This year’s annual VH1 Hip-Hop Honors awards show seems to be one of the most contentious to date, thanks to its focus on “Honoring the Dirty South.” On one hand, you’ve got major Southern artists like Scarface, who feels the show is just ghetto-izing his peers. (The Houston rapper, actually,…
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Picture this: You’re channel-surfing when you see a weird mixture of characters in what looks like a scene from Star Wars. Daft Punk is hanging out with the droids, Snoop Dogg is chilling with Obi-Wan Kenobi and seems to be mimicking a Jedi, and they’re all hanging out at the…
Prior to their Ultra Music Festival booking, Passion Pit was already scheduled to play at the Fillmore Miami Beach on June 13. But it wouldn’t be a complete Miami concert appearance without the obligatory afterparty. That’s where the Overthrow, Poplife, and One Fifty come in to ensure the possibility that…
COLOSUS ‘PUT THAT ON EVERYTHING’ MUSIC VIDEO BY DRE FILMS from DRE FILMS on Vimeo. Here’s a new music video from longtime Miami underground stalwart Colosus for his song “Put That On Everything.” The video’s produced and directed by Dre Films. In 1993 a video of this caliber would have…
Clearly the action at last week’s Detroit Electronic Music Festival carried over to Miami this weekend, because it’s just nonstop stellar bookings Friday through Sunday at various hotspots throughout the city. Friday, June 4To start things off tonight, there are two different parties in Wynwood. Esteemed techno DJ/producer Joel Mull…
For the past four years, Boca-based Livid Records has been slowly but steadily releasing some of the better Florida (and beyond) rock records. With a roster that’s curated more by feel than specific genre, founder Chuck Livid has revived the careers of some old South Florida classics — like the…
— The Rick Ross vs. Rick Ross saga continues. (Click here if you need to catch up on the background). But things are going to get a little more ugly. Former drugpin “Freeway” Ricky Ross is now trying to stop the release of Rick Ross the rapper’s Teflon Don album,…
Contrary to music industry buzz, Fort Myers’ hottest rapper, Plies, has just announced that he will not be performing at the 2010 VH1 Hip-Hop Honors airing next Monday, June 7 at 9 p.m. This is the first time ever that VH1 is honoring a particular geographic area for its contribution,…
Fun news. Miami has finally scored a proper show by part of the holy triumvirate of Establishment-Accepted Brooklyn Art-Pop: Yeasayer! (MGMT and the Dirty Projectors would round out the trio…. One can continue to dream.) The only bummer is that by the time Yeasayer down here, the guys might be…
Most bibliophiles know about the lurid tales of William S. Burroughs. He shot and killed his second wife by accident while drunk, became openly gay, had an affinity for guns, a serious opiate addiction the last 50 years of his life — and for all of you Floridians, he spent…
Yesterday, bummed at the news of the passing of Rue McClanahan, who played Blanche Devereaux on Golden Girls, we took to YouTube to look up some old favorite clips from the show. Clicking around, we remembered: Those girls (and their relatives, apparently) sure liked to sing. Here are five fun…
You may recall this post last week, where you were prompted to catch Pacha Massive’s one of a kind live performance at the opening day of ¡Mira Que Lindas!. That’s a music and art exhibition enjoying a three-week stay at Awarehouse. It features a display Latin pop album artwork (519…
Friday, June 4*The Big Bounce makes for some pretty classy drinking music, so it’s appropriate that the “lounge-hop” duo plays an extended happy-hour from 4 to 9 p.m. at Mia at Biscayne. Admission is free. Click here for details. *Saturday’s awesome garage/punk/rock and roll extravaganza at Churchill’s — with Sloppy Seconds,…
If you haven’t heard of Kat Stacks, it’s okay. It means you spend a healthy time away from Twitter and from following the minutiae of struggling, up-and-coming rappers in Miami’s busting hip-hop industry. Still, for the past month she’s been taking the rap-centric Internet by storm with her spicy tales…
The crowd at the recurring Technosluts parties across South Florida is pretty much unlike any other. Think a colorful Venn diagram meeting of that rarified overlap between candy ravers, cyber goths, bass-heads, and fetish enthusiasts, and you’ll get the vinyl and hair-fall-filled picture. For the past four years, this loose artistic…
Two-thirds of Miike Snow is responsible for producing some of the biggest pop hits of the last decade. Christian Karlsson and Pontus Winnberg, also known as Bloodshy & Avant, are responsible for giving mega-hits to Britney Spears, Jennifer Lopez, Jordin Sparks, Kylie Minogue, Kelis, and Madonna. But along with Andrew…
Imogen HeapThe Fillmore Miami BeachWednesday, June 2, 2010Better Than: Having tea at the lady’s place.The Review:The Fillmore Miami Beach could have been called, well, the Imogen Heap last night. It wasn’t so much that the British chanteuse owned the room (though, in an odd way, she did do that too)…
Destroyed came out in 1989 but it didn’t become a reality in my household until the mid 90’s when my kid brother purchased it and we spent a lot of time listening to it knowing a few facts: this shit was a helluva lot better than Kiss (and while Kiss…
Americans are stupid. We like stuff that sucks, lots of us at once. That’s called pop culture. Later we look back on it and laugh. That’s called VH1. The crappy music we once enjoyed all together as a nation is documented in the archives of the pop music charts.Thanks to the…
Yes, you read that right. These are the 10 hottest moments we could dig up on Latin pop’s resident heartthrob. Why? Because he’s been making fans swoon for 30 years and showing no signs of slowing down. Because he’s the original Latin Lover. Because, through the cries of adoring (mostly)…
While people complain about the lack of live music in town, and (usually) the same people complain about going to South Beach for anything, Jazid is a lone soldier quietly battling to prove these naysayers wrong.Sure, the venue has changed plenty over the years — for one thing, only one…
