Need A Job? Ricochet Lounge Opening in Midtown, Now Hiring

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’ Top Ten Contributions to Music

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…

Il Richo

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 Amazing New “Latinoamérica” Video Is All Heart

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…

Wynwood Walls 2011 Preview: New Retna, How & Nosm, and Gaia (Photos)

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…

Sly Is Homeless, The Family Stone Books a Miami Cruise

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…

“12/12” Project Brings Colorado Weed to Miami via Photographs

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…

Aholsniffsglue Talks Get Low XXIX, Shake, and Slim Biscayne

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…

Overtown Via South Beach

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…

Miami Club Violence Nothing New, Stabbings and Shootings From 1948,

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…

The No Name Band Funks Up Shantel Lounge Weekly

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…

Still Smokey

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?…

Manu Chao Performs “Clandestino” en Miami (Live Audio)

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…

Photo Tour of Wynwood Art Walk September 2011

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,…

The Beatles of Haiti

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…

Right Nea Tha Beach

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…