It’s been a long, strange trip for Dope Entertainment’s Rolling Loud, which begins Friday in Bayfront Park. The rambunctious weekend-long music festival born at Soho Studios in Wynwood in 2015 has since mutated into the most highly anticipated hip-hop event in the state, and quite possibly the nation.
“I went to the beach, and swam with the jellyfish, ‘cause I didn’t give a fuck,” a shirtless, off-key Flea crooned into the microphone during an impromptu song he seemingly made up on the spot just for the American Airlines Arena crowd. It was at once an homage to our…
The lyrics of one-hit wonders’ songs get stuck in your head. The names of the artists who recorded them usually don’t. Admit it: You don’t know who recorded “La Macarena” or “Tootsee Roll.” Some songs inspire dance crazes that seem to pop out of the cosmos, belonging to us all equally and democratically rather than associating them with a particular person.
Hip-hop heads, your week has finally arrived. Rolling Loud is bringing together some of the best contemporary hip-hop acts at Bayfront Park for a three-day bonanza. It’s still unclear how Dope Entertainment puts together the most enviable lineup of the year, but who cares? The bad news is…
There was a moment last year where Gucci Mane, the Atlanta-born hip-hop superstar, became not just a celebrity, but a role model. It was in an interview with Vogue magazine, a pairing of publication and subject that would have been unthinkable just three years before, when he was convicted for…
There’s a song James Blood Ulmer sings called “Jazz Is the Teacher, Funk is the Preacher.” If you bring in Mother Blues, along with the family hothead, Rock and Roll, you’ll have a better picture of the musical pedigree of this iconic guitar player and singer. With more than 70…
Scott Freiman’s latest “Deconstructing the Beatles” film, playing at The Landmark at Merrick Park, tells the story behind the Beatles’s recording of Rubber Soul.
Last night, after 13 years in existence, Philadelphia’s Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, made a Miami debut at the outdoor stage of Gramps. It felt as though many who would have been into this indie rock group back during their 2005 heyday had lost patience.
Activity creates opportunity and Hialeah native Juliette Helen Amador is active. She’s calculated and deliberate, on her way to music industry bad ass. Amador cut her teeth on FIU student radio, then hosted at Electric Pickle. She currently manages social media for Revolution Radio while finishing a master’s degree in…
New Times’ eighth-annual Brew at the Zoo is headed for Zoo Miami on Saturday, May 6, from 7 to 11 p.m. There will not only be food and more than 100 local, international, and craft beers, but also some pretty fine tunes.
What started as a small beach party in 1999 that took advantage of all the DJ’s visiting Miami during Winter Music Conference has become a global brand with editions in Brazil, China, Croatia, Korea, Japan, Australia, and more. But Ultra Music Festival’s Miami party in March is still the crown…
If you were holding off on deciding whether to attend Rolling Loud, start looking for a scalper. Festival organizers announced today that tickets for the third edition of the hip-hop festival, taking place May 5 through 7 at Bayfront Park, have sold out. Perhaps organizers can thank the publicity they received after…
Mario Ochoa takes smashing hi-hats, darkness, rays of sunshine, and sounds from South America to Heart Nightclub April 28.
Ask any Red Hot Chili Peppers fan which album is the band’s best and, invariably, you’ll get Blood Sugar Sex Magik or Californication or maybe even By the Way. Some might even say the latest, The Getaway, reigns supreme, if only to hype themselves up for the band’s latest tour, which stops in Miami this Saturday. But although those records can be called good, maybe even great, they pale in comparison to Stadium Arcadium, the Chili Peppers’ 2006 seminal, colossal double album.
Achieving a “one on one” audience experience at a venue as large as American Airlines Arena sounds like an impossible task. But if any musician can pull it off, it’s Paul McCartney.
The Latin music industry is booming, and technology may be responsible for this trend. Currently, seven out of the top 20 music videos on the YouTube Billboard Chart are Spanish-language songs or feature a Latin artist. What does that mean? How about for the future of the industry? These are…
Following a tragic 2016, Surfer Blood’s John Paul Pitts is learning to chill out. For many people in the United States, 2016 was a shit year. For John Paul Pitts, frontman and vocalist of Surfer Blood, it was an especially rough 12 months. Last May, founding band member and guitarist…
Desiigner’s Twitter feed is, above all else, loud. The New York rapper types in all capital letters, showing his excitement to share his fans’ love, the three new songs he dropped at once, and recent interviews he’s done with well-known radio hosts. His Instagram reflects the same, with emojis of fire…
The new spot from the owners of Byblos promises an intimate club experience three nights a week.
The Marley brothers reunited on stage for Kaya Fest, a festival promoting education about cannabis, along with performers Lauryn Hill, Wyclef Jean, Sean Paul, and others.
The final week of April is here, and the month goes out with a big bang thanks to the Red Hot Chili Peppers who bring their tour to the American Airlines Arena on Saturday in support of their 11th album, The Getaway.
Dance music has a long history of comforting the afflicted. From the debauched drag balls in 1970s New York City to early mornings spent seeking refuge and release from a world made mad by the HIV/AIDS crisis of the 1980s, dance culture has always served as a place of inclusivity and shelter when the world could offer neither.
