Ever been excited for Monday? Neither have we. But with good shows to look forward to this week including Dion Kerr’s jazzy tunes, Curren$y’s weed-y rap beats, and the Y100 Jingle Ball’s pop star invasion, you might catch yourself a bit on the giddy side today all week. Check out…
“I enjoy a little of everything.” Usually that kind of statement can be interpreted to mean, “I’m self-indulgent and lazy.” But for Niko Javan, that isn’t true. He’s not only a producer, DJ, video director, and musician. His resume boasts impressive accomplishments all across the creative spectrum. So you just…
Holy Ship!!! Oh yeah, we’re experiencing a level of excitement that can only be expressed with three exclamation marks. That, and it’s the third year running for the world’s greatest electro-based music cruise. This year, the ship is bigger and better than ever. For 2013, HARD upgraded to the brand-new…
Envision the archetypal marketplace. Vendors hock wares by waving them in the air and shouting prices while the consumers are divided into two classes: astute veterans who know the art of the bargain and rubes about to lose their pants. Buyers bid competitively on rare and esoteric goods. A child…
Come Friday the 13th, freaky shit happens — party animals turn into blood-sucking vampires, loonies go on the loose and howl at the moon, and people drive around with skulls on their dashboard (or maybe your mind just plays tricks on you.) At least it’s Friday which means you have…
Yes, Britney Spears is considering retirement after the completion of her upcoming Las Vegas residency. The show begins in early 2014 and it’s slated for a two-year run, which means we may only have a couple of years left to get our “Britney Bitch” on. And you know what? That’s…
Luxurious. Sexy. Intimate. Welcome to Adoré, Miami Beach’s newest upscale hotspot, opening this month. Spearheaded and owned by Vegas nightlife mogul Cy Waits, this Collins Avenue club hopes to lure the VIPs and beautiful people with its lush design, smoky style, and relaxed atmosphere. “It’s very rich and warm, very…
Scream! In just a couple of days, Jerry Only and the Misfits will slither into Grand Central Miami. We already feel a telltale tingle in our vestigial demon tail. That’s called excitement. Or as the ‘Fits prefer: “A chill runs up your spine …The freezing touch of fear.” Now tix…
Is hip-hop just a front to fill the private prison system? Can you have the keys to the bakery and the Church of Satan at the same time? Can a man with an ice-cream cone on his face kill another man with his bare hands? That’s some wackadoodle scenario shit…
The Misfits are the blood and guts of punk rock. Founded in Lodi, New Jersey in 1977, the band has grown into a monster of iconic sounds and merchandise ripped from the burning reels of American horror. Founding member Jerry Only, former Black Flag barker Dez Cadena, and Chupacabra from…
Look, we get it. You’ve been busy. You’ve had important things to do. You had to travel for Thanksgiving, and then you had to go shopping for holiday presents, and then there was that whole week of debauchery masquerading as culture that just ended. Hell, you’re probably still hungover. But…
Uh-oh… Guess what day it is? Hump day! Yeah! And with all the high-energy, bottle-poppin’, ass-shakin’ parties going down on the flashy streets of SoBe this week, you’ll be happier than a camel on a Wednesday. Here are the six best bashes to crash this week. See also: Five Best…
Basel 2013 saw Miami flooded with out-of-town artists, critics, collectors, celebrities, and all manner of high-brow, well-to-doers looking for the best culturally themed parties around. Thankfully for minimal house fans, Richie Hawtin is a big art freak. Hawtin, AKA Plastikman and the head of Minus Records, made sure to take…
On Saturday, Yanni gave the final performance of a two-day run of shows at the Adrienne Arsht Center in Miami. Billed as “An Evening with Yanni,” there was no opener, unless you count millennia of human cultural history. Shout out to Ancient Greece. Now, he may have shaved off his…
Stuck in Basel mode? So are we. Good thing we live in the Magic City where celebrities and artists are always putting on a show for us beautiful people. And while the arty party may be over, we can still pretend it’s Basel week. Here are the five best concerts…
You can’t tell Steven Braddy shit. He actually says so on one of his songs, multiple times. After devoting years of his life to football, Braddy knew his future and heart were no longer in the sport after high school. Instead, Braddy, known as SDotBraddy to Miami rap fans, headed…
It was Art Basel Miami Beach weekend and Uncle Luke was set to host last week’s edition of Peachfuzz at The Garret, one of many Basel-themed bashes that went down this weekend. And even though it was the reason for bringing Luke to one of Miami’s best hipster clubs (and…
When Miami heard that the legend, the fashion (and karma) chameleon, and now comeback kid, Boy George, would be coming to play a DJ and an acoustic set during Art Basel Miami Beach week, every mouth was yapping about it from Hialeah to Wilton Manors. There’s no one quite like…
Fool’s Gold Day Off With Trick Daddy, A-Trak, Danny Brown, and others Mana Wynwood, Miami Sunday, December 8, 2013 They called it a Day Off, but that shit was lasted from early in the afternoon till way after dark. The insta-midnight feel inside Mana Wynwood’s warehouse setting helped dancers forget…
Basel Castle 2013 Grand Central Park, Miami Saturday, December 7, 2013 In the past, the setting for The Overthrow’s Basel Castle extravaganza had been a slightly cartoonish, sort of fragile-looking fortress in Wynwood. But that shit is dead, son. Last year, the overcrowding got outta hand. So for 2013, the…
NADA Art Fair’s Fade to Mind Takeover With Kingdom, Nguzunguzu, and Total Freedom Sandbar, Miami Beach Saturday, December 7, 2013 Art Basel Miami Beach, when art walk goes to SoBe and takes steroids, is rife with the kind of surrealism that’d only make sense if Riff Raff narrated it. Celeb…
Marc Vedo sweetly schooled those at Mansion in dance music this past Saturday night. And he handed them their sonic diplomas right before his tourmate Boy George took over the decks. Vedo’s been DJing since he was a teenager and seems to have played in every corner of the earth,…
