Music

New Times recently gave Kill Your Idol, the new bar occupying the old Blue space, the nod for Best Jukebox. It’s true — the venue is part of the extended Vagabond / Lost Weekend / Respectable Street / et. al. galaxy, and as such there are some seriously music-minded people…

We reported last month that California ex-drug kingpin Ricky “Freeway” Ross was suing Miami rapper Rick Ross, for, basically, creating brand confusion and preventing Freeway from profiting off his own name and image. (Only in America!) Dealer Rick Ross is recently out of prison, and, one assumes, looking to make…

So much of what passes for R&B on the radio these days is boring, syrupy synth-pop that tastes good for a minute but, like all sugar rushes, hits quick and wears off a few minutes later. Then, there are the rare artists like The-Dream, a singer / songwriter / music…

MTV Tr3s, the network juggernaut’s bilingual English-Spanish channel, is relaunching on July 12. It’s dropping the “MTV” from its name, instead going with the moniker “Tr3s: MTV, Musica y Mas.” It may not have the same punchy ring as before, but Tr3s is definitely making a new entrance in style.Continuing…

Nak is one of Miami’s rising newcomers. Representing B2 Entertainment, he offers a good mix of lyricism and clear delivery with a bit of southern twang thrown in the mix. Nak has been creating quite a buzz with a couple local releases, including his 2009 mixtape Half Man, Half Cadillac…

If you were as shocked as we were when 103.5 the Beat suddenly ceased broadcasting, you can now breathe a sigh of relief. Newly launched, Florida-based web broadcaster Da One Radio is now catering to fans of hip-hop and R&B who seek an alternative to what urban radio has become.Da One…

Media outlets from TMZ to Perez Hilton are reporting that Jay-Z is being sued for stiffing a Miami-based charter jet company, Air Platinum Holding, to the tune of $250,000 for not paying his flight bills.Not so fast. The owner of the company, Mickael Cohen, is what you might call a…

There’s been no positive update to the condition of Argentine singer-songwriter and Latin rock pioneer Gustavo Cerati, but his family hasn’t lost hope. Cerati remains in the FLENI clinic in Buenos Aires, where he was transferred on June, 7, following his May 15 hospitalization in Caracas, Venezuela after a collapse…

​Here’s some more Live Nation ticketing news. As we told you at the beginning of the month, the concert promotion juggernaut has, in June, been offering no-service-fee tickets for all of its amphitheater shows. In South Florida, that includes some major shows coming up at Bayfront Park Amphitheater in downtown…

It’s been five years since former Death Row Records CEO Suge Knight was shot at the Shore Club, a crime that remains unsolved and that put a serious damper on the MTV VMAs’ last year in Miami. By last year, though, Knight decided he wasn’t going to let it drop,…