Last night, at the A+E District’s monthly Rooftop Unplugged concert series in Wynwood, Raquel Sofía finished her final song. “This is normally where we’d stop,” she told the small crowd on the roof of the Filling Station Lofts. “But music lost a very special person today.” The Latin Grammy nominee then launched…
At a broken down building that looks possibly foreclosed or abandoned, a dude in his mid-forties opens the door. He looks tired and has bags under his eyes the size of grapes. Inside his apartment, there’s a poster that describes a variety mushrooms, both of the nutritious and recreational variety…
Drummer Nic Collins is 14 going on 15, and his rock band, What You Know, has already played on national television in Switzerland, jammed at the Fillmore Miami Beach, and performed at the American Airlines Arena during a Miami Heat game. But despite all of that experience under his belt,…
My mother, who is the reason why I am alive right now, typing with actual fingers that actually exist, used to ask me to clean my room. And I would ignore her. I would ignore much of what she said actually, disobeying very reasonable orders frequently. But Drake, a rapper…
Though Otto Von Schirach has called Wynwood home for nine years, the musical provocateur’s connection with the once-downtrodden but now-booming neighborhood goes back further. “Twenty years ago, I used to come here for Hoodstock. It was a ’90s festival held in this hard-core neighborhood, but somehow the festivals were always…
At this point the anticipation for Drake’s new album Views From the 6 is so intense that the even the slightest announcement or tease from Drizzy is enough to get an entire city vibrating with glee. Drake knows this and is using it to his advantage. Yesterday he tweeted out…
Fresh from a visit to the White House, DJ Khaled is gearing up for another major milestone in his career. The 40-year-old DJ who rose through the ranks of Miami radio to become a plant-watering symbol of all things successful announced today that he will be opening up for Beyoncé…
Trick Daddy Dollas has announced a new, though not that shocking, venture – reality stardom. In a recent interview with Bossip, Trick revealed he met with Mona Scott-Young, the creator of Love & Hip Hop, to discuss joining the cast of the popular VH1 reality show as it moves south…
Here’s a pattern worth noting: none of the band’s on this list are actually from Miami. It’s hard to do justice via song to a place you only see once a year in person, or once a week on HBO through the eyes of Dwayne the Rock Johnson. Look, famous…
For all the debate that surrounds autism, specifically the myriad of possible and still largely unknown causes, one of the things that may got lost in the conversation are autistic people themselves and their needs. One person who isn’t just talking about it is Patricia Kayser. The Miami transplant and…
Childhood nicknames are rarely sophisticated. John Benitez knows this all too well. When he was a kid, his sister started calling him jellybean, on account of his initials and that old saying “know what I mean, jellybean?” “When I grew up in the Bronx, everyone had nicknames, because everyone was…
The reemergence of the record was as unlikely a revival as the world has ever seen. And Record Store Day has played a big part in the resurrection. Held this year on April 16, RSD is the celebration vinyl deserves. There’s live music (Shabazz Palaces headlines this year’s festivities at…
If you’re a hip-hop head in South Florida, you know Felisha Monet. She’s holdin’ you down on your drive at 5, delivering the hits you want to hear on 99.1 FM. She hooks you up with free tickets and requests, and she always has the right song to get you…
Part fan, part historian, part journalist, John Cordero is a walking encyclopedia of Miami’s hip-hop legacy. And this year, he’s decided to make his knowledge part of South Florida’s permanent cultural history with the upcoming release of his book, The Cipher: A History of Hip Hop in Miami, due out…
For a vocal chorus that sings classical music, Seraphic Fire has a name that is downright heavy metal. The group’s conductor and founder Patrick Quigley tells us that was intentional. “Growing up I was a part of choruses and noticed they were always named after the city they were based…
It’s ten hours till show time and Oscar G is at the SouthSide Barbershop in Coconut Grove. That’s his spot. He’s been going there since it opened six years ago. 2 Pac’s “Dear Mama” is playing in the background as conversation veers between typical Miami topics: local crime, the Heat,…
It’s a few hours till showtime at the Fillmore Miami Beach. Doors will open for Coheed and Cambria at 8 p.m., and around 4 p.m., the production team is inside readying the stage, running through a never-ending checklist of preshow preparations. Backstage, in the narrow hallway that cuts through the…
Even though the Jacuzzi Boys have been together since 2007, lead singer Gabriel Alcala refuses to believe that the trio can really already be the Miami rock scene’s elder statesmen. “I like to think we’re still fresh and new, but yeah I guess other bands do ask for advice. I…
Record Store Day, the annual celebration of all things vinyl, will be broken into two parts this year at Sweat Records. The day portion on April 16 will give music junkies the chance to purchase rare and reissued collectible albums beginning with an 8 a.m. opening. Owner Lauren Reskin, as usual,…
Though many blamed an abnormally slow and under-attended Miami Music Week on the fact that it overlapped with South by Southwest, the Austin music conference wasn’t all bad news for the Miami music scene. As we saw ourselves, many bands made the journey west to participate in SXSW, giving the…
President Obama traveled to Cuba last Wednesday in an historic effort to restore diplomatic relations with our communist neighbor. But Obama wasn’t the only high-profile figure to visit the island that week. On Friday, the Rolling Stones rocked some 450,000 (or 500,000 or 700,000, depending on who you ask) people…
“Right now I’m heading over to a studio in downtown that I’ve been working out of…It’s actually Pitbull’s spot. He’s fucking with me now. He believes in me and gave me his spot to work out of,” Bobby tells us over the phone. Joevanny Astorga, 28, AKA Bobby Biscayne, is…
