See also Crossfade’s show report, “Nicki Minaj and Lil Wayne Pussy Poppin’ at Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded Show in Miami.” Some call her Nicki. And some call her Roman. But she calls everybody bitch. Last night, Nicki Minaj brought the Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded tour to Miami’s James L. Knight…
Has anyone seen Molly? She needs to register to vote in time for election season. Good thing Insomniac and Rock the Vote have teamed up to push that party girl and all her 18-and-up friends off the dance floor and into the voting booths this November. Spin the Vote is…
Trap music. It’s superhuge right now with the cool kids and it’s overrunning Soundcloud. Yet despite its growing popularity, a lot of people have one basic question … What the fuck is trap? Because of recent EDM trends, many people would tell you it’s the “new dubstep” or the “new…
See also Nicki Minaj’s Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded Tour in Miami: A 15-Photo Recap — plus Nicki Minaj’s Top Seven NSFW Moments. If you need a bad bitch … Call Nicki Minaj. After officially confirming via Twitter that she’s a “pop star” who “fuk’em like I’m still hood,” Ms. Minaj…
The music business doesn’t need another “unique artist” who blends “hip-hop, goth, pop, and funk with a rock star flare [sic] and major sex appeal.” So when Padge “Black Madam” Winslowe’s niche music career hit a brick wall, the Philly-based songstress started moonlighting as a purveyor of black-market butt injections,…
See also “The Casualties Talk Cops: ‘Dude, Have a F#$%in’ Beer, Relax, Stop Abusing Your Power.'” Punks don’t dance. They mosh, pogo, slam, skank, stage-dive, crowd-surf, and circle jerk. So expect a raging riot when the Tonight We Unite tour and 1000 nasty maniacs rage into Downtown Miami’s Grand Central,…
For the longest time, recorded music’s biggest limitation has been that you can’t jump from behind a corner while wearing it and scare people into squirting their drawers. Well, prepare to squirt them drawers, people near corners. The awesomely noisy weirdos in Black Moth Super Rainbow are releasing their next…
Being a full-time electro-pop rapper is hard work. Just ask Flo Rida. His secret? Serious abs, bro. And Flo’s ready to share his fitness tips, telling Billboard about a Rida-branded workout DVD series that could hit shelves as early as the end of this year. But why wait for the…
Long before she played Sara in Cocoon: The Return or Julia “Julie” Winston in Dolph Lundgren’s He-Man movie, Masters of the Universe, Courtney Cox got her big break in Bruce Springsteen’s “Dancing in the Dark” video. Tonight, the members of Miami’s own 90s Teen will be shooting their first proper…
See also “Soulja Boy to SpaceGhostPurrp “We Gone Eat Yo Face,” Thows Bath Salts on A$AP Beef.” Extraordinary swag and a mouthful of gold … Yeah, we’re talking about A$AP Rocky, the preternaturally talented 23-year-old Harlem Mob boss, rapper, and grillz model who’s been beefing with SpaceGhostPurrp and brawling with…
Ever rocked so hard that you blacked out, puked last week’s hot lunch, and woke up 666 hours later feeling like your skull just got fucked in outer space by a gang of so-called interglactic mutant overlords? Well, then you’ve probably never purchased tickets for the disgusting, otherworldy freakshow known…
See also Crossfade’s show report, “Nicki Minaj and Lil Wayne Pussy Poppin’ at Pink Friday Roman Reloaded Show in Miami” — plus a 15-photo recap of Nicki Minaj in Miami. In the summer of 2010, Nicki Minaj told Interview Magazine that, from the beginning, she was thinking like a role…
From ballads to ballots … Earlier this year, Marc Anthony appeared in a Latinos for Obama video, encouraging Hispanics to back Barack’s reelection bid. And over the last seven months, the soulful salsero has increasingly poured his energy into the president’s reelection bid, shifting his focus from music to politics…
See also “Watch the New Rick Ross Documentary, ‘We ‘Bout Business'” and “Rick Ross Smokes His Weight in Jamaican Weed” See? Now this is why you are supposed to wear all of your valuables around your neck instead of leaving them in your ride. Rumors are swirling like smoke from…
Not to knock films as fantastic as his Rachel Getting Married, The Silence of the Lambs, and Something Wild, but there’s something wilder — or at least, more directly stimulating and pure — about Jonathan Demme’s live-performance docs. The 68-year-old auteur immortalized a Talking Heads show (and David Byrne’s oversized…
Oh, no … They don’t need no lovin’, no respect. ‘Cause it’s all about the sex. Even though the dudes of Mötley Crüe have all reached that advanced age when it often becomes necessary to pop a little blue pill if you wanna rock a long, strong, and sustained erection,…
Not only does Rick Ross’s Twitter feed remind us that God Forgives, I Don’t drops next week, it also updates us each time the MC sparks a fat blunt or drops stacks of money on jewelry, strippers, and steak dinners. Even though most of us will never sit courtside at…
See also “Lights Out Festival Promises ‘a Jaw-Dropping Experience.'” Lights Out Festival With Felix Da Housecat, RJD2, Felix Cartal, and others Soho Studios, Miami Saturday, July 21, 2012 Better Than: Sitting at home, playing with your finger gloves. For their first proper party, the guys behind Dementia Events pledged to…
ShipRocked 2012, the world’s heaviest heavy music cruise, just got even heavier. ‘Cause Korn and six other brutally rocking bands have been added to the already massive lineup. “I did a cruise last year DJing as J Devil,” Korn’s Jonathan Davis says, “and it was a fucking blast — such…
See also “Deaf Poets Will Rock Your Face Off at Their Seven-Inch Release Party” and “Teepee Explains His Two-Year Disappearance, Eats Ten Bananas for Breakfast Everyday” How’s your Best Summer Ever checklist coming? It’s nearly August. So by now, you should’ve had a steamy, deodorant-free fling with a foreigner who…
No one ever thought Jorge Herrera, a skinny Ecuadorian kid from New York City, would amount to much. But for two decades, the founder and lead singer of The Casualties has led his rowdy band of hooligans around the world, inspiring kids to stand up and fight the system. One…
Being a famous rapper is awesome. You get all the fancy cars, expensive champagne, and bad bitches your icy heart desires. It’s all part of the job description. And for once in your life, you’re doing it wrong if you don’t brag about it to everyone! So what happens when…
