If there’s one dude who fully deserves to be an honorary citizen of our hot, clubby, coked-up little paradise, it’s booty bass and bathroom sex enthusiast Naeem Juwan Hanks, otherwise known as Spank Rock. Even though he was bred in B-More, the kid’s like Uncle Luke’s lost son, if the…
“Less is more,” proclaimed German-American modernist architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, describing the aesthetics of minimalism. A post-WWII movement rooted in the European avant-garde, minimalism reduces form down to its bare elements, fusing aesthetics and functionality with elegant simplicity. You can see it in the stark formalism of Bauhaus…
Some people don’t know shit about music. And Arizona immigration zealot Sheriff Joe Arpaio can no doubt be counted among the hopeless, tone-deaf, and ignorant. Ever wonder what that guy blares while cruising the US-Mexico border in his personally pimped-out Humvee? Three Dog Night? Toby Keith? Maybe Gary Glitter? Who…
Way back in the summer of 2005, the internet gave birth to a baby called blog house. Yet unlike 99.9 percent of the web’s offspring, this particular suckling sub-subgenre survived. It was strong, loud, and infectious. And soon, the little bastard was remultiplying by the minute. One among the first…
In order to officially achieve the rank of grown motherfucker, one must scratch three very specific things off the eternal To-Do list: (1) Make out with Nicki Minaj; (2) Earn an awesome nickname ending in -zy (e.g., Jeezy, Weezy, Kanyeezy); and (3) Celebrate a landmark b-day in the company of…
View photos of Rick Ross and Raekwon at Sneaker Pimps here.Rick Ross and Raekwon With Thee Tom Hardy, Phil Adé, DJ Keen One, and DJ Money Mekka Saturday, October 23, 2010 Better than: Ten cargo containers full of fake shit. At precisely 8 p.m. on Saturday night, international swag smuggling…
Back in what historians call “the day,” there was an almost seven-foot, Lebanese-born NBA center rocking the face off any opposing player who dared to challenge him under the basket. Now in what historians call “the present,” he’s rocking faces off with his turntable skills as an electronic house music…
Funk music and a sweet, sticky spliff have been the perfect pair ever since James Brown and Bootsy Collins hotboxed a studio back in ’70. A couple of decades later, there was Dre, Snoop, and The Chronic. And this Friday, the marriage of music and marijuana will go next level…
The Axe and the Oak is rapidly becoming a musical entitiy of interest in South Florida with its excellent blend of American roots music, danceable gothic rockabilly, and indie rock knowhow. And after checking out the band’s latest offering, the Record Store Day 2010 EP, we recently had a chance…
Is the great Raekwon, an 11th degree Wu-Tang ninja of the 36 Chambers, not enough for all you limited-edition running shoe obsessives? Apparently not. I guess that’s why Sneaker Pimps just today announced that the Boss Ricky Ross will join the lyrically legendary Chef at the top of tomorrow night’s…
Since lighting up the international scene as one-half of production duo and eponymous label Wolf + Lamb, DJ-producer Gadi Mizrahi has emerged as one of the most influential tastemakers in EDM today. From their Brooklyn homebase to European dancefloors in London, Ibiza, and beyond, Wolf + Lamb have enjoyed major…
Carol City’s boy wonder, Rick Ross, has just announced plans to tour. The Blowin Money Fast tour will take Ross across the United States before heading abroad to England, Trinidad, Haiti, South Africa, Nigeria, and other far-flung places. The preliminary tour schedule was released earlier this week and many Miamians…
Hip-hop heads and lovers of live music alike, hold on to your f’n hats. Tomorrow’s Saturday night festivities at Transit Lounge are going to be bananas. But don’t take our word for it. Let ArtOfficial tell you.”This event in particular is gonna be bananas!” says bassist Rafy Valencia. “We’re flying…
Rick Diaz has counted Ryan Oh as his best pal “forever,” and as his right-hand man in local noise-pop weirdos hahahelp! for the past five years. So the soft-spoken Diaz probably deserves a hug these days. Ryan, who also plays around town as Flux Forces, has been M.I.A. in the M.I.A…
In addition to orchestrating alternative pop epics, Awesome New Republic also makes jokes, constantly reminding us that “we’re humans, not furniture.” And so, when we call ANR’s John Hancock, he immediately starts riffing. “You’re calling from Miami New Times? Miami’s home for information, culture, and events?” A few weeks ago, the band opened for…
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic ZerosBardot, MiamiWednesday, October 20, 2010 Better Than: A Ford Fiesta, NFL, and summertime True Blood promo featuring 30- to 60-second Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros teaser tracks. A few months ago, an NPR Music intern named Alex Soto had the good fortune of meeting…
Jay-Z is releasing pages of a book dissecting his rhymes through a global scavenger hunt powered by Bing, or something like that. So late night we went to an event at the Delano South Beach hoping to get a reaction to our revelation earlier this month that the Miami Police…
This has to be some kind of record. It’s October 21 and we already know at least one act confirmed to appear at Ultra Music Festival 2011. Today, Crystal Castles’ publicist sent out a press release confirming a North American spring tour which includes a March 26 stop at Ultra.The…
On May 25, 2009, French foursome Phoenix launched a midnight sneak attack on the American indie scene. Like the blue, red, and black bombs on the cover of its new album Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, the band came screaming from the sky, out of some unseen nowhere, and detonated in a…
Drop the Lime looking a little pensive. Maybe wondering, “Where did the bass go?”Brooklyn’s Luca Venezia, AKA Drop the Lime, needs to move to Miami already. He always seems to be here. We love him for it, though. He brings the dirty, funky bass like no other.To top it off,…
MGMT plays the Fillmore Miami Beach October 26
Fernando Perdomo and Dreaming in Stereo play Love Hate October 27
