Spawned on the streets of our nation’s great federal district, Washington, D.C., amid palm-greasing, spook stories, shadow games, political corruption, and urban blight, DJ duo Thievery Corporation has always cultivated a certain distate for the sleazy dealings of America’s most priveledged classes. In 14 years of active opposition, Rob Garza…
If there’s one dude who fully deserves to be an honorary citizen of our hot, clubby, coked-up little paradise, it’s booty bass and bathroom sex enthusiast Naeem Juwan Hanks, otherwise known as Spank Rock. Even though he was bred in B-More, the kid’s like Uncle Luke’s lost son, if the…
Some people don’t know shit about music. And Arizona immigration zealot Sheriff Joe Arpaio can no doubt be counted among the hopeless, tone-deaf, and ignorant. Ever wonder what that guy blares while cruising the US-Mexico border in his personally pimped-out Humvee? Three Dog Night? Toby Keith? Maybe Gary Glitter? Who…
Way back in the summer of 2005, the internet gave birth to a baby called blog house. Yet unlike 99.9 percent of the web’s offspring, this particular suckling sub-subgenre survived. It was strong, loud, and infectious. And soon, the little bastard was remultiplying by the minute. One among the first…
In order to officially achieve the rank of grown motherfucker, one must scratch three very specific things off the eternal To-Do list: (1) Make out with Nicki Minaj; (2) Earn an awesome nickname ending in -zy (e.g., Jeezy, Weezy, Kanyeezy); and (3) Celebrate a landmark b-day in the company of…
View photos of Rick Ross and Raekwon at Sneaker Pimps here.Rick Ross and Raekwon With Thee Tom Hardy, Phil Adé, DJ Keen One, and DJ Money Mekka Saturday, October 23, 2010 Better than: Ten cargo containers full of fake shit. At precisely 8 p.m. on Saturday night, international swag smuggling…
Funk music and a sweet, sticky spliff have been the perfect pair ever since James Brown and Bootsy Collins hotboxed a studio back in ’70. A couple of decades later, there was Dre, Snoop, and The Chronic. And this Friday, the marriage of music and marijuana will go next level…
Is the great Raekwon, an 11th degree Wu-Tang ninja of the 36 Chambers, not enough for all you limited-edition running shoe obsessives? Apparently not. I guess that’s why Sneaker Pimps just today announced that the Boss Ricky Ross will join the lyrically legendary Chef at the top of tomorrow night’s…
On May 25, 2009, French foursome Phoenix launched a midnight sneak attack on the American indie scene. Like the blue, red, and black bombs on the cover of its new album Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, the band came screaming from the sky, out of some unseen nowhere, and detonated in a…
Phoenix at the Fillmore Miami Beach October 27
Pete Tong at Mansion October 27
The buildup has been gradual. Actually, that’s an understatement. But now, after nearly two decades spent refining his take on techno house, first behind the decks and then behind the soundboard, Leeds DJ-producer Simon Baker is finally gearing up for the release of his debut artist effort on Ralph Lawson’s…
Young Jeezy at Mansion October 22
Mermelada Bunch at La Covacha October 22
Have you ever seen acrobatic Israeli punks Montonix in action? It’s almost like these three dudes (Ami Shalev, Yonatan Gat, and Haggai Fershtman) are the bastard triplet sons of Iggy Pop, Nadia Comăneci, and Tel Aviv’s drunkest team of Krav Maga experts. And really, one just assumes that superhuman flexibility,…
Don’t believe Wikipedia. When it comes to the origin of that infamous singsong Cockney slang phrase, “It’s all gone Pete Tong” (Translation: “It’s all gone wrong”), the online compendium of crowdsourced information is entirely inaccurate. As Mr. Tong himself will tell you, it wasn’t his BBC DJ peers Mark Radcliffe…
Beer! Party! Fun! Do you know how incredibly rare it is to meet someone (let alone a fucking celebrity!) who exudes an Andrew W.K. level of pure and unironic enthusiasm for Life? Ever since he first exploded into popular consciousness with epic anthems like “Party Til You Puke,” the positive…
The buildup’s been gradual. Actually, that’s an understatement. But now after nearly two decades spent refining his take on techno house, first behind the decks and then behind the soundboard, Leeds DJ-producer Simon Baker is finally gearing up for the release of his debut artist effort on Ralph Lawson’s 2020vision…
Originally, Young Jeezy’s fourth major-label slab, reportedly titled Thug Motivation 103, was supposed to drop sometime in 2009. But soon the rapper pushed back the projected release date to June 2010 before flip-flopping with a guesstimate of July. Then, a couple of months ago, the world was told to expect…
We came. We saw. We YouTubed it. Last night’s Miami Micro-Show was basically the weekend’s best deal. It cost $0.25 or nothing. (Roofless Records and the End were both pretty lax about collecting admission fees.) You had B.Y.O.B., communal barbecue, and 14 bands. So, really, there was no excuse for…
A late night with Venezuelan big band Mermelada Bunch feels like a fast-forward trip through the musical looking glass. The uninitiated should expect a wild mish-mash session scattered all across the Latin pop-rock spectrum. One minute, you’re being bombarded by electronically distorted disco elf voices, happy horns, and salsa beats…
Miami Micro-Show at Little River Yacht Club October 16
