Miami’s Tiempo Libre won a small victory at this year’s Grammys just by grabbing a nomination for Best Tropical Latin Album. The group’s indie album Lo Que Esperabas (What You’ve Been Waiting For) was pitted against discs by bands armed with Sony and Univision contracts. Tiempo Libre didn’t win, but…
Like Hank Williams III, Willie Heath Neal isn’t quite the cow-punk he used to be, at least in the studio. Nowadays it’s an unplugged guitar powering his eighteen-wheeler-load of ‘tude. Today he’s of a mood to talk — about anything. It’s like playing word association with a human Webster’s dictionary…
The South Bronx neighborhood known as Hunts Point has come a long, hard way since the white man swindled it outta the Wekkguasegeeck tribe back in the mid-Seventeenth Century. But nothing has affected the strip of land between the East and Bronx rivers as much as the bang-bang that accompanied…
954 champion spitter J-Perk has just put out a new track within the past 48 hours that’s way too hot to sleep on!! The tune is called “Lauderdale” and it’s a firebrand shoutout to all of Broward County. It’s got a bunch of hood-telligent MC’s on the track and was…
Dilla and Madlib Fans Rejoice!! If you missed it the first time around, Stones Throw Records has reissued the seminal album Champion Sound by beat gods J Dilla and Madlib. Lover’s of real hip-hop need to go out and support this album!! Of course, with a reissue, there are additions…
Since Florida’s #1 crooner T-Pain isn’t slowing down anytime soon, we might as well support him. Here’s his new video “Bartender” which has been dancing around my head all week long. This dude has style. Peep the semi-Michael Jackson moves in the video. –Jonathan Cunningham…
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’…
