Calvin Harris is a chart-topping pop superstar. In the UK, of course. In America, he earns a bit of a blank stare. Why? We aren’t sure. He proved he’s definitely able to compose killer hooks with tracks like “Girls,” “Acceptable in the ’80s,” and “I’m Not Alone.” And then you’ve…
Junior Bruce Self-Titled EP (Self-released) juniorbruce.com The newest breed of Floridian metalhead is a bunch of savvy mothers! These are the righteous bearers of the torch ignited in the ’80s and then kept lit by the awesome sludge and power violence scenes of the ’90s. Now meet Junior Bruce, a…
South Florida’s 21st century dancehall, soca, and hip-hop party scene can be described in one word: Madhouse. That’s the name of the weekly party started on Key Biscayne in the early millennium and keeping the bashment going even today via Friday nights at Opium Hard Rock.The teams behind the movement…
Rick Ross controversies are back in the news again. It seems that constant foe 50 Cent used his website (ThisIs50.com) to post this unclear video of someone with a close resemblance to Rick Ross in a racy video clip. It was said to have been recorded way before Ross became…
Let’s face it: Radio in South Florida these days sucks. Your choices are few, and the options aren’t good. You can either listen to DJ Teja talk about the golden days of Hot Wheels freestyle between 17 plays a day of Rihanna’s latest track, or flip to the “rock station”…
For eons, humanity has celebrated the autumnal equinox. Back in the day, summer ended and the pagans immediately noticed that the dirt was dying, crops were rotting, and only the grave lay ahead. So they said “Fuck it!” and threw an apocalypse party. There was binge drinking, rampant overeating, incoherent…
dontstayin.comThere’s no debate that Miami is ground zero for bass-rattling dance music. For as long as cars have come factory-equipped with a throb knobs, people named Luke, Laz, and Maggotron have been finding ways to turn them up to 11. And 1,976 miles and twenty years later, DJs like Sluggo…
When a big-budget tour starts somewhere, the talent rarely shows up early just to hang around town. Of course, you can always grant an exception for Miami, a city that every hip-hop and pop star takes every chance to visit. But it was curious when Rick Ross announced he’d be…
When a band glimpses infinity, tongue-kisses the sun, and releases a five-song slab totaling 31 minutes and 18 seconds, you gotta ask: “How can they call this an EP?” The new self-titled Arboles Libres release is one of those sprawling, little cosmic riddles. Sure, the track count is right –…
Will Deadmau5 have a stage to perform on next year?UPDATE: Ultra Music Festival will be taking place March 25 to 27, outside of the WMC dates.Rumors about Ultra Music Festival’s future keep piling up. We’ve sent the festival’s publicist multiple emails asking for comment, but Russell and Charlie Faibisch, two…
In the late ’80s to early ’90s, Florida’s music landscape was ravaged by a brutal bulldozer known as grindcore. Inspired by death metal, thrash, and classic hardcore, and driven by the DIY ethos of punk rock, groups emerged like locusts. They played faster than everyone else and blasted the world…
Miami rock fans are no doubt familiar with Huma Rojo. Comprised of vocalist-bassist Damaris Vicke, guitarist Javier Guell, and keyboardist Daniella Bertoldi, the bilingual art rock band has been rumbling around the local scene since 2006 (though Bertoldi actually joined in ’08), delighting fans with its penchant for cinematically psychedelic…
We posted an interview we did with The Drums’ Jacob Graham recently on Crossfade. But the band seemed happy with how things were moving forward for them, with no mention of bandmates leaving or any turmoil within the group. We’ve got some sad news to report, though: It’s been confirmed…
Danny Tenaglia helps Space reopen on October 9.Space is still giving us the silent treatment, but it’s widely known that the nightclub’s reopening on October 9 with Danny Tenaglia. We never bought the news of an “Ibiza-style closing.” Considering that the club is closed during the beginning of the high…
We all breathed really heavy sighs when we heard that Metallica was going to release a DVD along with Anthrax, Megadeth, and Slayer, but realized they won’t be joining them for their October 3 South Florida show. After all, what’s real metal fan doesn’t have a little Metallica stashed away…
The Kings of Rap Concert scheduled for this Saturday with Ludacris and Rick Ross has been canceled. We started to get a bit suspicious when we saw the James L. Knight Center’s site mention that Rick Ross will no longer be performing, but kept our hopes up, anyway.We’ve just received…
In quite possibly the coolest vinyl promo we’ve ever seen on video, Third Man Records has just revealed their latest releases — and they’re good. They’re releasing glow-in-the-dark Halloween 45s, black and blue live series LPs, tri-color 45s, and a peach-scented Karen Elson LP. As if all of that weren’t…
We were all pretty excited when we heard news that System of a Down’s Serj Tankian was coming to South Florida with a full orchestra. So excited, in fact, that we decided to launch a contest to giveaway tickets and a meet and greet for the show on October 9.Well,…
Unfortunately not all big shows can launch their tours in Miami. We get that. But when we heard that last night’s Jay-Z/ Eminem concert in New York — the first in the new Yankee Stadium — had a ton of special musical guests, we just had to share some footage…
I recently stopped by Afrobeta’s beautiful downtown home recording studio to drop off a LeBron CD, and to check if they needed a guitarist for their tour. I love Afro Beta, and if I could work with any local band it would be them. You should have seen them at…
Young Livers Of Misery and Toil (No Idea Records) www.noidearecords.com I believe that the great and sorely missed Thomas “Pig Champion” Roberts was the butt of the Poison Idea joke of record collectors being pretentious assholes. That much is true dear readers, but I’m not as much a pretentious asshole…
Photo by Getty ImagesChelsea Handler as a Lady Gaga-esque houseWe were expecting quite the spectacle at this year’s MTV Video Music Awards. In lieu of last year’s Taylor Swift acceptance speech interruption, Kanye’s apologetic tweets, and her tweets suggesting she was going to interrupt him this year, we thought there…
