If you missed out on Iggy Pop’s concert at the Fillmore a couple months ago (we’re looking at you, horrible Miami selfie man) and are wondering what the late-era Iggy Pop live experience is all about, O Cinema is willing to fill you in. On June 16 at 9 p.m.,…
In the hours following yesterday’s tragedy at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, the internet was flooded with opinions. Many of them spoke with something resembling hope, looking towards the subsequent charity and unity shown by the collective Orlando community as lines to donate blood wrapped around the block. Some…
After DJ Khaled rocked the airwaves with his new Drake collaboration “For Free,” Miami’s other top artists like Rick Ross and Ace Hood followed suit by dropping major tracks this week. The Carol City native brought together the A-team of his Maybach Music Group for a track called “Make It…
“I don’t want to turn up anymore.” That’s what the headline said on Vice’s Thump. The picture running across the top of the screen showed Niko Javan, Miami’s king of hyphy psychedelia, posing devilishly before a gang of dancing Flaming Hot Cheetos bags, but below the turnt up imagery sat…
It’s crazy to think the world has been sans Prince for more than a month already, and yet, there’s still a constant stream of celebratory content honoring the legacy and the genius of the late musical icon. A star like Prince’s doesn’t fade fast. It will take decades, centuries maybe,…
Six days ago, the unstoppable DJ Khaled shared a short video of himself sitting on a throne next to an actual lion, asking someone behind the camera, “Did the Drake vocals get in yet?” They did, apparently, and then Khaled informed the camera that Major Key, his upcoming debut release…
It’s Friday, which means we’re bringing you all the best in this week’s South Florida hip-hop scene. See what dropped this past week, and be ready to bring these tracks with you into the weekend. 5. Oyabun, “Mona Lisa” Palm Beach resident OYABUN says he will do anything for his…
Sitting outside of Panther Coffee in Wynwood, Fabio Galarce and Alex Borges, two-thirds of the DJ collective Dude Skywalker, are really excited to talk about their new party. “This is the first time we’ve ever taken a weekly endeavor,” says Galarce. The Miami natives are both Florida State University graduates…
Inside Puroast Coffee, the new coffee shop that’s taken the place of the now tragically defunct Tobacco Road, there’s a stream of curly red hair bouncing at the bar. Even with her back turned, you can’t walk into a room and miss Josephine Phoenix. With a copy of Anjelica Huston’s…
When I walked up to the grand opening of the new Appt. Only showroom on the outskirts of Wynwood last Friday, I imagined the host of the event, 2 Chainz, would be the prime center of attention. Store owner Philip Cardona collaborated with the rapper and the Neala Group to…
Critics may have their fare share of things to say about Miami’s hip-hop scene, but it’s hard to argue that, lately, business is booming. Within the last year alone, trending rappers like We The Best’s Kent Jones, Freebandz/Epic signee Zoey Dollaz, and Pompano Beach’s rising star Kodak Black have added…
New York-based Miami natives, the Goodnight Darlings, embraced vampirism back in October with their elaborate “Empire Vampire” music video off the All I Ever Wanted EP. Now the duo, made up of vocalist Kat Auster and instrumentalist Wilson Jaramillo, is hoping their hometown can help them produce a new project…
Maybe you’ve seen Virgo perform live before, an otherworldly figure dressed in white or silver. Sometimes she looks like she’s just floating up there onstage, as if gravity doesn’t affect her. Elizabeth Ann Clark, the mastermind behind Virgo’s multimedia persona, is originally from California. After moving to Miami a couple years…
These days, you can forget commercial FM radio if you’re looking to feed your ears anything other than Top 40 fodder. You certainly won’t find much by way of indie or underground music on the local dial. And you most definitely won’t be hearing from the tragically untapped wealth of…
Catherine, Christina, Jodi, and Janelle Pyfrom want to become pop’s next big thing. But that’s not what makes them stand out. The four Miami sisters — who were born in Miami and raised in the Bahamas — are identical quadruplets. “At first, it was more for fun, but then Christina got the…
It might be a stretch to call Bruce Hornsby one of our homeboys. And yet, the fact that he graduated from the University of Miami School of Music in 1977, which in many ways provided his pathway to success, gives us something we can brag about, as well as further…
As hundreds of hip-hop heads turnt up with Robb Bank$ and crew last Friday at Rolling Loud’s Dab Stage, a more subdued affair was unfolding only a few yards away at the festival’s Citrus Stage. The Citrus Stage, touted as a showcase for up-and-coming indie acts and unsigned artists, offered…
“It’s all my fault,” Peter Stebbins, founder and president of the nonprofit local radio station Shake 108 (107.9 FM), tells New Times. He launched his humble radio station just less than two years ago, but now the beloved frequency faces a government-mandated obstacle. “The FCC recently did an inspection of…
Though John Lennon once co-wrote a song about a Magical Mystery Tour, The John Lennon Educational Tour Bus only goes halfway with that philosophy. While it does hope to create magic, it also seeks to take the mystery out of the artistic process. Started by Yoko Ono Lennon 19 years…
On April 1, 2016, a single-seat plane circled over Miami Beach with an unusual banner in tow: “CLUB SPACE — PLEASE PAY YOUR BANNER BILL!” The not-so-subtle message was no April Fools joke, but rather the boiling point of a conflict that, according to the company Aerial Banners, Inc., had…
In less than ten years, Armando Christian Pérez went from Mr. 305 to Mr. Worldwide, not just in name and on record, but in real life. As the most famous Cuban-American musician since Gloria Estefan, the man better known as Pitbull has escaped the trappings of his Miami upbringing and…
For centuries, mankind has attempted to tame nature with a heavy hand. Floridian developers have drained huge swathes of Everglades swampland, building so-called “McMansions” behind useless gates and endless arrays of one-story shopping centers where iguanas and alligators once reigned. And yet, that very development pollutes the water and air,…
