The Electric Pickle lives. After a whole month of Pickle parties were moved to other downtown clubs in the wake of Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week (and some code compliance issues), regulars and casual clubbers alike started speculating about the Midtown party spot’s closure or relocation. But when…
If all y’all follow Bad Girl RiRi on Instagram, you already know she loves the weed, the green, and the big booties. So it’s no surprise that Rihanna got down with the Magic City’s finest smoke, cash money, and fat asses after her 4/20 show in SoFla. Just check the…
The panic alarm had sounded. It was time to save the Fillmore Miami Beach. “In case you haven’t heard, here’s the situation,” Sweat Records’ Lauren “Lolo” Reskin warned local music fans in a call to action earlier this month. “Two companies have proposals on the table to completely renovate the…
Tuesday morning around 9:35 a.m., Wilbrent Bain Jr., the brother of local rap legend Trina (born Katrina Laverne Taylor), was shot and killed in Northwest Miami-Dade near 91st Street after a dispute with a friend devolved into gunshots. His street name was “Goonkie.” He’d survived another shooting in 2008. And…
Oh, Radio broke your heart. Today, everyone’s favorite “bi-polar pop band from Hialeah” announced that “the time is right to end our beloved project.” After four years and two albums, this New Times reader’s pick for Best Band of 2009 is calling it quits. And the only consolation: “We do…
It is a dark day for booty- and bottle-poppin’ EBT welfare ballers in the FLA. Following a Thursday vote in the Florida house of representatives, Electronic Benefit Transfer cards are now prohibited “from being accepted in certain locations” like the strip club “or for certain activities” like buying booze. Sponsored…
If you’re a regular on Miami’s dance music scene, then you’ve probably caught Induce (AKA Ryan Smith) spinning records at any number of local hotspots over the years. Or maybe you remember him as half of DJ-production duos Midnight Moroders with Danny Daze and Casual Sax with Sven Barth. In…
It’s finally here! Record Store Day (and cough, 4/20) is right around the corner. And that means tons of great acts are ready to get down and dirty with all y’all Miami music lovers. Whether you’re looking for rock, punk, hip-hop, jazz, synth-pop, booty bass, or Latin, there’s the perfect…
The Prez and Hova “got a little bond there.” But Obama insists he didn’t help his pals, Jay-Z and Beyonce (AKA The Carters), secure clearance from the Treasury Department for their fifth anniversary vacay to Cuba. “This is not something the White House was involved with,” POTUS tells the Today…
“Holy fucking shit … Is this Meshuggah?” That’s how Carol City creep rapper SpaceGhostPurrp reacts when Canadian weirdo interviewer Nardwuar bestows a fine slab of Swedish metal upon him. Why? Because SGP is the rare hip-hopper with a deep and abiding fanaticism for dark and heavy death-obsessed rock. “This shit…
Skeptics predict the local music shop is going extinct like the penny arcade. But for the last six years, so-called “independently owned, stand-alone brick-and-mortar retailers” around the U.S. (and the world) have been banding together under the Record Store Day banner to, paraphrasing the immortal Beastie Boys, fight for their…
Problem Kids are Miami Cubans with a message for Jay-Z about his trip to Cuba. Their response to his “Open Letter” is a new track called “Useful Idiot.” “He looks like he’s praising the Castro regime, and we wanna give him a history lesson,” say MCs Mario Obregon and Christian…
Senator Marco Rubio suggested that Jay-Z and Beyoncé have “no interest in Cuban People’s freedom.” And U.S. Representatives Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Mario Diaz-Balart said that the pair’s recent visit “funds the machinery of oppression.” Pero, their constituent, Miami native, and Cuban-American rapper Pitbull thinks that the Carters’ Treasury-approved “educational exchange…
The Bawse says: “I apologize.” And this time, he means it. After a couple of weak attempts at defending his molly sex assault verse on Rocko’s “U.O.E.N.O.” (condescendingly calling “woman … the most precious gift known to man” and then cringe-worthily tweeting “”I dont condone rape. #BOSS”), William Roberts (AKA…
Maybe the sneaker mob over at Reebok was just waiting for one of Rick Ross’s homies to fire the first shot. So when Rocko announced that he was planning to strike the Bawse’s rape lyrics (“Put molly all in her champagne, she ain’t even know it/I took her home and…
It seems Jay-Z has been up to more than smoking cigars and celebrating his marriage in Cuba. He’s been busy penning and recording a serious dis track to all those haters who aren’t happy to see the first couple of hip-hop chillin’ so close to Castro. His recent vacation to…
The Bawse still got that fat shoe contract. But his molly sex assault verse is getting dropped from Rocko’s “U.O.E.N.O.” Even though women’s rights organization UltraViolet, hundreds of rape victims, and 51,000 petitioners recently demanded “Reebok drop Rick Ross for bragging about drugging and raping a woman,” there’s been no…
As the don of Miami’s KOD, businessman, and booty-bass legend Disco Rick is the final word at “the world’s largest & sexiest adult club.” So what’s he gotta say about Trick Daddy allegedly chasing Lil Wayne and his Young Money crew out of King of Diamonds? “Yo, that fake news…
Only days after celebrating its fourth anniversary, Sound Theory Live has been canceled by public radio station WDNA. Hosted by Carlos Garcia, owner of The Stage and Miami New Times’ Best FM Personality of 2010, this weekly show “geared towards promoting the great local musicians by showcasing their talents live…
Everybody’s gotta answer to Da Mayor of Dade County. The other night at King of Diamonds, it was Lil Wayne’s turn, as Trick Daddy defended the 305 and his beloved #HeatGang by chasing the Young Money maniac outta the titty bar. No word yet from KOD. But we here at…
Eyewitness testimony is notoriously tricky. It’s a massive cause of wrongful criminal convictions in these United States of America. And it’s also the usual source for sloppy gossip reports about celebs sucking face in the VIP of South Beach’s glossiest megaclub. Like, say, this morning’s juicy New York Daily News…
“If anybody don’t like it, they can die tonight.” That was infamous Miami rapper and 305 rider Trick Daddy’s message to Lil Wayne after the Young Money maniac told 99 Jamz (and the world) that he “don’t apologize” for declaring war on the Miami Heat and its fans. Then a…
