Airing Out Roxanne’s Only a week ago, I wrote a music column about how popular Broward county scenester hangout Roxanne’s on Main was under new ownership, and that most of their cool crowd was getting the cold shoulder from new management. The counties only true school hip-hop night, the Breaks,…
Photo by Jeffrey Delannoy Battles June 18, 2007 Studio A Better Than: Sitting inside, listening to the evening’s torrential rain, and pulling bong hits by yourself. Openers Dance, Jenny have long been championed by Lolo Reskin, the fiery-maned proprietor of Sweat Records who also organized the show. Their earlier material…
Abuelitas, chongitas y mujeres muy ricas will all be in a state of seduction as soon as baby-faced Latin pop star Chayanne takes the stage Wednesday night at the Hard Rock Live in Hollywood. Teeny-boppers will squeal, middle-aged hotties will squeal some more – maybe even hurl a thong or…
Just when it seemed like dissing Brooke Hogan was starting to get passé, the tabloids are back at it. The South Florida-based singer and daughter of the Hulkster was recently spotted out in Miami at Danny Devito’s restaurant looking slightly mannish. Some would say she looked like a tranny. So…
Better than: Sitting in front of your computer screen and hoping that your roommate doesn’t walk in and find you masturbating. The Review: Wickedness and depravity have never been so hot. Florida breakbeat artists Ghosts in the Machine are known for being sick and twisted, not only because they have…
Joss Stone June 16, 2007 Revolution Better Than: Her CDs, by far. No Opener: Just Raw Stone Joss Stone at Revolution Photo by Jamie Puntumkhul For a girl that hails from the white cliffs of Dover, England, Joss Stone is way into color – which made her magenta hair and…
Photo by Santiago Felipe Fall Out Boy June 16, 2006 Sound Advice Amphitheatre The first time I saw Fall Out Boy they were opening up for Mest at the Culture Room in Fort Lauderdale. Since then, they have sold millions of albums worldwide, been on the cover of Rolling Stone,…
Dead Prez June 15, 2007 Studio A I caught a crazy Dead Prez show last night at Studio A before a lackluster crowd that almost seemed scared to sing along with the songs. Anyone that knows Dead Prez should be ready for a quasi-Black Panther experience whenever they come through…
We’ll see how long this one lasts. News out of Jamaica and London is that reggae super stars Beenie Man, Sizzla Kalonji, and Capleton–three artists with a history of writing inflammatory lyrics against gays–have signed a anti-homophobia pact in regard to their music. They’re vowing to renounce homophobia (yeah right)…
Did you hear what recently happened at the G-8 in Germany? Anarchists from around the world tried to overthrow the fascist global police summit with a punk rock revolution! Black masked protesters wearing Crimethinc and Leftover Crack T-shirts threw grapefruit-size stones and bottles at police and torched overturned cars. But…
So two Cubans, a Puerto Rican, and an Irish guy walk into a dental supply warehouse … “We make music that’s unique to this neighborhood. Sometimes I’m surprised people are interested.” Developing a strong identity as a band is a challenge. Often groups try so hard to be unique that…
With the recent limelight on the Magic City’s growing yayo-enthused rappers, it’s hard to believe that a guy with a New York City swagger could infiltrate the 305 crunk mafia. But Dynas, a 28-year-old Queens native who came to Miami as a teenager, has become one of the city’s most…
Joss Stone is all about the love. Obsessed with it actually. Over the course of a phone call from Vancouver, the last in a series of whirlwind press interviews to promote her new album, Introducing Joss Stone, she uses the word to describe much of what motivates her. “I don’t…
Only a city like London could produce a pop artist like Mika, and only in England could he become a bona fide chart star. Bless our onetime colonizers for that: Thanks to the buzz in his native land for his debut album, Life in Cartoon Motion, the Beirut-born singer is…
Albumless since The Great Soundclash Swindle in 2004, the Hawaii-raised Keoki needs only his turntable and some candy-chomping dance kids to turn a nice, innocent club into a scene from some Caligula-flavored 28 Days Later. It didn’t always used to be this way for America’s (self-proclaimed) superstar DJ. Okay, that’s…
Okay, so lead singer Adrian Barrera might not dress in leather, slit the throats of two geese, and have himself stripped and whipped while staging the murder of a rabbi and having a honey-dipped nudie throw turtles into the audience. (That was Alejandro Jodorowsky, leader of the Sixties’ and Seventies’…
Local psychobilly hero George Van Orsdel won’t go on the record as to what exactly “A Van Orsdel Apparition Occurrence” will consist of at Churchill’s this Saturday. It’ll be either George playing a DJ role, or the entire Van Orsdels band, reformed after a seven-month hiatus, doing a set. “I…
Four of urban music’s brightest young stars of the moment — Lil Scrappy, T-Pain, Lloyd, and Rich Boy — could easily tour arenas and ampitheaters together and bring down the house. For now, though, they will converge on DUB Magazine’s Custom Auto Show and Concert for an exciting and high-value…
Battles performs at 8:00 p.m. Monday, June 18, at Studio A,
60 NE 11th St, Miami. Tickets cost $10 in advance, $12 at
the door. Call 305-358-7625, or visit www.studioamiami.com.
One recent misty Saturday night at the Main Street shopping center in Miami Lakes, a few doors away from Victoria’s Secret and down the street from Ruby Tuesday, two young celebrities mingled with their adoring fans. It happened inside Johnny Rockets, a retro-looking diner decked out in red leather booths,…
Yes another rapper is dead… shot down well before his prime. It’s a story that hip-hop seemed like it was almost ready to outgrow. There hasn’t been a marquis rap homicide since rapper Proof of D-12 died in a hail of bullets in a gritty Detroit afterhours club last year…
I’m not sure what’s more filthy, Pisspot the handpuppet or Blowfly, the Miami-based dirty rapper. You’d think Pisspot would win, but in this video, Blowfly steals the show. –Jonathan Cunningham…
