After listening to the Dose’s self-titled EP — a sound heavily reminiscent of Alice in Chains and Nirvana — it was surprising to learn that both singer/guitarist Indio Downey and drummer Ralph Alexander weren’t even born during the heyday of grunge. “We look up to those bands. We’ve been listening…
When Esperanza Spalding heard a knock at her door, she had the choice to welcome her uninvited guest or keep it locked out. “It wasn’t that much of a choice,” Spalding says. “Just a yes or no.” Spalding chose yes. The visitor was her alter ego, Emily, and the inspiration…
Drummer Nic Collins is 14 going on 15, and his rock band, What You Know, has already played on national television in Switzerland, jammed at the Fillmore Miami Beach, and performed at the American Airlines Arena during a Miami Heat game. But despite all of that experience under his belt,…
How high are you? It’s April 20, the international stoner holiday, and we’re hoping you replied simply, “Wait…what?” We hope you’ve been blazing since the sun rose, and we hope you’re going to stay high until you inevitably pass out. But if you thought your 4/20 couldn’t get any better,…
My mother, who is the reason why I am alive right now, typing with actual fingers that actually exist, used to ask me to clean my room. And I would ignore her. I would ignore much of what she said actually, disobeying very reasonable orders frequently. But Drake, a rapper…
Ushers leading audience members to their assigned seats isn’t very punk. With reserved seats well over sixty bucks and some reaching up past a hundred, Iggy Pop and his Pop Depression Tour at the Fillmore Miami Beach was a far cry from his days with The Stooges and their bloody…
Though Otto Von Schirach has called Wynwood home for nine years, the musical provocateur’s connection with the once-downtrodden but now-booming neighborhood goes back further. “Twenty years ago, I used to come here for Hoodstock. It was a ’90s festival held in this hard-core neighborhood, but somehow the festivals were always…
People joke that the South Beach diet consists of cocaine, cigarettes, and a bit of somebody else’s ceviche, but that’s just mean. Model wanna-be’s actually drink a lot of cold-press. “They party all night, and they compensate by spending $30 on a juice,” jokes Carolina Villalba, an honest-to-goodness health fanatic…
At this point the anticipation for Drake’s new album Views From the 6 is so intense that the even the slightest announcement or tease from Drizzy is enough to get an entire city vibrating with glee. Drake knows this and is using it to his advantage. Yesterday he tweeted out…
Fresh from a visit to the White House, DJ Khaled is gearing up for another major milestone in his career. The 40-year-old DJ who rose through the ranks of Miami radio to become a plant-watering symbol of all things successful announced today that he will be opening up for Beyoncé…
9. 4/20 Party at Shots with Thinking Of Us, Paul E, and more. 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 20, at Shots Wynwood, 311 NW 23rd St., Miami; 305-571-0439; shotsbar.com. Admission is free. Shots is providing a free haven for Miami stoners in need of a various assortment of both colorful and tasty…
Trick Daddy Dollas has announced a new, though not that shocking, venture – reality stardom. In a recent interview with Bossip, Trick revealed he met with Mona Scott-Young, the creator of Love & Hip Hop, to discuss joining the cast of the popular VH1 reality show as it moves south…
MP3 killed the vinyl star, right? Well, not quite. In case you haven’t heard, a worldwide vinyl revival is underway, which — besides causing a steady increase in vinyl sales — is renewing millennials’ interest in digging for records, in person, at physical record shops, with actual real-life hands. But…
Ask anyone between the age of 18 and 35 to name three people they’d want to have dinner with, dead or alive. Chances are Jesus and the pope would have to take a seat next to Beyoncé. The 34-year-old singer transcended celebrity a while ago. Today, she’s less a person…
Here’s a pattern worth noting: none of the band’s on this list are actually from Miami. It’s hard to do justice via song to a place you only see once a year in person, or once a week on HBO through the eyes of Dwayne the Rock Johnson. Look, famous…
The Cult couldn’t have a more fitting name. If a Druid or Dionysian from centuries ago time traveled to the Fillmore this past Saturday night, they could be forgiven for thinking that the concertgoers were actually religious followers gathering at a temple to witness some sort of holy ceremony. In a…
“Internal fixation.” That’s how Axl Rose’s good-looking foot specialist Dr. Rachel Triche described the lead-singer’s broken foot on April 8. Her ESPN-esque medical update, in which she sat in front of all her various credentials, was both great reality TV and evidence of Team GNR’s belief that rock & roll…
Unquestionably, the concert of the week is Iggy Pop and Josh Homme at the Fillmore. It’s a big deal and so on and so on. However, the best upcoming show in Miami not on your radar comes via a homegrown Florida outfit. SALES are an indie pop duo from Orlando…
You don’t have to be a special kind of science person to know that the sun and the desert are both hot and that reveling in the hot desert sun will do damage to your body. It’s barely even science at all. So, given that the sun in the desert…
For all the debate that surrounds autism, specifically the myriad of possible and still largely unknown causes, one of the things that may got lost in the conversation are autistic people themselves and their needs. One person who isn’t just talking about it is Patricia Kayser. The Miami transplant and…
Childhood nicknames are rarely sophisticated. John Benitez knows this all too well. When he was a kid, his sister started calling him jellybean, on account of his initials and that old saying “know what I mean, jellybean?” “When I grew up in the Bronx, everyone had nicknames, because everyone was…
Early in our interview, Sharam Tayebi, who — as one of the world’s most respected progressive house DJs and producers — often goes only by his first name, laughs and humbly worries aloud that he won’t have much to talk about. Before long however, despite the lack of details he’s…
