Floridians don’t really know how to handle winter. While the rest of the country is shoveling snow and huddling around trash-can fires, we’re wearing shorts and hitting the beach. But we still find ways to celebrate the season — for example, with “Lots of good…
Top 40 radio is a beloved institution for a vast number of listeners. And few stations in America have been playing the hits as long as WHYI-FM. Better known around these parts as Y100, the pop station has been broadcasting whatever the kids happen to be listening to that week…
It’s been a long time coming for Miami’s own Ball Greezy. Last year, he deviated from hip-hop norms and looked inward on his first Feel My Pain mixtape, which featured Jim Jones on the title track. Now, as 2016 comes to a close, the Miami native prepares for the new…
Where were you when Hurricane Matthew screwed up your III Points plans? I wasn’t even in Miami. I was planning to head down from college in Jacksonville when the storm steered its cruel, windy gaze toward the Sunshine State. The six-hour drive became too dangerous to attempt as the storm…
As always, there is no shortage of DJs and electronic producers performing in Miami this week. Diplo, Headhunterz, and Zomboy (just to name a few) will all lead bass- and beat-fueled parties into the wee hours of the morning. However, allow us to offer an alternative to the dance floor…
It’s time to wrap up another year, and with its passing comes time to reflect on personal growth and the year that was — and, oh, what a year it was. 2016 was a parody of a bad year, with a fiercely divisive election and deaths of luminaries and…
With the advent of social media, our culture’s come to know nontraditional ways of attaining varying levels of fame and the unique artists that often take advantage of those unconventional paths to success. These avenues weren’t available decades or even years ago. And because of that, some rocket from the depths…
“I look like a flower, but smell like an ashtray,” sings Gainesville-raised Miami transplant Edan Archer on her new single, “Cutthroat.” It’s the closing track on new her alt-country EP, Cruel Mother. Not only is the lyric an apt summation of Archer’s eagerness to challenge modern expectations of femininity in…
One big problem the diverse city of Miami faces during the holidays: How do you include all your friends — regardless of religious background — into the celebrations? Well, Miami/Brooklyn duo Basside has a solution: getting “Lit” for the holidays, whether it’s Christmas or Hanukkah. Yes, the rapping duo has…
Over the phone, Gigi Rowe’s voice jumps an octave as she describes the moment things began to feel real for her. It wasn’t during a concert or backstage but thanks to a coveted spot in one of the world’s most popular video games. She remembers attending an event in Paris…
If you don’t know what a busker is, you’re not alone — especially in Miami. For all of South Florida’s weird and wonderful talent, we’re not exactly known for our “people who entertain in a public place,” as Webster defines the term. “Miami has a ton of performers, but except…
Kaixen, otherwise known as Julian Munro, is a Miami producer and guitarist with a musical bloodline. With words flowing a mile a minute, he details the important moments of his musical timeline. There was his first experience at a recording studio, an instance that made him uneasy and sparked his…
Your complete guide to the New Year’s Eve 2017 parties happening in Miami.
Though he’s recently had albums titled Global Warming, Globalization, and the upcoming Climate Change, lately Pitbull has not been the most political of rappers. His verses in “Timber” had nothing to do with deforestation, and “Give Me Everything” makes no mention of where he comes down on tax rates. But…
For Los Angeles-based DJ Amber Giles, AKA Mija, the musical obsessions that make up her frenetic, mercurial sets come quickly, burn brightly, and fade fast. “A year ago, it would’ve been trap, a year before that house,” she says. “I go through so many phases, but right now, my favorite…
It’s hard to believe the world continued spinning after such a monumental loss, but 2016 marked 15 years since Aaliyah’s shocking death. It’s interesting to ponder what the Princess of R&B’s music might have sounded like today, in a world where singers forgo an individual, signature sound and turn to…
There are three things that are absolute in life: death, taxes, and exclusive events during Art Basel week. The latest edition of Basel parties brought arguably the most talented and highly coveted rapper in music to South Florida: Kendrick Lamar.
We sent our writer to Red Bull’s Art Basel party, 12 Hours of NAAFI. It was one of the week’s most anticipated events, a marathon jammed with some pristine up-and-coming talent in one of the trendiest spots in one of Miami’s trendiest neighborhoods. Armed with nothing more than…
To soothe the Art Basel hangover, Miami will host a pair of big names this week in Barbra Streisand and Ms. Lauryn Hill. Perhaps the best show, however — and certainly the most intriguing and intimate — could be Kishi Bashi at the Light Box at Goldman Warehouse in Wynwood…
Perhaps the smartest move Ultra Music Festival has made recently was the creation of the Resistance stage. What began as a single stage in 2015 has become a brand in and of itself. Resistance has grown so much that the festival’s organizers have spun it off into its own standalone event.
In real life, Josephine Phoenix looks a lot like a TV writer’s storyboard blueprint of a hippie character. Her waist-length, curly red hair cascades down, mirroring the breezy, flowing fabrics she uses to drape her petite frame. And she’s likely to wax poetic about “the feminine divine” and gypsy life.
Though some musicians might feel awkward watching people listen to their songs, Sam Rosenthal says he will feel no such anxiety when Deju Vu Audio South hosts a listening party for his band’s double album, These Fleeting Moments. “At a listening party I don’t have to worry about doing anything,”…
