Back in January, we reported that recurring Crossfade character Black Bobby was going to take a break from hip-hop. Yeah, we didn’t think that would last either. Cutting an MC from a mic is like, well, cutting the average human being off from oxygen. Luckily, you can find much better…
Brooklyn producer Francis Harris is a philosophy PhD drop-out and former political activist/hardcore punk rocker who confessed to having originally hated dance music. At one point or another, he had a major change of heart and his shadowy electronic alter ego Adultnapper has emerged as one of the most acclaimed…
The Lee Boys is a world-famous family band of six Perrine natives who all went to Miami Killian Senior High School. It’s three brothers — rhythm guitar man Alvin, and singers Derrick and Keith — alongside three nephews — pedal steel guitar player Roosevelt Collier, bassist Alvin Cordy Jr., and…
Kool KeithWith Otto von Schirach, Juan Basshead, and othersEveSaturday, April 2, 2011Better Than: Staying home and crying over the demise of LCD SoundsystemThe downtown/midtown Miami corridor found itself in a pleasant hip-hop time-warp last night, with Too $hort playing an unexpected set at Bardot while Kool Keith headlined Eve downtown…
RadioboxerApril 01, 2011The StageBetter Than: Any of the many other times I’ve caught Radioboxer live. Radioboxer’s come a long way. Who’d have thought some three years ago that this ragtag pack of scamps out of Hialeah would grow and evolve like it has? Two albums under their belt now, a…
A celebrity is born every 60 seconds. At least these days, that’s the case. And the proverbial fifteen minutes of fame have been stretched to an eternity. Yet despite contentions to the contrary, few are real stars. And even among those who could be called natural-born entertainers, there aren’t many…
You don’t want to let former teen idol and current rage monster Chris Brown get too close to your abuelita. All it takes is one question about C. Breezy’s personal life and that 78-year-old bitch is getting smashed like the windows at Good Morning America. But you can trust local…
Local label Drugged Conscience hosts a super sparse (yet super tight) three-band showcase at Miami Chum Bucket next Saturday. And the guests of honor are Olympia, Washington’s Broken Water, a new-ish trio founded in 2008 that’s risen to the top of the Pacific Northwest’s most recent wave of post-punk. Despite…
See the cut for a list of all 16 U.S. dates added to Taylor Swift’s Speak Now World Tour. Taylor Swift is adorable. Like a cherry-cheeked, golden-fleeced little doll. Or your sweet, innocent baby sister. And honestly, you’d think her audience of millions was nothing other than pretty teenage girls…
With a veritable tsunami of unclassifiable dubby breakbeat flooding the international scene right now, it’s easy for music critics to lump the entire mishmash under the dubstep genre. But don’t even think about calling Mount Kimbie dubstep. Their sound has more in common with the musique concrète of early 20th…
House of Pain at LIV April 1
Bare Wires at Churchill’s Pub April 1
Tony Dize at La Covacha April 2
Aaron Lewis at Hard Rock Live April 6
Kool Keith at Eve April 2
The World/Inferno Friendship Society is a punk cabaret ensemble. (The word ensemble not used lightly as the band can sometimes swell up to a dozen members.) And it has nurtured an international cult following that goes back to the early ’90s. World Inferno, a common abbreviation for the group’s lengthy…
Few reggaeton artists possess the suave flow required to believably move from spraying gasolina to romancing the masses. But Tony Dize doesn’t consider himself a mere reggaetonero. He’s “the melody of the streets,” a ponytailed Don Juan who harmonizes, rap-sings, and straddles the line between lusty romance and nasty raunchiness…
OK, so we’re not really that excited about Britney Spears’s hot new album Femme Fatale. Or her 11-city North American tour. Or even her local gig at the American Airlines Arena. The multiple exclamation points were gratuitous and cheap. But when a former pop tart goes bonkers, flashes crotch at…
Rachel Goodrich The Stage March 25, 2011 Better Than: Drinking Jim Beam and getting arrested for kicking and breaking a glass door. This reporter (and the rest of the world) loves you so much, Rachel Goodrich…
Yesterday, the great nation of Ultra Land was 150,000 pookie heads strong. And yet today, it’s just an enormously empty concrete expanse peppered with mangled pacifiers, rolling tufts of yarn hair, and discarded furry boots. The DJs have all gone home. The cleanup crews are out. But we’re still here,…
[jump] But again, it’s not too surprising considering his God-like status, so I will try to shut up about it. (But seriously, if I got elbowed by one more bloody-eyed 15-year-old who looked like she just stepped off planet Seratonius, I was going to have to clock someone.) Van Buuren…
Crystal Castles Ultra Music Festival’s Live Stage March 27, 2011 Better Than: David Guetta at Ultra’s Main Stage. Alice Glass is so adorable. She’s so damn cute and Canadian I just want to pour maple syrup all over her skinny indie frame and eat her up like a mountain of…
