Who is Andrea Herrera? The hip-hop community knows her better by her street name, Kat Stacks. Y’know, the loud-mouthed Venezuela-born former prostitute who helped boost World Star Hip Hop’s Internet ratings by bragging on video about having slept with basically every famous rapper on the scene. Stacks was kind of…
All praise Jah and celebrate love with music and good times at the inaugural Kulcha Shock Muzik Reggae Fallfest. All the good rastas and rude boys will be there, getting irie and mad lifted at Tobacco Road (626 S. Miami Ave., Miami) for this seminal event. It’s an all-night bashment,…
Who’s ready for some in-your-face rock ’n’ roll action? Sleep tight and get rested, because the Master Blaster Music Festival at Churchill’s Pub (5501 NE Second Ave., Miami) is packing 20 kick-ass local bands onto three locally sponsored stages. Mark your calendar for Friday and get ready to party until…
Imagine being so successful that you could buy a house and have no idea what it looks like. Sounds awesome, right? Wrong! It’s fucking terrible! A life of travel and excess is nothing but drug abuse, greedy lovers, lies, false friends, and emptiness. At least, this is what we’ve deduced…
In commercial hip-hop, your money game is even more important than your ability to rhyme. If you’ve got money, you’ve got rhymes, and if you don’t have money, you fake it till you make it. For these top earners, the faking days are over. Making Forbes’ list of biggest rap…
Gucci Mane has been going berserk lately. He spewed a bunch of hate speech about Brick Squad and how he banged Nicki Minaj via Twitter, and then his own friend called the cops and had him arrested for erratic behavior (getting an ice-cream cone tatted on his face wasn’t a…
Every good music fan is looking forward to III Points, right? How could you not? The chance to rep your town, explore your own streets, get treated to some good food and fun times, and get down to funky rhythms is exactly what we want to do every weekend. Of…
Trina is Da Baddest Bitch, but even she needs to get her rest. Reportedly, our favorite bit of “Ass Fat” just fell flat on the floor while getting off a plane here in South Florida. She gave everyone such a scare, she was rushed to the nearest hospital, where she…
Love her, hate her, pretend to be indifferent, it doesn’t matter. Nothing can stop the Miley Cyrus media train — especially when she commits so wholeheartedly to stepping outside dressed like a dominatrix from the Arctic circle. Cyrus is either America’s next great fashion icon or just a drunk, post-teen…
For most of us schlubs, death is the end. But for an influential artist, it is only the beginning. In fact, there is a guy who has made his entire lucrative career from steering the estates of dead icons including Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, and the street-wise prophet Tupac Shakur…
The countdown to the inaugural III Points Music, Technology, and Art Festival has begun, and no doubt you’re running around trying to figure out exactly which acts you should see and which ones you can miss. It’s tough choosing, but don’t worry, we’ve got your back. Now, the whole idea…
What do you do when you find yourself stuck in a frustrating present? Look to the future, of course. Ra Ra Riot is no newcomer to the indie-music-sphere. With three successful albums and a host of famous friends (like Vampire Weekend, whose members have collaborated on various albums and side…
When music flows from a deep well of emotional honesty, the world can’t help but be moved. Such is the case with the haunting and elegant melodies of Banks. This young woman from Los Angeles started writing songs in her bedroom, and up until a few months ago, not even…
Imagine being so successful, you could buy a house and have no idea what it looks like. Sounds awesome, right? Wrong! It’s fucking terrible! A life of travel and excess is nothing but drug abuse, greedy lovers, lies, false friends, and emptiness! At least, this is what we’ve deduced from…
Kaskade’s Atmosphere Tour With Amtrac and Late Night Alumni American Airlines Arena, Miami Saturday, September 14, 2013 Better Than: Any DJ in any arena we’ve ever seen. As electronic dance music rises in popularity, a lot of DJ-producers lower the bar. Many succumb to gimmicks or let flashy lightshows take…
Ladies, hang on to your husbands. The Vivid Live luxury gentleman’s club is officially open for your viewing pleasure. With Vivid Entertainment at the helm, you know you’re in for a class-act. These are the same people who made Kim Kardashian famous, who made Farrah Abraham a back-door mom, who…
Kaskade is quickly becoming one of the biggest names in dance music. He’s playing the Miami’s American Airlines Arena tomorrow, and that’s the kind of arena-god swag reserved for only the most sought-after talent. But with great power comes great responsibility, and Kaskade doesn’t shy away from his duties to…
Miami and Kaskade have kind of a special thing going. On last year’s Freaks of Nature tour, Miami’s sold-out event at Bayfront Amphitheater was the game-changer. We set the tone for the rest of the experience, and in the artist’s mind, it was a new peak for his musical career…
Peace, love, unity, and respect are words that ravers throw around a lot. But rarely do you meet a partier who steadfastly lives by that code, let alone a producer like Kaskade whose music so honestly captures the PLUR spirit. He has quickly become one of the most beloved producer-DJs…
America. We’re on the brink of war, just moments from disaster, shaking up and down, side to side, hanging out the bottom of some nude-colored shorts. No, we’re not talking about Syria. We’re talking about Cyrus — Miley Cyrus. And while the President fumbles with words and foreign relations, the…
J. Cole and Wale What Dreams May Come Tour James L. Knight Center, Miami Tuesday, September 10, 2013 Better Than: Any evening when Rick Ross doesn’t suddenly emerge from the darkness. Which is most nights for us. J. Cole and Wale are both men who, only a handful of years…
Marshall Mathers deserves your respect. He was dealt a real shitty deck in life. His father left him as a baby. His mother mentally abused him. He grew up poor as shit in the bad really bad part of Detroit. And still, he overcame it all to stake a claim…
