King of Diamonds has sorta become hallowed ground for anybody in the hip-hop game. Just about every major rapper, from Drake to Lil Wayne to Rick Ross, have dropped verses about the highly successful strip club catering to a predominantly African-American clientele. Floyd “Money” Mayweather practically has a second home…
Miami was once such a soul music mecca that it could rival Motown. This was thanks to classic local labels like Henry Stone’s Deep City Records and legendary recording artists like Clarence “Blowfly” Reid, Betty Wright, and the Moovers. Of course, our local melting pot of both Caribbean and American…
Whose house? DZA’s House. That’s what the crowds are screamin’ over on the Bardot dance floor when the Peachfuzz don takes to the decks. His new Saturday night get-down floods the carpet on a monthly basis with old school funk disco, nu school groove house, and just enough remixed throwbacks…
Better Than: Getting caught in the rain while out and about on a Sunday night. Even though Grand Central recently announced that the Miami venue would no longer allow smoking inside, last night the room was filled with a peculiar kind of smoke. It didn’t smell like cigarettes, but it…
Closing in on 60 years old has done nothing to slow Keith Morris down. Having founded Black Flag with Greg Ginn in 1976 and then the Circle Jerks when that relationship soured, Morris was behind two seminal outfits that will be synonymous with hardcore punk forever. And now four years…
Mondays are better when music’s involved. They’re even sweeter when you realize the entire week is, in fact, jam-packed with kick ass shows from splashes of EDM at the Life In Color halftime show at the Guinness International Champions Cup Final to industrial rock from Nine Inch Nails. Here are…
Bass parties were invented when people started stretching animal skins, beating them with sticks, and dancing around the fire back in the Flintstones days. In Miami during the 1980s, that beat became electronic and it was called bass music. The style has spawned global phenomenons, like Gucci Crew’s Cabbage Patch…
Fans of the Hunger Games, rejoice! Katniss and her ilk finally have a voice to match their revolutionary rage. It was recently announced that mysterious mistress of the Billboard charts Lorde will preside and curate over The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 soundtrack, as well as provide the lead…
When people talk about Miami, there’s a lot of things that come to mind. But jazz is not usually among them. The 305 is definitely more popular for its late-night dance spots and beach bars than its jazz clubs. For many, it may come as a surprise to learn that…
Nick Weiss and Logan Takahashi, the duo that comprise Teengirl Fantasy, met at Oberlin College, connecting over their favorite old-school techno albums while Nick studied film and Logan attended the college’s conservatory. Taking a break from their final semester to tour with Animal Collective, the project became a full-time pursuit…
When you live in the 305, every weekend is like a dream come true. That’s because no matter how broke you may be, you’re always guaranteed to find a party with cheap booze and some pretty great music. Just check out the ten best things to do under 10 bucks…
The funky house revival lives on, and the latest fresh-faced producer taking the scene by storm is coming to show why he should be named Rookie of the Year. Oliver Heldens was signed to Spinnin Records when he was just 17. Two years later, his song “Gecko (Overdrive)” featuring Becky…
Miami is the undisputed world heavyweight champion of bass, and the globe’s leading progenitor of trunk rattle, rear-view shake, and total body thump. The genre is a direct descendent of Pretty Tony’s freestyle productions, and Henry Stone’s earlier indie R&B Pop. It’s the single hardest electronic boom in the universe,…
The days of dancing in smoky rooms are over, Miami. Or at least in the case that you’re dancing at Grand Central. The downtown concert venue has announced it will no longer allow cigarette smoking inside its hallowed halls. A recent rash of complaints about the smoke-friendly policy convinced management…
“No jaded shock star … A seeking searcher, a shifting shape, a spirit lifter.” Those are the words of post-punk icon Peter Murphy, as crooned and howled on “I Am My Own Name,” a seemingly semi-autobiographical musical musing off his latest solo record, Lion. Once the frontman of proto-goth band…
South Florida’s troupe of fearlessly experimental extremists, Orbweaver released its debut EP Strange Transmissions From the Neuralnomicon last year to a chorus of critical interest. The media and audience were seemingly as enthralled as perplexed by the ambitious group’s Lovecraftian take on heavy metal. The limited-edition cassette of the EP…
Rev it up, ravers. Superfamous pro party pros Baauer and Boys Noize are hitting the road for their Run X Tour. And you can come along for the breakneck, 180-BPM ride. Just buy tickets on August 1. Or you know, win a free pair of passes to the Run X…
Some men like to get on social media and complain about how easy it is to succeed as a female DJ. It’s as if having tits means you must have special powers, although the implication is actually that women don’t have to be good to land gigs. Wow, fellas, listen…
Doin’ it for the Vine is goin from the cell phone to the strip club. That’s thanks to a new club track by Uncle Luke and Pretty Tony, whose work out of a Liberty City studio called Music Specialists Incorporated in the 1980s and ’90s took the sounds of Miami…
Could Primus & The Chocolate Factory be to Willy Wonka as Dark Side of the Moon is to The Wizard of Oz? Well, Les Claypool hopes so. The Primus frontman admits he “always wanted to be Wonka.” And now he’s come as close as possible by reuniting with his original…
Though many of the Florida’s struggling artists lament the difficulty of gaining national traction from the southernmost state, Pompano Beach’s Postmarks and its lush, cinematic pop enjoyed quite a bit of success a few years back. The Postmarks even managed to pique the interest of America’s most widely read music…
Los Treces already has a fairly full plate, playing in punk band Die Trying, which recently finished a rather successful tour, and helping Nayra Serrano with Idle Hands, a booking/promotion entity that continues to bring live music to a post-Dave Daniels Churchill’s Pub. He’s also the club’s current man in…
