Belize Just Named an Island After DJ Khaled

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…

The Electric Pickle’s Love Below Crew Drops Free Compilation Album

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…

Watch Major Lazer Bring EDM to Cuba

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…

LIV Made a Music Video, and It’s Everything You Expect

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…

The Rolling Stones Announce Free Concert in Cuba

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…

Rick Guerre Is Done Trying to Fix the Miami Music Scene

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…

Danny Daze on the Good and Bad of the Miami Music Scene

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…

Watch Trina Get Into a Fight Outside a Miami Club

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…

The 2016 Grammys Snub Blowfly During the “In Memoriam” Segment

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…