Last Night: Meat Loaf at Pompano Beach Amphitheatre

Sayre Berman Meat Loaf and the Neverland Express rocked the Pompano Beach Amphitheatre Saturday night. Click here to view the full slideshow. Meat Loaf Saturday, October 18, 2008 Pompano Beach Amphitheatre, Pompano Beach Better Than: Mashed Potatoes If you believe rocker Meat Loaf’s songs and his stage antics, the guy…

Photos: Miguel Migs at Set

Tony Vargas Our cameras stopped by Set last night to scope out the scene. What did we find? Plenty of beautiful people there to catch San Francisco DJ Miguel Migs. Click here to view the full slideshow…

Last Night: Talib Kweli, David Banner, and B.O.B. at Revolution

Dwayne Nelson The Hip-Hop Live Tour Featuring: B.O.B., David Banner, Talib Kweli Thursday, October 16, 2008 Revolution, Fort Lauderdale Better than: MP3s, CD’s and DAT Machines Last night’s hip-hop buffet at Revolution offered fans a lot of quality “elements” to enjoy. There was b-boying, beatboxing, MCing, DJing, and if only…

Crookers Coming to Heathrow November 8

All the way from Italy comes the Crookers, a DJ duo who basically put its nation on the electro-house map. For a country who loves its traditional house, it’s refreshing to see someone actually breaking the mold and the Crookers have no problem doing so. So when they stop by…

Q&A with Yelle

Justin Namon GrandMarnier, Julie Budet (a.k.a. Yelle) and Tepr. When French electro-pop trio Yelle’s C’est La Amerique tour stopped at the Magic City last Friday, we decided it was a good opportunity to meet with the group face-to-face. We originally hoped to spend the day with Yelle, getting to know…

Uffie Is On Steroids

Ah, Uffie, the Ed Banger artist who claims she is from Miami originally but whose story doesn’t exactly add up. What we know is true is that Uffie at one point attended Nova High School in Davie, but she has admitted to moving around a lot as a child, so…

Ultra Music Festival Tickets Go On Sale This Month

Ugh, we can’t believe it’s coming already. Our bodies were just starting to recover from the havoc known as Winter Music Conference. But lo and behold! Ultra Music Festival organizers have announced via a newly redesigned Web site that UMF tickets go on sale this month. For how much? We…

Last Night: Kamelot at the Culture Room

Kamelot Saturday, October 10, 2008 Culture Room, Fort Lauderdale Better Than: Sweating through two layers of leather in the Fort Lauderdale humidity. Friday night, Culture Room was packed full of long-haired, black-clad melodic metal fans (you know, the people death metal fans beat up and steal lunch money from) and…

Over the Weekend – Yelle, O.H.W.O.W. and AmazonCon

The wet weekend streak continues. Not that we don’t enjoy the cooler temperatures, but we can’t exactly drink our economic sorrows away at the city’s many outdoor lounges when the skies open up. The dry season will be here soon though and with it comes brown lawns and tougher water…

Top 10 Songs That Warned Us About the Recession

Daft Punk tried to warn us. With the U.S. economy tanking, we can’t help but to feel a little pessimistic about our future. We reverted to our inner 15-year-old, which happened to grow up in the go-go ’90s of excess and wealth (a.k.a. the Clinton years), and decide to make…

Classic South Florida Roller Skating Tunes

C. Stiles Some of the hottest roller skating tracks of all time are booty, bass, and freestyle songs that were wildly popular a few decades back in South Florida. That’s because many of the jams were produced locally by outfits like Luke Records, as in the label of 2 Live…

New-Look Dolphins Refuse To Stop Kicking Ass

For a second there, we all had the flashbacks. After Dan Carpenter missed that sure-fire 42 yard field goal, and then San Diego immediately marched down the field scored a TD a few minutes later, you thought “Well fuck me in the pants, here we go again.” You also thought…

Over the Weekend – Funkshion, EliteXC and Jay-Z

Needless to say this weekend we were sun deprived. Continuous overcast and light rainfall plagued South Florida keeping us wanting to stay indoors . Still, plenty events went on as planned despite the rainy weekend, so here are some of things you missed over the weekend: Fashion Week Miami Beach…

Last Night: Jay-Z at Bayfront Park

Logan Fazio Jay-Z came out to support Barack Obama at Bayfront Park in downtown Miami Sunday night. Click here to view the full slideshow. Jay-Z Monday October 6, 2008 Bayfront Park Ampitheatre, Miami Better Than: A McCain-sponsored get-out-the-vote concert. No offense, Daddy Yankee. Jay-Z kicked off last night’s show with…

Last Night: Kimbo Goes Down! Gina, Benji and Andrei Prevail!

Ivon David Rojas Kimbo Slice lost to replacement fighter Seth Petruzelli after 12 seconds. View part 1 and part 2 of the slideshow. EliteXC Heat October 4, 2008 BankAtlantic Center Better Than: The WWE and the WBA combined. By now you know: Kimbo Slice got knocked out at the BankAtlantic…

Jay-Z Adds Second Free Show at Bayfront Park Monday

Did you cry your poor little eyes out because you waited in line for hours and hours but didn’t score any tickets for Sunday’s Jay-Z concert? Well, rejoice because Hov has added a second show in support of Obama for Monday afternoon at Bayfront Park. Doors will open at 11…

Photos: Fashion Week Miami Beach, Day 1

Justin Namon Bejeweled Swimwear runway show at The Setai. Click here for the full slideshow. ZOMG!!! Fashion Week is here! Er, not New York Fashion Week. And, no not LA Fashion Week. We are talking about the bastard child of Fashion Weeks in the United States, Funkshion’s Fashion Week Miami…