The Dreamer returns. As the first artist signed to Jay Z’s Roc Nation, J. Cole emerged onto the worldwide rap scene amid crushing hype. But the Fayetteville, North Carolina-bred rapper and Dreamville Records founder never broke. He just slowly and steadily turned out album after album of thoughtful, ambitious hip-hop…
Gonna be fiyah. In just five months, the Best of the Best concert’s back. Waving flags and shaking ass into downtown Miami’s Bayfront Park, the annual music fest will be returning for the last weekend in May 2015. And for the third straight year, #BOTB’s shrugging off radio rap in…
Who the funk is Lo Down Loretta Brown? She is Erykah Badu’s DJ’ing alter ego. And she’s coming for Art Basel Miami Beach week. With just days till total Basel madness, Ms. Low Down Is packing her bags, picking her wigs, and stacking her wax for an #ABMB set as…
Pavo. Puerco. Pumpkin pie. As residents of that fantastic land known as Miami, we are often accused of living in some foreign country where summer never ends. And yet, we give thanks for the bounty of the autumn harvest, just like the rest of y’all yanquis. However, unlike most citizens…
Gratuitous tongue wagging. Thong onesies. Human-sized bananas. Where are we? An Art Basel Miami Beach rager? Or a Miley Cyrus arena show? Exactly. And that’s why it is almost no surprise that America’s most ratchet former Disney starlet is bringin’ dem Bangerz to Basel week. She has just been confirmed…
In this week’s Miami New Times, we profile 30 of the most interesting characters in town, with portraits of each from photographer Stian Roenning. See the entire Miami New Times People Issue here. “When you find a beautiful woman,” Mac Klein advises, “never change a hair on her head.” That…
After bassist Gerard Smith’s 2012 death from lung cancer, TV on the Radio almost called it quits. “At the end of the last album and tour cycle I was on the page of, ‘We could put this down right now and I’d feel really good about what we’ve done,'” TVOTR…
Goodbye penny beers? Over the weekend, Sandbar Sports Grill, a beloved college kid and locals hangout in Coconut Grove that’s famous for its one-cent Miller Lites, was invaded by Spike TV’s Bar Rescue. Hosted by bar-and-club expert Jon Taffer, the reality show specializes in “giving failing nightlife establishments one last…
In 1989, Uncle Luke and 2 Live Crew launched a rap revolution with the release of their unrepentantly filthy slab of Miami booty bass, As Nasty As They Wanna Be. It set millions of asses a-quakin’. And it blasted that hard-core 305 party vibe ’round the world. But it terrified…
The Road is rubble. Last month, the infamous century-old boozing establishment at 626 S. Miami Avenue slung its final beer and a shot. The Last Call Closing Party ended with bleary eyes and empty glasses at 5 a.m. on a Sunday morning. Over the weekend, Miami’s Oldest Bar celebrated its…
Still breathing? Good. ‘Cause Look Alive Fest is back. Last year, this “homegrown, alternative festival” popped up for its inaugural, two-night Art Basel Miami Beach week edition with Detroit noise-rocker Wolf Eyes, Houston’s Indian Jewelry, and a bunch of locals like Teepee, Cop City/Chill Pillars, Lil Daggers, and Nerve City…
The duke of food porn meets the godfather of punk. As Miami New Times food blog Short Order reports, Anthony Bourdain has been spotted lurking about our subtropical shores shooting a likely Miami episode of his enormously popular CNN show, Parts Unknown. So far, Bourdain’s scarfed a medianoche sandwich. He’s…
Pyrite bars. And booty-quaking beats. Yep, the Fool’s Gold crew is ’bout to be back in the 305 for some Basel madness. For the last several years, label boss A-Trak has regularly skedded his ratchet hipster dance party, Day Off, during Miami’s artiest week. And yeeeaaahh, it’s all set to…
“Rozay, how you lose all that weight?” He once tipped the scales at 160 kilos. (Or 350 pounds for those hustlers not “in the distribution.”) But big homie’s recently shed the equivalent of a modest midweek cocaine shipment. And in a new workout video for Funny or Die, Rick Ross,…
As Bob Marley once said: “Herbs are good for every-ting.” Indeed, mon. And now Momma Marley and many of Bob’s children have actually gotten into the ganja-selling game. The family just launched Marley Natural, “the world’s first global cannabis brand,” set to start peddling product to potheads and Rastas in…
Higher, higher, higher. As Art Basel Miami Beach week approaches, the enviable aesthetic experiences on offer just pile up, up, up. And today’s thrilling #ABMB announcement… The addition of English electronic DJ, musician, and producer SBTRKT to III Points and YoungArts’ already impressive Basel concert lineup. “We’ve been trying to…
Get up. Stand up. Smoke up. Every year, in honor of Bob Marley, his legacy, and the righteousness of reggae, Jah, and ganja, the Nine Mile Music Festival livicates a full day to steady jammin’, doin’ good, and smokin’ that “herb,” which Tuff Gong himself described as, “good for every-ting.”…
Sing us a song, you’re the Piano Man. It’s been 20 years since Billy Joel put out a new collection of music. And he’s got no plans for “another album of original tunes,” he says. Maybe ever. As Joel recently told the New Yorker: “If I put out an album…
Crash the palace! Jump that moat, batter down the door, raid the fuckin’ fridge… It’s ’bout time for another epic, medieval rager at Basel Castle. After stomping the grounds of Grand Central Park last year, this annual #ABMB hipster bash is returning to its ancestral home — the weird old…
#HeatNation… The Bawse got your back. Even though he admits LeBron is “one of the greatest, if not the greatest ever,” it ain’t gonna stop big homie from plotting the demise of King James and the Cleveland Cavaliers. In fact, during a recent interview with Funkmaster Flex on NYC’s Hot…
Infinite. Lightless. Boomin’, bruh. This is the Void, where Los Angeles bass producer RL Grime just happens to be prepping his debut full-length album of the same name. It is “the deepest and darkest place on Earth,” he says, “beyond any human or life form in existence.” Oh, and the…
No more playing ’round with your heart, Basel lovers. The artsiest week of the year is almost upon us. And the latest #ABMB tidbit… Solange Knowles, Saint Records founder and Beyoncé’s sis, will be headlining and curating six nights of Basel week music for Select Art Fair 2014. Oh, and…
