Serj Tankian Cancels October 9 Fillmore Miami Beach Show

​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,…

Inside Afrobeta’s Crib with Jesse Jackson

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…

Local Motion: Young Livers – Of Misery and Toil

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…

The Best (and Worst) of the VMAs — with Some Miami Touches

Photo by Getty ImagesChelsea Handler as a Lady Gaga-esque house​We 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…

Miami MC Thousand Releases Video for “Acid Trips”

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…

Memphis Blac & Smokahontas Jones Performing Live at Vagabond Thursday

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…

Local Motion: Beings – Self-titled

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,…

Local Motion: Furious Dudes – Florida Sucks

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…