Must be lonely at the top for the world’s richest DJ, Calvin Harris. Harris was once an underground sensation — a favorite among late-2000s hipsters — thanks to cuts like “Acceptable in the ’80s” and “The Girls.” Needless to say, he has taken a more pop approach to dance music…
For 22 years, Uncle Sam’s Music has been one of the best record stores in South Florida, a place where you can buy a used CD, a new record, and a bag of incense, a pipe, and a t-shirt to go with it. After nearly a quarter century, though, shop…
Hyped for the return of “the old Goodie Mob days”? Well, keep waiting while tapping your foot and checking that watch, because Cee Lo, Big Gipp, Khujo, and T-Mo are no longer bringing their reunion tour to Miami or most of the other 11 American cities. That’s right, as Grand…
Attention Miami trapaholics! Your days of wandering the streets, following ratchet bass systems in random cars are over. Your weekly fix has arrived. It’s time to get Based. Every Saturday, Red Rabbit Presents is bringing Base at Space and real trap music to Miami. Since debuting in June, this weekly…
In 1975, Willie Clarke won a Grammy for his work on Betty Wright’s “Where Is The Love”. It’s one of many hits he wrote in the ’70s for the biggest independent record company in the world, Henry Stone’s TK Productions, out of Hialeah. But Clarke’s recording career began in the…
Alright, so TomorrowWorld may not be coming to Miami. But a slice of the 305 will be making its way to Georgia next month as Belgium’s TomorrowLand travels overseas for its first U.S. fest. European EDM promo powerhouse ID&T has announced that LIV will be joining forces with TomorrowWorld as…
Say what you wanna say … But the truth is there’s no escaping the uhntz-uhntz of Calvin Harris and the ilk. Within the last year alone, the blond-haired, bright-eyed Scottish EDM master made it to the Billboard Hot 100 at number 12 with his hit “Feel So Close,” signed a…
Hey, beat freaks! It’s August, and you know what that means … Time to start plotting your annual Winter Music Conference plan of attack! There are only 217 days left until the 2014 Conference kicks off. And no, that’s not a lot of time. Believe us, you’re going to blink…
Miami independent music pioneer Willie Clarke is a Grammy winner whose music has been sampled by Beyonce. In the mid 1960s, he and a college buddy named Johnny Pearsall started a label called Deep City, based out of Johnny’s Records in Liberty City. It was the first independent, black-owned record…
Does a $0.25 cover charge for some superintimate, semi-secret show at a small waterfront bar with French art-rock geniuses Phoenix sound too good to be true? Well, yeah. But fans weren’t about to hesitate clicking the “Buy Tickets” button when Live Nation and Ticketmaster suddenly sent out an app alert…
Update: Reached by phone on Sunday afternoon, Hardin County coroner Jessica Cullum released the name of the man who died as Cory Collins, 24, of Harrisburg, Illinois, a town about 35 miles northwest of the music festival. Cullum said the cause of death was still pending. More details about the…
Photo by Daniel HillThe now-closed “drug bridge.” The Gathering of the Juggalos’ infamous “drug bridge” was closed on Friday, following reports of a fatal overdose. Ambulances were on the scene at Cave-in-Rock, Illinois around 2 p.m. local time, according to witnesses. The substance involved is believed to be heroin. Since…
Every hipster millennial had their Killers moment. These kids vehemently yelled “Mr. Brightside” in the shower, and then on the bus to school (since it was 2004, and Discmans were still in), they packed an extra set of Duracells for a habitual Hot Fuss morning sesh. Over the years though,…
DJ Carnage — he’s “just chilling, eating food, watching Netflix,” doing whatever. You might have heard his breakout Bang! EP. Or you might have heard about how he pissed off a bunch of agro commenters by saying he was over trap. Or you might have killing it at Ultra Music…
Miami has a long history of putting out great, unique sounding heavy bands. In much the same way that the marsupials of the Southern Hemisphere have evolved with combinations of traits unlike those of any other mammalian group, Miami’s isolated heavies are a genus unto themselves. And now, in particular,…
With his first EP, Velvet, Austin Paul won the hearts of musical taste-makers from soulful-producer Kastle to groove-guru Pharrell. In the few months since it dropped, he’s traveled the nation making musical connections with big brands from Vogue to Porsche, and it’s just the beginning. Still, success can be stressful,…
If The Clash were from Miami and made a record in 2013, it might sound like ¡Mayday!’s new album, Believers. With rock and Caribbean guitar riffs, simple and heavy basslines, snap-and-crack drums, multilayered lyrics, and catchy hooks, this slab is the Miami rap crew’s latest masterpiece. We spoke with MCs…
“Miami bass is the ghetto-style hip-hop that came out of Miami in the ’80s,” says DJ Jerry Pulles. From 1989 to 1994, he drove a van loaded with speakers and records from Miami Lakes to Hialeah to Carol City, playing house parties for his friends from American High. Later, he…
Flo Rida is a Florida boy who’s basically made a career of ripping off dance music instant classics, and Diplo is a Florida boy who’s made a career spawning them. So far, the two haven’t really crossed paths. But it seems that’s all changed in the time it takes to…
“The best day of the year.” Yesterday, it was Miami Beach rapper Kat Dahlia’s 23rd birthday. And that’s what she tweeted 14 hours and 27 minutes before being busted by Miami Beach Police. The misdemeanor charge: “DUI” and “Resisting [Arrest] W/O Violence.” See also: -Five Rappers Dumb Enough to Get…
The Bawse is a former officer with the Florida Department of Corrections. Of course, though, he usually plays the role of gangsta thug drug dealer who “got a chopper in the car.” Hence the professional moniker, Rick Ross, a name lifted from an infamous Cali crack peddler. But on a…
Trina is Da Baddest Bitch. And that’s the way it’s been ever since her career first took off in the late ’90s. But it’s a decade and a half later. And the 34 year old’s got some stiff competition, what with all these bodacious youngins hitting the charts. In an…
