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.”…
When it comes to concert venues and other showcases for live music, Miami-Dade and Broward are more or less on equal footing with one another. Each county has its share of clubs and venues. Each has world class arts centers, and each has mammoth arenas to host the biggest acts…
Growing up in Miami, Trick Daddy was the hardest and grooviest thug playboy of them all. Who would have thought the man behind the legend can be so traditional? Miami New Times had the divine pleasure of hanging with the Slip-N-Slide superstar in his Miramar home last week, and we…
The Stage Miami opened its doors at 170 NE 38th St. on November 11, 2010. But after almost five years and countless classic club gigs from famous folks like Ty Segall, St. Vincent, and Wu-Tang’s Ghostface Killah, as well as nearly every notable local band, the venue is vacating its Design District…
Growing up in Little Havana, Aura Peralta found inspiration in the unlikeliest of places, an episode of The Simpsons. “Watching Lisa Simpson play the sax back in sixth grade, that’s when I knew music was what I wanted to do,” she recalls. Now grown up, she sings in a band…
“Suky” is a song, a dance, and a worldwide phenomenon by Miami’s own Tomas Diaz. The international singing sensation went from jail in Cuba for playing dangerous music to backing Bruce Springsteen, touring with Phish, co-founding Spam Allstars, and recording his new solo project. He recently inked a deal with…
As the co-founder and CEO of New York/London/Los Angeles-based record label Hippos in Tanks, Barron Machat earned a reputation for fostering internet-era experimental pop that blenderized New Wave, R&B, techno, avant-garde noise, and other far stranger sonic strains. Launched with Travis Woolsey in 2010, Machat’s label helped boost underground electronic phenoms…
The CD seems destined for obsolescence. Sales continue to decline. Profits too. And people are starting to discover that crusty old coffee-table coasters can be conveniently replaced with compact discs. But vinyl is booming. For the seventh straight year, the format’s sales have increased. (In 2014, there were 9.2 million…
Trick Daddy is a passionate man. He’s passionate about his city, his community, hip-hop, and he’s definitely passionate about his food. “Tilapia, that’s a new fish,” he says. “I don’t even remember when tilapia came out. That’s not a fish we ate. Growing up in the ghetto, we ate grunts, we…
Shroud Eater has been, without a doubt, one of the steadiest forces on South Florida’s contemporary metal scene. The trio’s informed doom is tempered by flourishes of melody, yet grounded in the cavernous and thunderous roll of sludge and stoner metal. Founded by Jean Saiz and Janette Valentine, respectively playing…
