Knife Party at Ultra Music Festival 2013

Seizure music, death electro, and derpstep. Those are the extreme EDM genres Knife Party’s Rob Swire and Gareth McGrillen use to describe their music, which reveals a couple of things about these Australian dudes: (1) they don’t take themselves too seriously, and (2) they dig dangerous fun. After bum-rushing the…

Gramps Hosting Jimbo’s 86th Birthday

It was, according to Esquire, one of America’s best bars. And closer to home, it served New Times’ favorite smoked fish for nearly six decades. These days, however, Jimbo’s is little more than a grassy plot of vacant land on Virginia Key. But the bait shop and seaside speakeasy’s legacy…

Mark McGrath Abandons Ship, Cancels Nineties Nostalgia Cruise

Every morning, there’s a halo hanging from the corner of our girlfriend’s four post bed. Today, it’s soiled in sadness because Mark McGrath, lead singer of Sugar Ray and former Extra co-host, has canceled his Nineties Nostalgia cruise. Scheduled to depart from Miami in October, the ‘Mark McGrath and Friends’…

Rick Ross Safe in New York City, Gets 24-Hour NYPD Protection

Of the over 8.2 million permanent inhabitants of New York City, and the nearly 51 million international and domestic tourists who visit each year, only one pinguo from Miami has around-the-clock protection from the city’s finest, the NYPD. That man is Rick Ross. According to TMZ (via Hip-Hop Wired), New…