Trick Daddy on What It Means to Be 305: Video

Growing up in Miami, Trick Daddy was the hardest and grooviest thug playboy of them all. Who would have thought the man behind the legend can be so traditional? Miami New Times had the divine pleasure of hanging with the Slip-N-Slide superstar in his Miramar home last week, and we…

The Stage Miami Closing, Considering Move

The Stage Miami opened its doors at 170 NE 38th St. on November 11, 2010. But after almost five years and countless classic club gigs from famous folks like Ty Segall, St. Vincent, and Wu-Tang’s Ghostface Killah, as well as nearly every notable local band, the venue is vacating its Design District…

Tomas Diaz Talks “Suky” and Going to Cuban Jail for Rock ’n’ Roll

“Suky” is a song, a dance, and a worldwide phenomenon by Miami’s own Tomas Diaz.  The international singing sensation went from jail in Cuba for playing dangerous music to backing Bruce Springsteen, touring with Phish, co-founding Spam Allstars, and recording his new solo project. He recently inked a deal with…

Barron Machat, Founder of Hippos in Tanks Label, Died in Miami Car Crash

As the co-founder and CEO of New York/London/Los Angeles-based record label Hippos in Tanks, Barron Machat earned a reputation for fostering internet-era experimental pop that blenderized New Wave, R&B, techno, avant-garde noise, and other far stranger sonic strains. Launched with Travis Woolsey in 2010, Machat’s label helped boost underground electronic phenoms…

Why Miami Still Needs Record Stores

The CD seems destined for obsolescence. Sales continue to decline. Profits too. And people are starting to discover that crusty old coffee-table coasters can be conveniently replaced with compact discs. But vinyl is booming. For the seventh straight year, the format’s sales have increased. (In 2014, there were 9.2 million…

Pitbull Turning Miami Into 1950s Cuba for Music Video

Ever been tempted to take a time machine back to 1950s Havana, but the only thing keeping you in 2015 was you wouldn’t be able to dance to Pitbull in the ’50s? Well, now the 1950s and Pitbull’s music don’t have to be mutually exclusive. This Friday, April 10, Pitbull…

Mana Announces Cama Incendiada Tour, Coming to Miami

It isn’t a crossover. More than maybe any other Latin pop act, Maná represents what the Top 40 charts could look like in a couple of decades, as the U.S.’s Spanish-speaking population continues to explode. The Mexican rock band sings only en español. Unlike Shakira, Ricky Martin, Enrique Iglesias, and…

Cuba’s Buena Vista Social Club Announces Adios Tour, Coming to Miami

It’s been seven decades since anyone actually stepped into the Buena Vista Social Club, a members-only hangout in Havana, where some of the island’s most skillful singers and musicians pioneered a distinctively Afro-Cuban mezla of jazz, mambo, charanga, cha-cha-cha, rumba, and son. The club closed in the 1940s, long before…

Rhythm Foundation on 13 Years of the Heineken TransAtlantic Festival

Thirteen is a number considered by many to be unlucky, but the organizers of the 13th-annual Heineken TransAtlantic Festival see themselves as incredibly fortunate. When this world music-focused fest was launched in 2003, it seemed unlikely that a decade-plus run lay ahead. But as Rhythm Foundation director Laura Quinlan explains,…

Fadenfest Brings Trick Daddy, Otto von Schirach, Punk Rock to Wynwood

Move over magic clowns, Trick Daddy Dollars is about to take over the birthday game. True Miami boy and avid music lover Eric Faden is turning 24. That’s why on Friday, April 10, he will be turning Wynwood’s LMNT into a 305 free-for-all of music, food, and entertainment. There’s gonna…

WMC and MMW 2015’s Best Saturday Parties

Only 48 hours left. Don’t cry. Don’t hyperventilate. Don’t despair. We know it seems Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week is oh-so-quickly coming to an end. But there’s still plenty of party time to go. You will realize your wildest WMC and MMW dreams. You will fist-pump underwater. You…

WMC and MMW 2015’s Best Friday Parties

Contrary to what your physician may suggest, after three straight days of partying, you do not need a dark room, a warm bed, some rest, a good cry, and an IV dose of 1000 milliliters of normal saline. All you need is more partying. Lots more partying. And even more…

George Clinton Funks Up WMC’s 30th Anniversary

George Clinton is one of the God particles of hip-hop. Like James Brown before him, his crucial contributions to the world of funk form the basis of rap as we know it. Not just the samples, the breaks, the ripoffs, and the re-writes, but the classics. From De La Soul’s…