xplicit from Miami New Times on Vimeo.Diddy’s new song “Diddy Bop” is produced by Miami/Lauderdale’s Isaac Opus and features Xplicit on the hook. Xplicit also co-wrote the song. Above is a video of Xplicit writing hooks in the studio with Jim Jonsin. I had to pull the video out of…
Maybe you don’t like loud ass rock and roll played with abandon and actual feeling. Or maybe you just really really love paying nine dollars for a beer. It could be that you like paying a big – ass cover charge to get into a place where everyone looks at…
Rejoice ladies and gentlemen, music’s saviors Creed are coming to West Palm Beach on September 16. It’s been a long hard five years since Creed has toured, and clearly music has suffered greatly in their absence. There’s been an enormous lack of songs about going higher and having arms wide…
Metalheads looking for enough hair windmills — a circular type of headbanging that, um, is exactly what it sounds like — to give Don Quixote a coronary will find their Valhalla at Culture Room on Saturday as Viking-obsessed Swedes Amon Amarth roll through town.Over the band’s seven-album career, its stubborn…
What do you have in common with Afrobeta and Jose El Rey? No, not a police rap sheet as thick as a phone book, comprised mostly of various counts of public intoxication and indecent exposure. You shouldn’t assume that of Afrobeta just because it’s true of you (sorry Jose, but…
Last year, the $400 million music-themed Hard Rock Park opened in Myrtle Beach, marking “the largest tourist investment in South Carolina history.” But seems like while dropping all that dough, nobody bothered to think that oops, the Hard Rock chain of hotels, restaurants, and casinos might care. And beyond this,…
Somehow I missed the flier for this show, even though I was in Broward last Friday. Southern Flaw is one of my favourite versions of South Florida music and they are playing tonight at the Bar-Tv building in Ft. Lauderdale with a bunch of other bad ass bands. The show…
Carmelo Anthony spoke with Prunk TV recently at a party in Miami. He was promoting his hip-hop label, Krossover Entertainment. Melo won a gold medal in Beijing last year, but who really cares, when the Miami Heat crushed the Atlanta Hawks like a bunch of grapes on Saturday. Dwayne Wade is really one of…
Miami’s annual Best Of The Best concert has become an international Memorial Weekend destination event. This year, some of the world’s most popular dancehall, soca, and rap stars will take the stage at Bicentennial Park and most likely rock an over-capacity crowd. If you plan on going, get your tickets…
My love for my roots and subsequent displays of Cubaneo are no secret. Cuban culture is a beautiful thing, and despite the stranglehold of a 50-year dictatorship, nowhere has it shone more than in music. Which is why I want to take a moment to talk to you about timba…
NYC DJ/producer Harry “Choo Choo” Romero has gained renown since the mid-1990s with releases on various house labels -including Erick Morillo’s Subliminal Records- and a reputation for funky uplifting club sets that blend soulful house, US garage, and Latin rhythms. Among various side projects and collaborations, his original production work…
This might take some strain, considering the Twitter-fueled micro-attention-span of early 2k9, but think hard back to 2007. Did you watch a lot of music-themed reality TV? If so, you may remember a Fuse program centered on the Bodog-sponsored national Battle of the Bands. It set some 16 bands into…
Swamp Stomp Music FestivalSaturday, April 25, 2009Jimbo’s, Virginia KeyBetter Than: The average assignment.The Third Annual Swamp Stomp independent music festival, under a mystical cloud of weed smoke, joyfully stomped the shite out of the swamp Saturday night. It was a down-home backcountry bait shack stomp-fest at Miami’s official fugitive hideaway/fashion…
Before the house turns totally to house music on Saturday nights in that downtown megaclub known as Space, all kinds of other action is kicking throughout the joint. A lot of that action goes down out on the club’s infamous terrace, under the stars and in the shadow of a…
Need an excuse/reason to go check out the casino on May 14th or June 17? Here it is: local independent jam rockers the New Planets are playing a couple free shows before the Don Henley and Bad Company concerts. Think of it as a fantastic way to augment your current/future…
Tom JonesSaturday, April 25, 2009The Fillmore Miami Beach at the Jackie Gleason TheaterBetter Than: A time-capsule set to 1971Of all the many remarkable things to be said about seeing Tom Jones stage these days — and trust me, there are many remarkable things to be said — perhaps the single…
PG-13’s a busy man. He put out his debut EP, 7 Songs for my Friends in 2007. Followed it up in 2008 with the debut of his hip-hop project Junc Ops and Silicon Graffiti, the first compilation from his Circuitree Records. This May 1st will see the release of his…
Fleetwood MacThursday, April 23, 2009Bank Atlantic Center, SunriseBetter Than: A Big MacHaving seen Fleetwood Mac at least a dozen times, and Stevie Nicks on her own probably twice as many, suffice to say I have a bit of history to compare Thursday night’s stop in SoFla for the Fleetwood Mac…
The Hukilau seems to be stepping up it’s game this year with at least one of this writer’s favourite surf instrumental bands, Los Straightjackets. Aside from their musicality and deft picking, the band is also noted for it’s decision to don mascaras de lucha libre whilst wearing business attire. The…
DJ Lopera, part of Miami’s expat Colombian techno mafia, first got exposed to electronic dance music as a student in Germany, which makes it no surprise that he’s a great proponent of the minimal sound. Having gained massive popularity in the early 2000’s as a resident DJ in some of…
On any given day in South Florida, there are literally hundreds of band playing. Here are a few of the highlights for this weekend:Kill Miss Pretty is playing the super swanky Pangaea in Hollywood on Friday at 8 p.m.The Pretty Faces are at Propaganda in Lake Worth at 8 pm…
We are finally back! We know, it’s been too long since our last post, but we had more important things on our agenda like WMC and a subsequent vacation. But now that we’re all settled in we are ready to get back to the nightlife grind.So here are the things…
