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,…
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…
Spanish gypsies are well known nomads. Gitanos, as they’re called in their native language, have also made a long lasting impression on the world of music, specifically with flamenco, a fiery style of folk music, dancing, and guitar playing. Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter Antonio Barullo, a gitano by birth, shoulders all…
Birthed in a Doral warehouse, the Miami Music Project has spent the last five years teaching kids who might not otherwise have the chance how to sing and play musical instruments, from the violin to the tuba. “Our goal is to transform communities using music as a vehicle,” explains Stephen…
When DJ DZA, who you probably know from The Garret’s now extinct Peachfuzz party, listens to fellow local Kodiak Fur’s “I’ll Be Waiting,” he feels some type of way. “The song basically makes you feel like you’re driving home at 6 a.m. after a night of just bullshit trying to…
Before Obama pardons a turkey for Thanksgiving, Cash Money Records co-founders Bryan “Birdman” Williams and Ronald “Slim” Williams will take a more humanitarian approach to the holiday. This Friday, November 20, the brothers celebrate their label’s fourth annual 2015 Thanksgiving turkey giveaway at Little Haiti Soccer Park in Miami. The…
The Miami Herald is reporting that Gloria and Emilio Estefan will be among the 17 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom award, the United States’ highest civilian honor. Though an official announcement of the nominees is expected later this afternoon, the Herald says a source tipped them off to…
Mitch Albom is a renaissance kind of guy. A best selling author, a humanitarian, a musician, radio host, screenwriter and all around inspiring individual, his words have touched the hearts and minds of millions, 35 million at last count. Music has always been of interest to Albom. He’s a steadfast…
Days after video showed a man falling overboard on Royal Caribbean’s Oasis of the Seas, a search is on for another cruise passenger who went overboard during the EDM cruise Mad Decent Boat Party. Yesterday, Mad Decent issued the following statement: Thursday, November 12 during the chartered cruise on Norwegian Pearl,…
“I wanted to pay homage to my city, Miami.” Toto Gonzalez says. That was his goal on, Orange, the second album he’s released as Mr. Pauer. “Everyone who was part of the album lived in Miami at the time it was recorded. Twelve nationalities are represented and we have songs…
The one thing Pitbull loves more than mamis, “Culo,” y “Calle Ocho” is New Year’s Eve. Last year, dat chico Pit celebrated el Año Nuevo at the Thompson Hotel in Miami Beach with Pitbull’s New Year’s Eve Revolution – which was televised nationally on FOX. He later ended la noche with a…
Hip-hop is the number one exported culture in the United States,” DJ EFN claims. “It can connect us and bring down any barriers in between.” As a vet of the 305 rap scene who, along with fellow local rapper Garcia and the Crazy Hood Film Academy, has documented the underground…
“We enjoy the tradition of record-shop in-stores,” Lauren Reskin, owner of Sweat Records, says. “We wanted to honor that and take it up a notch.” After receiving a grant from the Knight Foundation in December 2012 and ensuring that the sale of Churchill’s Pub would not cause their shop to…
There is a point in time for some bands where the attitude behind the music shifts. It is a defining moment that changes their perspective from a bunch of punks just jamming together to a group of individuals acknowledging their own talent and striving to make it as far as…
Quick, what do shredding, the Surfside Publix, tacos, and Wynwood have in common? If you answered “the new video from Ben Katzman’s DeGreaser, silly,” you’d be right on the money. For those seeking a heady dose of fist-pumping garage jams, look no further than this fuzzed-out ode to stickin’ to…
Yesterday, Miami-Dade police broke into Lil Wayne’s Miami Beach mansion after a judge granted a “break order,” which basically allowed officers to enter the rapper’s house with force if necessary. The reason for the order: Wayne owed $2 million to a company — the Miami-based Signature Group — for a…
Just over a year ago we profiled the Miami-born-and-bred viral sensation known as Stitches. Despite hours in his company, the rapper remained an enigma. Conversations with his friends, his foes, and his relatives depicted an individual as mutable and vague as he was self-assured. Though, whether his persona is genuine…
Miami-Dade Police officers busted down the doors of Lil’ Wayne’s La Gorce Island mansion this afternoon, and then rolled out dollies loaded with the rappers possessions. The mass repo operation was ordered by a county judge on Friday, court records show — all because Wayne wasn’t paying the bills on…
Camila Luna can’t stop giggling. She’s sitting across from me, in the middle of a Starbucks. People are starting to look at us. “I’m not that weird,” she keeps repeating while mixing Splenda and sugar together in her coffee. “It’s both healthy and sugary, a half-and-half thing,” she explains. It…
There are three things Trick loves more than anything else: 1) The Kids 2) Good food 3) Booty It’s taken him 42 years, but he’s finally found a way to merge these loves into one satisfying business venture. He’s up in his kitchen right now, cookin’ up a storm with…
Let’s check in with Rick Ross, shall we? It’s been an interesting year. His legal trouble, including assault and kidnapping charges, were perhaps his biggest headlines of the 2015, and it remains to be seen how the drama will end for the Carol City native. He’s currently walking free on…
Miami’s hometown heroes of electronic dance music are in the habit of ditching us for greener pastures once they blow up internationally. Take heavyweights like Maceo Plex and Danny Daze, who skipped over the pond to stake their place in Europe’s more lucrative club and festival circuit. One artist reversing…
