Kreayshawn Bringin’ “Twerkin'” Party to LIV Miami on November 7

See also “Kreayshawn Talks Debut Album, Smokin’ Weed and Keepin’ It Craccin’ With Snoop Dogg.” Calling all sexy, bad bitches to the dance floor … It’s time to twerk it. Oakland’s dirtiest designer hater, Kreayshawn, is coming back to Miami to tear up the stage at LIV on Wednesday, November…

Lady Gaga Shaves Her Head to Honor Terry Richardson’s Dead Mom

See also “Lady Gaga Announces Born This Way Ball Tour” — plus “Gaga Photo Book by Terry Richardson: Perfect Gift for Gay Hipster Nephews.” Every time a pop star shaves her head, a famous photographer’s mother dies. Alright, not really. But in the case of Lady Gaga and Terry Richardson,…

PillowTalk Plans to “Destroy All Genres” at Villa 221 on September 22

NOTE PillowTalk and a number of other shows have been moved from the Electric Pickle to Villa 221, because of a temporary club closure. Electronic dance music nerds love to label their uhntz-uhntz ad nauseam: tech-house, deep house, electro-house, disco-house, micro-house, and on and on. But San Francisco production threesome…

Today Is the Day at Churchill’s Pub in Miami, September 8

See also “Today Is the Day’s Steve Austin on Living in the F#$%ed-Up South and Being 100-Percent Real.” Today Is the Day With Maruta, Shitstorm, Orbweaver, Ironside, Cardiel Churchill’s Pub, Miami Saturday, September 8 Better Than: Not seeing Today Is the Day because South Florida is long and faraway from…

Ten Black Pop Stars Who Should Go Country

Editor’s note: Country Time is a new biweekly column for our sister music blog in Seattle, celebrating that city’s favorite musical genre: mainstream country. With the nation’s major-party political conventions drawing to a close recently with a rousing reelection appeal from the nation’s first black president, it seems fitting to…

Fashion Freakouts at the MTV VMAs 2012

See also “MTV Video Music Awards 2012’s Big Winners and Even Bigger Losers” — plus “MTV VMAs 2012: Seven Things That Sucked and Seven Things That Didn’t Totally Suck.” The red carpet is where fashion lives, and the MTV Video Music Awards are where people let their freak flags fly…