It seems like enough time has passed since the sweaty-armpit era of mainstream rock (otherwise known as the Nu-Metal Dark Ages) that we can finally, maybe, approach the subject of fusing hip-hop with rock and roll. It wasn’t always Fred Durst commanding an audience of pigmen to “break shit.” Or…
Atmosphere The Family Vacation Tour With Blueprint and Evidence Fillmore, Miami Beach Friday, September 17, 2011 Last night, quintessential emo-rapper MC Slug and his longtime producer Ant brought the latest incarnation of their Atmosphere project to the stage at the Fillmore Miami Beach. Despite their sensitive leanings, the group managed…
Bad Brains at Revolution Live September 21
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark at Grand Central September 16
Atmosphere at the Fillmore Miami Beach September 16
Looks like Atlanta nimrod-savant trap-rapper Gucci Mane is heading back to jail. After a long history of incarceration, Gucci will be heading back to the clink for pushing a woman out of a moving vehicle If you haven’t figured it out yet: Gucci don’t give a fuck. And Gucci don’t…
See the full 20-photo Rock the Bells slideshow. Rock the Bells Rakewon and Ghostface Killa With Mobb Deep and ArtOfficial Fillmore Miami Beach September 13, 2011 Better Than: Album-length karaoke renditions of Ol’ Dirty Bastard’s Nigga Please. (Although … Wu-Tang karaoke is a good idea. And someone should get that…
In the latest installment of the tawdry superscandal surrounding the simultaneous breakups of long-time celebrity couples Will Smith and Jada Pinkett (maybe not splitting), and Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez (totally definitely splitting), there has been a game-changing development that ensnarls Miami Heat superstar Dwayne Wade in the scandal’s awful…
Rubber-faced actor Jim Carrey was filmed stealing the show this past weekend at the weekly Friday-night karaoke party at Arlene’s Grocery in New York City’s Lower East Side. The actor performed a high-energy, crowd-pleasing rendition of Smashing Pumpkins’ “Bullet With Butterfly Wings” and faked his way through early Bee Gees…
Lil Wayne is so rich that anyone crazy enough to try and estimate the jillions of zillions in his checking account would surely fall prey to a mental breakdown. That’s because there isn’t even a number that can quantify, in human language, just how much dough Weezy rakes in. Seriously…
The sensitive MC has always been a rare figure in hip-hop. While the early 2000s did see a spike in “politically conscious” backpack rappers like Talib Kweli and Mos Def (both of whom took a page from Common’s socio-empathetic rhymebook), it’s been 99 percent bitches, guns, money, and so on,…
Swans at Respectable Street September 14
Raekwon, Ghostface Killah, and Mobb Deep at the Fillmore Miami Beach September 13
Remember when you found out the awful truth about Milli Vanilli? How did we ever recover from learning that neither of those super-’90s hunks on stage could actually sing? After we learned the real Milli Vanilli was a couple of average-looking old guys, could we ever believe in popular music…
Last week, O’Grime — the fresh faces at the front of Miami’s #Swag hip-hop contingency — dropped their new single, “Valanciunas (Big V Lithuanian Hero),” a tribute to Lithuanian sports star and Toronto Raptors draft pick Jonas Valanciunas. As the track details, the South Florida rap wrecking crew admire the…
The only thing more annoying than pop stars and their lavish lifestyles … The lavish lifestyles of their freaking pets. Yeah, while plebs like us spend our downtime shuffling kitty litter that sears our nostrils and looking for Junior’s lost hamster at 4 a.m., fat cats, excuse us, fat dogs,…
Read the remaining entries from Roofless Records, Bleeding Palm, and Crossfade’s road trip diary. Voice of the Valley Noise Rally Report #5 Pentress, WV/Springfield, VA/Miami, FL 8/28/2011 After we said our farewell to the strange and epic Indian Meadows, we headed to Springfield, Virginia, (Thank you, Patrick and Karen!) to…
We’d say kids these don’t know how to name their bands properly, but kids (and, really, we mean grown men, sometimes zillionaires) have been coming up with crappy band names for quite some time now. And it’s only going to get worse. All you need is login info to be…
The human senses can be very deceiving. For example, if you were to roll up to a show featuring Providence Rhode Island’s Dropdead — say, at Churchill’s Pub on December 4 — and take a quick whiff of their van (and maybe a taste test of the Food Not Bombs…
Read the remaining entries from Roofless Records, Bleeding Palm and Crossfade’s road trip diary. Voice of the Valley Noise Rally Report #4 Pentress, WV 8/28/2011 On the morning of the third day of V.O.V. 2011, our bodies were catching up with us. The driving, the confederate graveyards, the camping, and…
The Wu-Tang Clan has never been modest about its skill set. With hundreds of releases tied to the Wu-Tang brand, this now-legendary ’90s gangsta rap collective has always been upfront about what it brings to the table. If you know your Wu, you know nobody else cooks, serves, and keeps…
Wyclef Jean at Sun Life Stadium September 3
