Florida Room at the Delano Closing at the End of the Year UPDATED

As reported today on our food blog, Short Order, the Delano’s basement bar and lounge, the Florida Room, will be closing right before the new year. We had heard rumors that the Lenny Kravitz-designed space was facing closure, but this is the first report we’ve read that confirms the news.Florida…

Foster the People and Lil Jon Get Indie Crunk at LIV October 21

Pumped-up kicks and a pimp chalice. That’s all you’ll need Friday, October 21, when Foster the People perform live at LIV, and Lil Jon tackles the ones and twos. They’re not playing together. But both acts are scheduled to appear at the Fontainebleau nightclub on the same night. One can…

Prince Royce Talks Usher, Obama, and His Upcoming English-Language Album

​If you’ve never heard of Prince Royce, get used to his name. The Bronx-raised, 22-year-old Dominican kid writes beautiful songs in both English and Spanish. In only three years, Royce has brought a new kind of bachata to the Billboard charts. And recently signed to Atlantic Records, he’s coming out…

Ultra Music Festival 2012 Tickets Now On Sale

On October 1, Ultra Music Festival organizers alerted its fans via email and social media that early bird tickets were on sale for $149.95. In a couple of hours, they were gone. In fact, the demand for tickets crashed the servers, forcing Ultra’s reps to send out an explanation via…

Lil Wayne Talks All About His Sizzurp Addiction In New Homemade Video

Post-Tha Carter II and right up until the year or so after Tha Carter III, you couldn’t get Lil Wayne to shut the fuck up about slugging back big Styrofoam cups of Purple Drank, an unholy brew of soda, jolly ranchers, and cough syrup.  He opened his epic-as-the-original freestyle remix of Rich…

Have a Krisp Aural Orgasm at The Vagabond October 21

Wynwood-based synth-pop quartet Krisp has emerged from the Miami music-and-arts ether to gig around town like an old-school classic rock workhorse. Of course, the band’s done its requisite time at Little Haiti’s portal to seedy England — and Miami’s widest open door for booking — Churchill’s Pub. It’s braved the…

Beats, Booze, and Bargains at Contesta Rock Hair Happy Hour

Every Wednesday, Contesta Rock Hair, a salon sitting on South Beach’s charming Española Way, offers more than just cuts and up-dos. In association with LINK, one of the companies dominating Miami’s dance music party scene, the Italian-owned salon hosts a happy hour from 6 to 10 p.m. with music by…

Hank Williams Jr. and Five Other Tea Party Musicians

For the better part of 20 years, Hank Williams Jr.’s popularity has ranked somewhere between wallpaper and push-pins. Aside from the Monday Night Football theme, dude’s done little to wow us. But then he compared President Obama to Adolf Hitler last week, and we couldn’t help but say, “Wow, what…

Boyz II Men Bring the Science of Panty Droppin’ to Miami November 5

Boyz II Men have announced a Miami stop on their latest tour, along with fellow 90s smooth-crooner Keith Sweat and gangsta diva Faith Evans. And Crossfade anticipates the concert will be a top-shelf seminar in panty droppin’. Yeah, yeah, yeah … Boyz II Men can sing. They broke Billboard records…

Exiled Punk Venue Miami Chum Bucket Announces Search For New Space

​In Miami Chum Bucket’s two years of existence — first as a fundraising-slash-organizing effort, then as a short-lived warehouse-b/w-multipurpose space in Allappattah — the DIY punk venue has been continuously weighed down by process. First, the process of opening, which provoked enough skepticism that the organizers cheekily (and in good…

Das Racist Not Reduced to Sex Objects at Grand Central, October 9

See the full 30-photo Das Racist at Grand Central slideshow. Das Racist With Danny Brown and Despot Grand Central Miami Sunday, October 9, 2011 Better Than: The graveyard shift at a combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell. A Lot Better Than: Langerado. About a month ago, Langerado organizers announced that…

Need A Job? Ricochet Lounge Opening in Midtown, Now Hiring

Attention: job seekers There’s a new nightlife venue opening in Midtown. It’s called Ricochet Bar and Lounge, and it’s now hiring bartenders, servers, waitresses and busboys. Unemployed people and other interested parties should email HR@taient.com. We called Alan Roth from TAI Entertainment to see what he had to say about…