Music

Memorial Day weekend parties in Miami, May 27 to 29

Best of the Best 2011 at Bicentennial Park May 28 and 29

Free Florida Tour with Bonnie Prince Billy and the Cairo Gang at Sweat Records May 31

The electronic dance music community has always been a major sausage fest. But why? The ladies like to get down on the dance floor just as much as the gents. And they certainly have plenty to contribute behind the decks and in the studio. Nevertheless, for decades, the superstar DJ…

Last night, all the little SoBe monsters crawled out of their ultraglam holes, slipped into their weirdest costumes, slapped on some facepaint, and slithered down to Mansion for Lady Gaga’s Born This Way Haus Party. There were droves of Gaga-alikes, platinum blonde babes in fishnets, Disco Jesus and his very…

In Trick Daddy’s book about his life, Magic City: Trials Of A Native Son, he talks about the evolution of the urban hustle. Before the dope boy, there was the pimp, a slick talkin’ motherfucker who was cold as ice and could have a ho on the track within ten…

Back in January, Crossfade debuted the first official video, “Road to Riches,” off J. Nics’s Champion Rizla EP. And now, a few months later, we’ve got the follow-up, a slow, soulful sesh from the Polar Bear Mack and producer Numonics called “The Return.” Presented by Last Rights and directed by…

Rich Evans started his record label, Florida’s Dying, in his ex-girlfriend’s apartment “because he was bored.” And since 2005, the project has kept him entertained, becoming a pillar (alongside labels like Hozac and Woodsist) of the 2000s garage rock explosion. While Florida’s Dying has produced records for international rock ‘n’…

Spank Rock’s debut full length, 2006’s YoYoYoYoYo, paired the frantic tempo and raunchy sensibility of Baltimore-style club music with the shimmering glean of indie electro-pop and the impressively elastic flow and sharp diction of MC Naeem Juwan. The album painted a perfect picture of the raunchiest mid-2000s party. But it’s…