Strange Days at Bar Last Saturday: A Recap

“Alex Diaz, Eric Lopez-Zareno (Teepee), and Ed Wilcox* are a true super group,” says Matt Preira, promoter of this past Saturday night’s event at Bar, Strange Days. He continues, “Their individual projects have garnered a great deal of acclaim, and as a trio they are unstoppable.”Miami’s music and art scene…

Pork, Brew, and Blues

If you’ve never taken a trip to Palmetto Bay, you should make it a point to hit up the sprawling greens of Deering Estate at Cutler for the Labor Day Blues Picnic. Coming at the tail-end of three months of steamy heat, the federal holiday marks the time of year…

Party Like the Founding Fathers

You keep having this dream where George Washington is chillin’ in your crib. “I love you so much, Boo,” he says, “I want you to have millions of dolla dolla bills, with my beautiful smiling face on every single one.” Speaking of sweet dreams and beautiful nightmares, Club Dream is…

Klutch Your Cannon

“I know way too many people here right now that I didn’t know last year, who the fuck are y’all?” No doubt, you’ll be hearing that song by Drake while having similar thoughts as you approach Collins Avenue for this year’s Memorial Day weekend. As usual, though, expect dunk ryders…

Klutch Your Cannon

“I know way too many people here right now that I didn’t know last year, who the fuck are y’all?” No doubt, you’ll be hearing that song by Drake while having similar thoughts as you approach Collins Avenue for this year’s Memorial Day weekend. As usual, though, expect dunk ryders…

PrunkTV: Lil Jon, LMFAO, and Steve Aoki

Welcome to PrunkTV, a free online “webinar” for future rock stars. Like the Ancient Iron Raven, WMC spread its Vulcan wings and soared above our majestic city this past weekend. If you watch today’s episode of Prunk, you will feel so much better for the rest of your life, dear…

The Other Waterboarding

Have you heard about Chatroulette? The new website that pairs random strangers from all over the world for webcam-based conversations? The future is now! Cyberspace is evolving insanely fast. But what if you could click on a miraculous link and suddenly be on the beach at this very moment? Imagine…

PrunkTV: Rocky Love

I saw Rocky Love in the parking lot across the street from Churchill’s about an hour and a half ago (it is 3:30 a.m. as I write this), and I promised him that I’d put this video up on Miami New Times, so here it is Rocky. I am a…

Easter Seals

While you juggled glowsticks at a WMC event last Friday, someone slipped some Special K into your Red Bull. The strobe lights and techno pounded your brain as visions of Paas Easter eggs dripped into your conscience like colored honey poured behind your eyelids. You met pierced-lip Ingrid on the…

PrunkTV: We Are Sexual Perverts

There is so much awesome shit going on in Miami at the moment, you just gotta love it mang. Thank you God, for making this the city of my birth! Speaking of God, there is this awesome new local sludge-band called Consular, and they sound kinda like Eyehategod. They are…

Take It to the Streets

“What’s the matter with the car I’m driving? Can’t you tell that it’s out of style?” Billy Joel sang. “Should I get a set of whitewall tires? Are you gonna cruise the Miracle Mile?” Yes! You know the song, you know the street, and you know what time it is…

Super Bowl 2010 Video: Party with Jamie Foxx and Usher

“My name is Jamie, and my middle name is motherfucking….and my last name is Foxx!” As people waited in line at one of the bars at “The Bud Light Hotel” (around 10:00 p.m.), a sudden rush of bodyguards and flashing paparazzi ran past. Crushed in the middle of two giant…

The United Church of Elvis

Remember when you and your girl were smoking weed while listening to Elvis’s version of “Polk Salad Annie”? She was like, “Is this the Doors?” And you were like, “Dude, are you serious?” Then you told her it was Elvis, and the LOLs led to that adorable first kiss. And…

Got the Blues? Get Healed

Nobody gets through life unscathed. And right about now, it seems like everybody’s got the blues: fired, dumped, divorced, broke, and slipping way too deep into the booze. We got the blues, mama. It is the eternal background music for hard times because the blues will make you laugh and…

PrunkTV with Mayor Cindy Lerner

“Any musician certainly can come in with their own sound system.” Why does 2010 feel so awesome? Time is flying by like a space shuttle. I keep getting into these long “chats” on Facebook with people that I haven’t seen or heard from in almost 20 years…..

Boom, Boom, Boom

In order to familiarize you with the insanity that’ll go down during Electric Boombox at Jazid this Saturday, we will attempt a literary mashup of sorts: I want the money, the money and the clothes, the cars and the hos! Can’t read my poker face? Have you ever been to…