Fox News’ Sean Hannity dedicated 10-minutes of his program last night to shit on Common, and criticize Michelle Obama for inviting the “controversial rapper and poet” to her White House Poetry Night.In typical “fair and balanced” fashion, Hannity even invited two black guys to discuss the “running list of controversial…
Remember Fall Out Boy, that quartet of silly midwestern emo dudes who shoved power chords down our throats in the early 2000s? Well, they’re on an indefinite hiatus. (Blame it on Ashley “Yoko” Simpson.) But their longtime chubby frontman, Patrick Stump, has a solo album due out this summer, and…
Kylie Minogue at the BankAtlantic Center May 7
Listening party for Tyler the Creator’s Goblin at the Vagabond May 5
In 1981, Adam Chester had just graduated from Miami Beach High, and was living in Los Angeles for college. He was over 3,000-miles away from his mom, Joan, but even though an entire country separated the two, Chester could not escape mom’s unsolicited words of advice. After over 30 years…
That crazy rapping bastard from Los Angeles, Tyler the Creator, is dropping Goblin next week, and subsequently popping Odd Future’s commercial crossover cherry. For music snobs, May 10 will forever be known as the day Tyler sold out and selfishly whored himself to an indie music label powerhouse, XL, in…
Broadcast live across the globe to 70 countries, the Billboard Latin Music Awards were billed as música Latina’s biggest night. Show hosts promised we’d see more stars at the annual gala than we would in the sky. But then again, Miami isn’t known as a stargazer’s paradise. Bright city lights,…
Calling on the great Bedeekin. Do you read me, Bedeekin? We’re sorry, blog reader, you caught us trying to contact Time-Peace’s “Intergalactic Consultant.” His full name is Bedeekin Oobe, an inter-dimensional being who offers Miami’s favorite neo-hippie watchmakers guidance. He’s just one of several cosmic elements that have contributed to Time-Peace’s…
That little chico Pitbull got robbed last night at the BankUnited Center on the campus of the University of Miami. And the entire world watched it happen. Well, maybe not everyone. But the people who saw Telemundo’s broadcast of the Billboard Latin Music Awards know what I’m talking about … Mr…
Quick, when does Mexico celebrate its independence? If you answered September 16, kudos, you know your Mexican history. If you answered May 5, you probably have a drinking problem. Cinco de Mayo, amigo, commemorates a Mexican victory over France at the Battle of Puebla in 1862, not independencia. In the…
Are you one of Tyler’s “new f****t ass followers” on Twitter? We suggest you take his advice and download Bastard if you don’t already have a copy. In addition to being one of last year’s best mixtapes, the album should also help you make sense of the fuck-you-this-is-art approach to…
Remember your cousin’s Quinces? Aside from the choreographed salsa rueda, what was the entertainment like? Chances are if your prima turned 15 in Miami, it was a Yellow Pages DJ-for-hire that mixed a blend booty bass, merengue, and a few slow jams after sprinkling The Very Best of Kenny G…
Earlier this month, Tyler the Creator and his Odd Future collective arrived at the Coachella Music Festival strapped and ready to start a ruckus. They were swagging the fuck out after a chaotic mid-afternoon Friday set, spraying unsuspecting victims with squirt guns until security said no mas and allegedly kicked the…
There’s no denying it: Miami’s indie music scene is on the up-and-come. Ambassadors of Magic City tuneage are the Jacuzzi Boys, Rachel Goodrich, and ANR (formerly known as Awesome New Republic). They’re all out reppin’ the 305 brand around America’s red, white, and blue. Like parents of children gone off…
It’s April 20, “four-twenty,” and by now you’re probably blitzed. You’re also probably short $80. Because last night, when your pot connection texted you about the specially priced quarters he had on sale for the holiday, you drove 12 miles with the fuel light blinking and dropped four crisp $20s…
Yesterday we learned that there’s a lot more to 4/20 than just bong rips and bloodshot eyeballs. April 20 marks the anniversary of some pretty serious shit like Hitler’s birth and the Columbine Massacre. It’s also the day BP ruined the Gulf of Mexico and killed 11 workers in the…
Stocks are a risky business, as is street racing. In the blink of an eye, everything can take a Dale Earnhardt-turn-for-the-worst and come crashing down like a Bernie Madoff ponzi scheme. However, street racing on the small screen (sprinkled with telenovella plot twists and staring a former Southern Methodist University…
On April 29, O, Miami presents Broken Social Spam, an experimental night of poetry and music with Broken Social Scene’s Andrew Whiteman, and Andrew “DJ Le Spam” Yeomanson of Spam Allstars, at Purdy Lounge. It promises to be the greatest Canadian-American fusion since Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee. We recently…
What’s the most obscure spoken-word record you own? I’m not embarrassed to say that a copy of Walter Mercado’s Walter ’86: Aquario, the Puerto Rican astrology god’s predictions for Aquarians in 1986, tops my list of weird vinyl. It didn’t cost me a thing. I straight inherited it from grandma…
On Monday, we met Bobby Kent, former San Diego Chargers musical director, and the man who claims he’s responsible for ‘da da da da da da… CHARGE!’ However on Wednesday, Tony Fox, director of the USC Trojan Marching Band, told us that former USC student Tommy Walker came up with…
Maybe he was having “threesomes with a fuckin’ triceratops, Reptar” or “fuckin’ Goldilocks up in the forest/in the three bear house eatin’ their muthafuckin’ porridge.” But for some strange reason, Tyler the Creator, the leader of 10-member L.A. rap crew Odd Future, “woke up with a sweaty dick” today. Or…
Who’s the greatest fictional group of all time? Is it Erie, Pennsylvania’s The Wonders or Doug Funnie’s favorite band The Beets? What about The California Raisins, the claymation cover band originally molded to advertise the California Raisin Advisory Board? They were pretty sweet in their heyday, even landed an animated…
