“Oh, I think that I found myself a cheerleader.” Right there. We don’t have to say anything else. You’re already singing the rest of that song on your own, aren’t you? How could you not? Reggae artist Omi’s “Cheerleader” was one of the most ubiquitous songs of 2015. It reached…
With a focus on the positive and political in the early ’90s, Arrested Development was often brought up in defense of hip-hop whenever the mainstream media demonized rap as the soundtrack of so-called gangsters. With hits like “Tennessee,” “People Everyday,” and “Mr. Wendell,” Arrested Development delivered Afrocentric messages over Sly…
Thanks to the wonders of YouTube, anyone born after 1983 can relive the historic moment when Greg Wilson introduced the concept of DJ mixing to U.K. television viewers for the very first time during a broadcast of The Tube on Channel 4. “It would be a major moment in my…
This week’s best show isn’t a singular concert but an entire weekend of hip-hop mayhem instead. Rolling Loud is one massive mixtape come to life. The lineup for the two-day festival is a murderer’s row of high profile rappers and rising stars: Future, Young Thug, Ty Dolla $ign, Lil B.,…
The world recently lost an icon, and while millions of music fans grieved in their own way, one man is sure he was the biggest fan of them all. That would be DJ Premier. “I understood where he was coming from,” the legendary hip-hop DJ and producer says. “My mom…
Miami traffic is a bitch. It has provided South Floridians a never-ending excuse to be late because construction on the 826 will likely come to an end the day Donald Trump reveals his true skin tone. But we’re on our way. And like most Miami drivers with five minutes left…
It’s overwhelming. The avalanche of content telling you how you should or should not feel about Beyoncé’s newest album Lemonade is as close as the internet can get to discussing, in unison, a single topic. Kim Kardashian’s greasy butt was a mere ripple compared to what Beyoncé has done to…
A week after he made us all sweat it out for a free T-shirt, Drake has announced that he will repay Miami with a concert on the upcoming Summer Sixteen Tour. Along with pal Future, Drizzy will make 31 stops that will start in Austin on July 20 and end…
Later this month, Tribeca Film Festival will debut I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead, a new documentary film about the life and times of Benihana founder, the late Hiroaki “Rocky” Aoki, and that of his son Steve Aoki — whom some may know as one of the biggest EDM stars in…
So, we’re going to assume you don’t have a Beyoncé ticket. But don’t worry. There’s still another option. “Hot to the Touch,” the first track off of Grace Potter’s 2015 solo debut, Midnight, sounds a little bit like the theme song to the BBC science fiction drama, Torchwood. But in addition…
Shana Cleveland was listening to ’60s garage rock when it hit her. “They all had interesting vocal harmonies with cutting, twangy guitar sounds. I didn’t see any current American bands doing that.” Born in Kalamazoo, Michigan to a pair of musician parents, Cleveland says music was her whole world growing…
What gives, Miami? We are well into April, and yet there’s a chill in the wind. What’s it going to take to start heating things up? How about a poolside performance from Flo Rida? Maybe a little bit of Kygo live at the Fontainebleau Hotel? Yeah, that would do it…
After listening to the Dose’s self-titled EP — a sound heavily reminiscent of Alice in Chains and Nirvana — it was surprising to learn that both singer/guitarist Indio Downey and drummer Ralph Alexander weren’t even born during the heyday of grunge. “We look up to those bands. We’ve been listening…
When Esperanza Spalding heard a knock at her door, she had the choice to welcome her uninvited guest or keep it locked out. “It wasn’t that much of a choice,” Spalding says. “Just a yes or no.” Spalding chose yes. The visitor was her alter ego, Emily, and the inspiration…
How high are you? It’s April 20, the international stoner holiday, and we’re hoping you replied simply, “Wait…what?” We hope you’ve been blazing since the sun rose, and we hope you’re going to stay high until you inevitably pass out. But if you thought your 4/20 couldn’t get any better,…
People joke that the South Beach diet consists of cocaine, cigarettes, and a bit of somebody else’s ceviche, but that’s just mean. Model wanna-be’s actually drink a lot of cold-press. “They party all night, and they compensate by spending $30 on a juice,” jokes Carolina Villalba, an honest-to-goodness health fanatic…
Ask anyone between the age of 18 and 35 to name three people they’d want to have dinner with, dead or alive. Chances are Jesus and the pope would have to take a seat next to Beyoncé. The 34-year-old singer transcended celebrity a while ago. Today, she’s less a person…
The Cult couldn’t have a more fitting name. If a Druid or Dionysian from centuries ago time traveled to the Fillmore this past Saturday night, they could be forgiven for thinking that the concertgoers were actually religious followers gathering at a temple to witness some sort of holy ceremony. In a…
Unquestionably, the concert of the week is Iggy Pop and Josh Homme at the Fillmore. It’s a big deal and so on and so on. However, the best upcoming show in Miami not on your radar comes via a homegrown Florida outfit. SALES are an indie pop duo from Orlando…
Early in our interview, Sharam Tayebi, who — as one of the world’s most respected progressive house DJs and producers — often goes only by his first name, laughs and humbly worries aloud that he won’t have much to talk about. Before long however, despite the lack of details he’s…
International music icons and lifelong friends and collaborators, Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil will make their first concert appearances as a duo in Miami and Miami Beach this weekend. The pioneering Brazilian singer-songwriters, both 73, share a musical chemistry that’s by turns complementary and telepathic. They’ve obliterated stylistic barriers, nimbly…
It’s been a long time coming, but Miami mainstays the Baboons have finally released a new album. It’s called Spanglish, and the LP is an epic 15-track work inspired by all things Miami culture. “This is almost from a lifetime of experience of this place,” says Baboons founder/drummer/singer Mano Pila. 15 years…
