Coachella 2013: Top Five EDM Moments

Amid the crazy sea of hipsters, hippies, old folks, pre-teens, and babies(!), Coachella’s weekend one was also packed with EDM revelers ready to get their fist-pumping music fix. In fact, it seems that dance music lovers are growing in numbers so much that every other car in line at the…

Five Best Concerts in Miami This Week

It’s finally here! Record Store Day (and cough, 4/20) is right around the corner. And that means tons of great acts are ready to get down and dirty with all y’all Miami music lovers. Whether you’re looking for rock, punk, hip-hop, jazz, synth-pop, booty bass, or Latin, there’s the perfect…

SpaceGhostPurrp and Nardwuar Rate Miami’s Strip Clubs, From Coco’s to KOD

“Holy fucking shit … Is this Meshuggah?” That’s how Carol City creep rapper SpaceGhostPurrp reacts when Canadian weirdo interviewer Nardwuar bestows a fine slab of Swedish metal upon him. Why? Because SGP is the rare hip-hopper with a deep and abiding fanaticism for dark and heavy death-obsessed rock. “This shit…

Coachella 2013: An Insane Campsite Tour

The Coachella campgrounds are the Wild West of the festival. They are the sort of place you can imagine Hunter S. Thompson running around with his pants around his ankles. Drugs are more plentiful than food. And going to bed before 4 a.m. is considered an early night. Here are…

Coachella 2013: Eight Best Moments of Weekend One

Karen O’s Outfit Karen O’s wardrobe on Friday night was bad ass. The Yeah Yeah Yeah’s front woman appeared on the main stage in a technicolor cape draped over a suit that looked like it was made of mercury. The vibrant collage was topped with a headpiece that Liberace might…

Coachella 2013: Five Worst Moments of Weekend One

Daft Punk Fake-Out Friday and Saturday, all anyone could talk about was if Daft Punk was going to show up during Phoenix’s set. Why? Because we were fucking teased. On the main stage before the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, a long commercial for their new album played, and then we found…

Pac Div Smoked Out EVE Miami, April 13

Pac Div Featuring Johnny Polygon Eve, Downtown Miami Saturday, April 13, 2013 Better Than: Watching Three Musketeers, Three Stooges, and Three Amigos. Descending from atop of the stairs, the three California dudes (Mibbs, Like, and BeYoung), who make up Pac Div, headed toward the EVE stage as they gave daps…

Pitbull Drops Rap Response to Jay-Z, Beyonce’s Cuba Visit, Offers to Pay for Trip

Senator Marco Rubio suggested that Jay-Z and Beyoncé have “no interest in Cuban People’s freedom.” And U.S. Representatives Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Mario Diaz-Balart said that the pair’s recent visit “funds the machinery of oppression.” Pero, their constituent, Miami native, and Cuban-American rapper Pitbull thinks that the Carters’ Treasury-approved “educational exchange…

Coachella 2013’s Five Worst Fashion Statements by Famous People

We all know Coachella is a textbook study on the desire to wear things that no human should. That typically applies to the crowd who come decked out in ill-fitting, barely-there costumes, spirit hoodies and every piece of tight neon attire imaginable. But artists on stage can commit some cringe-worthy…

New Order’s Nostalgic Set at Coachella 2013

While over at the main stage the bulk of the Coachella crowd was enduring Phoenix with the hope that Daft Punk would come out — they instead got R. Kelly — a smaller but perhaps- more-enthusiastic crowd got a first-rate greatest hits set from New Order. See also: -Coachella 2013:…

Ten Best 4/20 Parties in Miami

Praise the pot gods. We have all survived to see another 4/20, the highest, holiest, and happiest of weed holidays. The crop has been harvested. It is lush and green and good. Now if only there were someplace to celebrate with a nice, ceremonial, musical smoke out … Here are…