So in continuation with yesterday’s post, today we bring you our sit down with Tallahassee duo Dead Prez. They chat to videographer Jacob Katel about “the white man,” Al Sharpton and throw a rhyme or two our way. Check it out! – Jose D. Duran…
In May, we posited that southern hip-hop and Fox News share much in common. Possessing both an anti-intellectual streak and a populist one, they’re beloved by red-staters and hated on by the coastal elites, be they liberals, hipsters, Ghostface or Nas. The piece concluded: If you’re still not convinced that…
Local turnable deity Craze will be stopping by The Vagabond (30 NE 14th Street, Miami) for its weekly Thursday night Money Shot party on August 14. Freshly off of Kanye West’s Glow In The Dark tour (or How I Completely Ripped Off Daft Punk’s Live Show and Called It My…
I just got word late yesterday that rapper/actor Common is booking shows in support of his upcoming album, Invincible Summer, and will be in Miami on Friday, September 5 at the Fillmore Miami Beach. That’s good news as the Fillmore is an intimate enough venue that true Common fans should…
Today, a former prison guard (who won’t admit it) gives back to his old ‘hood in Miami, spacey nu-prog rockers touch down in Ft. Lauderdale, and two top-notch weekly events keep on keeping on. — Arielle Castillo *This is really more of a free daytime charity event, but if you…
Rock the Bells came and went, but we still have plenty of extra goodies to share with you, including some sit-down discussions with some of the performers that videographer Jacob Katel was able to document. In the first video, New Times catches up with Georgia MCs B.o.B. and Playboy Tre’…
Tonight looks good for those who like, well, beats. Beyond a regular open mike, tonight’s picks involve hip-hop, reggae, and the blues. — Arielle Castillo *Up-and-coming Broward County MC Swazy Styles travels south across the county line to hit Flavour, in Coconut Grove. Nice to know this underused performance space…
Justin Namon Nas performs at Rock the Bells at Bayfront Park in Downtown Miami. Click here to view the full slide show. Last Night: Rock the Bells 2008 featuring A Tribe Called Quest, Nas, Method Man & Redman, Mos Def, etc. Saturday, August 2, 2008 Bayfront Park, Downtown Miami Better…
Sayre Berman Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington performs with the band during the Projekt Revolution tour stop at the Cruzan Amphitheater in West Palm Beach. Click here to view the full slide show. Projekt Revolution with Linkin Park, Chris Cornell, The Bravery and more Friday, August 1, 2008 Cruzan Ampitheatre,…
The Cool Kids The Bake Sale EP (Chocolate Industries) With frivolous brag lines and clean, minimal beats, the Cool Kids urinate willfully all over the idea of crack narratives and trigger-happy posturing, and are relishing every step of the way. At the pace of a pregnant snail, these two Chicago…
Metro Station, the Maine, Boys Like Girls, and Good Charlotte Thursday, June 31 Mizner Park Amphitheatre Better than: partying like a preteen Music events at Boca Raton’s Mizner Park are always surreal, with all those MILFs and Lolitas milling about. But last night, Tempe, Arizona rockers the Maine actually gave…
If you’re planning to attend the Rock the Bells concert tomorrow and want to know who’s playing when, we’ve got you covered. The name that’s most noticeably missing from this list is Santogold. Honestly, she was probably the person that I’m most excited to see live. And I’m bummed that…
There is only one word that could describe last weekend: Boring. It was so boring, personally I went to bed most nights by 1 a.m. Come on Miami! I know we are at the height of the low season, but that doesn’t mean we have to get lazy. Unfortunately, things…
When you hear the phrase guitar god, you most likely think of a young, long-haired, tight-trousered fellow playing shrieking guitar leads at a thousand notes per minute. You probably don’t think of a quiet, balding, middle-age man holding thousands of people enraptured with a few sparse, bent notes. Yet Marc…
Venezuelan-born composer and guitarist Aquiles Báez has been known for confusing audiences. “For jazz fans, I am too folkloric, while for those into folk, I am too academic,” he writes in the liner notes of La Patilla, his latest release on Cacao Música. “I believe that my music is as…
The passing years can be unkind to rebels. You survive booze, bad marriages, and car crashes, only to have the march of time leave its muddy bootprint on your shining legacy. Still, George Michael has gotten off lightly: He merely lost his American audience. On the surface, calling the British…
Coheed and Cambria is both the name of the epic space-rock quartet from upstate New York and the characters at the center of the band’s mythology. Not only do these musicians craft one-off baroque-themed albums, but also they are a theme band. Coheed formed around 1995, and during the group’s…
Last year marked the inaugural local installment of the traveling hip-hop extravaganza known as Rock the Bells. Breathing some much-needed golden-age and conscious-type air into Miami’s bling-ridden environs, the lineup featured everyone from Jedi Mind Tricks to Mos Def and Talib Kweli to Nas to a recently reunited Wu-Tang Clan…
Here’s a funny thing about the universe. Not only is everything relative, like Einstein said, but also most things are morally relative, and it’s only in the details that sense is found, or made. Which is a grandiose way of introducing the confluence of lands and sounds and notions that…
It’s nearly impossible to try to explain José El Rey to anybody who did not live in South Florida in the late Eighties or early Nineties — you either get it or you don’t. Those who get it, however, are in for a delicious treat. Writing about the King and…
Danger Mouse is arguably the most adventuresome producer to tackle a Beck project since the Dust Brothers helped birth a 1996 baby called Odelay (the Dusters’ return for 2004’s Güero doesn’t count). The resulting sound is satisfyingly dense and intricate; the neo-surfisms of “Gamma Ray,” the delicate psychedelia of “Chemtrails,”…
My Bloody Valentine mastermind Kevin Shields and punk priestess Patti Smith undress for their collaborative CD, The Coral Sea. Shields breaks free from his studio fixations, which typically find him laboring over things such as the color of microphone filters; Smith bares her soul like she’s never done before. Culled…
