Him Get Naked

Q&A With the Naked Eyes' Pete Byrne, Playing at the Norton Museum on Thursday, July 9

via nakedeyesmusic.comWith 1980s playlists all the rage these days, you don't have to be of a certain age to appreciate the tuneful joy of Naked Eyes' 1983 "(There's) Always Something There to Remind Me." But it helps. If only for the fact that you can count yourself among those who were there when ... More >>

Save Yourself from McG's Terminator

What a drag.

Last Night: Billy Joel at Hard Rock Live

Sayre BermanBilly JoelFriday, January 2, 2009
Hard Rock Live, HollywoodBeing a piano man in a rock 'n' roll world can be a precarious proposition. Unless you have the cool of, say Jerry Lee Lewis, with the attitude and swagger to match, it's tough not to look like a dweeb sitting stationary behind ... More >>

Chuck Loeb and Eric Marienthal

Titanic Brewery

Drink and Draw

In South Miami: Irish car bombs, erotic drawings, and vaginal cream

The Iceman Cometh

Can renaissance man Val Kilmer master music?

Up from the Gutter

Ex-punk New York troubadour Jesse Malin brings his latest offering of uplifting, rootsy rock to Miami

Country Comfort

The 18 Wheelers prove you can go down home again

National "Make it Work" Day

After Brokeback, Still Queer

Film fest puts gay life onscreen

Postscript Professor

Warren Zanes wrote some of his best songs while working on his dissertation

Tortoise and Bonnie Prince Billy | Richard Cheese

The Bold and the Brave (Overcoat) | Sunny Side of the Moon: The Best of Richard Cheese (Surfdog Ada)

Franco De Vita

Night&Day

Too Sexy for Their Rock

Fashionable retro rock has jumped the shark. Here's why

The Bitch

End Times

Not Enough Fizz

The Billboard Latin Music Conference trudges through a transition year for the music industry

Señor Coconut and his Orchestra

Fiesta Songs (Emperor Norton)

That Eighties Show

As nostalgia for the fun-filled Studio 54 era kicks in, don't forget Reagan, Boesky, and nuclear winter

Painted from Memory

Ron Isley revisits the Burt Bacharach catalog with Here I Am

Road Less Traveled

Singer/songwriter Steven Franz plays from the heart

The Great Escape

Baz Luhrmann makes movies--and audiences--in his own image

Our Grandest Dame

Dame Edna: The Royal Tour

Night & Day

April 9-15, 1998

Rotations

The Outsiders

The Art of the Matter

Negative Creeps

A Japanese Reprries

Swelter

Shoot the Piano Player

Fantastic Voyeur

The Reel Deal

With films from fourteen countries, the Miami Film Festival features a volatile mix of love, lust, and crime

Swelter 25

Program Notes

Rock and Roll Graveyard

Jimi Hendrix's guitar. John Lennon's furniture. Bono's sunglasses. Hope I die before I get sold.

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