Michelangelo Chavarro stood before 100,000 Colombians in Bogota at the Hip Hop Al Parque Festival. The crowd roared as he spit his verse to the song he collaborated on with Cariñito, one of the country’s biggest independent rappers. “It was the highlight of my career so far,” he says. “I’ve…
Chico Mann’s new album, Magical Thinking, sounds like a mix of Company B, P-Funk, and every freestyle song ever. It’s a style characterized by classic machine drums, catchy synth lines, funky guitar chops, thumping bass, and party-ready female vocals. The Brooklyn producer has been making waves throughout the States since…
“Miami bass is the ghetto-style hip-hop that came out of Miami in the ’80s,” says DJ Jerry Pulles. From 1989 to 1994, he drove a van loaded with speakers and records from Miami Lakes to Hialeah to Carol City, playing house parties for his friends from American High. Later, he…
The Miami Times is one of America’s oldest continually running black newspapers, and the largest one in the Southeast. In 2011 they were recognized by the Black Press of America as the best newspaper in the country. Since 1923 they’ve been the essential documenter of life in black Miami. Their…
In the process of evolution, some species die, others get stronger. The guys and girl of Miami hip-hop fusion crew Cornerstoners and others of their ilk used to be fish, but then they grew legs, left the pond, and started walking the streets of downtown with flyers for the upcoming…
Exclusive aftershow with the new king of pop on South Beach … Priceless. Over the weekend, Justin Timberlake celebrated the end of his Legends of the Summer tour with Jay Z by playing a 3 a.m. Mastercard-sponsored JT & The Tennessee Kids set at the Fillmore Miami Beach for hundreds…
Electric Piquete bass player Michael Mut has a direct connection to the Bay of Pigs. His grandfather spent 18 months in a Cuban prison after John F. Kennedy abandoned him and hundreds of others on La Playa Girón during their invasion to topple Fidel Castro’s communist dictatorship. Today, the Cuban…
Miami independent music pioneer Willie Clarke is a Grammy winner whose music has been sampled by Beyonce. In the mid 1960s, he and a college buddy named Johnny Pearsall started a label called Deep City, based out of Johnny’s Records in Liberty City. It was the first independent, black-owned record…
Jay Z and Justin Timberlake are so rich that their butlers have butlers, their maids have maids, and their cars have cars. They’re so rich that bankers fight one another to the death in a circle of fire in parking lots just trying to secure their investments. They’re so rich…
Palo! is throwing a free party at PAX celebrating its tenth anniversary, with tons of free giveaways from Car2Go, Azucar Ice Cream, Rey de Las Fritas food truck, and more before 11 p.m. this Friday. The band’s concert will be filmed and recorded for a live album, live DVD, and…
Chico Mann’s new album, Magical Thinking, sounds like a mix of Company B, P-Funk, and every freestyle song ever. It’s a style characterized by classic machine drums, catchy synth lines, funky guitar chops, thumping bass, and party-ready female vocals. The Brooklyn producer has been making waves throughout the States since…
Te gusta Papa Yon? On August 16, Miami’s favorite Afro-Cuban funk band, Palo!, will be throwing a free party at PAX celebrating their 10th anniversary with tons of free giveaways from Car2Go, Azucar Ice Cream, El Rey de las Fritas food truck, and all kinds of other stuff. The concert…
Had he lived to see a court date, Israel “Reefa” Hernandez-Llach could have argued that his tagging of a derelict Miami Beach building at 71st Street and Collins Avenue was neither mischievous, malicious, destructive, nor damaging. He could have insisted he wasn’t a vandal at all. Instead, he died after…
Cash Dome pawnshop on US1 and Caribbean Boulevard is about to show America all about tattoos, guns, gold teeth, and how to make a buck. For the past 25 years, shop founder Mickey Gallander has wheeled and dealed Miami through one of the oldest and toughest businesses in the world…
Jay Z and Justin Timberlake are so rich that their butlers have butlers, their maids have maids, and their cars have cars. They’re so rich that bankers in parking lots fight each other to the death in a circle of fire trying to secure their investments. They’re so rich that…
If the Clash were from Miami and made a record in 2013, it would sound like ¡Mayday!’s new album, Believers. With rock and Caribbean guitar riffs, simple but heavy bass lines, snap-and-crack drums, multilayered lyrics, and catchy hooks, this slab is the Miami rap crew’s latest masterpiece. New Times spoke…
If The Clash were from Miami and made a record in 2013, it might sound like ¡Mayday!’s new album, Believers. With rock and Caribbean guitar riffs, simple and heavy basslines, snap-and-crack drums, multilayered lyrics, and catchy hooks, this slab is the Miami rap crew’s latest masterpiece. We spoke with MCs…
“Miami bass is the ghetto-style hip-hop that came out of Miami in the ’80s,” says DJ Jerry Pulles. From 1989 to 1994, he drove a van loaded with speakers and records from Miami Lakes to Hialeah to Carol City, playing house parties for his friends from American High. Later, he…
Too $hort is an independent hip hop pioneer who made his first million on cassette tapes. The East Oakland pimp is famous for dirty sex raps, and has put out a new album almost every year since 1987. He’s also a ghetto reality rapper in the style of Melle Mel…
Zach Deputy is a beat-boxing, guitar-playing, Puerto Rican, Saint Crucian, Irish, South Cackalackee cracker, one-man looping band experience. He makes good-time island music mixed with funk, soul, R&B, bluegrass, and even some Spanish classical guitar. And he does it all while sampling himself live. Tomorrow, he plays Knock N’ Roll:…
You wake up with your head and neck strapped tight to a cold steel bed frame. Your adrenaline is surging. You try to reach up, but both of your wrists are strapped down by industrial-grade leather. And your ankles are immovable as well. That’s when the nurse’s face appears an…
It is 1995. The inaugural Warped Tour pulls into the Edge in Fort Lauderdale. And even after the band’s van (along with its electric guitars and other gear) gets jacked, Bradley Nowell and Eric Wilson of Sublime still decide to play an entirely acoustic set for a packed house. Meanwhile,…
