You can joke about Justin Bieber’s lesbianism all day. But the Biebz reigns supreme. Powered by asexual androgyny and cotton-candy songcraft, his music has infected tween girls, their mothers, and even, in extreme cases, their fathers. You could be next. Seriously, if JB didn’t look (and sound) like an adorable,…
Can you believe there was a time when Pitbull (AKA Don Armando Christian Pérez) couldn’t even get his party jams played on Power 96 (WPOW-FM 96.5)? Back in the day, OG supporter and booty-bass legend Luther Campbell asked the radio station’s jocks to slip some of Pit’s early records into…
As opposed to rap-phobic product pushers like Hennessy, Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation is totally stoked that peeps be name-droppin’ its shit. In October, company spokesman Jeff Miller told Fortune that his employer was “thrilled” to hear Far East Movement’s “Like a G6” referencing the G-650 aircraft, even amid lines about sucking…
If you’ve never made the trip, there’s only one way to enter Candyland: Get a group of festively costumed friends together, drop a tab and a little gamma-hydroxybutyrate, spin some drum ‘n’ bass (or maybe dubstep, if you’re under 21), and then dial up the nostalgic ’90s quotient. Soon a…
Everybody enjoys free drank, right? Well, Amway North America, a one-time “seller of household cleaner” and current pusher of cosmetics, is getting into the energy drink game with a “sparkling orange” product called XS Naranja Blast that’s loaded with “B-vitamins and key amino acids.” It sure sounds healthful. But here’s…
Finally, an excuse for all you oversensitive indie types to stop being so emo and leave the bedroom for a few hours … Conor Oberst and Bright Eyes are coming to Miami! In approximately 77 and a half days, the band will kickoff its first tour in three years at…
Every fifteen years or so, the adult film industry gives birth to a porn star whose talents go beyond anal DP. Back in the ’70s, booby queen Annie Sprinkle fucked for money during the day while staging pseudo-feminist performance art at night. And then a decade later, infamous underager Traci…
Ever wonder much caffeine-jacked energy drink you could suck down before totally losing your sense of rhythm? Go find out this Thursday when the Red Bull Versiones party lands at Grand Central with endless party tunes provided by local Latin acts Karina Iglesias, Flow Official, Elastic Bond, Xperimento, Bachaco, and…
Everybody loves beer, movies, and music, right? OK, well, maybe not every single human being on Planet Earth (e.g. straight-edge punks without eyes or ears), but the crowd at Roofless Records’ Cinema Sounds #7 was definitely down with the program. Fed on cheap-ish beer and table wine, roughly 120 people…
Good morning, FM lovers! It looks like Cox Radio finally received our Christmas wish list. Over the weekend, it was announced live on the airwaves that the former 93 Rock (currently 93 Holiday Nightmare) will discontinue its 24/7 holly jolly programming at 11:59 p.m. on Christmas night. Really, the announcement…
On an average day, the Trans-Siberian Orchestra’s Mr. Paul O’Neill is busy doing stuff like masterminding proggy Christmas epics, recording rock operas about the Bolshevik Revolution, testing lasers, selling a billion albums, or shooting Beethoven’s Last Night: The Movie. But when he’s got some down time, he’s out there honing…
It was billed as a “private” performance. But unless you’re one of those rule-watching wimps with way too much respect for authority, you snuck onto the University of Miami campus to see November 5’s free homecoming concert starring Lauryn Hill. We did. And we brought back a recap, some photos,…
If you’ve never made the trip, there’s only one way to enter Candyland: Get a group of festively costumed friends together, drop a tab and a little gamma-hydroxybutyrate, spin some drum ‘n’ bass (or maybe dubstep, if you’re under 21), and then dial up the nostalgic ’90s quotient. Soon a…
See the full 26-photo La Roux slideshow. Yeah, it wasn’t exactly a “concert.” A nightclub’s got bottles to sell and a dance floor to fill, so La Roux’s set last night at Mansion was typically short, just a few songs: “In for the Kill,” “Bulletproof,” and “I’m Not Your Toy.”…
Can you believe there was a time when Pitbull (AKA Don Armando Christian Pérez) couldn’t even get his party jams played on Power 96? Back in the day, OG supporter and booty bass legend Luther Campbell tried pushing the radio station’s jocks to slip some of Pit’s early records into…
As opposed to rap-phobic product pushers like Hennessy, the Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation is totally stoked that peeps be namedroppin’ its shit. In October, company spokesman Jeff Miller told Fortune Magazine that his employer was “thrilled” to hear Far East Movement’s “Like a G6” making reference to the G-650 aircraft, even…
In the runup to November 2009’s release of his debut disc, Attention Deficit, D.C. rapper Wale floated into pop consciousness on a thick, fast-moving cloud of accumulated hype. After he hooked up with master trend-caller Mark Ronson in 2006 and signed a million-dollar deal with Interscope Records in 2008, the…
Punk is a lifelong commitment. Whenever your favorite crew disbands, you can bet it’s probably just a break. Within a couple of years, the gang will drift back together (even if there’s only one original member still standing), thrash through a few rehearsals, and schedule an epic comeback show at…
If you’ve never attended one of Roofless Records’ Cinema Sounds soirees, the whole concept can seem a little arty or highbrow or out-there. And, duh, it’s all of those things. But at the same time, no one wanders around in a vintage tuxedo and monocle, reciting lines from an obscure…
A gothic metropolis in sunny California, San Francisco suffers from a schizo split. It has bred hippies, Hell’s Angels, and the Zodiac Killer. And five years ago, old San Fran gave birth to a certain psych-pop trio called Lemonade that luxuriates in the idea of swirling together sonic extremes (happiness…
A gothic metropolis in sunny California, San Francisco is a city suffering from a schizo split. It’s bred hippies, Hells Angels, and the Zodiac Killer. And five years ago, old San Fran gave birth to a certain psych-pop trio called Lemonade that luxuriates in the idea of swirling together sonic…
Punk is a lifelong commitment. So whenever your favorite crew disbands, you can probably bet it’s just a break. Within a couple years, the gang will drift back together (even if there’s only one original member still standing), thrash through a few rehearsals, and schedule an epic comeback show at…
