What exactly does Waka Flocka Flame mean when he claims to go “Hard in Da Paint?” Let’s start with what we know … The ATL rapper and Gucci Mane protégé advocates a lifestyle built upon clear, consistent thematics: trappin’, cookin’, slangin.’ And of course, keepin’ the chickens in line. But…
President Obama didn’t mention Band of Horses when he was asked about the music on his iPod during an interview with Rolling Stone’s Jann Wenner, but British Prime Minister David Cameron did. In a chat with the Daily Telegraph, Cameron admitted that Band of Horses and Lana Del Rey are…
See also “Meek Mill’s Announces Dreamchasers Tour, Show at Fillmore Miami Beach on August 13.” “Whenever somebody got a dream,” Meek Mill muses, “they want it to be reality.” Coming up in North Philly during the late ’90s, Mill was still a wiry 12-year-old kid named Robert Williams, hanging out…
See also the full 32-photo slideshow from Rick Ross’s God Forgives, I Don’t Release Party at King of Diamonds. Question: On a scale from Rick to Ross, just how ridiculously baller was the God Forgives, I Don’t album release party at King of Diamonds last night? Answer: Rick Ross…
Gigantes Tour Marc Anthony, Marco Antonio Solis, and Chayanne American Airlines Arena, Miami Saturday, August 4 Better Than: Reality television for relationship drama. The three Gigantes who sold out two of three shows at the American Airlines Arena this weekend delivered a whopping 36 songs in three and a half…
See the 55-photo slideshow from Identity Festival 2012 at Klipsch Amphitheater as well as The Fashion at Identity Festival Miami. Identity Festival 2012 With Eric Prydz, Excision, Doctor P, Porter Robinson, Le Castle Vania, Audrey Napoleon, and others Klipsch Ampitheater at Bayfront Park, Miami Saturday, August 4, 2012 Better Than:…
You already know Rick Ross is having his official album release party for God Forgives, I Don’t at King Of Diamonds tomorrow night. But you probably don’t know that two formerly felonious armed-robbing cocaine jackboys from North Miami are the promoters. Tru Story Ent’s Dave and LT took the time…
Los Enanitos Verdes’ next album won’t be out until early next year, but that hasn’t stopped the Argentine rock group from promoting it. “We’re recording the new album, that’s why we’re celebrating,” lead singer Marciano Cantero recently told Mexico’s Diario de Yucatán. “The album’s so good, I’m so proud of…
See also “Bear in Heaven’s Mustache Speaks! Anticipates ‘Mustache Afro’ in Miami” Adorably tragic or tragically adorable? The legacy of Knut the Polar Bear is still being debated by experts everywhere. Rejected by his mother and raised by zookeepers, Knut captured the heart of anyone who, like some New Times staffers,…
Remember your first computer? Ours was a rather unflattering, bulky Packard Bell Legend with horrid speakers hanging off the monitor. There was also a flimsy microphone that we could use on the integrated “telephone answering system with full-duplex speakerphone.” But a digital phone system was only the beginning of our…
See also “Who Wants Tickets for Identity Festival in Miami?” and “ID 2012 in Miami: Full Lineup and Set Times.” Identity Festival 2012 in Miami is 52 hours away! And no doubt the city’s epic partiers are gearing up to get down with Eric Prydz, Wolfgang Gartner, Madeon, and all…
Ted Nugent at Revolution Live August 7
Rev Run at LIV Nightclub August 3
Stevie Nicks and Rod Stewart’s Heart and Soul Tour at BankAtlantic Center August 4
O Rappa at Fillmore Miami Beach August 5
It takes a real man (or Crossfade’s grandma) to grow a truly special mustache. And Adam Wills, multi-instrumentalist in widescreen synthpoppers Bear in Heaven, is just such a man. Look at that ‘stache! It sits astride his upper lip like the legs of the Colossus of Rhodes! Virility personified!…
From the Prince of Brooklyn to the baddest ‘fro in popular experimental jazz … The Adrienne Arsht Center has just announced the six-act lineup for its inaugural Live at Knight concert series. Jumping off in October with Talib Kweli & Res’s Idle Worship and ending seven months later with Esperanza…
Whoa, dude … Primus just announced its “first-ever traveling 3D-enhanced live musical performance.” And it’s gonna be “really trippy.” That’s what weirdo ringmaster Les Claypool tells Billboard, adding, “The past couple of years, Primus has gotten pretty psychedelic. We keep joking that we’re bringing acid rock back to the masses.”…
As far as Hollywood action movies go, 2011’s Drive starring Ryan Gosling was a stylistic tour de force. And whether you’re one of the countless chicks swooning and drooling over RyGos, the dreamy yet dangerous loverboy-next-door or a dude amped up by Gosling’s stoic skull-cracking badassery, the one thing both…
To quote adorable guy-girl indie poppers Matt & Kim: Oooh-oooh-oooh-woo, oooh-woo, oooh-woo … Just a few minutes ago, the perpetually psyched tag team (“Matt plays keys! Kim plays drums!”) announced their 38-date Lightning Tour via Twitter, expressing an overwhelming level of excitement with all-caps hashtaggery such as “#PARTY!” and “#LETSGO.”…
Check the contents of your ostrich-skin wallet. Along with the XXXL lambskin condom, stack of hundreds, and black AmEx, there should be your up-to-date 305 Baller Certification card. If, however, you haven’t taken care of this year’s dues, make sure to send that suitcase full of singles to Baller HQ…
See also John Lydon and “Ten Raging Punks Who Crashed the Daytime Talk Show Circuit.” After spending the mid-1970s repeatedly slapping the Queen with the knobby end of his spit-soaked Sex Pistol, pioneering British punk John Lydon (AKA Johnny Rotten) decided to take a break from all that endlessly snarling…
