Welcome to SoBe. A strange and beautiful seaside oasis where it’s considered perfectly normal to spend one’s entire life wandering barefoot and half-naked through the streets and across the sands in pursuit of fallen coconuts and horny tourists. Other “normal” South Beach behavior: Auditioning for Internet porn on a street…
“I was there before reggae,” says Monty Alexander, speaking of his native Jamaica, in a way that’s perfectly balanced between humble admission and matter-of-fact declaration. “I was playing in the studios of Kingston Jamaica, with the masters of Jamaican music, The Skatalites, before they were The Skatalites. I played for…
For U.S. citizens, traveling to Cuba can be a tremendo dolor en el culo. Unless you’ve got special permission from the friggin’ Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, your ass is either flying into Havana under the radar through either the Bahamas or Canada. On the bright side, we…
Despite all of the hootin’, hollerin’, and mouth-breathin’ about “Obamacare,” communism is nowhere near making a comeback. Let’s review the facts: It’s been more than 20 years since David Hasselhoff rubbed his gargantuan wienerschnitzel all over the crumbling Berlin Wall. China went so far to the fucking left they ended…
That “Pretty Flaco” is going on tour with that “Good Girl Gone Bad” … So you know there’s fina be hella weed smoke on the tour bus. Tonight, A$AP Rocky will be at the Fillmore Miami Beach with his Mob. But he’s already planning a return trip to South Florida,…
One of the first critiques hurled at electronic music (usually from an individual of the guitar-bass-drums persuasion) is the performers “aren’t doing anything.” This is a valid charge. Are you really trying to tell us in between smashing people in the face with cake and washing it off with a…
Kitsune 10th Anniversary Club Tour at Grand Central November 9
Miami Bass Super Fest at BankUnited Center November 10
Buddy Guy at Seminole Casino Coconut Creek November 11
Waka Flocka Flame at Revolution Live November 14
Primus 3D Tour at the Fillmore Miami Beach November 10
The biggest Bawse in the rap game is taking over the Fillmore Miami Beach. And he’s bringing his best buddies with him. Miami’s phattest hustler, Ricky Rozay, is gonna tear the roof off that bitch and make all the hos scream when his Maybach Music Tour rolls through South Beach…
If you’re ever in Amsterdam, cop a slab of paper-flat hash, palm the sheet, and breathe hot air on it. Once the sheet becomes pliable, load it up with OG Kush, roll it like a blunt, and smoke up till society melts. That’s what Cypress Hill’s B-Real calls “the giggle…
Listen … DJ Khaled has been a prominent member of Miami’s hip-hop community for years, making dope albums, collaborating with the nation’s best artists, laying down fat beats on 99 Jamz, and giving the air horn a reason to exist. So we think it’s time that the MIA gave back…
He’s got a “Fucking Problem” that’s a hit, and one that isn’t. But A$AP Rocky isn’t letting unlicensed samples ruin the LONGLIVEA$AP tour. “It’s just so hard to get things cleared, because you got to find people to clear samples,” Rocky said during a recent radio interview. The MC’s debut…
That Francisco Franco was a real buzzkill, eh? Not only was Spain’s authoritarian dictator responsible for over 200,000 deaths in the first two years of his 39-year reign, the son of a bitch barred Joan Manuel Serrat from performing in 1968’s Eurovision Song Contest and made sure that Joaquín Sabina…
Searching for the Afterman? Well, take a break … ‘Cause everyone’s favorite prog-rock supergeeks, Coheed and Cambria, have just announced a winter 2013 tour! And while we could all continue puzzling oh-so-intensely over the latest installment — Afterman: Ascension — in C&C’s sprawlingly conceptual multi-volume Armory Wars comic-book-and-concept-album opus …..
DJ-producer Morgan Geist has no special qualms about you calling his sound retro. After all, his work as Metro Area with Darshan Jesrani boasts unmistakable strains of vintage disco, P-Funk, and ’80s synth-pop. But when it comes to his latest incarnation as Storm Queen with vocalist Damon C. Scott, Geist…
Whether unloadin’ uhntz-uhntz at Ultra Music Festival or gettin’ totally Jacked on South Beach, this Dutchman always comes equipped with his own MIA club crew, including “the tall guy with the weird glasses and the big afro.” But like all true party pros, Nick Van De Wall (AKA Afrojack) is…
For three consecutive autumns, local musician and promoter Ricardo Guerrero’s annual end-of-summer local showcase — Death to the Sun — has ranked among South Florida’s best festivals for contemporary and/or experimental rock music. Just shy of reaching half a decade (and more than a couple months after the actual end…
Hibernus Mortis may be South Florida’s greatest death metal band of all time. And a big part of that has to do with a long tenure as South Florida’s only death metal band. While the Sunshine State’s Gulf Coast can tout a robust history of Cookie Monster deathcries and bangover-inducing…
Nouvelle Vague Presented by the Rhythm Foundation Grand Central, Miami Friday, November 2, 2012 Better Than: Watching a punk and/or new wave band cover Bossa Nova standards. When French musicians Marc Collin and Olivier Libaux sat down and drew the blueprint for Nouvelle Vague, we bet they had a “Eureka!”…
