One big problem the diverse city of Miami faces during the holidays: How do you include all your friends — regardless of religious background — into the celebrations? Well, Miami/Brooklyn duo Basside has a solution: getting “Lit” for the holidays, whether it’s Christmas or Hanukkah. Yes, the rapping duo has…
Over the phone, Gigi Rowe’s voice jumps an octave as she describes the moment things began to feel real for her. It wasn’t during a concert or backstage but thanks to a coveted spot in one of the world’s most popular video games. She remembers attending an event in Paris…
If you don’t know what a busker is, you’re not alone — especially in Miami. For all of South Florida’s weird and wonderful talent, we’re not exactly known for our “people who entertain in a public place,” as Webster defines the term. “Miami has a ton of performers, but except…
Kaixen, otherwise known as Julian Munro, is a Miami producer and guitarist with a musical bloodline. With words flowing a mile a minute, he details the important moments of his musical timeline. There was his first experience at a recording studio, an instance that made him uneasy and sparked his…
There are three things that are absolute in life: death, taxes, and exclusive events during Art Basel week. The latest edition of Basel parties brought arguably the most talented and highly coveted rapper in music to South Florida: Kendrick Lamar.
Though some musicians might feel awkward watching people listen to their songs, Sam Rosenthal says he will feel no such anxiety when Deju Vu Audio South hosts a listening party for his band’s double album, These Fleeting Moments. “At a listening party I don’t have to worry about doing anything,”…
Miami’s newest record store — in spite of its name — is proud to be from the 305. “I was raised in Allapattah,” Diane Perez, owner of Brooklyn Vintage & Vinyl, explains, “but my girlfriend was born in Brooklyn, and we always liked it there.” The record store, which celebrated…
The past week’s fracturing of the political climate and escalation of dangerous rhetoric against marginalized groups across the country has left many wondering how to heal the wounds between neighbors and friends and even within ourselves in the aftermath of an unprecedented election season. Talk of self-care and…
No matter how you’re feeling about last Tuesday’s election results, we’re all in dire need of some positivity to wash off the ick from nearly two years of the ugliest presidential contest in modern American history. They say all politics is local, and tomorrow, Thursday, November 17, the Miami Foundation…
Sitting in a hotel room in Mexico, the Dominican-born, Miami-bred DJ and producer known as Happy Colors pauses and thinks for a moment. At our request, he’s trying to identify the early roots of his carefree, rebellious attitude — the same attitude that inspired songs like “Con Ese Culazo,” “Mamagüevo,” and…
This week, fresh off flexing his right to vote, Rick Ross dropped his remix of one of Solange’s stand-out tracks on A Seat at the Table before blessing us with a touching visual for his Black Market single “Free Enterprise,” featuring John Legend.
Outside of a coffee shop on Biscayne Boulevard, over a chorus of beeping cars, Miami producer Lazaro Casanova details the process that has led him to where he is now. When we spoke a few weeks ago, he was ready and eager to drop the first single off of Made in…
The Clash released its EP The Cost of Living on election day in 1979, when the musically maligned conservative leader Margaret Thatcher assumed power of the United Kingdom. The EP’s first track, “I Fought the Law,” a song no doubt familiar to you now thanks to its bastardization in Pepsi…
Miami artists know they don’t have to prove anything to anyone, but this week a few MCs decided to take some time out to remind the world of their hustle. Earlier this week, Ace Hood kept the spirit of Starvation 5 alive with a new video and provided an…
Over the past few years, Plastic Pinks have worked and played their way toward becoming one of the most recognizable names in Miami music. And their upcoming EP-release show at Churchill’s promises to be both a celebration of the band’s accomplishments thus far and a launching pad toward a new…
Local acts are starting to attract plenty of heat outside of the 305. Broward spitter Hi-Rez may be on a self-imposed hiatus at the moment, but throughout the last week, other SoFlo rappers have begun to pick up momentum inside the Sunshine State. While Little Havana rapper ER305 gives us…
It’s official: Trick Daddy is bad at social media. Like, really bad. Trick Daddy makes your racist aunt look like Mark Zuckerberg. Trick Daddy’s so bad at social media even Tom wouldn’t be his friend on MySpace. If you hired him to run your company’s Facebook page, your business would be…
Looking back, Ryan Brown realizes it wasn’t meant to be. He was young and inexperienced. On his first day of work he nearly crashed his friend’s Vespa into the first floor of New Times (which was basically one big window, so everyone got a prime view of his near-death experience)…
When Steph Taylor and Nabedi Osorio of Miami’s The State Of were living on opposite coasts, pretty much everyone else around them thought their partnership was done. But theirs was a special sort of bond, closer than you average Craigslist band, one that didn’t need regular, everyday maintenance. “I was gone for three…
For most South Floridians, the worst thing about living here is the traffic. In our heavily suburbanized landscape, getting anywhere means crawling into a car and suffering through the frustration and tedium of a long — and often dangerous — drive. But for Fort Lauderdale native Jess Gentile, better known…
With the release of his new album, Third Ward Stories, Fort Lauderdale-based saxophonist Jason Hainsworth set out to create a musical biography of his childhood in Houston. But how do you tell a story through instrumental jazz without any lyrics? “Too often I think we take for granted the countless…
Other Body has been relentlessly pacing around the Miami alternative scene for over a year now, turning venues around town into pressure cookers of condensed punk vitriol. Formed in the wake of local acts like Teepee and Lil Daggers, the band includes Jacob Israel on bass, Melvin Zantua on drums,…
