Spilling blood in the streets is a common theme of both skating hard and rocking the fuck out. And often, these two extreme activities get tangled up and mashed together, breeding dangerous fun. Example: This Saturday’s Vice Magazine book launch bash at Bar for Full Bleed: New York City Skate…
Every day of the week in Miami is a mandatory party. Why take time off when you got a hot Maserati in the driveway, a case of cold Cristal in the basement, and two used thongs in your pocket? It’s Tuesday. Drive fast ’cause the po-po’s snoozing. Pop the cork…
The internet is a loose-lipped, mischievous bitch. If you’ve got a secret, do not tell her. She’s always slipping gooey gobs of gossip into our inbox and whispering dirty little nuggets of hearsay in foreign ears. That girl just can’t be trusted. Anyway, latest rumor out her mouth: On November…
View photos of Shakira at American Airlines Arena here.Shakira American Airlines Arena Monday, September 27, 2009 Better Than: Driving to Palm Beach for a show, or Palm Beach in general. I’d be lying if I told you I’m familiar with the Shakira brand. Sure, I had heard some of her…
Lil Wayne celebrated his 28th birthday yesterday at New York City’s Rikers Island. And even though he’s currently locked up (due back in a month or so), he and his Cash Money Records crew also used his birthday to release the digital version of Weezy’s new album, I’m Not A Human…
Junior Bruce Self-Titled EP (Self-released) juniorbruce.com The newest breed of Floridian metalhead is a bunch of savvy mothers! These are the righteous bearers of the torch ignited in the ’80s and then kept lit by the awesome sludge and power violence scenes of the ’90s. Now meet Junior Bruce, a…
Photo by Bob GruenThe Independents circa ’97.We’re a little sick and tired of people sportin’ mall-bought Ramones t-shirts just to be ironic. Most of those kids have no idea who Sheena is, let alone that she was a punk rocker. They weren’t enrolled in rock ‘n’ roll high school, they…
It’s been a big week for local tropi-pop outfit Local 34. Only seven days ago, they were in L.A. to perform as part of the Viva Tu Musica With 5 competition, sponsored by Wrigley’s 5 Gum. The band and four others were selected by fans online and performed before a…
Aside from being an unfunny overplayed joke, the term “no homo,” as used by Lil Wayne, is hip-hop’s admission of homophobia. When Lil Wayne says Tevin Campbell, No Homo, Black Rambo in “Feel Me,” he really needs us to know he is not gay. He mans it up a little…
Come October 6th, music snobs will face a conundrum of epic proportions: See the much-lauded LCD Soundsystem at the Fillmore, or see Bob Dylan, oft-panned of late for his incomprehensible vocals, at Nova Southeastern University. For many, this is a no-brainer: LCD is in their prime while Bob Dylan is,…
In the great words of … Wait, who said that, dude? Who said that stuff about the weed? And the music? And how they go together? and how one makes the other better? But they’re both still awesome by themselves? That together they’re like a … What’s that word for…
South Florida’s 21st century dancehall, soca, and hip-hop party scene can be described in one word: Madhouse. That’s the name of the weekly party started on Key Biscayne in the early millennium and keeping the bashment going even today via Friday nights at Opium Hard Rock.The teams behind the movement…
Q-Tip and the Roots With D-Nice, Daniel Merriweather, Kat DeLuna, secret guest Eve, and supa secret guest Bobby Brown Saturday, September 25, 2010 Ice Palace Better than: A bottle of Hennessy all to yourself. At exactly 11:26 p.m., the Roots rolled out onto the stage through a smoky purple haze…
via their MySpace pageYou might remember how ecstatic we got when we heard about a private party Hennessy was throwing with the Roots. Then we heard all about how RSVPing was “no guarantee” that we’d actually get accepted to be on the list. Wait, what?We wondered how exactly the good…
Rick Ross controversies are back in the news again. It seems that constant foe 50 Cent used his website (ThisIs50.com) to post this unclear video of someone with a close resemblance to Rick Ross in a racy video clip. It was said to have been recorded way before Ross became…
With Lil Wayne’s street date — November 5, bitches! — only 41 days away, the world better start preparing for a monsoon deluge of strange and skeezy spitting over spacey creep beats. Now, we’ve already been warned about Mr. Carter’s plans to make it rain with I Am Not a…
Coming off a couple of consecutive East Coast tours, the dudes in Jacobs Ladder — Oren, Sammy, and Brian — were totally tired. After more than a half-thousand shows and countless hours of midnight driving, the road had finally worn them down to cold, hard bone. “We’ve been doing this…
Let’s face it: Radio in South Florida these days sucks. Your choices are few, and the options aren’t good. You can either listen to DJ Teja talk about the golden days of Hot Wheels freestyle between 17 plays a day of Rihanna’s latest track, or flip to the “rock station”…
Dâm-Funk The Vagabond Thursday, September 23, 2010 Better Than: Getting the high score on Miss Pac-Man while listening to Purple Rain. In an alternate universe, James Brown is John Lennon, Parliament Funkadelic is Led Zeppelin, Michael Jackson is still making songs like “Rock With You,” and g-funk is grunge. On…
For eons, humanity has celebrated the autumnal equinox. Back in the day, summer ended and the pagans immediately noticed that the dirt was dying, crops were rotting, and only the grave lay ahead. So they said “Fuck it!” and threw an apocalypse party. There was binge drinking, rampant overeating, incoherent…
Next Saturday, you’re gonna be bumming around Miami International Mall anyway, right? So between stocking up on day-glo shoelaces, stuffing your face full of Cinnabon, and shoplifting calling cards from the One Stop Shop … Why not check out Mr. Nicole Richie (AKA Joel Madden) and his brother Benji of Good…
It’s almost the end of the week. And $2 PBRs, sloppy babes, dark dudes, and dirty leather jackets sounds like a good time. Well, start counting down the hours — roughly 10 — until 30 NE 14th Street fills with all your favorite Friday shit. For tomorrow night, Fridays at…
