In 1991, a naughty little rap tune crept onto pop radio and into the national consciousness. It asked one very important question: You down with O.P.P.? In the ensuing 25 years, fans of Naughty by Nature have answered in a number of ways, the most common being to throw hands…
In a world where entertainment has become transient and the performer with the most outrageous outfit garners instant accolades, it’s sometimes difficult to get attention for music that really matters. So any event that celebrates “serious” music — jazz in this case — begs attention. Jazz’s roots reach back to…
10. Spam Allstars. Performing on the Fountain Terrace. Saturday, January 30, 9 p.m. Hialeah Park Race Track, 2200 E. 4th Ave., Hialeah; 305-885-8000; hialeahpark.com. Admission is free. In case you were looking for a legit reason to hit up Hialeah’s best nightclubs, now is your shot. Turn up with Agua de Poço from the Spam Allstars as…
Traced back to their forebears, Shannon and the Clams come from a wild ménage a trois of Nuggets garage, Bay Area punk, and ’50s pop groups. For a lesser band, that inspiration would have fizzled like a drink from the soda jerk — sweet and bubbly one moment, flat the…
Feuds. Why do we love them so much? From Angelina and Aniston to the Ottoman Empire and the Byzantines, mankind has been throwing shade since the Earth’s first sunrise. This translates to music as well. There was the East Coast versus West Coast hip-hop feud in the ’90s, the one-sided Meek versus…
Cruises can be boring. Not long ago, bingo, trivia games, and cooking demonstrations were actually listed as “fun activities” by some ships. But these days, there’s a new kind of cruise in town: the music cruise. Take, for example, Jason Beukema’s Groove Cruise, essentially a floating rave. The 11th-annual Groove…
“My mouth is ripped up after each set. My dentist doesn’t like it,” the 32-year-old says. But a bit of blood won’t stop him. “With the trumpet, you can’t take two days off because that feels like a month. When I’m not on the road, I put in three to…
The Seminole Theatre in Homestead has died twice. Once, fire claimed the theater; another time, it was wind. But somehow, some way, it has been revived and will begin its incarnation as a hub for Homestead cultural life. Originally built in 1921 for silent movies and live entertainment, it was…
Get artsy, Miami – the Coconut Grove Arts Festival is back! Taking over Peacock Park February 13 to 15, CGAF has partnered with Miami New Times for the second year in-a-row as the festival’s musical curators. That, of course, means you’ll be in for three days of tuneage guaranteed to…
In 2000, when Eddie Vedder was in Miami, he got drunk and recorded one of the most legendary jam sessions this city’s ever seen. 16 years later, Vedder’s older, wiser, and bringing his band, Pearl Jam, to Miami once again. One can only hope he downs a dozen Bud Lights…
The moon looks nice. You’re waxing emotional. Some butterflies flutter in your stomach. Stars are shiny. Maybe you’ve lit a candle, maybe three or four candles. You’ve gone all out, like, stir-fried shrimp and homemade pasta all out. Those trousers and button down are really well ironed, homie. You feel…
Alex Clare is no stranger to struggle. The English singer-songwriter, best known for his 2011 dubstep crossover hit “Too Close,” owes much of his success to the setbacks he had to overcome. Speaking on being dropped from Island Records early on in his career, Clare is insistent that he would…
10. Peppa Pig Live! Saturday, January 23, 5 p.m. The Fillmore Miami Beach, 1700 Washington Ave., Miami Beach; 305-673-7300; fillmoremb.com. Tickets cost $26.50 to $42.50 plus fees via livenation.com. Peppa Pig may be a pink animated character who hangs out with her British pig family and animal friends, but in the toddler world, she’s the Beyoncé…
Listening to Luis Vasquez’s three dark industrial albums as the Soft Moon, you would think he always lived in Berlin. But he originally hails from sunny Southern California. “I was born in L.A., where I watched MTV every morning. It was mostly glam rock like Poison, Mötley Crüe, Cinderella, and…
Pop punk hearts everywhere are beating fast right about now. Today, it was announced that Weezer will be joining Panic! at the Disco on a co-headlining tour hitting over 40 U.S. cities. The tour starts on June 10 at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion in Texas and ends August 6…
Steve Aoki founded his independent record label Dim Mak in 1996, at the tender age of 19. His aim was to sign the best names in punk, indie, and electronic. 20 years later, it’s hard to imagine, sitting in his UCSB college apartment, he ever saw it getting this big…
Acceptance, frugality, unabashed nostalgia, tolerance of others, fighting addiction and drug abuse, and eschewing crass commercialism: Those are not the typical tenets of a global rap superstar. Ben Haggerty, better known as the thrift-shop-loving Macklemore, has built his reputation and career on subject matter usually glossed over by hip-hop and…
In an era of one-trick ponies riding the bandwagon of a single trendy style, it’s rare to find artists that straddle both ends of the house and techno spectrum. But Russia’s Andrew Guyvoronsky, AKA Tripmastaz. is in the unique position of being associated with both the funky, jacking Chicago house…
In 1985, linebacker Marc Buoniconti of the Citadel — and son of NFL Hall of Fame linebacker Nick Buoniconti — suffered a spinal cord injury after colliding with running back Herman Jacobs of East Tennessee State. It was an accident that would leave Buoniconti paralyzed from the neck down for…
Keys N Krates have fond Miami memories of eating good Cuban food and playing a WMC party hosted by DJ Craze at a strip club. They love Florida and say the crowds are “lit.” Their mission statement reads, “make weird rap beats for the weird kids,” which would make the…
Making a living as a musician was considerably easier before the digital music revolution started killing record sales. These days, it’s particularly tough for idiosyncratic artists like Marco Benevento, a Berklee-trained keyboard virtuoso and songwriter who eschews pop formulas in favor of experimental jazz-rock forays. Fortunately for Benevento, his talent…
The first printmaking conference that I went to made me realize how punk rock printmaking is,” Kristine Leschper raves over the phone. “It’s really time-consuming. There are a lot of really cool techniques. It’s very nerdy. It’s a very old-school way of making art.” Leschper is speaking about intaglio, a…
