Say “Slow Roast.” And what comes to mind? Are you salivating at the thought of crunchy, fall-off-the-bone pork slathered in spicy, tangy sauces? Are you scrubbin’ the ground with dat fat booty, humming a riddim that sticks to your ribs? Both make sense, because not only is slow-roasted meat the…
Madonna’s been a bad girl. Basically, her entire life. Right now, though, we’re referring specifically to the bad, bad, bad news that this bad, bad, bad girl just broke about having to cancel her Rebel Heart Tour kickoff shows, a two-night stand in Miami. But that’s not all. Naughty Ms…
Though the Strokes are still together, frontman Julian Casablancas, like most of his bandmates, has spent the last few years on other endeavors. With only seven festival shows scheduled through 2015, the essential early-2000s rock band has no plans for a new album. Instead, guitarist Albert Hammond Jr. is prepping…
Kaskade doesn’t just believe in Miami’s music scene. He’s bought into it. Super Music Group is a 305-based management company that started as a means to represent Amtrac. Since 2010, founders Derek Walin and Brandon Kesslar have expanded the mission and the roster to include Craze, Robb Bank$, DZA, Sluggers,…
The blues has given modern music any number of iconic individuals over the course of the past 100 years, but none were more beloved and respected than Riley B. King, better known as B.B. The legendary guitarist died on Thursday night at his Las Vegas home from complications due to…
DJ Craze needs no introduction: Miami’s three-time DMC solo champ is an effin’ boss. So much so, he almost named his latest Baby Gurl EP after his track, “Bow Down,” featuring the 305 Mayor, Trick Daddy. “That was the original name, but we didn’t turn in the paperwork on time and…
Miami nightclubs aren’t known for their longevity. Usually a glossy, expensive party palace or trendy underground venue will open to huge hype, do solid business for a year or two, struggle for a similar stretch of time, and then close, suddenly, while clubbers shrug to show their lack of surprise…
Is it getting caliente in here? Yes, hot and sweaty and crazy, papo. Because iHeartRadio Fiesta Latina, the annual Latin music-focused mini-festival from the internet radio platform owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. (formerly known as Clear Channel Media and Entertainment), has just revealed a secret: It’s moving the party to the American…
The Miami sun is a multifaceted muse. It’s typical for our locale to spawn glammed-out techno or hip-hop party anthems, but travel a bit off the beaten path and there’s a whole new array of beachy wonders to unearth. Case in point: Wynwood’s own Jellyfish Brothers, a local no-wave outfit…
He wants to be the new Dick Clark, papo. Once just a Cuban kid off la esquina, Armando Christian Pérez became Pitbull, then Mr. 305, then Mr. Worldwide. And like anyone from Little Havan, the guy is always on his hustle. So far, he has notched ten Top 10 hits on the…
Miami resident Nicolas Troncoso has already made a name for himself as a budding tech-house producer with releases on hotly tipped international labels like Neim and Superfreq. But as the A&R mastermind behind Miami’s Prisoner of Love label, he’s also emerging as one of our local underground dance music scene’s…
Booze, weed, molly, ’shrooms, powder, rocks, downers, uppers, trippy shit. This is just a small sampling of the many legal and illegal substances used by party people to alter their consciousness (or get fucked up) while attending major music festivals. Now, it’s no secret that drugs and concerts go together…
Niko Javan’s recent pornographic vegetable EP? There’s an app for that. The fearless “multimedia warrior” has his hands in music production, visual arts, music videos, and t-shirt design, but he’s still got an uncontrollable urge to push himself to new creative frontiers. He was looking for a new project, a…
Bayfront Park is polluted. There is lead, arsenic, and other toxins in the soil. This contamination was actually discovered during last year’s survey of the City of Miami’s 112 public parks, which followed the discovery of poison ash in Coconut Grove at the former site of the Old Smokey municipal…
Once upon a time, not very long ago, Miami’s cultural community relied very heavily upon mixing the visual arts and music to generate an actual audience. Nowadays though, groups have separated like drops of oil in water. You don’t often see bands playing at art openings anymore and 305 folks…
DJ Craze is a living legend, and we in Miami are spoiled to call him our own. Sometimes, we need a reminder that the rest of the world looks to the three-time DMC solo world champion for technical advice and musical direction. Sometimes, we need to see how much they…
When offered the assignment of interviewing Johnny Cash, I had a moment of insane excitement as I imagined asking questions about “A Boy Named Sue” and Sun Records. But then I remembered the Man in Black had been dead for over a decade. The Johnny Cash with whom I would…
Whenever a homeboy makes good, it’s reason for the rest of us to feel proud. And when there’s a celebrity association involved, it’s all the more reason to express admiration and admit a bit of awe. So credit David Rousseau with inspiring a lot of both. In the last ten…
Miami is about to get a visit from the first lady – of hip-hop, that is. Brooklyn’s mean queen MC Lyte was the first woman to put rap on wax and release a full-length LP. She came through the gate spitting thoughtful, direct messages about respecting yourself and the people…
A boat sailing to Salamanca, Spain, in 1549 met an unfavorable fate somewhere in the Florida Keys. On the wrecked vessel was thirteen year old Hernando De Escalante Fontaneda who was saved and then enslaved by the indigenous Calusa Indians. He spent 17 years traveling extensively around the state and observing…
It’s hard to be a band in Miami. In fact, in Miami, it’s hard to be anything other than a rapper or a hip-hop crew. Because that’s what this city caters to, at least for right now. These are the facts, the realities, so to speak, of living at the…
Trick Daddy is a lot of things to a lot of people, but when it comes to his food, he’s not exactly humble. “I’m the top chef,” he says. “I’m ranked number one in the city. I just taste everybody else food, and I know they ain’t on my level.”…
