Art Basel Miami Beach week isn’t just about paint on a canvas, graffiti on a wall, or a sculpture in the park. It’s also about the drop of the boom-bap beat from the most significant art form of the last half-century, hip-hop. Starting in the late 1980s and early 90s,…

Bass is the explosive power of a trillion pent up neutrons elbow dropping through the moshpit of your skull. We discovered it on three shining drops of strong Miami acid and you can too. So power your speakers to the red line, drop the needle on that new Caligula, “Sublimation,”…

This weekend The Stage Miami is celebrating three years of music, and the approximately 624 parties they threw in about the past 1,000 days. Since its inception, this little club under the highway has ushered in a new era of live music and DJs in the heart of the City…

Tobacco Road is so old that when it first opened way back in 1912 there were only 48 U.S. states. So old that when Abraham Lincoln turned 18, he hitchhiked to Miami and had his first beer there. (OK, that’s a lie.) So old that Miccosukees canoeing the Miami River…

Want to raise hell for Halloween? Negative Approach and the Casualties are coming to Churchill’s Pub with their Destruction Campaign Tour: Coming to Ruin Your Town. These are two bands that have inspired more wild, reckless rockin’ than Johnny Cash shooting crank with Elvis at a Motörhead show. We here…

Pretty Lights is launching his new live show in Miami, as part of this weekend’s two-night Basslights stand, featuring the kind of set that has never before been attempted in the history of live music production. The Colorado buddha head will be bringing, along with his five-piece band, an analog…

The Basslights minifestival is a two-night downtown throwdown by EDM speaker-knockers Bassnectar and Pretty Lights. These Friday and Saturday shows at Klipsch Amphitheater will also feature Koan Sound from Australia and the Fools Gold electronic dance rap of Run the Jewels’ El-P and Killer Mike. Bassnectar is currently rushing down…

When alligators want to fuck or fight, they roar. Females initiate the call, males follow, and they sometimes gang up by the thousands to throw tones so deep that the entire Everglades shakes. Some of these extreme rumbles occur at the level of infrasound, low-frequency oscillations that you feel more…

Slimkid3 from the Pharcyde screamed, “We’re doin’ this for Reefa!” and the crowd went wild. Later, Jay Swift, the group’s first producer, jumped into the audience, and they completely lost their minds. It was a fitting hip-hop tribute at the old-school-style block party, where the four elements of rapping, DJing,…