The Flight Facilities dudes make funky, chilled-out disco for a hip, EDM-loving generation. That’s what we know about them for sure. Everything else — where they’re from, who they are, how they got their name — is subject to change depending on who you ask. That’s because they’re more interested…
R. Kelly’s Single Ladies Tour at James L. Knight Center October 21
Gwar at Revolution Live October 20
Temper Trap at Grand Central October 21
Congorock at Mansion October 19
Unashamed Tour, With Lecrae and Trip Lee at Fillmore Miami Beach October 21
Die Antwoord at Culture Room October 22
Minus the Bear at Revolution Live October 22
Ricochet Bar and Lounge’s Three-Day Anniversary Party October 23
When YMCMB crew member Tyga ain’t busy plotting his takeover of the porn industry, homie’s makin’ Miami’s most beautiful stripper his baby mama. That’s right … The rapper (born Michael Ray Nguyen-Stevenson) and booty model, facial-piercing enthusiast, and professional pole dancer Blac Chyna just had a baby boy. His name:…
Kim Kardashian has all but moved into her $10-million Miami mansion with Kanye West. The two have been spotted all around the MIA, fighting photographers and touching each other’s asses, though generally escaping the grabby hands of mere peons. But if you’re the kind of “mere peon” who can afford…
How are your nerves, beat freaks? No doubt, you’re feeling frazzled and fried … Especially after watching Ultra Music Festival’s early-bird tickets go up in a puff of uhntz-uhntz, i.e. totally sell out. Just 48 hours ago, you were sooo epically stoked when UMF organizers managed to generate unprecedented hype…
DJ-production outfit Visionquest and its eponymous label are pretty much the biggest thing in underground EDM right now. But as the foursome told Crossfade ahead of WMC 2011, it all started with four friends from Michigan who shared a penchant for psychedelic mind expansion, esoterica, and Berlin techno. Now Lee…
What’s the perfect Art Basel Miami Beach week party plan? Well, if you’re UR1 Festival, Kanye’s gotta be there. Ditto Lou Reed. Plus Fun., Sven Väth, Pete Tong, Santigold. Oh, and Ghostland Observatory, Reboot, and Dan Deacon. But aren’t they forgetting Animal Collective, Flying Lotus, Slash, Jane’s Addiction, and Peter…
UPDATE Ultra Music Festival 2013’s General-Admission Passes on Sale! Right Effing Now! For $574.95! Damn, where’d you find those Ultra tickets? The Internets are on fire with happy, sad, and just plain confused partiers who may or may not have nabbed early-bird passes to the 15th anniversary edition of Ultra…
Even though the high point of both the Lemonheads and the Psychedelic Furs’ careers is a song from a movie, these bands are as decade-defining as the films that their hits soundtracked. The Lemonheads’ cover of “Mrs. Robinson” was invented to coincide with the ’90s VHS release of the ’60s…
He’s an R&B genius. He’s also a filthy freak. Lately, though, this oh-so-nasty man — known to the authorities as Robert Sylvester Kelly — has been tryin’ hard to behave himself, donning formalwear, smoking fancy cigars, talking about true romance, penning a thoughtful personal memoir titled Soulacoaster, and just generally…
That adorable Midtown girl named Ricochet is celebrating her very first birthday. And Daddy — business guy and nightlife impresario Alan Roth — is so proud to see his baby turn 1 year old that he’s letting the little lady spend three whole, mostly unsupervised, and certainly wild nights with…
It’s been more than a decade since Mystikal had a hit, but he can still hit it from the back. At least, that’s what porn star Pinky said when she heard the out-of-jail rapper would choose her to take his XXX virginity. Basically, if Mystikal can’t make another hit record…
If you’re a true house head, then Lisa Shaw needs no introduction. Since the mid ’90s, this beloved Canadian-born singer has put her soulful golden touch on records by deep house luminaries like King Britt, Q-Burns Abstract Message, Fred Everything, and Andy Caldwell. Of course, Shaw is also a prolific…
A tragic scene at a local car wash has left one man dead and his killer on the loose. As already noted by Miami New Times’ Riptide, Miami rapper Bizzle (born Robert Labranche) was shot and killed last night by an unidentified assassin at NW Seventh Avenue and NW 54th…
UPDATE Oppa! Jingle style! Y100 Jingle Ball lineup has been confirmed! Thanks to the Internet, nothing is a secret. Were you drunk leaving a club this weekend? That little gem is probably on some bouncer’s Instagram as we speak. Are you sexting your nanny? A screenshot of that will be…
