It’s a rough climb from the gutters of Carol City to the top of the Billboard charts. You’ve got to take your hatchet and clear the path of snakes and weeds. Good thing Rick Ross is on his fitness tip. “It’s just like hiking for the first time,” the Teflon…
Jake Jefferson has always put music first. In the eighth grade, he snuck out to a Cypress Hill concert, made his way backstage, smoked weed with rapper B-Real, and helped DJ Muggs pack his turntables. In college, when he was just 12 credits short of a Florida International University degree,…
When the early-morning hours hit on weekends in Miami, a certain ambient sound tends to waft through the main streets. Locals who’ve spent the night in a club know it well: In Miami Beach around 3 or 4 a.m., a warm, fuzzy throb of pulsating bass music floats into the…
Twelve years ago, Emile Milgrim was starting a graduate program in sociology and envisioning a career in academia. But it didn’t feel right. So when the bass player from her old band suggested they start a record label, she was sold. “It was definitely a hard thing to break to…
In Virgo’s first music video, “Disappear,” she sings just as the sun begins to break on the horizon, and later she submerges herself in the Atlantic Ocean as the folds of her white dress dance in the water. It’s the perfect image for an enigmatic songwriter who’s transformed herself in…
Tucked in the back of the Fillmore Miami Beach, Sigi Ammann’s office is enough to give any neat freak anxiety. Posters from nearly every one of the venue’s past decade of shows coat the walls — some autographed, some so badly worn it’s impossible to tell Jay Z from AC/DC…
Sexual demigod and certified seducer of mothers Sting has been busy lately. The 65-year-old singer helped to reopen Paris’ Bataclan this past Saturday in an emotional concert. Last week, he released his 12th studio album, 57th & 9th, his first original full-length release in more than a decade. And this morning, he announced an upcoming international tour.
We’ve got a task for you, Miami. Tomorrow night, at Bardot’s bass edition of Slap & Tickle, AC Slater — the self-proclaimed king of heavy bass house in America — wants the ceiling sweating and people getting straight-up reckless. It was his birthday last week, and this is his wish. So we must make it so.
This week’s best concert is a new music festival that seemingly materialized out of nothing but our wildest imaginations. Announced only last month, the House of Creatives Music Festival will be a two-day event presented by Mishu Records and held at the North Beach Bandshell and some adjacent spaces…
This Saturday, one of the hottest singer-songwriters in the nation, Mitski, will return to Miami for a show at Gramps, this time with a headlining slot she’s worked very diligently to achieve over the past few years. The 26-year-old New York-based indie-rock artist released her first LP, Lush, in 2012…
When listening now, one hears no shortage of foreshadowing from legendary Paul van Dyk tracks such as “We Are Alive” and “For an Angel” because, well, he kinda should be dead. People don’t often fall 20-plus feet, collide with concrete, and survive. Saturday, February 27, 2016, in Utrecht, Netherlands, was supposed…
This week, fresh off flexing his right to vote, Rick Ross dropped his remix of one of Solange’s stand-out tracks on A Seat at the Table before blessing us with a touching visual for his Black Market single “Free Enterprise,” featuring John Legend.
In case the outcome of this week’s election has you feeling a bit helpless, there is a way to make a small but positive change in this country tonight. Plus, it’ll be free. Double-plus, there’ll be great music. How much more convincing do we really need to do, people?
Last night’s Animal Collective concert at the Fillmore Miami Beach was a mixture of anticipation, expectations, surprises, and ultimately, jarring reality. The show was a series of bizarre ups and downs that mirrored the world outside, but at the very least provided an escape, if only for a short while…
Iconic singer and songwriter, Leonard Cohen, died last night at the age of 82, the cause still not publicly stated. “It is with profound sorrow we report that legendary poet, songwriter and artist, Leonard Cohen has passed away,” a message on his Facebook page read. “We have lost one of…
LDV Hospitality — the parents of Miami’s Rec Room, Regent Cocktail Club, and Dolce Italian — are celebrating a four-year anniversary this weekend. And they’re doing so in style. Rec Room, the intimate Miami Beach hotspot in the bottom of the Gale South Beach, will be hosting a true rap icon…
Outside of a coffee shop on Biscayne Boulevard, over a chorus of beeping cars, Miami producer Lazaro Casanova details the process that has led him to where he is now. When we spoke a few weeks ago, he was ready and eager to drop the first single off of Made in…
The Clash released its EP The Cost of Living on election day in 1979, when the musically maligned conservative leader Margaret Thatcher assumed power of the United Kingdom. The EP’s first track, “I Fought the Law,” a song no doubt familiar to you now thanks to its bastardization in Pepsi…
Hey, there. Good to see you’ve taken a moment to veer away from the disorder and chaos in which the rest of the internet is neck-deep to read about something fun. Good call, bud. Today, in spite of it all, we’re rolling out our Art Basel 2016 party coverage.
Here’s one relaxation strategy we’re trying today in regards to the whole oh-my-God-what-have-we-done feeling swelling inside the stomachs of millions of Americans this morning: focus on the good things in life. We still have coffee and beer and beaches and cake and a pulse and music and parties. Yes, parties….
Noah Lennox isn’t sure if he’d agree with a categorization widely affixed to his group’s new album. The experimental maestro, better known to listeners as Panda Bear, wouldn’t go as far as to call Animal Collective’s effort, February’s Painting With, a “pop” record, although many have deemed it as such…
Valerie Lee and a co-worker were backstage at Orlando’s Electric Daisy Carnival last weekend taking a much-needed breather when a man abruptly walked in and demanded to know whether they’d voted for Hillary Clinton. Lee, the U.S. digital editor for Mixmag, nodded and turned back to her conversation, but…
