Every year, it seems the “art” of Art Basel becomes ever more eclipsed by parties, but what if the art was the party? Such is the mission of Basel House, a one-stop shop for day-to-night action in the form of live mural painting, live music, good food, friends, and fun…
A year ago, I sat down with Travis Acker and Trace Barfield, two lifelong musicians with years of experience playing in bands and busking on the street. They’d recently warmed to the wonders of electronic production and rededicated themselves to merging the best of IRL and URL into a cohesive,…
Spider-Man’s Uncle Ben told him: “With great power comes great responsibility.” Mike Broder, the founder and head honcho of the area’s largest comic convention, Florida Supercon, can relate. “I’m not always responsible,” he says. “I try, but I’m flawed.” For “Supercon Mike” Broder, the fantastical world of comics, sci-fi, and…
The first party Julieanna Goddard ever threw was broken up by a full-on police assault force. She was still a Tampa high-schooler at the time. “We had like 200 kids upstairs, and I’m telling them: ‘All right, everybody, shut up. The cops are downstairs,’?” the 25-year-old social engineer remembers. “A…
When you’ve been in the game as long as Fatboy Slim, you need to spice it up a bit. Sometimes that means orchestrating the crowd at Creamfields festival into a giant smilie. Sometimes that means playing a surprise set for Bansky, and sometimes it means fabricating a story about how…
It’s been a classic three years for the Gale Hotel’s LDV Hospitality Group: three years of rockin’ beats at Rec Room, three years of clinking glassware at the Regent Cocktail Club, and three years of delicious tartufo and thin-crust pizza at Dolce Italian. “Longevity in this town is sometimes hard…
When DJ DZA, who you probably know from The Garret’s now extinct Peachfuzz party, listens to fellow local Kodiak Fur’s “I’ll Be Waiting,” he feels some type of way. “The song basically makes you feel like you’re driving home at 6 a.m. after a night of just bullshit trying to…
Who loves coffee, writes lyrical poems about feeding cats, and kicked off the 32nd Miami Book Fair with a tremendous bang? Why, that could be none-other than National Book Award winner and living rock music icon, Patti Smith. The 68-year-old celebrates the 40-year anniversary of her seminal album Horses and…
Somewhere in an upper-middle-class neighborhood in Lake Worth, sledgehammering his way through dusty concrete, a pop culture icon recognized the world over struggles with his friends to meet a renovation deadline. “I did ‘Ice Ice Baby’ when I was 16 years old,” the rapper-turned-reality star renovator says. “If you would…
Your imaginary friend Slow Magic loves playing Bardot so much that not even the threat of a shanking can scare him away. “There was this guy who was dressed up with a top hat and was really weird,” the mysterious masked man remembers of his last trip to the lounge…
There are three things Trick loves more than anything else: 1) The Kids 2) Good food 3) Booty It’s taken him 42 years, but he’s finally found a way to merge these loves into one satisfying business venture. He’s up in his kitchen right now, cookin’ up a storm with…
I wasn’t sure I even wanted to go. I’ve seen Duke Dumont DJ a few times, and every time it was good, but hearing about his new live set triggered something in my brain. It’s like I started to consider him a “live artist,” in the vein of Disclosure or…
If your local convenience store tells you they’re out of Plan B, don’t be surprised. The United States of Bass was so hype, somebody’s got to be pregnant. It was the party of the year, the kind of magical homecoming Miami’s legends deserved. The superstars of my youth proved they…
Beats, booze, booties, and a whole lot of bass. That’s the stuff that put Miami music on the map, and that’s what you’ll get a face full of Saturday at Red Bull and Poplife’s United States of Bass. If you have any love for your city, you’ll shed your self-respect…
Another III Points has come and gone, and I’m still trying to find my lost innocence voice. The Wynwood-based music, art, and technology fest was bigger, bolder, and had Miami going harder than ever before. It’s going to take more than ten hours of sleep to shake this social hangover,…
Casey Veggies is not a new name. The 22-year-old rapper popped up on radars as a member of the Odd Future crew in 2007. According to math, he was 14 when he began releasing mixtapes, and he stayed heavy buzzing through 2013, releasing seven hot tapes. In 2014, he made…
With names like Run the Jewels, Toro Y Moi, AlunaGeorge, Ghostface Killah and Doom, the second day of III Points was stacked. There was something to listen to in every direction you faced, and good music was never more than thirty yards away. The crowd was big and eager on…
“What does ‘live from the Other Side’ mean?” That was the question on the collective mind as hundreds of eager Super Villain fans gathered anxiously around III Points’ Main Frame stage. Everyone was eagerly anticipating some kind of Ghostface Killah/MF Doom double-performance, though no one had any idea how III…
On Friday, October 9, as the skies above Wynwood opened up and bled down upon the colorful neighborhood, we feared the worst. So much anticipation and preparation was being threatened by a few bloated clouds. But, as the clock struck 5, the sun emerged, all hot and glorious. God loves…
What? XYZA is evolving? The admired collective solidified about a year and a half ago as a gathering of minds and resources between Miami-based solo electronic artists. The motto was “DIY together.” The aim was to share knowledge, tricks of the trade, connections, and ultimately, to help each other gain…
Of the more than 30 hotels Adventure Club has been kicked out of over the years, at least two of them were in Florida, but no one kicked them out as fast as the Weston in Toronto. “The general manager of the hotel was having a very bad day, and…
When the noise-rock pioneers of the Jesus and Mary Chain toured their debut album, Psychocandy, in 1985, things got a little wild. Fans stormed the stage, small-scale riots broke out, and venues across the nation quickly became afraid of the Scots. “A lot of things got out of control on…
