We were all pretty excited when we heard news that System of a Down’s Serj Tankian was coming to South Florida with a full orchestra. So excited, in fact, that we decided to launch a contest to giveaway tickets and a meet and greet for the show on October 9.Well,…
Unfortunately not all big shows can launch their tours in Miami. We get that. But when we heard that last night’s Jay-Z/ Eminem concert in New York — the first in the new Yankee Stadium — had a ton of special musical guests, we just had to share some footage…
I recently stopped by Afrobeta’s beautiful downtown home recording studio to drop off a LeBron CD, and to check if they needed a guitarist for their tour. I love Afro Beta, and if I could work with any local band it would be them. You should have seen them at…
Young Livers Of Misery and Toil (No Idea Records) www.noidearecords.com I believe that the great and sorely missed Thomas “Pig Champion” Roberts was the butt of the Poison Idea joke of record collectors being pretentious assholes. That much is true dear readers, but I’m not as much a pretentious asshole…
Photo by Getty ImagesChelsea Handler as a Lady Gaga-esque houseWe were expecting quite the spectacle at this year’s MTV Video Music Awards. In lieu of last year’s Taylor Swift acceptance speech interruption, Kanye’s apologetic tweets, and her tweets suggesting she was going to interrupt him this year, we thought there…
This isn’t the first you hear about Miami native YEYO, and it certainly won’t be the last. The rapper and producer has been grinding for the last few years, and continues to show nothing but promise. He first started out with Puerto Rican rap group the Shanghai Assassinz back in…
This week BET announced the nominees for its annual Hip Hop Awards, which air on Tuesday October 12th and is hosted by the always hilarious Mike Epps. We had a few Miamians score some nominations, like usual suspects Rick Ross and DJ Khaled, each picking up four noms in various…
A lot of South Floridians were crushed when Bono had to reschedule U2’s July stop in Miami because of a back injury. The show was rescheduled for August of next year, but what are we supposed to do until then?Bono and the Edge contributed the music and the lyrics for…
via their MySpace pageUnfortunately Metallica won’t be joining Anthrax, Megadeth, and Slayer for their October 3 performance at Bayfront Park. But they’re still a band that always comes to mind when thinking of classic metal. And what’s more “metal” than a band putting together an EP filled with fan bootlegs?The…
I got a text from my friend Tamar the other day, saying, “You wanna go to a Pitbull video shoot?” Hell yeah! I love Pitbull! I grabbed the Kodak and drove to a studio near Coconut Grove. Some of the hottest women I have ever seen were walking around in…
The name Philip Selway probably sounds familiar: He’s been the drummer for Radiohead since the band’s inception, but a lot of people don’t know that he often did backup vocals for the band, too. Selway decided to branch out on his own to make his first solo album, Familial, but…
Local MC and heavy-hitter Dynas has been doing his hip-hop thing for years. And when we mean “years,” we’re talking well over 14, grinding both in his birthplace of New York City and his current place of residence, Miami.With over 50 releases under his belt as well as a sleuth…
We weren’t really sure what to make of the announcement that French pop duo Daft Punk scoring the Disney film Tron. Would they stick to their trademark dance worthy beats, or compromise it all for those cute and memorable mouse ears?Once we got a peek of some of the track…
We all freaked out when we heard tickets for Saturday’s Crystal Castles show at Grand Central sold out everywhere. But alas, our prayers have been answered. A new batch of $40 tickets have been made available for purchase.Only about 200 of them were released, so once those are gone, there…
Stop, drop, shut ’em down, and open up shop: We all remember jamming to a little DMX back in the day. He’s no stranger to drama, and loves himself a little controversy. Stints in jail, feuds with Ja Rule, and his latest: Picking on our local Florida talent. DMX spoke…
I don’t usually go around spouting the hip-hop Gospel, but I’ll be damned if I don’t happen to cross paths with some hot shit. Here’s a home-made video by my holmes Orion for Thousand’s track “Acid Trips” and in true form, it is found footage from some arcane Japanese arcade…
When we last left our viral hooker-cum-rappers heroines Memphis Blac and Smokahontas Jones, they explained to us what all the hoopla surrounding the YouTube sensation “Got Dat Work” was about. The Dallas aunt-and-niece team had experienced a bit of a backlash, but Blac insisted they were only rapping about what…
Beings Self-titled (Amnesian Records) www.amnesianrecords.com Beings is Miami’s newest power trio and in its short span of time it has been creating some serious waves across the land with this nifty eight-track album and their recent high profile touring with hometown darlings Torche. But it should come as no surprise,…
For many years I’ve regressed into the darkness of my home armed solely with the music these fuckers make. Why? Because it is good. It is ambient, it is paranoid, it comes from left-field, and it is made by some of the most unsung of unsung heroes we have here…
The MTV Video Music Awards have morphed into somewhat of a spectacle recently. Some groundbreaking pop culture news is usually broken, some rapper embarrasses a pop starlet, and some cheesy comedian always has a tendency to tell a joke that’s borderline too far.The VMAs are trying to class it up…
We’re finding this really hard to admit, but yeah, we watch Jersey Shore. Sure, it’s kind of a train wreck, but aside from the predictable cat fights and nonstop drama, there’s now at least one other reason we can think of to not change the channel: The music. MTV has…
Furious Dudes Florida Sucks (Livid Records) www.lividrecords.com There’s a special place in punk rock hell reserved for these motherfuckers. It’s somewhere between Miami and Chattanooga, but it certainly is within the swampy wastelands of Florida because contrary to their furiously incorrigible beliefs, Florida does not suck. And these “dudes” make…
