With the release of his new album, Third Ward Stories, Fort Lauderdale-based saxophonist Jason Hainsworth set out to create a musical biography of his childhood in Houston. But how do you tell a story through instrumental jazz without any lyrics? “Too often I think we take for granted the countless…
Other Body has been relentlessly pacing around the Miami alternative scene for over a year now, turning venues around town into pressure cookers of condensed punk vitriol. Formed in the wake of local acts like Teepee and Lil Daggers, the band includes Jacob Israel on bass, Melvin Zantua on drums,…
Record Room studios in North Miami has hosted a who’s who of top-charting artists — everyone from Lil Wayne to Kent Jones has laid down tracks here. Its latest star-in-waiting could well be PBG Miami, who has spent plenty of nights cooking up dope in the lab with Cool &…
On a recent Saturday afternoon, Keith Johns played on a temporary stage under the Brickell Metrorail station as his audience — face-painted children, adults, and costumed dogs — swayed along to his breezy, lazy-afternoon cover of Outkast’s “Hey Ya.” Midway through the set, Miami’s schizophrenic weather took a turn from…
How big a week has this been for hip-hop in Miami? Our own DJ Khaled got to be President Obama’s hype man yesterday. Meanwhile, Rick Ross, his Maybach Music Group and plenty of other Miami emcees are going hard in the 4th quarter of 2016. After dropping off several major…
Since he dropped his debut mixtape, About A Girl, back in 2009, there’s been one thing on rapper Audubon’s mind: making it in the music industry. Once the star of MTV’s reality series, Washington Heights, Audubon, who was born Jonathan Perez, eventually traded his life on the small screen to continue the momentum of…
What’s makes a hit song these days? It’s got to be sticky. It must have a hot beat and a catchy hook that gets stuck in your head at the most inappropriate times: work meetings, conference calls, hooking up with that boring guy who you only hang out with because…
As Spongebob once told our generation in his gloriously nasally voice: “‘F’ is for friends who do stuff together.” Friends help you make music, let you stay over when your parents kick you out, and are here for you when your girlfriend cheats on you for the 59th time. But the word…
III Points ended a couple of weeks ago, and even amid all the stellar local and national talent on the bill, you’d be hard-pressed to find an act that embodied the spirit of the festival as well as Twelve Tales. The Miami-bred production duo, composed of lifelong friends Michael Montuori…
A couple weeks ago, the Grey 8s had the privilege of returning to III Points for the second year, making the group one of only a few local acts that can call themselves III Points veterans. The psychedelic-tinged blues rocker band, made up of guitarist/vocalist Danny Burns, drummer Andres Bedoya,…
After the resurgence of vinyl, perhaps no other twentieth-century artifact has made as unlikely a revival as the celebrity roast. Late at night, after the kids went to bed, commercials for The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast used to air. Today, it seems so old and musty as one rat pack member after another…
It’s been two years since dissident Cuban rapper, Bian “El B” Rodriguez decided to seek political asylum in Miami. It wasn’t an easy decision to leave Havana — where his critical lyrics with rap duo Los Aldeanos sparked a conscious hip-hop movement and helped liberate young Cuban minds around the…
When Miami Marlins pitcher Jose Fernandez tragically died last month after a boating accident at only 24 years of age, not only Miami but the entire baseball community mourned the loss of one of the most promising athletes in the MLB. To see someone that talented and joyous taken away so young…
In one of Emily Estefan’s first acts of rebellion, she knocked over a microphone stand with a swift kick from inside her mother’s uterus. This is according to her mom Gloria, who was singing “Turn the Beat Around” on a roof at the time of the fetal assault. Actually, even…
Early Tuesday morning, Hurricane Matthew hit the island of Hispaniola and battered Haiti. According to citizens on the island, the category four hurricane wreaked havoc after winds tore off rooftops and the rivers overflowed and flooded the streets. As of 11 a.m., the eye of the storm passed through Haiti…
In Miami, hip-hop heads hear the name “Supa Cindy” and instantly think of 99 JAMZ’s perky morning anchor who rocks the airwaves in between the Rickey Smiley Morning Show while keeping listeners updated with the latest in entertainment news and music. Now, thanks to Rick Ross’ Maybach Music Group, “Supa…
Last June, South Florida hip-hop made national waves when our very own Kodak Black and Denzel Curry nabbed spots on the coveted XXL 2016 “Freshman Class,” an annual round-up of the most hyped up-and-coming MCs in the world. And if you grabbed a copy of that issue, we’ll need you…
It has been a time of transformation for everyone’s favorite Homestead youngins, Above the Skyline. Since our last conversation, the band’s infrastructure has shifted with a change of lineup following the release of the group’s latest EP, A Different Breed. A mutual parting with bassist Elisha Ewing left originals Zach Wood (vocals), Eric…
Back in 2002, André “Scrilla” Scott’s relationship with Rick Ross was simply as a fan. As a college football player and aspiring rapper who hung out with the wrong crowd, Scott found a familiarity in Ross’ story, and looked up to him and what his music had done for Florida…
Fudakochi met Nobody his first day on the job at Panther Coffee in Wynwood, some time in 2012. “Finally we got a black man working here,” Scott “Nobody” Patterson said with a smile. Patterson was a Panther regular, and a familiar face to anyone who frequented Wynwood. To Fudakochi, though, he…
Tomorrow morning, Workshop Collective will be throwing the second instillation in its Disrupt Miami discussion series. Taking place at 9 a.m. at downtown’s Langford Hotel, the panel, moderated by New Times music editor Ryan Pfeffer (AKA me), will be centered around the topic of Miami music. Sweat Records’ Lauren Reskin,…
God bless the sweet souls over at Klangbox.FM, Miami’s local internet radio station helmed by Patrick Walsh and Laura (of Miami). Since the station’s founding in 2013, the two have curated and helped produce local shows hosted by III Points, Death to the Sun’s Ricardo Guerrero, and dozens of other local DJs and…
