Rapper Robb Bank$ Is a Phenomenon Among Millennial Hip-Hop Fans

Upstairs, in a dressing room backstage at the Orpheum in Ybor City, Robb Bank$ walks in small circles, winding himself up like a spring, mike in hand and awaiting his turn onstage. It’s about 9 p.m. Saturday, November 14, the last date of the 21-year-old rapper’s U.S. tour, an all-ages…

Rick Ross Is Offering $10,000 to the Best Instagram Twerker

Asses of America, stop what you’re doing and listen.  Rick Ross has offered up $10,000 to the best booty-shaking, ass-quaking, poop-making rear end on Instagram.  Carol City’s own is launching a marketing campaign for his new album that they won’t teach you in Intro to PR. Rozay took to Instagram last…

Drake Has Become the Unpredictable Lover He Sings About

Dear 6 God, Why have you forsaken us? You know us, the streets? The ones you said you could never ever let down? I know you left your condo last week. You were here in Miami celebrating New Year’s Eve at E11even just a short drive from where you used…

Miami’s Cécile McLorin Salvant Is Jazz’s Next Great Hope

Cécile McLorin Salvant’s voice is a bittersweet lullaby: haunting and sweet. The 25 year-old jazz singer is known for her theatrical vocal flair. At a recent performance at Midtown Miami’s Lagniappe, she gently coos, placating the audience into an intimate trance. As she flushes into the depths of her vocal…

SunGhosts Break Down New EP Track by Track

SunGhosts, our reigning readers’ choice for Miami’s best band, just put out a new four song EP, Parhelion. The title keeps with the Kendall band’s solar obsession. Parhelion is the scientific name for a rainbow halo phenomenon seen around the sun in case you were wondering. Recorded in both Davie…

The 15 Best Miami Songs of 2015

It’s easy to shove Miami music into a corner. Perhaps you think it’s all Latin rhythms or DJs in big, loud clubs. But the music in Miami, like the city itself, is stunningly diverse. With that in mind, we’ve rounded up the best songs Miami musicians have released this year…

New Miami Label Ear Problems Is All About the Cassette

For local artist Daniel Mendez, making music under the alias Triangles was simply not enough. In the DIY spirit of today’s culture, Mendez decided to take on the additional responsibility of forming his very own cassette-tape label called Ear Problems.  The label hopes to support local artists by giving them…

Buskerfest 2015 Aims to Bring the Music to You

Usually, one thing that most major cities with character have in common are street performers. However, busking seems to be something that has never really taken hold in Miami. Why not? There’s no shortage of musicians from all over the world living here. The weather is great. And there are…

The Ten Best Bands From Kendall

There’s a pocket of Miami’s music scene that is alive and kicking but usually flies under the radar, overshadowed by the loud and flashier parts of our city. Maybe it’s because many of the live shows are put on in backyards due to the lack of appropriate venues in the…

Oscar G Describes His First Trip to Cuba as a DJ

From scoring a dozen Top 10 hits on Billboard’s Hot Dance Club Songs chart to running his own underground house label, Murk Records, with fellow local Ralph Falcon for nearly 25 years, the 305’s Oscar G has accomplished a lot in his career. But it wasn’t until last month that…

Poorgrrrl Has Miami Scratching Heads and Shaking Booties

She asked me to meet her at dusk. Why dusk? “Because watching the sunset here is so nice,” Poorgrrrl says earnestly pointing out the hues of bright orange and indigo as we sit on the porch of her Wynwood home. “Look at how beautiful those colors are — that’s some…

Six Tips for Actually Getting Your Band Booked

So, you’ve got yourself a nice little band together, huh? Finally, you’ve assembled the right group of guys (or gals) and you’re ready to make your mark on the local music scene. No more being forced to endure these overrated local acts at every event. Now you are gonna show…

Power 96’s Lucy Lopez Gives Hialeah a Voice on the Airwaves

Years before Lucy Lopez became a funny, sassy fixture on Power 96 — as the sole female cohost of the hit music channel’s popular Morning Show — she called into the radio station on a whim. While stuck in traffic. To rail at the on-air hosts. It was around 2001,…

Miami Rapper Hound da God Is Tired of Overtown Being Overlooked

Gary Black is frustrated. The 33-year-old rapper has lived in Overtown almost his entire life and hates that Miami’s most historic black neighborhood has a bad reputation. Black admits he has seen Overtown at its worst. He grew up in the ’90s, when drugs and crime ravaged the streets. But…