“We don’t just throw beer pong parties,” says Pong Time Productions’ Doran Joseph. The 21-year-old Miami native describes the binge-drinking-slash-sporting events he hosts with collaborator Igor Argiba (also 21 and from Miami) as “electric.” The five parties they’ve thrown thus far — four at Little Haiti’s Churchill’s Pub and one…
If you think the hits of Gloria Estefan, 2 Live Crew, and Pitbull are Miami’s sole musical contributions to the world, then you’ve got another thing coming. Over the years, the 305 has been a veritable bastion of the international recording industry, thanks to legendary studios like the Hit Factory/Criteria…
Big Bad Brass Party with The Hot 8 Brass Band The Stage Miami Friday, September 30, 2011 Better Than: Kenny G’s greatest hits. There’s nothing like a hot horn section. And last night at The Stage as part of a three-night residency, Hot 8 Brass Band proved that axiom true…
Blowfly The Vagabond Friday, September 30, 2011 Better Than: A hot fudge sundae. Even at 72 years old, Blowfly still has all the humor, presence, and charm of a school boy, which he sweetly displayed last night at The Vagabond. This weekend, Miami is celebrating one of its favorite potty-mouthed…
Three days after Fergie’s Miami Dolphins embarrass themselves by losing to the Buffalo Bills at Sun Life Stadium, the pee-pee-pants pop star will join her Black Eyed Peas bros, will.i.am, Taboo, and apl.de.ap for the group’s final show of 2011 at the Miami Gardens house Joe Robbie built. We hear…
In 2009, a teenaged Chris Brown was arrested for beating the crap out of his then-girlfriend, Rihanna. It was an ugly scene and everyone will always remember him as one of the most famous wife-beaters of all time. Certainly, though, Brown is not the only male musician with anger management…
Gunther Schuller’s name may not be as well known as say, Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman or Ludwig Von Beethoven. And yet, in his own way, he brought their musical mores together by creating a unique synthesis of jazz and classical music that not only helped to redefine modern music, but…
The great dance clubs of contemporary Western Civilization were built for drugged-up 20-year-old kids who can party all night, sleep 45 minutes, wake up at 6 a.m., go to work, punch out, start drinking on an empty stomach in the early evening, and then slip right back into manic dancing…
Hello, weekend. What a relief that you’re finally here. This has been a miserable work week, and we’re so looking forward to disconnecting for the next few days. But not to sound like a broken record, our funds are dwindling. The available balance in our checking account is less than…
See the full 40-photo Cut Copy at Grand Central slideshow. Cut CopyWith Midnight Magic and Washed OutGrand Central, MiamiThursday, September 29, 2011 Better Than: Seeing them at Ultra 2011. It’s pretty surprising that Cut Copy has never performed in Miami outside of Winter Music Conference and Ultra Music Festival. Sure,…
England’s favorite frumpy, never-been-kissed, feel-good-story of 2009 has a new album, Someone to Watch Over Me, dropping November 1. And it’s generating mad buzz with the 55-to-70-year-old demographic. Susan Boyle’s new record will feature a sweet blend of slow jams ranging from Joni Mitchell’s “Both Sides Now” to Depeche Mode’s…
The Fillmore Miami Beach is the Magic City’s go-to room for artists with mid-size audiences. So while The Script may not have the same voracious following in South Florida as it does in Europe and South America, the “celtic soul” pop-rock group may feel more at home at the American…
Miami is going to be underwater one day. When the first tidal wave flicks down skyscrapers like shoe flies, people will stand with their mouths drooping vacuously, their wide, empty-eyes staring at the devastation in disbelief, and say to themselves, “Why didn’t we see this coming?”Until The Big One, we’re…
Gloria Estefan. We’ve never met her, but we know Miss Little Havana well. Maybe too well. She’s like Miami’s really cool tía, the type of woman that never raises her voice and has an infectious laugh. But like our favorite aunt, sometimes she says shit that fucks up our heads…
Whether two-steppin’ toward a birthday party, second line parade, or jazz funeral, New Orleans’s Hot 8 Brass Band always keeps it big, bad, and brassy. But over the years, the Hot 8’s battled through plenty of tough times. Three members — Jacob Johnson, Joseph “Shotgun Joe” Williams, and Dinerral Shavers…
According to totally reliable online resource Wikipedia, a bromance is “a close but non-sexual relationship between two (or more) men, a form of homosocial intimacy.” Musical history is sprinkled with fruitful and creative bromances. There was David Bowie and Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Gram Parsons… and that’s just half…
Primate and Whores With Secret Arms and Devalued Churchill’s Pub Wednesday, September 28, 2011 Better Than: Rugby night at Churchill’s the night before. Not all bands are created equal. Some appease the masses at American Airlines Arena, some ride the indie-waves at Grand Central, and some are born to blow…
In A-Trak news… The Canadian DJ’s going to be dropping electro dance beats at LIV next month, about a month before he takes his act to New Orleans as a featured performer at this year’s Voodoo Experience Music Festival. Unfortunately, one of his longtime friends and frequent collaborators won’t be…
Cut Copy at Grand Central September 29 and 30
Chris Brown at American Airlines Arena October 5
Forward Motion Records’ one-year anniversary concert at Revolution Live September 29
Hot 8 Brass Band at the Stage Miami September 29
