Gipsy Kings is the OG gitano rock band. Way before Gogol Bordello sang punky odes to the proverbial wanderer, the Kings traversed the globe, blending Spanish rumba and flamenco guitar for a worldwide audience. Formed in 1978, the Gipsy Kings is two sets of siblings, the Reyes and the Baliardos…
Lil Wayne loves skateboarding. But when a photographer’s flashbulb ruins his ollie, that’s just fucked up. Last week, according to a TMZ video, Dwayne Michael Carter Jr. was skateboarding ’round Miami Beach Community Church — a United Church of Christ congregation at 1620 Drexel Avenue with a strict “No Skateboarding”…
Who’s feeling overdue for some grown-and-sexy chillwave romance? Wait no longer, lonely dance-floor hearts! ‘Cause MillionYoung will be at The Vagabond for an intimate performance on Friday, April 13. This South Florida native is sure to help you shake it down with his under-the-radar hooks and sentimental melodies, backed by…
The New York Times ran a piece today titled, “Electronic Dance Genre Tempts Investors,” as though everybody didn’t already know that there is good money in booze and titties. The article cites the rise of the dance music megabashes – Electric Daisy, Hard and, of course, Ultra Music Festival -…
Yep, it’s official. Kanye West and Kim Kardashian are doing it, and they’re in love. Or at least that’s what West said on his new track, “Theraflu,” produced by Miami’s own DJ Khaled (We da best!). But that’s not all the contro rapper revealed in his new spot. He also…
Not Demi, but Justin. “Backwoods” country singer Justin Moore thinks Ashton Kutcher was out of line by showing up at the American Country Music Awards this past weekend dressed like a rodeo clown, rocking a goofy cowboy hat and even goofier red suit. After Sunday night’s ACM Awards, Moore suckered…
Yes, Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week are over. But that doesn’t mean the uhntz-uhntz is dead and gone. On Friday, April 13, Mansion is bringing the party back with Flosstradamus. If you didn’t catch J2K and Autobot at last month’s Fool’s Gold showcase, don’t miss this chance to…
Professional hip hop lyricist Parable MC only spent three months out of the last year in Miami. The rest of the time he was working events across America as an MC for hire. He was on a side stage at the Superbowl, and working at a Lil Wayne concert too.But…
Like so many others, this publication is guilty of milking the Rihanna vs. Chris Brown cow. But for the amount of drama it produces, you can’t really blame us. Rolling Stone is reporting that RiRi recently opened up about the public’s reaction to her February collaboration with Chris Brown. In…
Read our original report on DJ Laz’s departure from WPOW — plus Uncle Luke’s comments on talking to DJ Laz about quitting Power 96. Former radio impresario and longtime Power 96 DJ Lazaro Mendez never returned our calls. The “pimp with the limp” did, however, sit down with NBC 6…
Read our original report on DJ Laz’s departure from WPOW — plus Uncle Luke’s comments on talking to DJ Laz about quitting Power 96. First, a heartbreaking tweet that some interpreted as a cruel and belated April Fools’ Day hoax. “Rumors are true, I am no longer with Power 96,”…
Sorry to beat an aggressively dead horse, but drugs are bad. If you’re dumb enough – and you probably are because you’re doing drugs in the first place – they will kill you. And if they don’t kill you, they’ll make you uglier, dumber, and dead broke. Sure Drugs make…
Read Uncle Luke’s comments on talking to DJ Laz about quitting Power 96. UPDATE: Beasley Broadcast Group, Power 96’s parent company just released a statement regarding Laz’s departure.”Effective today, DJ LAZ, who has been with the station for 22 years, has decided to move on and explore other professional opportunities.”The…
Hellish hiss and skull-splitting feedback explodes into a swirlingly atonal shit-cloud of expertly terrible guitar noise, erratic yet superprecise drum strikes, droning bass, garbled shrieks, and totally indecipherable lyrical chatter. That’s the sound of Scraping Teeth. And it’s the fucking worst. No, really. Almost 20 years ago, Spin Magazine launched…
Is the proof in the proverbial Canadian pudding, the Juno Awards, Canada’s equivalent to the Grammy’s, that Drake is mad soft? Last night, while we watched Taylor Swift walk away with another Academy of Country Music Entertainer of the Year award, the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences was…
Sure, Tiësto and Swedish House Mafia party on private planes, flooding fuselages with champagne on their epic 36,000-mile-high ravers. And yeah, rappers like Lil Wayne and Rick Ross make it rain millions at King of Diamonds, unleashing cash-money thunderstorms on big-booty girls like Tip Drill and Skrawberry. But Andrew Fetterly…
Madonna’s now-infamous Ultra appearance continues to weigh heavy on the electronic dance music community, ruffling more feathers than an Ecstasy-induced seizure. The latest EDM heavyweight to weigh-in on Madge’s “How many people in this crowd have seen Molly?” question, Paul van Dyk. “Madonna was so stupid to actually call out…
Not always a virtual land of quirky viral videos, blooper reels, cute puppies, and adorable kittens, YouTube is often a forum for hate, a safe haven for bigotry. In the wake of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin’s unjustifiable death, YouTube has become an outlet for angry folks to spew hatred. Florida City’s…
Wanna perspire till you pass out? Try squeezing into a rubber suit, guzzling 32 ounces of java, and running some treadmill in the sauna. Or … Test the limits of dehydration and heat exhaustion at the 2012 edition of Sweatstock. Just a couple of weeks ago, this annual indie music…
From the Los Angeles set of his “Back in Time” video shoot, Pitbull drops a big-screen bomb. Having already conquered the international pop charts with hits like “Rain Over Me” and “Give Me Everything,” Miami rapper and last week’s subject of VH1’s Behind the Music, Pitbull tells MTV News that…
Appearing with electro-house meatball Avicii at Ultra Music Festival may be providing Madonna with a buzz boost on par with Betty White’s reinvention as a party-rockin’ hornball grams. First, the entire world seemed to shit its collective pants at the mere sight of Lady MDNA onstage at Ultra. We even…
Are you beat-freaking kidding me? We’re still uhntz-uhntz-ing around Ultra Music Festival 2012, waiting for EDM riot-starter Kaskade, David “The French Tickler” Guetta, and super-Dutch trance man Armin van Buuren to hump up onto the Main Stage and bring this sweaty, pheremone-soaked festival of dance to a furious, fist-pumping climax…
