Calle 13 at the American Airlines Arena October 15
Calle 13 at the American Airlines Arena October 15
Calle 13 at the American Airlines Arena October 15
This weekend, Calle 13’s Residente and Visitante will wrap their collective microphone cables around the neck of reggaeton and strangle every last booty clap out of Puerto Rican party music.Which is to say, they still keep the ladies’ hips shaking. But they’ve got a message too. And it’s one that…
Attention: job seekers There’s a new nightlife venue opening in Midtown. It’s called Ricochet Bar and Lounge, and it’s now hiring bartenders, servers, waitresses and busboys. Unemployed people and other interested parties should email HR@taient.com. We called Alan Roth from TAI Entertainment to see what he had to say about…
Steve Jobs, one of the greatest innovators of both the 20th and 21st Centuries is dead. But his name will ring out eternally through history. ‘Cause damn, that motherfucker changed the world and shit. iTunes is just one of many ingenious inventions to come out of the Apple camp. From…
A normal 9 to 5 job in Miami can be as hard to come by as money in your pocket after a night at the club. But fear not, party animal, just apply to work at the newest club on South Beach, Amnesia. A modern remix of a classic venue…
Somewhere along the line, an evil-genius music producer discovered that applying the boy-band formula to the opera music style is an easy way to make a buck. And now’s there’s pop opera — all the voice with none of the distracting story line or acting. Suddenly, teenage girls (and their…
Calle 13’s Residente and Visitante are nominated for ten Latin Grammys this year, an impressive stat for a group that in the past five years has gone from the viral diatribe of “Fuck The Dear FBI” to filling stadiums in Argentina, Peru, Colombia, Chile, and wherever else they play.Lead vocalist…
Put your mother-effin cans up. The Art Basel madness has already begun, and the streets of Wynwood are already benefiting. The Wynwood Walls public mural park founded by Tony Goldman and curated by Jeffrey Deitch is expanding from the Shepard Fairey, Futura, and Kenny Scharf pieces that are already there…
Reports are all over the interwebs about legendary soul-funk man Sly Stone being homeless and living in LA’s Crenshaw hood. But we’d like to point out (as he probably would too) that Sly lives in a van, a pretty big one, and that having a mobile home is way better…
Weed. Miami knows a thing or two about a thing or two. But Colorado knows better. Hell, they’ve (sort of) legalized our favorite plant. Miami artists Natalia Molina and Carlos De Varona recently headed west to document the process of growth and cultivation of marijuana in a state-of-the-art facility serving…
If you were riding north on Biscayne Boulevard this morning, looked over, and saw a goldtoothed, tattooed Cuban on a scooter talking on his cellphone while smoking a cigarette at 45mph, that was Aholsniffsglue doing a Crossfade interview about Get Low XXIX, “the 28th or 29th” edition of the monthly…
It’s ironic that the Overtown Music Project would choose to throw its Epic event at LIV at the Fontainebleau Hotel. Although great musical entertainers such as Count Basie, Etta James, and Billie Holiday were hired to play there and other swank oceanside clubs, it was illegal for African-Americans to stay…
In the wake of the recent Nocturnal nightclub shooting that killed one, hospitalized others, and sent hundreds stampeding through Downtown Miami, we found evidence of stabbings and shootings at another area establishment, the Cafe Society (1994 NW Third Ave., Miami), way back in 1948. The front page of the Miami…
Big up ArtOfficial, Mayday!, Dangerflow, Xperimento, Sounduo, Locos Por Juana, Lanzallamas, and all the other great funk influenced bands in Miami right now. But if they (or you) are ever looking for inspiration and the chance to sit in with some of the best musicians in the MIA, then check…
In 2005, when he got pulled over by the no-good fuzz for driving 109 mph on a Georgia highway in his Bentley Continental, Chris Tucker supposedly told the cops he was in a rush because he was late for church. He still got arrested. What a bunch of pigs, huh?…
As the show review and slideshow clearly demonstrate, Manu Chao brought that fire to Klipsch Amphitheater on Saturday night. But while the Rhythm Foundation was busy doling out free box seats to official reviewer personnel, we were livin’ clandestino and (not) sneaking into the show. Hey, it’s a park, we…
If the Wynwood Art Walk has taught us anything besides what an amazing level of talent and creativity Miami has to offer, it’s that cops love food trucks, it’s okay to keep your kids out late for the sake of art, culture is blazing through the streets like a wildfire,…
This Friday, Big Night in Little Haiti will turn the entire hood into a massive dance floor. Shleu Shleu, compas music’s living legends who have wowed crowds around the world since 1965, will play the Little Haiti Cultural Center. The band’s name is a play on words that loosely translates…
Funk, soul, and free chicken wings till midnight. Enjoy it ya burnout, it’s called Maryjane Mondays for a reason. Upstairs at Jazid you’ll be able to kick back, relax, have some drinks, and enjoy an atmosphere you can only find at the longest running live music venue on South Beach…
Somewhere between YouTube, a Canadian rapper named Pat Stay, a competition called Jump Off, and American hip-hop conglomerate Grind Time Now, the world of battle rap was forever changed. Whereas snaps were traditionally served off the top of opponents’ heads, now the raps are written and heavily researched on the…
Fresh off a 65-city tour with new label Strange Music, ¡Mayday! return to Miami as great, conquering hip-hop heroes. And now that they have rocked more crowds than Stonehenge, their sound is sharper than a samurai sword. Will they play Stuck On An Island in its entirety, test out new…
Cheech and Chong, The Dude, Smokey, Jay, Kumar. These are some of the great heroes of weed movie history. You can add Yugo and Super Dave to that list. They are Miami’s own killer bud-smoking, Yugoslav rap bro, and Kentucky redneck answer to the stoner film genre. They’re raising money…