What does it mean to rock? That is the eternal question. And according to StubHub, “the world’s largest ticket marketplace,” it’s all about a willingness to shell out obscene amounts of money (approx. $130) for resale tix to U2’s 360° Tour at Sun Life Stadium. Earlier today, the “eBay company”…
Simultaneously reviving the clubland economy and refueling America’s obesity epidemic, fast food giant McDonald’s is damn near ready to crown this year’s “hottest DJ” at a hamburger party inside South Beach’s Cameo Nightclub. But first, three mix-masters will have to woo a panel of judges comprised of relatively washed-up “celebrities”…
The Virginia Key Grassroots Music Fest is almost here, and that means a stellar music lineup, camping in the cool winter beauty of the subtropics, and more hippies, rastas, and traveling kids than you can shake a beach at. Meanwhile at Jimbo’s, $2 beers, Southern rock and roll, and topless…
Brenton Brown knows how to hustle. Having come back to his native Miami after graduating from the University of Florida, he doesn’t let the haters throw him off his quest to be the next big rapper. Signed with new management, he just made a video for his song, “Lemme Know,”…
Damn you, leap year! This extra day nonsense is really starting to piss us off. With so much to look forward to in March, the thought of February 29 holding us back is killing us. Especially ever since we found out that Boys Noize is throwing a WMC party at…
Every Valentine’s Day is exactly the same — the candy, the flowers, the teddy bears, and some slutty lingerie. Don’t people ever get sick of spending a bunch of money on a bunch of stupid crap so some Hallmark execs get that big V-Day bonus? Or wonder just what the…
Once upon a time, some kids from West Palm were chilling at an Ultra Music Festival afterparty in Miami, and they started talking about forming an indie rock band. We can’t be sure if these guys were sober or not. But thankfully, they were serious, and Surfer Blood went on…
Tool is just one of those bands that inspires crazy cult-like fandom. Or a totally indifferent shrug of the shoulders. But according to our sister blog County Grind, last night’s show at the BankAtlantic Center was crawling with rabid devotees to the Temple of Tool. So what if most of…
The never-ending awards show season reaches its apex next week when Univision beams the Premio Lo Nuestro to millions of families all across the Americas. On Thursday, February 16, the Spanish-language network will honor a cross-section of Latin music artists at the American Airlines Arena. Among them, Miami’s own Pitbull,…
A memo from Uncle Luke to all y’all haters who seem to think the hip-hop industry should institute some sorta superstrict mandatory retirement policy … Screw you. That shit’s ageist. In today’s edition of Luke’s Gospel, entitled “Jay-Z, Eminem, and Rick Ross Are Never Too Old For Rap,” New Times’s…
For every fat, drunk American football fan who couldn’t even sit (or, uh, dance) through Madonna’s 12-minute Super Bowl XLVI halftime bonanza, there are millions of giddy pop music fans in party towns like Istanbul, Zagreb, Warsaw, Kansas City, and St. Paul who’d be totally willing to blow their entire…
Following Costa Concordia’s horrific disaster-at-sea, competing cruise line Royal Caribbean has managed to avoid their own maritime mishap thanks to Mr. Worldwide, Pitbull. Armando Christian Perez’s Club 305 Cruise has been cancelled, but questions as to why the “magical voyage” with Pitbull, Paul Oakenfold, Flo Rida, and 2,500 of their…
You may have noticed a recent wave of electronic music producers with “spoonerisms” for monikers — silly twists on famous musicians’ names, like Joy Orbison, Jichael Mackson and Wevie Stonder. Well, New Jersey-based producer Seth Haley didn’t choose to toy with the name of an influential pop star. Instead, he’s…
Part passion project and part philanthropic endeavor, Lupe Fiasco’s latest gig is both catchy and admirable. The Chicago-based rapper has combined forces with longtime friend Sky Gellatly to form Soundclash (SNDCLASH), an electro-clash collaboration appearing at LIV this Wednesday. The duo’s set to release its debut all-electro EP, Don’t Drop…
Noise. It sucks. It hurts the ear. But every year, Rat Bastard’s International Noise Conference draws sickos from around the world to Churchill’s Pub for a free, curated, four-night concert series featuring the worst sounds humans are capable of producing without drones or laptops. All the bands have terrible names…
Known to fanatics and followers as the High Duke of Dance or simply PVD, professional party starter Paul Van Dyk (born Matthias Paul) is a total beat-freaking legend. Over the last two decades, he’s uhntz-uhtnz-ed all across the globe, unleashing five stellar slabs of electronic tuneage, Rock-ing the Vote with…
Every musician dreams of making it big. Of course, it doesn’t usually work out that way — unless you’re Miami-based electro duo GTA. Matthew Toth and Julio Mejia, AKA Van Toth and JWLS respectively, have been working together for only about a year and half. But already, their work has…
Kid Sister With Riff Raff Grand Central, Miami Saturday, February 4, 2012 Better Than: Babysitting a real infant. The spunky, enigmatic, and clearly grown-up Kid Sister is still trying to break out of the underground. The real little sis of Flosstradamus’s Joey Young, she got her start working the mic…
In the hot, sweet summer of 1990, Donna the Buffalo guitar guy Jeb Puryear and his bandmates invited a few musical friends and 1,500 fans to Ithaca, New York’s State Theater for the first-ever Finger Lakes Grassroots Festival. At a time when the rest of the country was still wearing…
“We’re always trying to stir up Miami’s musical melting pot,” says prolific party promoter, Sweat Records manager, and bass music aficionado Jason Jimenez, talking about his now-institutional weekly hip-hop dance party Shake. Along with his partners, a pair of rabid professional party animals known as Aholsniffsglue and Slim Biscayne, Jimenez…
Yes, disco follows a formula. But Belgian-Italian producer Aeroplane (AKA Vito De Luca) isn’t thinking small when it comes to the genre. He’s not even concerned with floor fillers. In fact, he’s aiming for nothing short of cosmic disco rapture, taking his cues from the ’70s prog rock giants like…
Just when you thought the fact that Miley Cyrus loves penis cake was officially too hot to handle … TMZ has revealed that Miley ain’t the only one who’s got a need for desserts fashioned after gargantuan shlongs. Yes, it’s true, Demi Moore has been implicated in The Great Penis…
