Wynwood pa la pinga!Artist Aholsniffsglue was born in Hialeah. Artist and New Times art critic Carlos Suarez de Jesus was born in Habana. The two Cuban-Americans have forged an alliance based in Little Havana’s Mercenary Square studio gallery that’s exploding onto the scene with Ahol’s first solo show of new…
The last time we fought a dragon, we had been listening to Slayer’s “Hell Awaits” on repeat for three days straight, drinking screw-top vodka under the highway, and lurking in the shadows of downtown in pursuit of evil. When our AA batteries ran out and the music stopped, we lost…
Reggae may be the world’s most perfect spliff-lighting music. But don’t forget its social imperative to promote justice in a world full of hate, tyranny, starvation, and unbound evil. Reggae is hope. And Ziggy Marley is coming to the Fillmore Miami Beach on May 9 to fill your soul with…
Queen Latifah — entertainment mogul, young Oprah, and all-around bad mothereffer — has long been a fan of Miami. She records her music at a studio in Doral, has an entire album produced by North Miami’s own Cool & Dre, and has been here so many times for both business…
Bruise Cruise Kickoff Party, Day One With Blowfly, Quintron & Miss Pussycat, The Togas, Mikal Cronin, and Deaf Poets The Stage Miami Wednesday, February 8, 2012 Better Than: Not seeing an elderly dude talk to a 23-year-old girl about eating her pussy. Whoever tipped America up like a pachinko table,…
Seattle is the staph-infected armpit of America, and grunge is the second-worst-smelling music genre next to crust punk. In Seattle, it’s illegal to burn flannel, and you have to meet an elitist quotient to claim residency. Twenty years ago, the city thought itself too cool for Candlebox, the Seattle rock…
Ask Dave Williamson to smash light bulbs over his head and he will respond, “How many Twitter followers will it get me?” The full-time comic says, “It’s no longer about dignity. Anything bad that happens to me is a joke. Like, if my kid’s diaper blows out and gets shit…
For many of us, Black History Month is a time to remember the lessons lies we learned in school about America’s struggle from slavery to the present day. But Lucille Davis Counts-Sneed needs no textbook. She was born February 2, 1912, in Live Oak, Florida, and celebrated her 100th birthday…
The Virginia Key Grassroots Music Fest is almost here, and that means a stellar music lineup, camping in the cool winter beauty of the subtropics, and more hippies, rastas, and traveling kids than you can shake a beach at. Meanwhile at Jimbo’s, $2 beers, Southern rock and roll, and topless…
Noise. It sucks. It hurts the ear. But every year, Rat Bastard’s International Noise Conference draws sickos from around the world to Churchill’s Pub for a free, curated, four-night concert series featuring the worst sounds humans are capable of producing without drones or laptops. All the bands have terrible names…
Football. In Egypt, people rush the field and die about it. In America, though, we celebrate our favorite sport with boatloads of liquor, oceans of beer, billions of chicken wings, and the robot who was once Madonna. And obviously, it’s way better to enjoy these all-American footballin’ festivities in the…
Alcohol impairs your judgment? Screw it, we’ll have a shot of whiskey, a beer, and a Latin Builders Association membership application.Starting early Friday morning in downtown Miami, the LBA invited guests to drink their way to Decision 2012, offering 2 cocktail sessions between speeches by Newt Gingrich, Gov. Rick Scott,…
Mitt Romney has a square jaw and looks good on camera, but he has the real-life charisma of a bucket of hammers. It’s like he chopped up and snorted a pile of Al Gore before his speech at Freedom Tower yesterday. Still, his uncanny resemblance to Sesame Street hero Guy…
Graham Wood Drout at Tobacco Road January 31
Miami rapper and singer Anjuli Stars releases Starvation Vol. 2 January 31
Any given night in Miami, hundreds of bottles of overpriced champagne and vodka are marched out to a perpetually revolving cast of douchebags, rich folks, once-a-year-spenders, depraved attention-starved nightlifers, sparkler fans, and the women who love to be seen with them. But Off The Hookah Miami takes the cake for…
Etta James, may her vocal chords be dipped in platinum and preserved for future generations, has died at 73 due to complications from leukemia as well as alzheimers, dementia, and Hepatitis C. James won six Grammys and 17 Blues Music Awards. She was inducted into the Rock & Roll, Blues,…
Call us ignorant, but we’ve always thought of ukulele music as something played by moonshine-swigging, overall-wearing, tobacco-chewing, stained-tooth-having hillbillies somewhere in the Ozarks. Turns out the ukulele, a small, four-stringed instrument similar to the Latin cuatro, comes from Hawaii, and chicks with coconuts on their boobs shake their grass-skirted asses…
Benny Latimore’s Ladies Choice album release in Miami January 21
When Graham Wood Drout and Iko Iko first started playing Tobacco Road in 1981, “the owner, an ex-cop named Neil, kept a shotgun behind the bar, couldn’t get any strippers to work for the club, and hired us to play for Mariel refugees under a disco ball till four in…
Anjuli Stars sings like an angel, raps like a gangsta, and writes songs by the thousands. She plays the keys and strings. She owns her own record label. She’s collaborated with Pitbull. This Latin mami from West Kendall even holds a degree in Music Business and Songwriting from Berklee College…
Art sucks. Get drunk. Music sucks. Dance harder. The lights are too bright. Turn them all off and let the bass drown your body till your heart rattles in your ribcage. Throw your phone against the ground, quit paying your internet bill, never trust a wireless modem, and check out…
