With his deep-voiced delivery, rough-hewn honesty, and laid-back swagger, rapper Freddie Gibbs offers the perfect amalgam of his Midwest roots and latter-day L.A. residence. As Gibbs’s recent single, “The Ghetto,” declares, he was raised in “the ghetto, the ghetto-ghetto” (in case there was any question) of Gary, Indiana, where corrupt…
In 2005, when Ke$ha was just a glimmer in the eye of the reality-TV wave, her random appearance on The Simple Life was a harbinger: Like Paris Hilton back then, Ke$ha rose earlier this year, seemingly out of nowhere, to startling ubiquity. By combining hard-house-appropriated dance pop with singsong-couplet rapping,…
Sprawling event space Soho Studios, in the heart of Wynwood’s warehouse district, seems to be tailor-made for massive, all-night parties. Indeed, few promoters have been able to truly pack the cavernous venue into a critical crowd mass. So we salute the promoters of the Sunset Music Festival for trying, and…
Crowded House plays at the Fillmore Miami Beach Thursday
The weekend has two stellar bookings in store for Miami’s techno heads: Tony Rohr at the Electric Pickle on Friday night and Alexi Delano at Space on Saturday. Brooklyn-based producer Tony Rohr boasts releases on esteemed labels like Cocoon, Clink, and Weave, and delivers a hard-hitting, industrial-tinged brand of techno live…
It wasn’t long ago that Toronto duo AutoErotique was known as VNDLSM, which closely resemble the name of another vowel-less Toronto DJ/producer duo. Perhaps it was because they signed to the Dim Mak label — also home to that other vowel-less Toronto DJ/producer duo — that the pair changed their…
The latest musician – turning – movie star is Rihanna. As soon as she finishes her Last Girl On Earth Tour, which lands in Miami this Saturday at the American Airlines Arena, she’s set to star in director Peter Berg’s (Hancock) film adaptation of that game we all loved as a kid: Battleship…
Just in time for the dog days of summer, here’s Kid Sister’s new candy-colored ode to rollerskating and junk food (mmm…. Chicago-style hot dogs). While other songs from her debut album, Ultraviolet, seemed to be aiming for straight-up pop styles, this jam, “Big N Bad,” goes back more towards her…
Make no mistake, Rick Ross’ Teflon Don is selling pretty briskly for a rap album that makes few pop concessions — especially in the dismal 2010 buying climate. But last week, the first of the album’s release, it seemed that Ricky Rozay might be able to knock Eminem’s Recovery out…
In this week’s print edition of the Miami New Times, we featured a Q&A with the legendary Robert Plant, who performs with his Band of Joy this Friday, July 30 at Bayfront Park Amphitheater. Still, as print is stuck being print, there was more Q&A that didn’t fit. Here is…
Another Wednesday in the summer, another $10 Live Nation ticket deal. The bad news: This deal only adds one concert to the list of shows that were discounted last week. The good news: If you still have a kid who wants to see Jonas Brothers, now’s your chance — again. Just…
The ongoing kickass series brought to you by the venerable SoBe live music haunt Jazid and MiamiAlterLatino.com continues to roll on, providing partygoers with a weekly passport to far off destinations.If you’ve been keeping track, you know that since tomorrow’s the last Thursday of the month, it’s time for Brazilian…
So, who the (@#*& is Mumiy Troll, you ask? Oh, just Crossfade’s favorite discovery since Monday. Here are some essential amazing things you need to know about this Russian foursome: They are one of the biggest bands in their homeland; although it’s okay if you have never, ever heard of them…
All Tomorrow’s Parties — or rather, the American spinoff of the original English festival — may get a little less hype than the other blockbuster summer festivals in this country, but it’s one of the best going. That’s because rather than just splatter the latest hype bands across a bunch…
We’ve all been there: There’s a really cool music documentary that’s just been released, and it’s not showing anywhere in Miami — or worse, it’s only being screened one day and at one time, which aren’t really convenient. Luckily, this time around the Internet’s making real-life geography irrelevant.Recently we’ve seen…
Kristopher Huseby of Fireside Social fame is probably one of the better drummers we have down here, and it turns out he can pluck the bass and sing pretty well to boot. Enter Bulletproof Tiger, his latest, excellent project. The band just released its debut EP, Starving Hearts, which upholds…
Surfer Blood, if you are going to vow never to play a venue again, you might want to stick to your word — otherwise someone’s going to call you out.Let us rehash the night that Surfer Blood played Poplife’s 11th anniversary party at Grand Central. The band members felt they…
Radioboxer, the Readers’ Choice winner for Best Band in New Times’ 2009 Best of Miami issue, is now up for national recognition. I, for one, feel it’s about time — and you can help the fivesome along by voting for them in the current Dame Un Break contest sponsored by…
One of the first Floridian punk rock bands that I grew to love was the Pink Lincolns. The snotty tirade that blasted over three separate Sumo Fumes seven-inch records defined my high school and early college years. Suck and Bloat, Back From the Pink Room, and Pure Swank solidified for…
We all heard electronic music legends Daft Punk were going to compose a full-length score for the movie Tron: Legacy last year, but we kind of took it with a grain of salt. I mean sure, Tron is all about robots, and some of the costumes look really similar to…
In 1992 the city of Los Angeles was besieged by thousands of rioters lashing out angrily against the verdict of the racially-charged Rodney King case. 15 years later, Southern Californian DJ/producers Daniel LeDisko and Jon Pegnato would, with no shortage of irony, dub themselves L.A. Riots in homage of this…
The Rising is a new event going down this Wednesday, July 28 at Transit Lounge in Brickell. Spearheaded by Last Rights Clothing, C-9 and Pyramid Builders, the event is a new monthly devoted solely to showcasing local hip-hop artists.The inaugural edition features performances by Ghostwridah, LMS, Murph and Saheed with…
