How does one party like the champ? Well, as Miami booty bass legend and King of Diamonds stripper wrangler Disco Rick explains: “He don’t use $1 bills like everyone else.” Now, obviously, we’re talking about undefeated, world welterweight champion Floyd “Money” Mayweather, whose recent post-fight victory laps have included mandatory…
As Waka Flocka Flame likes to say: “Yea, I’m on that fuck shit those free tix.” The perpetually shirtless ATL party boy has always repped that life. Well, at least since 2010, when he got famous for “go[in’] hard in the motherfuckin’ paint.” Now he’s wilin’ out ’round the U.S.A…
Prepare for a blizzard of glitter and the heat of The Violet Flame. In just a few months, English dance-pop pioneers Erasure, otherwise known as Vince Clarke and Andy Bell, will be revealing their 16th studio album, a ten-track electro-pop opus recorded in New York and London, and produced by…
Every boss has a favorite saying. But only the Bawse Rick Ross is so serious about the power of words that he gets a fave phrase tattooed on his face. Indeed … Over the holiday weekend, the man and mogul born William Leonard Roberts II commissioned California-based ink-and-needle artist Nikko…
Holiday vacay in the club! In just a couple of weeks, Miami and South Beach will be swarmed with famous rappers, slow jammers, reggae heads, and bad girls wearing bikinis to the beach, bikinis on the streets, bikinis in the VIP. Sometimes known as Urban Beach Week. Also, Memorial Day…
“From the hippest hipster to the loudest fratboy, we’ll all be cheering together.” That’s the tag line for Benchwarmers, a new sports bar from Wood Tavern owner Cesar Morales. This latest nightlife venture from the “Wood Tavern Family of Companies” is slated to begin doing business “just in time for…
South Beach is ’bout to be mobbed. It’s almost Memorial Day weekend in the 305 (otherwise known as Urban Beach Week), the annual four-day span during which the beach (as well as mainland Miami) gets swarmed by famous rappers, celebrity strippers, and 250,000 party people from all over the Dirty…
As Brand New once mused: “Gave up my body and bed/All for an empty hotel free concert tickets.” This Long Island indie pop-punk crew, known for 2000s emo anthems like “The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows,” has recently reconvened after several years of being unsigned and inactive. Now…
Porter Robinson says: “I literally fucking love you.” Actually … He says it a lot. Especially when he’s feeling “so caffeinated” and “over-earnest.” The 21-year-old producer was set to be the next epic thing in EDM. But then he decided to reject “the boring, functional music for DJs,” as he…
Modest Mouse Fillmore Miami Beach Wednesday, May 14, 2014 Better Than: Getting caught in an actual pit of rats. Scurrying like buzz-hungry rodents to the sugar nozzle, Modest Mouse fans cheerily clawed and crawled through the Fillmore Miami Beach, searching for the perfect spot in which to nest while waiting…
“Nooooooo! We party! We party! We party!” Those shrieks are just the desperate pleadings of Miami music fans collectively panicking at the news that Afrobeta’s Cuci Amador and Tony Smurphio might be splitting, like so many promising 305ers, for friendlier (and possibly more profitable) West Coast climes. Don’t worry, though…
The Lube’s for sale. Smoothing late-night interaction for just over a year at 167 NW 23rd Street, Wynwood’s The Social Lubricant Lounge is already being peddled to entrepreneurial bidders looking to slip into the ‘Wood hood. But for anybody wanting to purchase this particular location in “the most exciting and…
Take some life advice from Blackalicious’ Gift of Gab and Chief Excel: “Don’t let money free tickets change ya!” Just like fast women, faster cars, and famous friends, it’s crazy how quick comp tix for classic rap shows, like Gab and Excel’s joint at Grand Central, can gas a homie’s…
Dat Lil’ Chico is the new Dick Clark. The Cubano rapper born Armando Christian Perez will host Pitbull’s New Year’s Revolution, an end-of-the-year fiesta broadcasting all across los Estados Unidos from Miami on Fox. “The world needs to get ready to un-mute New Year’s Eve, because we are taking the…
As Ms. Lily Allen says: “It’s hard out here for a bitch.” But that doesn’t mean the Brit pop provocateur’s about to let herself be beat down by slimeball demands that every woman be some rich, size six that can cook and shake ass. Nope. She’s starting shit. She’s fighting…
This is the final round, gamers. All that frenzied, Mountain Dew- and Fruity Pebbles-fueled nominating action is over. But it’s still Game On! for New Times’ Best of Miami 2014 readers’ poll. So loosen up those stiff wrists. Massage that that worn-out trigger finger. And chiropracticize your precious button thumb…
“Iz u down? Iz u down? Uhh, uhh.” That’s just Kid Ink (government name Brian Todd Collins), the 28-year-old Cali rapper, runnin’ game ’cause he could tell “it’s something on yo expression lookin’ like you need a taste of that ass some free concert tickets.” Kicking off Miami’s annual weeklong…
The Head and the Heart With Lost in the Trees Fillmore Miami Beach Tuesday, May 6, 2014 Better Than: Worrying all night about whether we should’ve worn our Lil Bub tee. The whole folkie Americana indie fad of the moment (e.g. Mumford & Sons, The Lumineers, Edward Sharpe and the…
What exactly lured Juggalos, happy drunks, and hot Miami mamis to a rager at the zoo? Well, all-you-can-drink beer. (Unfortunately, no spiked Faygo Red Pop.) But also, as New Times’ Brew at the Zoo master of ceremonies Notorious Nastie excitedly croaked: “You’ve seen him on TV! And you’ve seen him…
“Body to body,” as J.Lo coos, “working it out,” in the deeeeeep end. For the third straight year, Clear Channel’s digital streaming service, iHeartRadio, will be gettin’ wet ‘n’ wild at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach with its Ultimate Pool Party. In 2012, Flo Rida stripped down to take a dip…
Pints, football, and friends. That’s how the Irish and the English fete the birth of their favorite sons. So come Sunday, Miami’s Guinness- and soccer-loving masses will descend upon 5501 NE Second Avenue to honor the anniversary of Churchill’s Pub enforcer Nicky Bowe and his doorman buddy Mr. C’s emergence…
What is “an ordinary day”? Sleep, eat a bowl of cereal, sit at a desk, sip some cheap white wine, sleep. And if St. Vincent’s new-ish song “Birth in Reverse” can be considered a fairly factual account of 24 hours in the life of Ms. Annie Clark … Well, she…
