Sunday might be the most important day of the weekend. How you spend it will set the tone for the rest of your week. And what better way to use your last day of freedom than enjoying some live music in the heart of Little Havana at Ball & Chain’s new…
Of all the ways I thought I would be describing my first Gathering of the Juggalos, “like my first rave” was not on the short list. But after less than 24 hours among the fans of Insane Clown Posse, that’s how I’m feeling. It’s like I’ve traveled back in time…
Heavy Drag is doing its best to live up to its name. “Pop music can be found in any part of music,” Michael Ruiz-Unger tells us. “It’s a little harder to make something more of a bummer.” Spawned out of the ashes of another local act called Lil Daggers, Heavy…
With its myriad opportunities and exaggerated qualities, Miami has a tendency to elicit both the best and the worst from those who pass through it. For an insular trust-fund baby with a legion of Maseratis at his command, time in Miami might be marked by powdery white lines and sizable…
Now in its sixth year, the Overtown Music and Arts Festival is one of the city’s biggest gatherings of art and culture outside of the annual Calle Ocho Fest. The free event holds blocks worth of local art, food, and music — with this year’s headliners including Estelle, Jeremih, Kelly Price,…
“You know how on Facebook you get these sponsored messages? I kept getting an ad for Ted Nugent’s show at Pompano Beach Amphitheater,” Tony Landa, bassist for Humbert, tells us. “One day after seeing it I yelled, ‘Fuck Ted Nugent!’ and then I thought: could that be a show?” Turns…
After a much-needed two-year hiatus from the madness that is Insane Clown Posse’s annual Gathering of the Juggalos festival, we’re happy to report that this year, our sister paper, L.A. Weekly, is off to Thornville, Ohio for the Gathering, which runs July 20-23, and will be reporting throughout the week on all…
In the not-so-distant future, when internet culture crushes humanity under the weight of deadpan hipster irony and belligerent comment sections, one man will stand above the fray, shouting “one love” until the bitter end. That person, perhaps one of the few in our world still left unscathed by cynicism, is…
Burger Records babes Las Robertas are on the way to make their Miami debut this week. Today, the Costa Rican lo-fi garage group with ’60s sensibilities is made up of bassist Sonya Carmona, drummer Fabrizio Durán and vocalist and guitarist Mercedes Oller, the only original member from the first lineup. The trio…
Miami Swim Week is here, and if you’d like to grab some quick cardio somewhere slightly more exciting than LA Fitness, you can head to the intimate South Beach club, Rec Room, this Saturday. Up-and-coming Fool’s Gold artist Speakerfoxxx (and one half of Bosco and Speakerfoxxx) will be playing a…
Today, III Points’ single-day passes went on sale. A limited number of single-day tickets went live at 11:11 a.m., starting at $70 plus fees. General admission three-day passes are currently on sale for $155. A few weeks ago, the Wynwood festival heading into its fourth year introduced its Foresight pass, a sort of…
Few rappers have fallen as fast, as far, and as hard as Ja Rule. From the late 1990s through the early 2000s, the Queens native released a string of top 20 Billboard Hot 100 hits and earned four Grammy nominations along the way. He was featured on tracks with Jay…
In July of 1810, the people of Colombia took to the streets to protest the rule of the Spanish in a movement that would eventually lead to a permanent state of independence. Officially, the South American nation celebrates that break from imperialism July 20 even though the struggle lasted nearly…
This week, there’s no need for music fans to stray too far from the cultural, working class heart of Miami, Little Havana. For decades the area was just another one of the city’s quirky neighborhoods that, along with so many of our boroughs, sported a rich and unique personality all…
Founded in 2007 by the acclaimed DJs A-Trak and Nick Catchdubs, Fool’s Gold Records is known as one of the most exciting incubators of hip-hop and electronic talent this world has to offer. With a roster of dozens of artists — both well known and underground — and a rolodex…
If you were to just see the name before hearing the music, you might expect the Velocity Gospel to be some sort of speed metal gospel choir, which — don’t get us wrong — sounds awesome. But if you ask the man behind it all (and he has been asked…
Close your eyes and imagine a Miami Vice remake, but instead of Don Johnson, a young Giorgio Moroder wears the neon suit. He walks into a bar in Wynwood and orders a drink with a little yellow umbrella. He sees a curvy blonde eying him as a band tears it up in…
In 1656, English poet Abraham Cowley wrote, “A mighty pain to love it is/And ‘t is a pain that pain to miss; But of all pains, the greatest pain/It is to love, but love in vain.” Sometimes, that’s what it feels like to be a fan of Brand New. Thanks…
Quintron is a jack of many trades. He made a name for himself with experimental musical performances, like his puppet shows with his wife Miss Pussycat or his gangsta rap album featuring one of his blind neighbors. But the New Orleans resident is also an inventor. “I’ve always been building…
Bernz was never tempted to record a solo album. After founding Miami hip-hop crew ¡Mayday! in 2003, the MC was content with his crew. But things change, and with his debut LP, See You On The Other Side, set for release on July 8, Bernz is wishing he didn’t take so…
From Felix Unger and Oscar Madison to Turner and Hooch and even Dennis Rodman and Kim Jong-un — odd couples have been entertaining us for decades. One such unlikely pairing rolls through Miami this week as Brand New and Modest Mouse bring their co-headlining tour to Bayfront Park Amphitheatre this…
In these dog days of summer, Trade wants to help cool down fans of techno and house music with one hell of a value deal. “We wanted to give back to the dance floor community this July,” Coloma Kaboomsky, one of Trade’s partners, says. “Normally our cover for one show…
