Chris Cornell Postpones Unplugged Songbook Gig at the Fillmore Miami Beach

After catching a nasty case of seasonal influenza, grunge-y sex symbol, former Soundgarden singer, and current acoustic crooner Chris Cornell was forced to cancel last night’s unplugged gig in Miami. “Due to laryngitis caused by flu, Chris Cornell is unable to perform tonight,” the official Live Nation cancelation announcement explained…

Occupy Miami Presents Occupalooza II With Raffa and Rainer This Saturday

​Sleeping in tents and marching the streets with Occupy Miami has been more pleasurable than painful, thanks in part to the protesters’ spirited musical showcases. In contrast to a slew of other more serious events designed to dilate your political mind, the second Occupalooza Music Festival planned for tomorrow evening…

Wake and Bake With MMC Da Click’s New “Bonfire Music” Video

What’s the perfect Friday morning? Wake and bake with your homies, then cruise over to the swap meet, shopping for bargain-bin shades, sucking the water straight from the coconut, and stonerishly staring as the smiling, bright blue inflatable dancing man does his thing. And if you don’t know, now you…

Tobacco Road Celebrates Its 99th Anniversary on 11/11/11

Considered Miami’s oldest bar, Tobacco Road was once a speakeasy, a gambling den, a gay bar, a strip joint, and blues bar. It has survived Al Capone, Prohibition, the Great Depression, deadly hurricanes, the Mariel boatlift, race riots, cocaine cowboys. And next Friday, Tobacco Road celebrates its 99th anniversary with…

Drake Drops Uncle Luke Diss on “The Motto”

On October 6, booty bass boss, First Amendment enthusiast, and weekly New Times columnist Luther Campbell (AKA Uncle Luke) issued an ultimatum to Weezy’s YMCMB crew and other “freeloading” rappers like them. “I have a message for Lil Wayne, his Cash Money brothers, DJ Khaled, Puff Daddy, and all the…

Taylor Swift: A Song Guide to the Country-Pop Princess’s Love Life

​Taylor Swift has been banging out big hits since she was just sweet 16. It all began with 2006’s “Tim McGraw,” a love song, not for superstar singer Tim McGraw, but her high-school sweetheart. And ever since, the 21-year-old country-pop princess has played the role of Little Miss Kiss-and-Tell, penning…

Architecture in Helsinki Takes Over Grand Central November 11

The architecture in Helsinki, Finland, is world-renowned. The city’s neoclassical structures and Art Nouveau buildings have been celebrated for their architecturally functional design and aesthetic appeal. Naturally, when the members of an indie outfit from Fitzroy, Australia, needed a name that would capture their collective brand of stylishly synthesized pop…

Penguin Prison Makes His Miami Debut Saturday at Oh Jack

When Chris Glover (AKA Penguin Prison) tells us that he’s never ever been to Miami, we are a bit shocked.Never?”Never.”Considering the 305’s unofficial status as the sixth borough, we tell him he’s probably the only New Yorker who’s never stepped foot in our swampy waters.”You are from Miami?” he asks…

Occupy Miami Presents Occupalooza Music Festival This Saturday

Occupy Wall Street has been swarming with acoustic appearances by musicians like Tom Morello, Talib Kweli, and Jeff Mangum. But Occupy Miami still hasn’t drawn in Pitbull or Gloria Estefan. Guess that’s no big surprise. As the Occupiers round out a second week sleeping outside of Stephen P. Clark Government…

Behind the Scenes on 13-Year-Old Heartthrob Gibbor Green’s “Crush”

​Gibbor Green is the cutest little singing heartthrob Miami has possibly ever seen. And the 13-year-old talent is about to take the biz by storm with his single “Crush.” The music video directed by Maicol Diaz isn’t just the tale of one middle-schooler’s infatuation with another. It also offers an…

Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs Brings Dancing Velociraptors to Bardot November 3

As if his birth name wasn’t whimsical enough, dreamy dance-pop producer Orlando Higginbottom would really prefer that you call him by the adorably twee title, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs. The son of an Oxford University music professor, this skinny, rosy-cheeked Englishman’s artistic sensibility is wide-ranging and quite eclectic, touching upon…

Diplo, Dinosaurs, and Jamaican Dancehall at LIV November 9

Diplodocuses were some of the gnarliest dinosaurs in North America. They were friendly, survived on a diet of mostly tree branches and water plants, and generally kicked it prehistorically ’round Utah and Colorado. But the Diplodocus is also the inspiration behind one of electro music’s commercial heavyweights, Diplo. He’s bringing…