DJ Khaled’s career has always been a bit of an anomaly. From the outside, his rise to fame has been a confusing ordeal that is both fun to watch and hard to explain. And over the last year, his success on Snapchat has allowed him to reach a national fame…
With throngs of spring breakers set to invade the 305 for nonstop partying this Miami Music Week, it’s hard not to be in awe of how quickly dance music has been commodified. The genre is now also a lifestyle that can be sold by energy drinks and liquor brands. Then…
Gorky Aguila and Lia Villares, members of Cuban rock band, Porno Para Ricardo, were detained for 24 hours upon returning to Cuba’s Jose Marti Airport. The activists were coming back from Miami, where they performed shows at Cuba 8 Museum and Performing Art Center and Market Gallery. “When they got there, they…
Fifteen years isn’t very long. You still can’t legally drive a car or do any fun adult things. Unless, of course, you’re a tattoo shop, and more specifically, a tattoo shop on Calle Ocho. “After the Furious Dudes show at Sidebar back in December, I talked to Raul about doing…
Going on a year now, clubgoers seeking respite from Miami’s formulaic commercial nightlife soundtrack have been able to find it at the Electric Pickle every Tuesday, thanks to the folks behind the weekly Love Below. Those folks would be Manuvers, Pazmal, Gamma Bot, Telescope Thieves, and Jun-Ill, the beloved DJ/producers…
We first learned of Major Lazer’s plans to throw a Havana concert back in January of this year. And just last week, the Rolling Stones told the world that it planned to do the same. With time, each big leap in American and Cuban relations becomes less jarring. Even news…
“We all grow and evolve on many levels, and I’ve always found refuge in the spiritual realm,” Alex Diaz says. “It’s always saved me from the insanity of the world, and helps me find peace within. At the time of recording Orange Violet, I felt I was outgrowing many things…”
If, like Mitt Romney once said, corporations are people, then why can’t one make a music video? Well, that’s exactly what LIV just did. Miami’s most successful nightclub has released a three and a half minute-long music video that is both a thoughtful critique on social injustice as well as…
When Miami-based promoters PL0T began party planning in 2007, founder Rebeca Lange and her crew focused their efforts around some simple ideas. “PL0T has been doing events in Miami for nine years. We decided nine years ago to produce events with music and people we love that was not being…
The words “folk music” and “Miami” are rarely uttered in the same sentence. There was sadly no sunscreen strong enough to bring Bob Dylan to South Beach. If one tries hard to picture a Miami folk scene, an image pops up of some old guys in pony tails strumming away for a…
Just over a month after it was announced that Major Lazer would be giving Cuba its first major EDM show, another massive concert is coming to Cuba. On Friday, March 25, 2016, British rock legends the Rolling Stones will play a free, outdoor concert at the Ciudad Deportiva de la…
He caused an underground uproar five years ago over the state of the scene, claiming Miami venues sucked a certain part of the human anatomy. He released one last album as This Heart Electric in 2013, and then went into hiding for two years after that to record. He finally…
As an artist, Daniel Gomez, better known as Danny Daze, is not easily satisfied by his own work or by those around him. Talking to the Miami-based DJ, producer, and electronic music extraordinaire about the current state of the Miami music scene, the lone and iconic line from DJ Shadow’s…
“The classical guitar of today is not only classical any more. You can find numerous interpreters and composers who go beyond the limits of what you may call normal music and acquire the most avant-garde techniques of interpretation,” says Carlos Molina. Molina was born in Havana and is the founder…
Trina has long been the self-proclaimed baddest bitch in the 305. Rumor has it, as a toddler, she once spent six months in time out. Sure, that’s a false rumor we just made up, but the fact remains: Trina is a bad bitch. And you don’t earn the title of…
“For years I have helped out Henry Stone, Joe Stone, and others with transfers of rare records,” says Andrew Yeomanson from his City of Progress studio in North Miami. “Once people found out I was running old tape machines, they started to come forward looking for transfers of older recordings.”…
When FSU student and South Miami native Brian Kerr heard about a nationwide contest to find the college DJ of the year, the Miami native thought his chances were good. So he signed up for the ESPN & Campus DJ #1 College DJ in the nation competition at a Tallahassee…
“The music part of this album has taken me a little over four years to compile,” says Alex “Lex One” Cruz. “I’ve literally traveled to three countries and numerous states and cities to make every bit of this happen. I’ve moved to five different living situations, spent over $30,000 to…
In its first year and a half of existence, Shake 108 (107.9 FM) has quickly earned its title as best radio station in town — an honor we gave it in our 2015 Best Of Miami issue. These days, the station’s founder Peter Stebbins isn’t short on confidence. “In our…
Today, your Facebook and Twitter feeds will be flooded with all the post-Grammys coverage you expect: Can you believe Taylor said that? Kendrick Lamar [insert here]. Is that hat surgically attached to LL Cool J’s head at this point? But one of the evening’s biggest snubs probably won’t get much…
Will the Staples Center in L.A. be lit up tonight with 77 Rusty Trombones during the 2016 Grammy Awards? Will host LL Cool J believe his dick can fly? Probably not. But, Blowfly and Clarence Reid fans can be sure that the man’s legacy will live as long as soul…
“Cuango cago yo, la pinga mia toca el agua.” Translation: “When I shit, my dick touches the water.” This poetic musing is not a comment on a Pornhub video — it’s the title of a track by Sony Latino’s latest addition, Miami’s Bachata Trap king: DJ Happy Colors. Hector Mendoza,…
