Last week, Ed Calle — a Latin Grammy winner and one of Miami’s best-known musicians — found himself in hot water over a tweet in which he referred to President Barack Obama as “the Kenyan.” Now, it seems, that hot water has boiled over. Calle, who did not respond to an email from New Times seeking comment, resigned from Palo! — an Afro-Cuban funk band — this past Tuesday.
For the first time in more than 20 years, Stephen Marley will reunite with brothers Ziggy, Damian, and Ky-Mani onstage at Kaya Fest. The inaugural event will take place Saturday, April 22, 2017 at Bayfront Park Amphitheatre
Florida rappers know better than to sleep at the top of the new year. When the clock struck 12:01 January 1, South Florida artists such as North Miami resident Billy Blue and Hialeah native Eskeerdo refused to wait a minute longer to drop off their latest creations. Kiddo Marv not only celebrated 2017 but also put on for Haitians all over the nation via his video dedicated to Haitian Independence Day.
Friends of local musician Alex Diaz, better known as Xela Zaid, have started a crowdfunding campaign to raise money that will go toward helping Diaz recover from a stroke he suffered last month just before Christmas. Organizers ask that anyone who enjoyed Diaz’s work to donate to help the musician regain his ability to speak. He has been a staple of the Miami music scene for more than three decades.
Five years ago, when Johnny Deezal was living in rough-and-tumble New York City, he traipsed from sublet to sublet with one constant in his life: his portable home studio setup. “I guess I went there to discover myself musically as a solo artist. Everywhere I would go I’d…
Cavity was a wrecking ball during the ’90s. While not originators of the genre, they pioneered a new approach to the Black Sabbath-inspired, down-tuned, droning excesses of the sludge metal genre with magnificent aplomb and gusto. They left in their wake a wretched pile of carcasses beaten and abused by…
Coming up on the streets of Washington, D.C., Miguel “Fuego” Duran evolved from a gutter lyricist under the supervision of his late friend DJ Menace to an international sensation who works under Mr. Worldwide. His Spanish rhymes and catchy records have gained popularity in Latin America and in Europe. As we enter 2017, Fuego’s new year’s resolution is to raise the bar for Latin hip-hop via his upcoming album, Fireboy Forever 3.
On an early weekday afternoon, Vnusamr runs late to a scheduled interview about her forthcoming EP, In This Church, so she hops on the phone for questions instead. She apologizes and explains that while she’s promoting the album, due out this month, she’s already working on her next project and lost track of time in the studio.
Most of South Florida is on vacation this week, but Miami’s underground hip-hop scene refused to take a break in the final days of 2016. Since his release from prison last month, Kodak Black has been doing whatever he can to spread his recent hits to all of his fans across the world. Recently, the Project Baby linked with rap duo Rae Sremmurd to bring their collaborative single to life. Meanwhile, Miami Tip is making waves after releasing a full-length movie tied to her single “Don’t Stop.”
As 2016 mercifully comes to a close, Miami-born and Tidal-approved rapper BZZY (née Lazaro Camejo and formerly known as Bizzy Crook) prepares to welcome the new year with his most lavish endeavor yet. On January 5, the 25-year-old hip-hop artist will release the video for “If You Only Knew,” the first single from his 2016 project, A Part of Everything.
For weeks, we’ve heard stories of performers from Elton John to members of the Rockettes giving their invitations to perform at President-elect Trump’s January inauguration a hard pass. Now, reports indicate that many of those same performers could be headed to Miami instead, for a collaborative live concert designed to coincide…
The holiday season is a time of tradition: decorating the Christmas tree, taking stupid selfies at Santa’s Enchanted Forest, getting embarrassingly drunk at the annual office party. But a new tradition is emerging in Miami: the annual release of a holiday-themed music video from Otto Von Schirach, Juleisy y Karla, and the…
South Florida’s budding stars intend to wake you up and shake you senseless with their fresh music. Bizzy Crook wants the world to snap out of its stupor and provide major assistance for victims of war in Aleppo, as he vented in the form of a letter. SIN called out…
The first time viewers see lead singer Megan Morrison in Dorothy’s Surrender’s new music video for the band’s song “Dirty Stayout,” she’s onstage playing to a sweaty, raucous Churchill’s crowd. When viewers see her offstage, she’s in her fishnets chugging Jameson from the bottle in broad daylight.
For all the awful stuff that happened this year, rest assured of one thing: Miami’s music scene is alive and well. Whether it’s dance, hip-hop, rock, metal, or everything in between, 305’s artists made themselves heard with an amazing body of work that had listeners in awe. If your knowledge of Miami music goes only as far as Pitbull and Rick Ross, now is the time to get to know the acts who actually made the most of 2016.
Your current music rotation of South Florida artists is probably easy to guess. You listen to Kodak Black to kickstart your morning. By lunch, you’re bobbing your head to Denzel Curry to get through a rough day at the office. On your way home, you blast Wifisfuneral because you’re 100 percent over your shitty job. And then, right before bed, you run through Robb Banks’ “C4” just because it’s that good.
With New Year’s right around the corner, rappers in South Florida are taking every advantage of the final days of 2016 to release their latest work. Earlier this week, internationally acclaimed artist and Florida native LunchMoney Lewis recently linked up with Ty Dolla $ign for their new single. Meanwhile, you…
As a singer who’s made it to primetime, Paxton Ingram has learned to improvise both onstage and off. He’s quick to pull out a stick of incense from his backpack and light it during stressful moments like, for instance, when his interviewer is 45 minutes late and panicked because she…
Imagine coming to Club Space on a Tuesday to catch a live act. The show ends around midnight, and if you’re feeling frisky, you stop at Libertine for a well-crafted nightcap. You get home around 1 a.m. and wake up the next day to find your phone hasn’t been stolen, your jaw doesn’t ache, and you — shockingly — don’t feel the urge to dive headfirst into a bag of McDonald’s breakfast and take a 48-hour nap.
It’s been a long time coming for Miami’s own Ball Greezy. Last year, he deviated from hip-hop norms and looked inward on his first Feel My Pain mixtape, which featured Jim Jones on the title track. Now, as 2016 comes to a close, the Miami native prepares for the new…
It’s time to wrap up another year, and with its passing comes time to reflect on personal growth and the year that was — and, oh, what a year it was. 2016 was a parody of a bad year, with a fiercely divisive election and deaths of luminaries and…
“I look like a flower, but smell like an ashtray,” sings Gainesville-raised Miami transplant Edan Archer on her new single, “Cutthroat.” It’s the closing track on new her alt-country EP, Cruel Mother. Not only is the lyric an apt summation of Archer’s eagerness to challenge modern expectations of femininity in…
