This weekend, Bicentennial Park will be flooded by an international wave of beat-makers and pookie heads for Ultra Music Festival. But just a half-mile west of downtown’s loudest outdoor fiesta, Shit Robot will pop his Miami cherry on Friday at the Vagabond, two days before hitting Ultra’s Heineken Dome. Marcus…
Chris Brown’s new album, F.A.M.E., is out today, and so is part of a window at Good Morning America’s New York City studio. Various sources are reporting that the 21-year-old pop-star-with-major-anger-issues went all Chris Brown on a window, smashin’ that bitch after becoming enraged during an on-air interview with GMA’s…
Behind Bayside Marketplace’s Hard Rock Café, the Biscayne Lady enjoys a mid-afternoon hosing under the hot Florida sun. As cold water trickles down her sleek frame, we board the vessel to meet the ship’s captain and Biscayne Bay legend, James Cho. Since joining the Biscayne Lady team, Cho has skippered…
See the full 30-photo Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings slideshow. Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings The Fillmore Miami Beach Sunday, March 20, 2011 Better Than: Anything that’s ever happened to me. Despite the fact I previewed this show with a music feature in last week’s New Times, you’ll find more words…
Biscayne Lady Ultra Fest yacht cruises March 24 to 26
Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings at the Fillmore Miami Beach March 20
After releasing a live album on Jack White’s Third Man Records in January and then generating boatloads of blog buzz as one of nine bands aboard the inaugural Bruise Cruise Festival, Jacuzzi Boys welcomed March by signing to Seattle-based indie label Hardy Art yesterday. Needless to say, Miami’s very proud. “They’re…
Charlie Sheen is a hell of a drug, and he’s also the inspiration for several amateur musicians on YouTube. From a white Missouri rapper to a creepy old man’s Sheen-inspired parody of “You’re Beautiful,” the interwebs are littered with people high off Charlie, and capitalizing on the 45-year-old actor’s nationally…
The Bruise Cruise set sail last weekend sans Crossfade, and while we were totally bummed El Jefe didn’t swing us the $500 cabin fee, we were stoked to be part of the Grand Central kickoff party last Thursday. And honestly, after eight-hours of live-blogging, a 50-image slide show, and an…
Move over, Art Basel. Take a hike, Miami Book Fair International. Nothing is as intellectually stimulating or culturally relevant as a Wizard World Comic Con event. And this past weekend, we were lucky enough to spend some time at the Miami Airport Convention Center for just that, a good ol’…
It’s a big night in Miami. Some indie music’s biggest names–Surfer Blood, Black Lips, Vivian Girls–are in town for the inaugural Bruise Cruise Festival, and before they set sail with 400 other seafaring hipsters tomorrow, they’re playing the Bruise Cruise Kickoff Party at Grand Central tonight. We’ll be there live-blogging…
The Bruise Cruise Kick-off Party is tonight at Grand Central, and while we’re totally stoked about the nine-act line-up including Thee Oh Sees, Black Lips, and Surfer Blood, we’re a little bummed Vivian Girls’ Katy Goodman didn’t talk to us. We were so close. We met Goodman last November during…
When the Strange Boys played Churchill’s last September, our review was, well, a bit harsh. “The band appeared to be catching a cold,” we wrote, “seemingly disinterested in their songs, and even less interested in the crowd.” But in the spirit of second chances, Crossfade’s giving the Strange Boys a…
The Bruise Cruise sets sail from the Port of Miami on Friday. And while there’s plenty of dope coming through Dodge Island, y’all better think twice about sneaking some out; narcs like to prey on unsuspecting travelers, especially theme cruise passengers. In January, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents partnered…
Tickets for Ultra Music Festival have sold out. But for procrastinating electro nuts willing to drop a few hundred bucks on scalper tickets, the opportunity to trip balls in downtown Miami is still alive. The news came as a shock to everyone, smeared across the top of the festival’s website,…
Attention nerds, Wizard World Miami Comic Con is coming to Miami Airport Convention Center this weekend. For fans of sci-fi television and film, Comic Con is an opportunity to step out of the proverbial nerd closet and openly embrace your inner-nerd. The headliner, Adam West, the actor who played Batman…
The Biebz thinks Americans are “evil,” and according the 16-year-old Canuck, sometimes rape “happens for a reason.” At least, that’s what he told Rolling Stone’s Vanessa Grigoriadis in the forthcoming issue that hits newsstands on February 18. “Canada’s the best country in the world,” he says in the upcoming issue…
Attention nerds: The Wizard World Miami Comic Con is going down February 26 and 27 at the Miami Airport Convention Center. For fans of comic books, sci-fi, professional wrestling, and all sorts of other guilty pleasures, it’s an opportunity to step out of the proverbial nerd closet and openly embrace…
In a little over a week, the most ironic theme cruise in kitsch travel history will hit the high seas. That’s right, the first ever Bruise Cruise will set sail aboard Carnival’s Imagination “Fun Ship” with some seriously cool human cargo, including 400 hipsters, 10 relevant indie acts (including Miami’s…
Justin Bieber is a prepubescent pop star who looks like a butch extra on The L Word. His music is obnoxiously popular and his (hot?) mom’s not a big fan of the Jews. Yet despite his faults, America really digs his Tiger Beat brand. Over the next three days, thousands–if…
Lil Wayne’s new joint, “Green and Yellow,” is a love song dedicated to his favorite football team, the Green Bay Packers. In it, he threatens to cut a Steelers’ hair off, “We knock the Eagles and the Falcons and the Bears off/Now we ’bout to cut Troy Polamalu’s hair off,”…
Dear Decemberists, Congratulations, The King is Dead is a remarkable album. We can’t wait to hear it live. Actually, on second thought, we probably won’t hear it live because the awful reality is that your tour’s not stopping in Miami. Hell, it’s not even tickling Florida’s Panhandle. But that’s what…
