Yes, Nite Jewel’s Ramona Gonzalez appreciates strangeness. While making her 2008 debut, Good Evening, Gonzalez held recording sessions in her living room as well as a friend’s residence. And that’s how the songs sounded — lo-fi, sweet, strange. She applied that same approach to her latest record, One Second of…
You know Miami stripper Skrawberry for her rap skills, her political commentary, and of course, her sexy moves on the pole. Now, you’ll also know her for her sound advice. In this weekly column, Skraw responds to readers’ questions about life, love, and beyond. Got a question for Skraw? Hit…
For years, everyone has told me, “You guys gotta play it, man! Juke would be perfect.” We’re talking about the annual Wanee Festival, a three-day, 30,000-strong, hippie jam extravaganza in Live Oak, Florida. It mostly specializes in “bluesy” acts like The Allman Brothers. And this year, my band finally went…
First, let us say this: We at Cultist count ourselves among the Miami art scene’s biggest supporters. From its graffiti murals to the works in its galleries, Miami is, in our opinion, one hell of a beautiful place to live.That being said, Miami is home to some ugly-ass art.There’s no…
There’s no denying Miami’s weird-ass ways. So every other week, Welcome to the Future addresses the absurdity of life in the Magic City — in comic art form, naturally…
See LA Weekly’s complete Coachella coverage — the top moments from Friday, April 20, four highlights from Saturday, April 21, including Black Lips’ Biggie Smalls “hologram, and the five best things from Sunday, April 22. It couldn’t all be great performances, decent recreational drugs, and pleasant weather at Coachella 2012…
Photo by Timothy NorrisSee LA Weekly’s complete Coachella coverage — plus the top moments from Friday, April 20 and four highlights from Saturday, April 21, including Black Lips’ Biggie Smalls “hologram.” By the third day of Coachella’s second weekend — the sixth and final day of this year’s festival –…
Photo by Meranda CarterSee LA Weekly’s complete Coachella coverage — plus the top moments from Friday, April 20 and five highlights from Sunday, April 22. Saturday at Coachella meant tributes, tributes, tributes. From Levon Helms to Biggie, everyone got a shout-out. In between all that, some nasty partying and a…
Photo by Timothy NorrisSee LA Weekly’s complete Coachella coverage — plus four highlights from Saturday, April 21, including Black Lips’ Biggie Smalls “hologram,” and the top five moments from Sunday, April 22. The first weekend of Coachella: cold, damp, and wet. The second weekend of Coachella: hot, sultry, and steamy…
You know Miami stripper Skrawberry for her rap skills, her political commentary, and of course, her sexy moves on the pole. Now, you’ll also know her for her sound advice. In this weekly column, Skraw responds to readers’ questions about life, love, and beyond. Got a question for Skraw? Hit…
Germans don’t do romance, they do beer — at least according to Beck’s Beer radio and TV advertisements from the late 1990s. And now, apparently, they also do art. From May 7 until the end of June, Beck’s beer labels will be decorated with art created by London-based singer M.I.A…
In case all your friends’ recent pairings haven’t clued you in, it’s wedding season. And if you hadn’t already bitterly resigned yourself to a solitary life of hoarding cats, news of Brangelina’s recent engagement will probably do the trick.Yes, that’s right, seven years and six kids later, Brad and Angelina…
For most members of Generation X, or Y, or XY, or whatever they’re calling 20-somethings these days, the entirety of our opera experience was the 10-minute segment in Pretty Woman in which Richard Gere flies a jewel-bedecked Julia Roberts off in a private jet. But after seeing the Florida Grand…
See the video of Tupac Amaru Shakur’s resurrection-slash-performance at Coachella; a six-point recap from Friday, April 13; and the top moments from Saturday, April 14 — plus “Top Ten Awkward Coachella Dance Move GIFs.” Wow, that was fast! In a whirlwind of top-notch performances from legends and buzz bands alike,…
The tenuous watercraft hand-built by the nearly 30 teams at the 2012 Red Bull Candola race on Fort Lauderdale’s New River were not burdened with concern for such things as hydrodynamics and seaworthiness. No, in typical Red Bull event fashion, both of those attributes came in second and third behind…
Photo by Christopher Victorio/OC WeeklySee the video of Tupac Amaru Shakur’s resurrection-slash-performance at Coachella; a six-point recap from Friday, April 13; and the top moments from Sunday, April 15 — plus “Top Ten Awkward Coachella Dance Move GIFs.” Radiohead certainly had the most pre-festival buzz for Saturday. But once we…
See the video of Tupac Amaru Shakur’s resurrection-slash-performance at Coachella; the top moments from Saturday, April 14; a four-point recap from Sunday, April 15 — plus “Top Ten Awkward Coachella Dance Move GIFs.” Day One of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival brought something more unusual than ironic outfits…
Let’s not kid ourselves – Miami certainly isn’t the greenest city going. We’ve got a few years of cultural catch-up to do before composting is a backyard habit, vegans are able to easily find food, and riding public transportation is a viable option.But hope lives, and do-gooders are forging ahead…
We love Wynwood’s Second Saturday Art Walk for all the important reasons: free booze, killer visual installations, bizarre conversations with socially awkward artists. And now there’s yet another reason to get psyched for our favorite artistic endeavor: this weekend’s stroll is offering an earful of aria to help pump up…
You know Miami stripper Skrawberry for her rap skills, her political commentary, and of course, her sexy moves on the pole. Now, you’ll also know her for her sound advice. In this weekly column, Skraw responds to readers’ questions about life, love, and beyond. Got a question for Skraw? Hit…
Last week, Miami City Ballet announced its new artistic director: Lourdes Lopez, former principal dancer with the New York City Ballet and current director of the New York-based dance company Morphoses, who will take the post on May 1, 2013. Following a five-month search, an 11-member committee chose Lopez from…
Coachella is back. For two desert weekends (April 13-15 and April 20-22), a massive team of writers and photographers from Crossfade’s sister blog West Coast Sound will be covering everything from the performances to the fashion trends to the drug-induced tomfoolery. Over 140 artists are performing and we’ve got the…
