At the end of 2010, Toronto-based electro-pop trio Dragonette released, “Hello,” a spritely collaborative single with DJ Martin Solveig. Though too late to make the cut for year-end lists and recaps, the track — boasting three centerpiece hooks: a gleefully tickled piano lick; singer and chief songwriter, Martina Sorbrara’s crystal-clear…
The DFA Records love affair with Miami continues. And what has seemingly become the label’s home-away-from-home venue, Bardot, is once again opening its Midtown doors to welcome former Six Finger Satellite guitarist and DFA fan favorite Juan MacLean. This Saturday marks MacLean’s returns to the intimate Miami lounge where he…
Read our original report on DJ Laz’s departure from WPOW — plus Uncle Luke’s comments on talking to DJ Laz about quitting Power 96. First, a heartbreaking tweet that some interpreted as a cruel and belated April Fools’ Day hoax. “Rumors are true, I am no longer with Power 96,”…
Sorry to beat an aggressively dead horse, but drugs are bad. If you’re dumb enough – and you probably are because you’re doing drugs in the first place – they will kill you. And if they don’t kill you, they’ll make you uglier, dumber, and dead broke. Sure Drugs make…
Governments create human killing-machines by robbing them of sleep. Yogis deprive themselves of it for spiritual enlightenment. Electronic collective NoSleep305’s Dni replaces it with music, and runs wild eyed beat-freak party marathons on pure, maniac adrenaline. The information security dude spends all day outsmarting data-thieving Chinese hackers, and all night…
Read Uncle Luke’s comments on talking to DJ Laz about quitting Power 96. UPDATE: Beasley Broadcast Group, Power 96’s parent company just released a statement regarding Laz’s departure.”Effective today, DJ LAZ, who has been with the station for 22 years, has decided to move on and explore other professional opportunities.”The…
There’s been a lot of chatter on the internet about swag rapper Lil B Based God’s upcoming guest lecture at NYU. Come April 11, the master chef pretty boy himself will impart what he told Fuse, “a real progressive talk and when everybody leaves, their lives will be changed.” You may…
Retiring. In a weakened economy, the thought of calling it quits at the age of 55 is a pipe dream. The grim reality for many is they’ll work till the day they die, much like the 80-year-old who settles for a part-time gig at Publix to supplement a $300 Social…
Stalley falls somewhere between the consciousness-oriented backpack rap of the late ’90s and the hardcore-hustler-turned-decadent-don narratives of contemporary hip-hop. Though those two approaches may seem to come from completely separate ends of the MC spectrum, the Massilon, Ohio rapper has managed to consistently invoke both the soft-spoken, positive hip-hop of…
What is potentially the absolute last headline we’d gamble on reading just popped into our inbox. “GRAMMY WINNER BON IVER @ THE FILLMORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” Yes, that’s 47 exclamation points preceded by what may be the best news we’ve heard this month. Granted, we’re only two days deep into April, but a…
Hellish hiss and skull-splitting feedback explodes into a swirlingly atonal shit-cloud of expertly terrible guitar noise, erratic yet superprecise drum strikes, droning bass, garbled shrieks, and totally indecipherable lyrical chatter. That’s the sound of Scraping Teeth. And it’s the fucking worst. No, really. Almost 20 years ago, Spin Magazine launched…
Eyehategod’s first song at Churchill’s opened a portal to hell. The whole club was transported to a world of fire and brimstone, demons and evil. And you thought the bathrooms were bad before. For an hour-and-a-half, the New Orleans sludge combo kept Miami so far underground, we actually saw the…
Is the proof in the proverbial Canadian pudding, the Juno Awards, Canada’s equivalent to the Grammy’s, that Drake is mad soft? Last night, while we watched Taylor Swift walk away with another Academy of Country Music Entertainer of the Year award, the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences was…
Matthew Weiner’s commitment to authenticity is second to none. His Mad Men series is a televised portal back in time, a weekly peek into 1960s Manhattan, the advertising industry, and all it entails–booze, cigarettes, depression, submissive wives, etc. But the 1960s were also a time of celebrity-endorsed breakfast cereals, and…
The Roots Adrienne Arsht Center Saturday, March 31, 2012 Better Than: Just about anything else that was going on in Miami on Saturday night. It was certainly the finest tuba anywhere in Miami Saturday night. Aside from for Questlove’s drums, Damon “Tuba Gooding Jr.” Bryson’s cheeks expanded to fill the…
Sure, Tiësto and Swedish House Mafia party on private planes, flooding fuselages with champagne on their epic 36,000-mile-high ravers. And yeah, rappers like Lil Wayne and Rick Ross make it rain millions at King of Diamonds, unleashing cash-money thunderstorms on big-booty girls like Tip Drill and Skrawberry. But Andrew Fetterly…
Snow Patrol With Ed Sheeran Friday, March 30, 2011 Fillmore Miami Beach Better Than: Crying alone to that same Snow Patrol song for the billionth time. Slapping the hands of his rapturous audience, Snow Patrol frontman Gary Lightbody was nearly pulled from the stage mid-verse. As he stumbled to regain…
Madonna’s now-infamous Ultra appearance continues to weigh heavy on the electronic dance music community, ruffling more feathers than an Ecstasy-induced seizure. The latest EDM heavyweight to weigh-in on Madge’s “How many people in this crowd have seen Molly?” question, Paul van Dyk. “Madonna was so stupid to actually call out…
The whole process of elections (from PTA to POTUS) is savage, cut-throat, and — when we’re lucky — incredibly stupid. They will shake the hands of thousands of strangers. They will gorge themselves on local cuisine. They will kiss the stinkiest baby. If votes depended on it, a politician would…
Remember when we bragged about how our NCAA bracket was a lock? Yeah, we may have jinxed ourselves. Both Michigan State and Florida State are out; we had them playing each other in the finals. Now Kentucky and Kansas need to lose just so we can finish in third place…
What happens when you introduce a Cuban basketball star to weed, percussion, and the Marley family?You get Johnny Dread, a rasta music ambassador since 1987 when he started playing drums in the band Copacetic with lead singer Julian Marley. Their album “Ghetto Rock” hit number-seven spot on Billboard’s reggae charts…
Remember when the Red Hot Chili Peppers would run around with socks precariously covering their penises? That signature on-stage antic resonated so much with the alternative rock audience — and eventually wider popular culture — because it was the closest the Peps had ever come to expressing their true essence…
