See the full 42-photo Nine Mile Music Festival slideshow. Nine Mile Music Festival 2012 With Stephen, Damian, and Julian Marley, alongside Capleton, Burning Spear, and others Virginia Key Beach Park Saturday, March 3, 2012 Musicians come and go. But their music becomes immortal. Bob Marley transcended racial barriers in the…
Rising Swedish star Avicii is one of the hottest DJ-producers in contemporary house music. His massive hit “Levels,” which samples recently deceased Etta James’s “Something’s Got a Hold on Me,” gets so much play that it’s almost become obnoxious. But before you start hating on the guy for no reason…
When in Rome, you shuffle through the Vatican Museums and the Colosseum with a tour group. Guided by a dopey ex-pat, you learn the condensed histories of these places, take cliché family photos, and drop serious Euro coinage on overpriced gelato. When in Miami, however, you drop a hundred bucks…
Miami residents are faced with tough decisions every day. Beach or pool? Take I-395 or I-195? SPF 30 or SPF 15? Put the top down or leave it up? The list is endless. Another FAQ for MIA heads: “Which club should I head to tonight?” And indeed, the Miami nightlife…
Juan Luis Guerra — he’s an Afro-pop institution, a Dominican merengue y bachata icon with over 30 million records sold and a Brinks truckload worth of Latin Grammy and Latin Billboard awards. But most impressively, the dude’s mad tall — like six feet, six inches tall. And in the Spanish-language…
As the world’s most comprehensive electronic party extravaganza, Ultra Music Festival is dominated by the sonic phenomenon known as the drop. Simultaneously present in seemingly unrelated genres — such as the soulful vocal crescendos of house, the interlocking pulses of techno, or the bombastic bass-wobble breakdowns of dubstep — the…
Last time we saw The Casualties in Miami, the circle pit opened up wider than Bicentennial Park. It spread from Biscayne Bay to the Metro Rail and swallowed up everything from manatees to high-school girls, giant tattooed heshers, spike and leather punks, hardcore kids, metal mamas, stoner crusties, skateboard hooligans,…
It’s been a tough week for everyone. Davy Jones died after God selfishly robbed the would-be jockey who “left millions of teenage pillows soaking hot and wet with culture-lust” from us, death-sentencing him with coronary failure and signing him to an eternally binding record contract on his heavenly label. Like…
In terms of bleep-bloop music, few do it better than the French. Over the past decade, Pedro Winter’s Paris-based Ed Banger Records has dropped some of house music’s dopest seven- and twelve-inches, CDs and MP3s. Celebrated as one of electronic music’s most prominent labels, the Ed Banger family of artists…
Ricardo Arjona isn’t your average Latin pop star. Don’t expect to catch him staring longingly into the camera or frolicking in the surf with some leggy beauty in his music videos. If you’re hoping for a heartthrob, look elsewhere — though we’ve been told he has a certain rugged appeal…
Underground R&B sensation and Odd Future fellow Frank Ocean is catching some static from the Eagles’ Don Henley. The singer isn’t feeling Ocean’s “American Wedding,” which samples the old classic “Hotel California.” Henley threatened to sue Ocean if he performs it again, and now the performance videos on YouTube are…
Former Experience and Band of Gypsys bassist Billy Cox met Jimi Hendrix when they were stationed together at the same army base in Fort Campbell, Kentucky. Legend has it that one rainy night, Billy heard a guitar screaming in the service club. So he went inside and introduced himself to…
Holy time lapse! Even with that extra day tacked on to the end of the month, February flew by and gave way to the madness that is March. And in Miami, that means 128 BPM bass drops and bleep-bloop electro bangers. With Winter Music Conference just two weeks away, EDM…
Holy time lapse! Even with that extra day tacked on to the end of the month, February flew by and gave way to the madness that is March. And in Miami, that means 128 bpm bass drops and bleep-bloop electro bangers. With Winter Music Conference just two weeks away, EDM…
Man, 2 Chainz is tall. We were going to guess six feet five inches. But one of those oh-so-reliable Internet answers sites lists his official height to be exactly six feet eight inches. Whatever the number, he needed every bit of it to remain visible over the mob of hangers-on,…
Hank III might be Satan’s favorite grandson. His daddy was a cactus, his mama was a bear trap, and he was born with his boots on in a river full of moonshine. At age 11, he ripped out his own throat and cooked it over a forest fire. The next…
Art and politics can make strange, confusing bedfellows. German playwright and all-around commie Bertolt Brecht would say: Unless your work directly protests the global capitalist hegemony by alienating the bourgeois theatergoing audience, it amounts to little but titillation for the ruling classes. On the other end of the spectrum, though,…
Though obviously rooted in the beat matching and live mixing of the disc jockey, the mashup, as we know it today, is a distinctly ’00s phenomenon that revealed itself at the very beginning of the decade. And the modern blueprint for expertly splicing together two songs (often from mind-blowingly disparate…
No genre has been more ripped off, watered down, and straight-up bastardized than techno. To the layperson, say a classic-rock aficionado or maybe a jazz head, the mere mention of this Detroit-bred electronic music genre (and really, less a conventional genre than an unwieldy collection of variants, everything from minimal…
Over the past 17 years, Romeo Santos and bachata boy band Aventura have won the overflowing adoration of prepubescent girls, their mothers, and 35-year-old guys in white pants who love to dance. In the process, Santos and sidekicks scored a surplus of American Music Awards, Premio Lo Nuestro statues, and…
Certain fans might believe Michael Jackson is still alive. But most of us suspect he’ll never emerge from his coffin “Thriller”-style for a glorious comeback. So barring a supernatural turn of events, Cirque du Soleil’s the Immortal World Tour, directed by ex-MJ employee and dance guru Jamie King, is probably…
Wanna lead a blessed existence full of irie vibes? Simply abide by these nine Rasta-approved rules of conduct and you shall bask in the radiant glory of the Zion Lion: (1) Grow that ganja; (2) get dreaded; (3) praise Jah; (4) start an Ital diet; (5) smoke that ganja; (6)…
