Today is all about the @rickyrozay madness! Yes, it’s the much-anticipated official release day of Rick Ross’ new album, Teflon Don. He’s got a serious track record to live up to: All of his previous albums, 2006’s Port of Miami, 2008’s Trilla, and 2009’s Deeper Than Rap all entered the Soundscan…
Symmetry Live, with a Special Performance from Neon TreesThe W Hotel Poolside, Miami BeachSunday, July 18, 2010Better Than: Singing in the rain — literally.The Review:Crowds let loose at the W Hotel poolside on Sunday. Fueled by the free-flowing Grey Goose open bar, the eclectic bunch of beautiful people, trendsetters, swim-week…
You probably remember how much we love Major Lazer. After all, our very own Jose D. Duran gave us a visual primer on the duo and clued us in to the art of daggering before its local show this past May 15 at Grand Central. But now the twosome has slowed it…
Let’s rehash one of those classic nuggets of wisdom that’s cliche but oh so true: “Things aren’t always what they seem.” Take, for example, that recently released bomb Splice, which seemed on the surface like a modern sci-fi manned by a respectable cast, but was in fact just crap wrapped in…
Melding the skronk of the Cramps with the grim stylings of Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Denmark’s Nekromantix have been swaying suggestible American kids into the dark and decadent waters of psychobilly since 2002 debut Night of the Loving Dead on Hellcat Records. Prior to that, the band had…
Wrekonize has had an incredible roller-coaster of a career over the last decade. His earliest claim to fame stemmed from appearances on the now-infamous MTV Battles, which then led to a multi-year stint with now-defunct Miami record label South Beat Records. During his time on South Beat, Wrekonize was able…
What would you call someone who recreates Sublime’s “Summertime” in lush, horn-laden jazz? What about someone who gives Outkasts epic hip hop-psychedelic slow jam “Spottieottiedopalicious” and gives it a facelift with an instrumental lounge vibe? Or someone who’s played with Beach Boys’ “God Only Knows” like a kid building sculptures…
— Pitbull (pictured on the right with his artist Nayer) walked the red blue carpet and performed last night at the Premios Joventud that aired live from the BankUnited Center located at the University of Miami’s Coral Gables campus. He didn’t win any awards, but most of everybody who watched…
Synth geniuses Cut Copy have mastered an electropop sound we just always want to dance to. The Australian-born band has toured with Franz Ferdinand, Bloc Party and the great Daft Punk, and they’ve recently rejected offers to tour supporting artists like Lady Gaga, Nine Inch Nails and Coldplay. Their new…
Like buddy James Zabiela, British super DJ Nic Fanciulli was, from the upstart, something of an upstart wunderkind. Growing up in Kent, some 30 miles outside of London, Fanciulli was, by just age 16, DJing around town. And just four years later, he would launch the by-now legendary ClubClass, a…
As I’m sure you know by now from previous posts this week, last night was Premios Juventud and some of Latin music’s biggest names convened on the 305 to take part in the festivities. Sounds like a good time to hit afterparties, no? Well, that’s exactly what I did. In…
You’ve probably heard — no, you have heard — Katy Perry’s inescapable new collaboration with Snoop Dogg, the catchy, Dr. Luke-created “California Gurls.” And though Floridians can relate a lot to some of Perry’s lyrics about sunny weather and girls in bikinis, we can’t really call it our own personal…
Insomniac Events, organizer of the Electric Daisy Carnival in Los Angeles, released a statement today saying all its future events would be strictly enforced as 18 and over.”Effective immediately, Insomniac has also established an ’18 and older’ policy for all of the company’s dance music festivals until such time as…
The video has been out for a bit, but just in case you haven’t noticed N.E.R.D.’s new video for their track “Hot-N-Fun” features a custom painted Rolls-Royce by local art collective FriendsWithYou. Pharrell Williams said to MTV, “We told them we wanted something that was psychedelic, something that paid homage…
M.I.A.///Y/(XL/Interscope)By now, you are probably aware that controversial electronic artist M.I.A. has released a new album called ///Y/ (thus referred to as Maya from now on to preserve our sanity). After two highly praised album, Arular and Kala, M.I.A. has faced some serious blacklash, both from the New York Times…
The Electric Bunnies are the other 50 percent of the one-two punch South Florida has recently unleashed onto unsuspecting Americana with a careful blend of psychedelic garage rock and roll with punk attitude. The other half are the Jacuzzi Boys, but one thing the Bunnies haven’t done as of late,…
Mexican rock trio Camila plays the James L. Knight Center Saturday, July 16
Head Spins: DJ Troy Kurtz
La Secta Allstar plays at Grand Central Saturday, July 17
New Nightlife: Three more clubs open in Miami
It might surprise those who haven’t kept up with the hard-rock legends of yesteryear, but Scorpions never actually went away. In fact, with their current world tour, Get Your Sting and Blackout, they’re just now getting around to retiring. And they’re doing so in appropriately bombastic fashion, with worldwide dates…
After a few years of eardrum-hammering from the relentless-banger-addicted sect of the indie/dance crossover scene, acts such as Aeroplane come as a welcome shot of sweetness and light. Hailing originally from the somewhat unlikely region of Wallonia — French-speaking Southern Belgium — the duo of Stephan Fasano and Vito Deluca…
