After you’ve taken it to the man at Occupy Miami this Saturday, you’re going to need something to do to unwind. After all, you deserve something rewarding after protesting corporate greed and economic inequalities. Lucky for the 99 percent, there’s Cultist, Miami’s premiere source for snarky reality television recaps, cultural…
America’s 9.1 unemployment rate got you down? Yeah, we’re pretty bummed about that shit too. But at least the weekend’s here, and there’s plenty of stuff to do that’s under $10. Treat yourself to a free Surfer Blood concert, or maybe tackle $0.99 beers at Miami’s oldest bar. We don’t…
The first tidal wave of artists joining Mr. Worldwide on his Club 305 Cruise has been announced, and it’s fucking huge. Electro master and commander Paul Oakenfold is joining Pitbull aboard Royal Caribbean’s Majesty of the Seas, and so is Miami native Flo Rida. Together, these three locos are gonna…
Comfortably nestled in the Mid-City District of New Orleans, the historic Tremé neighborhood is one of America’s loudest. Jazz music thrives in this 0.69-square-mile patch of NOLA land, especially at Kermit Ruffins’s house. A brilliant composer, accomplished trumpeter, pot connoisseur, and masterful barbecuer, Ruffins grew up in the infamous Ninth…
When comedian Kyle Grooms worked for Univision, he joked he was the only black man in the entire company and admitted he felt more like a mascot — “el negrito” — and less like an employee. That was more than ten years ago, when Grooms was holding a 9-to-5 as…
Ladytron at Grand Central October 15
Pumped-up kicks and a pimp chalice. That’s all you’ll need Friday, October 21, when Foster the People perform live at LIV, and Lil Jon tackles the ones and twos. They’re not playing together. But both acts are scheduled to appear at the Fontainebleau nightclub on the same night. One can…
Armando Christian Pérez is a boss. El tipo es tremendo performer, Dr. Pepper’s best bilingual spokesperson, y Miami’s biggest act since Gloria Estefan. Pitbull is undeniably one of pop music’s favorite male artists. And no, not just in our Cuban-American eyes, but in the eyes of the 2011 American Music…
Last Wednesday was a tough day for our MacBook Pro. Not only did the AppleCare expire on the three-year-old computer, but Steve Jobs died. Like so many “Macs,” we were devastated, moped about the house like someone in our family passed without having a chance to say goodbye, and watched…
For the better part of 20 years, Hank Williams Jr.’s popularity has ranked somewhere between wallpaper and push-pins. Aside from the Monday Night Football theme, dude’s done little to wow us. But then he compared President Obama to Adolf Hitler last week, and we couldn’t help but say, “Wow, what…
See the full 30-photo Das Racist at Grand Central slideshow. Das Racist With Danny Brown and Despot Grand Central Miami Sunday, October 9, 2011 Better Than: The graveyard shift at a combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell. A Lot Better Than: Langerado. About a month ago, Langerado organizers announced that…
Ikea, Volvo, and electro-pop music — that’s what we think about when someone says Sweden. And speaking of the European Union’s third largest country by area, Swedish indie outfit Little Dragon is almost here! Earlier this year, the Gothenburg-based group released its third studio album, Ritual Union. We spoke with…
Listen, we don’t care if you’re into whips, chains, swinging, cuckolding, cross-dressing, biting, tickling, or whatever else gets you off. But farting? C’mon, there’s nothing sexy about flatulence… or is there? TMZ is reporting that an amateur porn site wants to buy the rights to a three-second Dancing With the…
We did it, y’all. We made it through the work week. We’ll finally have a chance to disconnect from the workplace tonight at Happy Hour or catch a grimy metal show on Saturday night in Little Haiti. Whatever the case, we’re free. And not to mention, it’s pay day, and…
Can you smell that? It’s the scent of European art collectors and New York City hipsters, an aroma so powerful that it lingers in the Miami air for four days each year in December. We call it Art Basel. While we welcome the international bevy of fine, contemporary art, it’s…
Is Lady Gaga really Freddie Mercury in reincarnated drag? Probably not. Mother Monster was already five years old when Mercury died in 1991. But the two flamboyant icons have a lot in common. So much, in fact, that Queen guitarist Brian May is hinting at the possibility of Lady Gaga…
Murder was the case in 1993. But Snoop Dogg walked away a free man and into the collective heart of American pop culture. Now 18 years later, he’s trying to crip walk onto primetime television. MTV News (via Deadline Hollywood) is reporting that NBC is working on Snoop’s “family comedy…
Miami has a lot to be proud of, especially in the department of fictitious vigilante serial killers. Seven years ago, Miami crime novelist Jeff Lindsay released Darkly Dreaming Dexter, the first installment in a series and the basis for Showtime’s wildly popular Dexter. Dexter Morgan is a forensic scientist with…
Andres Calamaro at the Fillmore Miami Beach October 8
A-Trak at LIV October 7
American kids are hungry. Well, at least 16 million of them. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, that’s how many children are “food insecure,” including Sesame Street’s newest character, Lily. Lily will represent a growing number of kids who don’t know where their next meal is coming from or…
It’s hard to believe that it’s been a decade already. Ten solid years of bleep-bleep, bloop-bloop electro synthpop courtesy of the Liverpool-based quartet known as Ladytron. Twelve years if you count that 1999 EP, Miss Black and Her Friends, released only in Japan. After five studio records, a live album,…
