#FreeElCritico On March 21, 2013, Ángel Yunier Remón Arzuaga, a Cuban rapper also known as El Critico Del Arte (which translates to The Art Critic), was arrested during a raid on his home by agents of the Castro regime. On October 15, 2014, he was sentenced to six years in…
Saturday night in Miami is flashy, glitzy, glamorous, and quite often expensive. So what is a party kid to do when your wallet is low and your mood is chill? Can’t you just hit a club, have a drink, and listen to some dope tunes without going all out? Sidebar…
“We’re a brand that’s growing from the bottom up,” the Life in Color crew told Crossfade back in 2013, just days before the first-ever LIC Festival was set to splatter neon paint across the Magic City. “We want to just stay hungry, stay humble, and if all goes well, we’ll…
Who’s going Grovin’? Well, we only just announced Miami New Times’ new role as the musical party planner for the Coconut Grove Arts Festival last month. But yep, it’s already time to reveal the 14 national and local bands playing February 14 to 16 at Peacock Park in Miami’s original…
When King Sporty died, Rihanna cried. The man who wrote “Buffalo Soldier” with Bob Marley in a smoke-filled studio in Hialeah flew to the other side on Monday, January 5 in a Miami hospital at the age of 71. With roots in Jamaica’s Trenchtown music scene that wholly informed hip-hop,…
Darren “DJ Spin” Rudnick produced “Scarred,” “It’s Your Birthday,” and “Raise the Roof.” And he was just 12 years old when he first saw 2 Live Crew in concert at the Miami Baseball Stadium. He’d known the group’s music since age 11, when a buddy from school showed him the…
Ballin’ with Hova and Becks… For the past year, former fútbol star and underwear model David Beckham has been working to bring Major League Soccer to Miami. It’s been an absolute soap opera, with starts, stops, schmoozing, recriminations, failed stadium site proposals at Port of Miami and Museum Park, worries…
It’s been a decade and a half. But Fleetwood Mac is whole again. For 15 years, the legendary rock outfit had been touring without singer and keyboardist Christine McVie. She, along with Stevie Nicks, Mick Fleetwood, ex-husband John McVie, and Lindsey Buckingham, were the classic Fleetwood Mac crew that crafted…
While most of us spent New Year’s Day recovering from all that Dom and our other drunken NYE shenanigans, Usher enjoyed the first day of 2015 by going Instagram crazy at PAMM. Just a few hours after hosting his New Year’s Eve countdown bash with DJ Irie, Bow Wow, and…
Update: An arrest has been made: Cameo bouncer Cody Quaife, AKA Q. It was just hours into the new year. At about 5 a.m. on Thursday, January 1, a 22-year-old man named Mohamed Youness Adlan was found brutally beaten and unconscious on the sidewalk beside South Beach’s Cameo nightclub, according…
Wow. Much year. Many new. Miami turned a corner in 2014. The Heat may have failed to three-peat, but there’s a certain positivity in the subtropical air that can’t be denied. Even as some of our most treasured music and nightlife establishments disappear into the abyss of time, there are…
Electronic music is the sound of the future, so it makes sense that one of WVUM’s longest-running weekly radio programs is Electric Kingdom Live. “Most specialty shows are focused on a specific genre, but Electric Kingdom is focused on a format,” says Kunal Chohan, 20. He currently hosts the 20-year…
Twelve’Len is an indie-pop trio from Miami. They are Zach Fogarty, John Falco, and Lavares Joseph. And together, these three spin smooth, organic sounds coupled with bright melodies and crisp vocals that make for a mesmerizing listening experience. The Twelve’Len guys just released a song called “Apple Tree,” from their…
Brownsville rapper D-Mac has a message for all racist cops and his peers in music — and he put it in a music video called “The Code.” Using Black Panther imagery, sampling a Fred Hampton speech, and staging his scenes in the shadows of skyscrapers and on the front porch…
It was a Wednesday night. And we attended a pop-up show in Wynwood, starring Miami’s own Austin Paul. The next day, we hung out with Austin on Miami Beach and he showed us an unreleased video for his most recent release “The Garden.” Oh, and we saw a dolphin swim…
For many locals and tourists, overpriced bottles and $80 cover charges at South Beach clubs are losing their appeal. Low-key venues like Trade and Treehouse, once industry hangouts, are becoming the new nightspots. According to Hugo Bianco and Danny Tory, two of the minds behind the city’s most popular underground…
Down in Florida City, Rasta Rick used to live in an air conditioned tree house, serve bricks of good outdoor ganja, and jam reggae tapes all day. Dade County is both a downtrodden Babylon, and a Rasta’s paradise. And many of the world’s greatest reggae artists, bands, and performers can…
Miami’s been a leader in the electronic dance music industry for decades. So it’s only natural for a local to have a hand in the beatification of the online streaming world. Erik Velez is a Miami guy, entirely dedicated to spreading the joy of dance throughout his city and the…
Is this the end of the Cuban embargo, or just another imperialist conspiracy to infect the world with capitalism? The masses are fervently anticipating what Obama’s new deal with the Castro regime really means. So before you go popping bottles of Havana Club and lighting up Cohibas, stop and think…
“I’m like Willy Wonka with his chocolate factory, always coming up with ideas,” My Deer’s Jo Viscaino says. “I just checked my phone and I have 367 recordings saved of ideas for songs.” To some completing 367 songs might seem an outlandish ambition, but as many a fortune cookie have…
Do the Peacock. ‘Cause Miami New Times just became the musical party planner for the Coconut Grove Arts Festival. Today, CGAF (that’s the fest’s catchy new acronym, pronounced see-gaf) announced the New Times Music Showcase, a three-day, main-stage lineup of over a dozen national and local bands set to perform…
Stop lettin’ your tape rock till it pops. There’s a new place in town to get a dose of classic hip-hop. Every Thursday, DJ YNot is taking over downtown Miami’s Therapy with Juicy, a night of real hip-hop from the edge of the golden era, played through a good sound…
