In the late ’80s and early ’90s, The Button South in Hallandale was the place for punk and heavy metal. Every night, sweaty hordes of South Floridians would converge to rock out, head-bang, and hail Satan until sunrise.Now, The Button South is rising from the sulfurous ashes, at least for…
DJ EFX has been heavy on the South Florida mixtape scene and definitely left a mark on creating highly demanded instrumental mixtapes – as well as “Best Of” mixtapes. And more recently over the past couple years, EFX has been driven in the “Music Video DVDs” market that not a…
Pobrecito Julito. Hialeah’s mayor can’t catch a break these days. He is battling the city unions over pensions and the city budget. He is dodging questions about his business relationship with $40 million Ponzi schemer Luis Felipe Perez, as well as inquiries about personal deals he has made with city…
Regardless of which, these guys brought something to our little scene that bordered on the weird and we were so thankful for it. Before skinny jeans and plaid hoodies, before our local hipster glitterati found its inherent genre-blending, Pool Party concocted a seamless transition between punk rock pop, electro, techno,…
Sex and astrology at Taurus in Coconut Grove
Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado needs to go
Letters from the issue of August 26, 2010
Still fairly new to the scene, in a few short years DJ Troy Kurtz went from “Who?” to one of the Overthrow’s resident DJs and half of TKO (a side project with local DJ Damaged Goods). Now he’s released a proper (first?) mini-mix that shows off a style few get…
Florida Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria and team president Dave Samson have been exposed for the treacherous, no good, low down, lying dogs they are. Sports blog Deadspin got a hold of the Marlins’ financial information which shows the team turned a profit the last two years and that the team…
With one of the most brutal primary elections in the bag, it’s time to sift through the carnage. Let’s start with the winners.The Dark Side of the Force: Using $50 million of his own money, tea party favorite Darth Sideous Rick Scott powered his way past Bill McCollum to win…
Will Bill McCollum and Kendrick Meek hold back the two millionaire candidates? Will Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado’s blossoming political machine get his daughter a seat on the Miami-Dade School Board? Will Dorrin Rolle survive his scandalous year to win another term to the county commission? Will David Rivera overcome a brutal…
Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness once made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke calls out Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado. Miami really needs to get rid of Mayor Tomas Regalado. It’s…
Before Lil Wayne went away, as they say, he was the omnipresent rapper. Lil Wayne was on everything, to the point that when our sister paper the OC Weekly ran this (what seemed obviously) satirical story saying he would collaborate on a High School Musical soundtrack, people actually believed it. Now, the…
52-0. That’s how many times incumbent county commissioners have won at the polls since 1994. And it certainly looks like Jose “Pepe” Diaz, Javier Souto, or Dorrin Rolle will keep that winning streak alive by the time the polls close tomorrow.Diaz, who raised $325,000 to crush an opponent who collected…
Sniffing the winds of bloggy change, it seems like with the turning of the seasons is coming a backlash to the wave of feel-good, dreamy beach-rock that dominated this summer. This is silly for several reasons:1) Backlash is hilarious when many of these bands have yet to release a full-length…
Sorry, folks, we weren’t here to recap last week’s Jersey Shore because someone literally cut the cable wire outside our house and then we got a debilitating sore throat. It was horrible. Not as horrible as actually watching this show, but still horrible.But we’re back to documenting the antics of…
Subliminal Criminal S/T (Space Cadette Records) If we lived in different times, Ed Matus would be the type of gent who holds doors open for ladies, organizes fox hunts, gardens organically and holds the secrets of the glue that has for some bizarre reason made South Florida a hub of…
With the primary election six days away, undecided voters usually turn to the Miami Herald’s editorial board to help them decide who is the best candidate for the job. Unfortunately, Miami’s only daily failed miserably when it came to its picks for District 2 county commissioner and District 35 state…
DJ Khaled’s We The Best empire seems to be growing slowly but surely. Khaled is currently working on his 5th studio album, We The Best Forever – which is not to be confused with his previous album similarly titled We The Best, which spawned the name of the record label…
Gotohells Six Packs & Race Tracks (Stiff Pole Records) In honor of Richard “Big Stiff” Konwinski, who passed this past July in Tampa, I’ll be juggling between the County Grind and Crossfade blogs doing my Blast From the Past thing on the record label that he founded, Stiff Pole Records,…
Javier Souto should have been sent out to the political pasture a long time ago.But lobbyists and special interests know they can cajole the rambling county commissioner to do what they want. So they make sure he stays in power. And even though 71-year-old Bay of Pigs veteran is more…
Letters from the issue of August 19, 2010
