See the full 68-photo Bruise Cruise 2012 slideshow. After only 243 minutes aboard the Carnival Imagination, it had already been a busy day, chockablock with bruisin’, cruisin’, and boozin’, famous guy sightings, and doing megahits off the pina colada bong while almost tumbling overboard. And the boat hadn’t even left…
Bruise Cruise Kickoff Party, Day One With Blowfly, Quintron & Miss Pussycat, The Togas, Mikal Cronin, and Deaf Poets The Stage Miami Wednesday, February 8, 2012 Better Than: Not seeing an elderly dude talk to a 23-year-old girl about eating her pussy. Whoever tipped America up like a pachinko table,…
Sol Ruiz’s Album Fundraiser at PAX February 10
The Avett Brothers at Sunset Cove Amphitheater February 10
R3hab at LIV February 11
Sumsun at Speakeasy Lounge February 11
Sleigh Bells and Diplo at Grand Central February 14
The Virginia Key Grassroots Music Fest is almost here, and that means a stellar music lineup, camping in the cool winter beauty of the subtropics, and more hippies, rastas, and traveling kids than you can shake a beach at. Meanwhile at Jimbo’s, $2 beers, Southern rock and roll, and topless…
Brenton Brown knows how to hustle. Having come back to his native Miami after graduating from the University of Florida, he doesn’t let the haters throw him off his quest to be the next big rapper. Signed with new management, he just made a video for his song, “Lemme Know,”…
Tool is just one of those bands that inspires crazy cult-like fandom. Or a totally indifferent shrug of the shoulders. But according to our sister blog County Grind, last night’s show at the BankAtlantic Center was crawling with rabid devotees to the Temple of Tool. So what if most of…
For every fat, drunk American football fan who couldn’t even sit (or, uh, dance) through Madonna’s 12-minute Super Bowl XLVI halftime bonanza, there are millions of giddy pop music fans in party towns like Istanbul, Zagreb, Warsaw, Kansas City, and St. Paul who’d be totally willing to blow their entire…
You may have noticed a recent wave of electronic music producers with “spoonerisms” for monikers — silly twists on famous musicians’ names, like Joy Orbison, Jichael Mackson and Wevie Stonder. Well, New Jersey-based producer Seth Haley didn’t choose to toy with the name of an influential pop star. Instead, he’s…
Known to fanatics and followers as the High Duke of Dance or simply PVD, professional party starter Paul Van Dyk (born Matthias Paul) is a total beat-freaking legend. Over the last two decades, he’s uhntz-uhtnz-ed all across the globe, unleashing five stellar slabs of electronic tuneage, Rock-ing the Vote with…
Kid Sister With Riff Raff Grand Central, Miami Saturday, February 4, 2012 Better Than: Babysitting a real infant. The spunky, enigmatic, and clearly grown-up Kid Sister is still trying to break out of the underground. The real little sis of Flosstradamus’s Joey Young, she got her start working the mic…
We don’t know what the hell Sweden’s putting in its drinking water. But the quiet Scandinavian country appears to be spawning a superior race of DJ megastars intent on world domination! The Swedish House Mafia dudes have already positioned themselves as the prime EDM ambassadors to this decade’s mainstream masses…
Steve Angello at LIV February 3
Method Man at Cameo February 4
Scott H. Biram at Propaganda February 6
Tool at BankAtlantic Center February 6
Kid Sister at Grand Central February 4
The concept of shredding — that is, achieving an enlightened and evolved state of being via guitar — is almost exclusively discussed in the context of metal. You have the righteously soloing heavy metal axeman, the frenetic yet intricate tech-grind guitar nerd, the lumbering stoner behemoth. In their own way…
Theophilus London With Steven A. Clark Grand Central Miami Tuesday, January 31, 2012 Better Than: The entertainment at Fashion Week parties. During the last New York City Fashion Week in September, Theophilus London was unavoidable. The dapper rapper/singer, who’d just released his full-length debut, Timez Are Weird These Days, for…
