David Guetta might have changed the entire sound of commercial pop and Deadmau5 may have gotten legions of clubbers to don faux rodent heads. But there’s no question that over the past year, the hottest name in electronic dance music is Skrillex, born Sonny Moore. The polarizing artist has been…
The United States of America is totally addicted to the white stuff. Strung out, fat, unfocused, cranky, fiending — we are a nation of shrubby slaves to the cane, cube, and spoonful whose bodies (and minds) could never be called beach-ready. But there’s a cure for our sucrose-, lactose-, and…
UPDATE Originally scheduled for February 29, Guns ‘N Roses has changed the date of its Miami concert to March 5. Break out your sweatiest bandana and stankiest pair of ripped jeans … It’s time to get “intimate” with Guns N’ Roses again. Just three and half months ago, the Axl…
Can you handle The Whole Love? ‘Cause Wilco’s ready to give it to you. Earlier today via wilcoworld.net, the Chicago alt-country crew announced its intention to lay the “Art of Almost” and “Standing O” on six cities across the Southeast U.S., including stops in states like Arkansas, Alabama, Mississipi, Florida,…
Jesus loves electronic dance music. The bearded one with the ripped abs totally answered our prayer to have just one more day with Swedish House Mafia at the Masquerade Motel. A second day — Saturday, March 24 — has been announced. At 10 a.m. today, tickets for Day Two of…
It only took two hours for the inevitable to happen … Swedish House Mafia’s Masquerade Motel tickets sold out and opened a scalper floodgate. But don’t blow your paycheck just yet. Inside sources tell us that Swedish House will release another batch of tickets in the near future. So keep…
Swedish House Mafia’s Masquerade Motel is a go, and tickets for the two one-day event went on sale about an hour ago. Update: The event has sold out its first batch of tickets. But rather than going down on the sands of South Beach as it did last year (or…
Beware, beat freaks! The raving masterminds behind Ultra Music Festival have already colonized and conquered Downtown Miami in the name of electronic dance music, annually deploying an entire army of furry-booted troops and uhntz-uhntz-ing explosives experts to terrorize Biscayne Boulevard condo owners with three days of non-stop beat bombs. And…
Octogenarians rejoice, fellow 80-something-year-old and Great Depression survivor Tony Bennett has just announced a two-night engagement at a South Florida casino. Anthony Dominick Benedetto will leave his heart in Hollywood after the legendary crooner soft rocks the Hard Rock Live at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino on Friday,…
Revolutionary hip-hop is alive in Miami. This Saturday night, Dead Prez’s M1 and Thirstin Howl, Mecca AKA Grimo, P-Doe, FLO, Maybach Latino, Haiti Blues, Tom Larock, and PP Armstrong are gonna take over Moksha in Little Haiti to celebrate Black History Month, and fight for a better future for humanity…
Surfer Blood at Bardot February 16
Young Money Cash Money Billionaires at Mekka February 17
Bret Michaels at Hard Rock Live February 18
John Dahlback at Amnesia February 18
Authority Zero at Respectable Street February 18
What’s better than Dave Matthews Band concert? An aneurism? Hemorrhoids? Bio-terrorism? No, hater, two Dave Matthews Band concerts! The South Africa-born, Virginia-based dad-rocker, winemaker and occasional actor announced a multi-city summer tour earlier today, a cross-continental trek that’ll Crash into funk rock hotspots like Noblesville, Indiana, Scranton, Pennsylvania and Saratoga…
See the full 20-photo Drake at BankUnited Center slideshow. Drake’s Club Paradise Tour With ASAP Rocky and Kendrick Lamar BankUnited Center at University of Miami Tuesday, February 14, 2012 Better Than: Slightly dirty sweet talk that’s not set to million-dollar beats. Have you ever visited Club Paradise? In the words…
See the full 35-photo Sleigh Bells and Diplo at Grand Central slideshow. Diplo, Sleigh Bells, and Liturgy Grand Central Miami Tuesday, February 14, 2012 Better Than: A Valentine’s Day spent home alone, dancing with yourself to Diplo. On Valentine’s Day 2012, highly manicured young (and then some) adults swarmed like…
The Swedish House Mafia may be the top family in organized dance music. But they’ve got very little clout when it comes to striking deals with city officials. The Miami Herald reports that Miami-Dade County has “pulled the plug” on the Funkshion festival, a four-day, WMC party that would wrap…
Do you hear that uhntz-uhntz in the distance? It’s been 53 days since Ultra Music Festival 2012 announced its Phase 1 lineup, “a sprawling 92-act roster that ranges from massive dance superstars Avicii, Tiësto, David Guetta, Kaskade, and Fedde Le Grand to electronic music legends Kraftwerk, New Order, and Fatboy…
Third World and Inner Circle share more than a few things in common: names of exactly equal length (two words, 11 letters); status as two of Jamaican reggae’s longest-running and best-known bands; Florida addresses. What’s more, at one time, they were essentially the same group. Third World founders Stephen “Cat”…
Reggae may be the world’s most perfect spliff-lighting music. But don’t forget its social imperative to promote justice in a world full of hate, tyranny, starvation, and unbound evil. Reggae is hope. And Ziggy Marley is coming to the Fillmore Miami Beach on May 9 to fill your soul with…
