On an early weekday afternoon, Vnusamr runs late to a scheduled interview about her forthcoming EP, In This Church, so she hops on the phone for questions instead. She apologizes and explains that while she’s promoting the album, due out this month, she’s already working on her next project and lost track of time in the studio.
Most of South Florida is on vacation this week, but Miami’s underground hip-hop scene refused to take a break in the final days of 2016. Since his release from prison last month, Kodak Black has been doing whatever he can to spread his recent hits to all of his fans across the world. Recently, the Project Baby linked with rap duo Rae Sremmurd to bring their collaborative single to life. Meanwhile, Miami Tip is making waves after releasing a full-length movie tied to her single “Don’t Stop.”
As 2016 mercifully comes to a close, Miami-born and Tidal-approved rapper BZZY (née Lazaro Camejo and formerly known as Bizzy Crook) prepares to welcome the new year with his most lavish endeavor yet. On January 5, the 25-year-old hip-hop artist will release the video for “If You Only Knew,” the first single from his 2016 project, A Part of Everything.
For weeks, we’ve heard stories of performers from Elton John to members of the Rockettes giving their invitations to perform at President-elect Trump’s January inauguration a hard pass. Now, reports indicate that many of those same performers could be headed to Miami instead, for a collaborative live concert designed to coincide…
The holiday season is a time of tradition: decorating the Christmas tree, taking stupid selfies at Santa’s Enchanted Forest, getting embarrassingly drunk at the annual office party. But a new tradition is emerging in Miami: the annual release of a holiday-themed music video from Otto Von Schirach, Juleisy y Karla, and the…
South Florida’s budding stars intend to wake you up and shake you senseless with their fresh music. Bizzy Crook wants the world to snap out of its stupor and provide major assistance for victims of war in Aleppo, as he vented in the form of a letter. SIN called out…
The first time viewers see lead singer Megan Morrison in Dorothy’s Surrender’s new music video for the band’s song “Dirty Stayout,” she’s onstage playing to a sweaty, raucous Churchill’s crowd. When viewers see her offstage, she’s in her fishnets chugging Jameson from the bottle in broad daylight.
For all the awful stuff that happened this year, rest assured of one thing: Miami’s music scene is alive and well. Whether it’s dance, hip-hop, rock, metal, or everything in between, 305’s artists made themselves heard with an amazing body of work that had listeners in awe. If your knowledge of Miami music goes only as far as Pitbull and Rick Ross, now is the time to get to know the acts who actually made the most of 2016.
Your current music rotation of South Florida artists is probably easy to guess. You listen to Kodak Black to kickstart your morning. By lunch, you’re bobbing your head to Denzel Curry to get through a rough day at the office. On your way home, you blast Wifisfuneral because you’re 100 percent over your shitty job. And then, right before bed, you run through Robb Banks’ “C4” just because it’s that good.
With New Year’s right around the corner, rappers in South Florida are taking every advantage of the final days of 2016 to release their latest work. Earlier this week, internationally acclaimed artist and Florida native LunchMoney Lewis recently linked up with Ty Dolla $ign for their new single. Meanwhile, you…
As a singer who’s made it to primetime, Paxton Ingram has learned to improvise both onstage and off. He’s quick to pull out a stick of incense from his backpack and light it during stressful moments like, for instance, when his interviewer is 45 minutes late and panicked because she…
Imagine coming to Club Space on a Tuesday to catch a live act. The show ends around midnight, and if you’re feeling frisky, you stop at Libertine for a well-crafted nightcap. You get home around 1 a.m. and wake up the next day to find your phone hasn’t been stolen, your jaw doesn’t ache, and you — shockingly — don’t feel the urge to dive headfirst into a bag of McDonald’s breakfast and take a 48-hour nap.
It’s been a long time coming for Miami’s own Ball Greezy. Last year, he deviated from hip-hop norms and looked inward on his first Feel My Pain mixtape, which featured Jim Jones on the title track. Now, as 2016 comes to a close, the Miami native prepares for the new…
It’s time to wrap up another year, and with its passing comes time to reflect on personal growth and the year that was — and, oh, what a year it was. 2016 was a parody of a bad year, with a fiercely divisive election and deaths of luminaries and…
“I look like a flower, but smell like an ashtray,” sings Gainesville-raised Miami transplant Edan Archer on her new single, “Cutthroat.” It’s the closing track on new her alt-country EP, Cruel Mother. Not only is the lyric an apt summation of Archer’s eagerness to challenge modern expectations of femininity in…
One big problem the diverse city of Miami faces during the holidays: How do you include all your friends — regardless of religious background — into the celebrations? Well, Miami/Brooklyn duo Basside has a solution: getting “Lit” for the holidays, whether it’s Christmas or Hanukkah. Yes, the rapping duo has…
Over the phone, Gigi Rowe’s voice jumps an octave as she describes the moment things began to feel real for her. It wasn’t during a concert or backstage but thanks to a coveted spot in one of the world’s most popular video games. She remembers attending an event in Paris…
If you don’t know what a busker is, you’re not alone — especially in Miami. For all of South Florida’s weird and wonderful talent, we’re not exactly known for our “people who entertain in a public place,” as Webster defines the term. “Miami has a ton of performers, but except…
Kaixen, otherwise known as Julian Munro, is a Miami producer and guitarist with a musical bloodline. With words flowing a mile a minute, he details the important moments of his musical timeline. There was his first experience at a recording studio, an instance that made him uneasy and sparked his…
There are three things that are absolute in life: death, taxes, and exclusive events during Art Basel week. The latest edition of Basel parties brought arguably the most talented and highly coveted rapper in music to South Florida: Kendrick Lamar.
Though some musicians might feel awkward watching people listen to their songs, Sam Rosenthal says he will feel no such anxiety when Deju Vu Audio South hosts a listening party for his band’s double album, These Fleeting Moments. “At a listening party I don’t have to worry about doing anything,”…
Miami’s newest record store — in spite of its name — is proud to be from the 305. “I was raised in Allapattah,” Diane Perez, owner of Brooklyn Vintage & Vinyl, explains, “but my girlfriend was born in Brooklyn, and we always liked it there.” The record store, which celebrated…
