With a focus on the positive and political in the early ’90s, Arrested Development was often brought up in defense of hip-hop whenever the mainstream media demonized rap as the soundtrack of so-called gangsters. With hits like “Tennessee,” “People Everyday,” and “Mr. Wendell,” Arrested Development delivered Afrocentric messages over Sly…
Thanks to the wonders of YouTube, anyone born after 1983 can relive the historic moment when Greg Wilson introduced the concept of DJ mixing to U.K. television viewers for the very first time during a broadcast of The Tube on Channel 4. “It would be a major moment in my…
This week’s best show isn’t a singular concert but an entire weekend of hip-hop mayhem instead. Rolling Loud is one massive mixtape come to life. The lineup for the two-day festival is a murderer’s row of high profile rappers and rising stars: Future, Young Thug, Ty Dolla $ign, Lil B.,…
Few local bands have been as prolific as SunGhosts this last year. After being voted Miami’s best band in our 2015 Best Of Reader’s Poll, the group released a new EP, Parhelion, and toured heavily to promote it. Now, SunGhosts just released a music video for its newest single, “Til…
The lively new animated video for the Spam Allstars song “Around the Track” had a long and winding origin. “Years ago the Spam Allstars management reached out to me to do some artwork for them,” explains the video’s director, a man who goes by the name MarcPaperScissor. The artist, who…
The world recently lost an icon, and while millions of music fans grieved in their own way, one man is sure he was the biggest fan of them all. That would be DJ Premier. “I understood where he was coming from,” the legendary hip-hop DJ and producer says. “My mom…
Miami traffic is a bitch. It has provided South Floridians a never-ending excuse to be late because construction on the 826 will likely come to an end the day Donald Trump reveals his true skin tone. But we’re on our way. And like most Miami drivers with five minutes left…
Eric Hernandez spends his days packing auto parts in a Miami warehouse, but since the summer of 2014, his nights and weekends have been spent singing and playing guitar for noise-rock quartet Wrong. “I was in another band, Capsule, with [guitarist] Ryan Haft. That fell apart, but we still felt…
There’s a song, “Delirious,” On Grace Potter’s solo debut, Midnight, that channels Prince both in name and in spirit. It’s a glittery pop song with a funky guitar rhythm clearly inspired by the late star. With his recent passing, it’s no surprise then that she began her show Wednesday night…
For Mexican artist Carla Morrison, a decade’s worth of blood, sweat, tears (especially tears) and hard work as an independent artist brought her to Coachella, where she played an early Friday afternoon set both weekends at the Outdoor Theatre. It was a literal dream come true for the Latin Grammy…
It’s overwhelming. The avalanche of content telling you how you should or should not feel about Beyoncé’s newest album Lemonade is as close as the internet can get to discussing, in unison, a single topic. Kim Kardashian’s greasy butt was a mere ripple compared to what Beyoncé has done to…
Before the internet, if you had some sort of wild wish you wanted to make a reality, it helped to be terminally ill. But now anyone with wifi and a dream can give it a shot. Example: the Facebook event page “Lets Get Smashmouth 2 Perform at City Inn Hotel,”…
Hold on to your party hats. Peachfuzz is moving one more time. Miami’s beloved monthly Friday-night party is riding high on three successful rounds of wild functions at the Thompson Hotel. Guests have included your girl, Rae Sremmerd, Robb BankS, and other hip-hop notables, which usually means things are going…
Few places in Miami are growing as fast, or as tall, as Brickell. By 2019 Miami’s Downtown Development Authority anticipates the area’s population will hit 37,087. It was only 12,904 in the year 2000. And in the general Greater Downtown Area, there are roughly 36,931 residents between the ages of 25 and 44…
A week after he made us all sweat it out for a free T-shirt, Drake has announced that he will repay Miami with a concert on the upcoming Summer Sixteen Tour. Along with pal Future, Drizzy will make 31 stops that will start in Austin on July 20 and end…
Beyoncé is still the reigning queen of musical female empowerment, but a new all-girl group is spreading a similar message to a younger demographic. L2M (Listening 2 Music), a five-member ensemble made up of trained young performers Mariangeli, McKenzie, Lexi, Tati, and Jenna. The mostly preteen pop group was signed…
Later this month, Tribeca Film Festival will debut I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead, a new documentary film about the life and times of Benihana founder, the late Hiroaki “Rocky” Aoki, and that of his son Steve Aoki — whom some may know as one of the biggest EDM stars in…
Among the many artists making their Coachella debuts this year, Mavis Staples undoubtedly has the most storied résumé. As a solo artist and former member of The Staples Singers, the 76-year-old’s powerful voice has graced over five decades of soul classics, including “I’ll Take You There,” “Let’s Do It Again” and…
So, we’re going to assume you don’t have a Beyoncé ticket. But don’t worry. There’s still another option. “Hot to the Touch,” the first track off of Grace Potter’s 2015 solo debut, Midnight, sounds a little bit like the theme song to the BBC science fiction drama, Torchwood. But in addition…
Shana Cleveland was listening to ’60s garage rock when it hit her. “They all had interesting vocal harmonies with cutting, twangy guitar sounds. I didn’t see any current American bands doing that.” Born in Kalamazoo, Michigan to a pair of musician parents, Cleveland says music was her whole world growing…
The sight of bacon-wrapped hot dogs sizzling atop metal trays, their fatty aroma intermingling with desert dust and the odor of dead grass, has been a familiar part of the Coachella Valley Music Festival for many years. But not this year. Where they once could be found along any entry…
Prince stories tend to sound like fairytales. Encounters with the music legend are recalled like unicorn sightings. One minute, you’re just going about your day, and then you turn a corner and, boom, there he is: glistening and surrounded by birds. Eddie Murphy’s older brother Charlie Murphy told perhaps the…
