We all remember those unforgivably awful words uttered by John Mayer, the ones that made tasteful folks around the planet cringe: “I wanna run through the halls of my high school; I wanna scream at the top of my lungs!” Oh, and then there were those other horrifying words printed…
For generations, Diana Ross has been inspiring gay men to strap wide, curly wigs on their skulls and belt out “Upside Down.” If there’s one diva who has shaped the look and sound of drag, it’s her. RuPaul, the queen of drag, tweeted that Ross was his “childhood idol,” and…
Lil Wayne at America’s Most Wanted Music Festival July 14
UPDATE: Big Boi’s Shoes for Running 2013 World Tour has been postponed. Read the details in “Big Boi Injures Knee, Forced to Postpone Tour.” Then enjoy the following five reasons Big Boi is better than André 3000. Earlier this year, Big Boi did a series of interviews, and every single…
When 18-year-old Mike Diana returned home from Christmas shopping with his mom in 1990, two cops were waiting for him on the lawn of their home in Largo, near Tampa. One officer pulled from his briefcase the teenager’s underground comic book Boiled Angel #6. He flipped through the pages, showing…
When 18-year-old Mike Diana returned home from Christmas shopping with his mom in 1990, two cops were waiting for him on the lawn of their home in Largo, near Tampa. One officer pulled from his briefcase the teenager’s underground comic book Boiled Angel #6. He flipped through the pages, showing…
Inaugural poet Richard Blanco got the crowd’s eyes all damp with his descriptions of a childhood family visit to Marco Island. Thurston Moore dedicated his poems — the ones through which he dragged us, limp with love and starstruck — to the lady who gave birth to him, his mom,…
Nowhere else in the universe will you be able to yell the words “I want you to want me!” along with Cheap Trick’s Robin Zander, while covered in paint, except at this year’s SunFest. The Saturday lineup features both the band that sung “Surrender” and the world’s largest paint party,…
Photo by Jacob KatelWhile the bass shook the pool water at the Raleigh Hotel, booties in short shorts bounced up and down. And so did Steve Aoki, who looked like a little kid at Christmas behind the decks. His Dim Mak label’s Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week day…
15. Best Bieber At first we thought: “Holy shit! That’s Justin Bieber at Ultra! Wow! This is better than Madge’s crash (and burn) last year!” Alas! It was merely a cardboard likeness of our favorite pothead newbie. But for desperate Bieber fans like us, any Bieb’ll do. See also: -Ten…
With the rise of the ubiquitous Internet, street fashion trends rolled in, heavy and dark like a storm cloud, over the style world. Instead of dressing sorta like supermodels on the catwalk, we had to start wearing exactly whatever some fashion editor in Italy was sporting. There’s something so liberating…
With Lil Wayne just out of the hospital after a series of seizures and a Codeine relapse, no one’s fronting about the role drugs play in the world of rap. The EDM scene is also deep into intoxicants, and no one’s going to tell us otherwise. We spoke with rapper…
SpaceGhostPurrp can be a prickly dude. He’s so young, smart, and deep. And all that online attitude. You can’t help but envy him his complexity and talent and resent what sometimes comes off as a sense of entitlement. But when we met up with the Carol City rapper at Ultra…
Things that are cool in one context are often not cool in others. For instance, if you arrived at the Pitchfork Music Festival in your kandi best, you would certainly not be the belle of the ball. You’d be a lame-o freak in neon, crying over a box of doughnuts…
If the colorful and magical land of Ultra Music Festival sits at the end of the rainbow, then perhaps the music is the gold, and the ravers? They’re leprechauns. At least they were yesterday when the fest coincided with the second most costumey of holidays. And if you’ve ever wondered…
On day one of Ultra Music Festival 2013, the main-stage DJ surprisingly played Red Hot Chili Peppers’ “By the Way.” It’s not one of the Cali crew’s early songs, but it’s a hit that came out when about 60 percent of the crowd (now dancing in tutus, “Show Me Your…
They danced. They rolled. They yelled: Glitter! Yes, these are ten talkative fashionistas of Ultra Music Festival 2013. Certainly, there were some better dressed, and others more sensibly garbed. But the following folks found during night one of 2013’s three-day shit fest — they were the ones who most caught…
Dino Felipe at Sweat Records January 5
The S.S. Coachella returned safely Wednesday morning after a relatively wobbly night’s sail across the Caribbean Sea. The voyage was a success. The boat didn’t sink, and constant forced Purell-ing kept us all from contracting tropical illnesses or just the flu from our diseased shipmates. Three days, 400 meals, 30…
Most people we met on the S.S. Coachella had never been on a cruise. Like us, they were probably not so sure what to pack or how to dress for three days of awkwardly saying “Hi!” to their favorite bands on a floating building at sea. But like the festival,…
Miami’s Top Albums, EPs, and Singles of 2012
Old punk guys and fancy wines, two things that make sense together only now, mere days before the end of the world. Nothing is more a “sign of the times” than James Murphy and Justin Chearno hosting a winetasting in the middle of the ocean for a handful of people…
