The past week’s fracturing of the political climate and escalation of dangerous rhetoric against marginalized groups across the country has left many wondering how to heal the wounds between neighbors and friends and even within ourselves in the aftermath of an unprecedented election season. Talk of self-care and…
No matter how you’re feeling about last Tuesday’s election results, we’re all in dire need of some positivity to wash off the ick from nearly two years of the ugliest presidential contest in modern American history. They say all politics is local, and tomorrow, Thursday, November 17, the Miami Foundation…
Sitting in a hotel room in Mexico, the Dominican-born, Miami-bred DJ and producer known as Happy Colors pauses and thinks for a moment. At our request, he’s trying to identify the early roots of his carefree, rebellious attitude — the same attitude that inspired songs like “Con Ese Culazo,” “Mamagüevo,” and…
This week, fresh off flexing his right to vote, Rick Ross dropped his remix of one of Solange’s stand-out tracks on A Seat at the Table before blessing us with a touching visual for his Black Market single “Free Enterprise,” featuring John Legend.
Outside of a coffee shop on Biscayne Boulevard, over a chorus of beeping cars, Miami producer Lazaro Casanova details the process that has led him to where he is now. When we spoke a few weeks ago, he was ready and eager to drop the first single off of Made in…
The Clash released its EP The Cost of Living on election day in 1979, when the musically maligned conservative leader Margaret Thatcher assumed power of the United Kingdom. The EP’s first track, “I Fought the Law,” a song no doubt familiar to you now thanks to its bastardization in Pepsi…
Miami artists know they don’t have to prove anything to anyone, but this week a few MCs decided to take some time out to remind the world of their hustle. Earlier this week, Ace Hood kept the spirit of Starvation 5 alive with a new video and provided an…
Over the past few years, Plastic Pinks have worked and played their way toward becoming one of the most recognizable names in Miami music. And their upcoming EP-release show at Churchill’s promises to be both a celebration of the band’s accomplishments thus far and a launching pad toward a new…
Local acts are starting to attract plenty of heat outside of the 305. Broward spitter Hi-Rez may be on a self-imposed hiatus at the moment, but throughout the last week, other SoFlo rappers have begun to pick up momentum inside the Sunshine State. While Little Havana rapper ER305 gives us…
It’s official: Trick Daddy is bad at social media. Like, really bad. Trick Daddy makes your racist aunt look like Mark Zuckerberg. Trick Daddy’s so bad at social media even Tom wouldn’t be his friend on MySpace. If you hired him to run your company’s Facebook page, your business would be…
Looking back, Ryan Brown realizes it wasn’t meant to be. He was young and inexperienced. On his first day of work he nearly crashed his friend’s Vespa into the first floor of New Times (which was basically one big window, so everyone got a prime view of his near-death experience)…
When Steph Taylor and Nabedi Osorio of Miami’s The State Of were living on opposite coasts, pretty much everyone else around them thought their partnership was done. But theirs was a special sort of bond, closer than you average Craigslist band, one that didn’t need regular, everyday maintenance. “I was gone for three…
For most South Floridians, the worst thing about living here is the traffic. In our heavily suburbanized landscape, getting anywhere means crawling into a car and suffering through the frustration and tedium of a long — and often dangerous — drive. But for Fort Lauderdale native Jess Gentile, better known…
With the release of his new album, Third Ward Stories, Fort Lauderdale-based saxophonist Jason Hainsworth set out to create a musical biography of his childhood in Houston. But how do you tell a story through instrumental jazz without any lyrics? “Too often I think we take for granted the countless…
Other Body has been relentlessly pacing around the Miami alternative scene for over a year now, turning venues around town into pressure cookers of condensed punk vitriol. Formed in the wake of local acts like Teepee and Lil Daggers, the band includes Jacob Israel on bass, Melvin Zantua on drums,…
Record Room studios in North Miami has hosted a who’s who of top-charting artists — everyone from Lil Wayne to Kent Jones has laid down tracks here. Its latest star-in-waiting could well be PBG Miami, who has spent plenty of nights cooking up dope in the lab with Cool &…
On a recent Saturday afternoon, Keith Johns played on a temporary stage under the Brickell Metrorail station as his audience — face-painted children, adults, and costumed dogs — swayed along to his breezy, lazy-afternoon cover of Outkast’s “Hey Ya.” Midway through the set, Miami’s schizophrenic weather took a turn from…
How big a week has this been for hip-hop in Miami? Our own DJ Khaled got to be President Obama’s hype man yesterday. Meanwhile, Rick Ross, his Maybach Music Group and plenty of other Miami emcees are going hard in the 4th quarter of 2016. After dropping off several major…
Since he dropped his debut mixtape, About A Girl, back in 2009, there’s been one thing on rapper Audubon’s mind: making it in the music industry. Once the star of MTV’s reality series, Washington Heights, Audubon, who was born Jonathan Perez, eventually traded his life on the small screen to continue the momentum of…
What’s makes a hit song these days? It’s got to be sticky. It must have a hot beat and a catchy hook that gets stuck in your head at the most inappropriate times: work meetings, conference calls, hooking up with that boring guy who you only hang out with because…
As Spongebob once told our generation in his gloriously nasally voice: “‘F’ is for friends who do stuff together.” Friends help you make music, let you stay over when your parents kick you out, and are here for you when your girlfriend cheats on you for the 59th time. But the word…
III Points ended a couple of weeks ago, and even amid all the stellar local and national talent on the bill, you’d be hard-pressed to find an act that embodied the spirit of the festival as well as Twelve Tales. The Miami-bred production duo, composed of lifelong friends Michael Montuori…
