That little chico Pitbull got robbed last night at the BankUnited Center on the campus of the University of Miami. And the entire world watched it happen. Well, maybe not everyone. But the people who saw Telemundo’s broadcast of the Billboard Latin Music Awards know what I’m talking about … Mr…
If you didn’t get wasted, riot-slash-dance, lose your underpants, and do something shameful on February 17, 2011, then you weren’t partying with electro-raunch tag team Hank & Cupcakes at Bardot. Don’t ever make that mistake again. Especially next Friday when these hot pop junkies return for a rerun of February’s…
See the cut to download King Bee’s Howl EP. Back in January, local blues rock crew King Bee was partway through recording its fourth album and set to hit the road for a full national tour. But then founding member and lead singer Angel Suarez suddenly quit. “Angel felt like…
Ceu at North Beach Bandshell April 29
Deniz Kurtel at Electric Pickle April 29
Antibalas at North Beach Bandshell April 30
Carnivores at Propaganda April 29
Miami Reggae Festival at Peacock Park April 30
Miami is totally obsessed with Steve Angello. And obviously, the Swedish House Mafia member and Size Records label boss loves us back. How can we tell? Well, Stevie dropped the first hint when he and his fellow Mafia men — Axwell and Sebastian Ingrosso — co-dedicated a song to us…
Think you’re down with Afrobeat? Well, if you’re not familiar with Antibalas, then you haven’t sampled the real deal. But the Heineken TransAtlantic Festival is going to change all that next weekend. Based out of Brooklyn, the Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra has straight-up hijacked the boogie from the Bronx. And while…
Amaury Gutiérrez, like so many of Miami’s own citizens, is a Cuban immigrant, an exile who was forced to choose between his homeland and his dream, between the life he knew and the life he sought, between his roots and his freedom. The singer-songwriter from Santa Clara studied music in…
It’s not very often that you hear about Denmark’s contributions to world music, let alone EDM. There was the sickly sweet ’90s bubblegum Eurodance of Aqua, an act that eluded even our guiltiest pleasure. And more recently, the dark electronica forays of Trentemøller. Then there’s Danish DJ-producer Kasper Bjørke, who…
It doesn’t take a connoisseur to know that Brazilian music offers some of the most soothing and sensual sounds you’re ever likely to find. And we’re not just talking “The Girl from Ipanema” here. From rhythmic samba to bossa nova, which has influenced some of our own jazz greats, to…
Mary Anne Hobbs’ Road Warrior Tour With Mary Anne Hobbs, Dr. Strangeloop, Gonjasufi, Lorn, and Take Friday, April 22, 2011 The Vagabond, Miami Better Than: Any of the usual stale club music fare going on wherever else! OK, we’ll just admit that Mary Anne Hobbs is our number-one female DJ…
Last night’s Borscht Film Festival edition of Cinema Sounds #8 at O Cinema deviated slightly from the usual format. Amid movie clips scored by bands, there was a poetry reading by Abel Folgar as part of O, Miami, followed by a screening of “Roosters,” a video depicting a graphic cockfight…
Out in the sloping, snaking streets of Coconut Grove, there are 10,000 Jah-blessed soldiers gathering for a peaceful revolution and they’re chanting the opening lines of the Rockaz MVMT mantra: “We are universal people/Young, strong, focused/Modern sages/Armed with sounds and phrases/Using music as our shield/Embracing this battlefield/Called life/Spreading love and…
The reputation of UK DJ Lee Burridge spans the entire globe, from Hong Kong and Thailand’s local EDM scenes, which he helped foster throughout the ’90s, to the Burning Man Festival in Nevada, which inspired his free-spirited Get Weird parties. Boasting a genre-bending amalgamation of styles, from progressive house and…
Assholeparade at Churchill’s Pub April 22
Ramadanman and Zed Bias at Eve April 23
Rise Against and Bad Religion at Sunset Cove Amphitheater April 23
Tango Conspiracy at Bardot April 27 for Heineken TransAtlantic Festival
Usher with Akon at BankAtlantic Center April 27
