A woman was shot Monday night outside of the White Room, near downtown Miami. Allegedly an encounter between passengers of two cars escalated into gun violence, with the suspect fleeing the scene after firing three shots into a vehicle containing two women. Eyewitnesses dispute the account so far that the…
Friday, September 11*Glamorous new disco duo Glass Candy plays the Vagabond in Miami tonight — and you can still purchase advance tickets online for $10 from Wantickets. Act fast, though, because that offer runs out at 8 p.m. Click here for full details about the show. *Boston-area up-and-coming underground MC…
Fresh from their blowout weekend with Peter, Bjorn and John middle man Bjorn Yttling on the turntables, White Room has decided to perform a quick makeover before next Wednesday’s dubstep spectacular with Skream and Benga. As anyone who knows dubstep knows, Skream and Benga are pretty much the genre’s founders,…
If you haven’t heard of Casual Sax & The Saxual Revolution, you’ve probably been in some kind of soap operatic coma for the last few years. Induce and Sven Barth compromise the duo that found viral success after Perez Hilton featured their video for “Baby I’m Black (From the Waist…
In this economy, people are struggling to keep their homes and jobs, and businesses are closing. If people are investing, they’re doing so conservatively. So it may not have seemed especially prudent when promoters Garo Gallo and Yvonne Colon opened the Bubble four months ago. Outside of the rock-club trifecta…
When Lil Wayne said, “Miami is my home. I’m home, bitch.,” it felt really good. I am a Miami native, born here. When Khaled mentioned that he had seen me on WSHH in the studio with Mack Maine and Kevin Rudolf, I felt like I just won a certificate of…
Tonight, Miami duo The State Of is playing at Propaganda in Lake Worth, blues rockers Iko Iko invade Maguires Hill 16 in Fort Lauderdale, Cat Shell and the Categories are plaing Lake Worth Rum Shack, and the Alligator Alley Allstars (Albert Castiglia and JP Soars) are playing a few sets…
To read past installments of Diary of a Flasher, click here. Over the weekend I felt I was the only one not at the Depeche Mode concert. Texts and tweets blew up my phone on Saturday night about the show, but I was busy photographing a wedding up in Hollywood…
Songstress and Miami native Sol Ruiz seems to go by a lot of monikers–Neo Hippie Rain Maker of Cuban decent and flower child of Psychedelic Cuban Blues, just a few of them (though admittedly the most catchy). The later is probably the closest thing to pass for a description of…
All summer long I have gone shit-house-rat-crazy observing the likes of Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, Bill O’Reilly, Karl Rove and the rest of The Right’s evil elite dispense fear-mongering falsehoods in a desperate attempt to stop some much needed health care reform.Death Panels. Euthanasia. Subsidized Abortions. Health care for non-U.S…
To understand up-and-coming MC Termanology’s commitment to the golden age of hip-hop, just take a look at the production credits on his new album, Time Machine. It’s enough to make you cry: the Alchemist, Large Professor, Pete Rock, and even the untouchable DJ Premier all lend beats to this sophomore…
Rat Bastard is unquestionably one of the most ubiquitous presences in the local music scene. And he has been for well over two decades. When Rat’s not fronting conflagrations such as Laundry Room Squelchers or Scraping Teeth, he’s heading up The International Noise Conference, a weeklong racket of cacophony that’s…
From the land of the pisco sour comes a new, and even more intoxicating Peruvian export–FatKingBulla. Okay, perhaps that’s a bit of a bold statement. Pisco sours are some strong stuff. Just ask my ex-neighbor about that morning I woke up on his lawn cradling his garden gnome (nothing happened…
Crossfade met Miramar’s The Last at PPR101 music conference in downtown Miami where they were taking notes on the industry and performing in a showcase.We shot a quick video clip of them performing acapella in the upstairs lobby of the Hilton (freeze frame at right), and their message was “Fuck…
Swedish electronic dance music has, for the most part, become synonymous with the hopelessly über-commercial and stale sound of big room players like Steve Angello, Axwell, and Sebastian Ingrosso. Stockholm’s John Dahlbäck, however, may very well be an exception, not just in his own work as an internationally-acclaimed DJ/producer, but…
Did you know 311 has released nine albums? Seriously, nine! Chances are, if you already knew that, you’re a family member or the creator of their fan club and already know they’ll be playing Bayfront Park Amphitheater on December 1. Tickets will be available through Live Nation.The hits keep on…
Reverend Horton Heat at Culture Room
Dainamite: He’s Explosive
When “Candy Castle,” the standout track from Glass Candy’s album B/E/A/T/B/O/X, filters through speakers, you’re immediately transported to a world akin to a grandiose ’80s fantasy film with a singer who is equal parts Grace Jones, Yoko Ono, and Gina X guiding you through a land of synthesizers as epic…
Churchill’s Pub, the storied, gentrification-repellent venue in Miami’s Little Haiti, is a real institution in an institution-less town. Like time itself, Churchill’s seems to have no beginning and no end. But the club did, of course, have a beginning — in 1979, when punk rock had finally gotten a foothold…
Calling an artist a living legend in print can be a tricky business, with the risk of vocal naysayer upheaval very real. It requires either a certain disregard for reader opinion or a subject whose trajectory speaks so loudly that the writer’s words become less an affirmation than mere statement…
It seemed for a while that Miami would be home to multiple music festivals. But after the rapid demise of Bang! (we hardly knew ye) and the sudden cancellation of Langerado, it seems like none can match the success of Ultra, so far the city’s only music festival that has…
