Photo by Ben ThackerCrossfade Live presents live concert audio from the last nine minutes of Agnostic Front’s set from Friday’s show at Churchill’s. They were celebrating the 25th anniversary of the release of their first album, Victim In Pain. They closed out their all old-school set with “Gotta Go,” “Crucified,”…
Ice Billion Berg is the young Trick Daddy protege on a trajectory to becoming a major name in the rap game. He has over 12,000 twitter followers, a dedicated fan base around the world thanks to the web, and Dunk Ryder Records behind him. Ever since “Fuck The Other Side,”…
Talk about a come-up. Ross Ford started his Miami art career in 2006 by selling his paintings on Lincoln Road and in front of Bayside Marketplace. From there, he moved into alternative spaces and live-painting in nightclubs, then representation from a gallery, and finally his own studio in an artist’s…
Here’s a video of Southern Bred live from Headz Up Barbershop in Miami Lakes. He’s a founding member of Groundhoggz. If you’ve never heard of Groundhoggz, they are a local rap group that has been putting in work on the streets of Dade for about the past 12 years. They’re…
Porno sucks, but by now you’ve already heard that Bangbros, the Miami based porno company, is hosting their pre-Exxotica party at Shake at The Vagabond.What you might not know is that local rapper Garcia is their head of booking. He says, “Last year we did this same party at The…
Exposé is a Miami born freestyle group from the 80’s with a contentious history full of label problems, legal disputes, and a revolving cast of members. But before all that drama, they were on top of the world with a hit record called “Point Of No Return,” a classic that…
Pitbull has the crowd going crazy to his version of “How Low Can You Go” live in this performance footage from a May 4 show at Fryshuset in Stockholm, Sweden.Maybe it’s not until you see this that you realize how big Miami culture is on a global scale. Keep in…
via Ongchewpeng on Deviant Art.If Jesus and the Devil are arm wrestling, then Miami is the table their elbows are on. Let’s face it, this place is pretty fucked up. Us humans have done a swell job of transforming a river of grass into a den of iniquity. But despite…
Watch out, Cubo’s comin’! You may have heard of the Pitbull affiliate in years past, but apparently he’s making a run for it now with a couple of new videos on the web and talk of a forthcoming album. The video above for his song “I made it” shows a…
via myspace.com/spamallstars Fuacata! Spam Allstars are getting it in tonight at their weekly residency at Hoy Como Ayer in the heart of Little Havana alongside Rumberos De La 8, a bangin’ Miami percussion group with members from Cuba and Puerto Rico produced by DJ Le Spam. Doors open at 9…
You’ll have a hell of a time this Friday at Churchill’s with “Pogo! A tribute to 80’s punk and hardcore.” The show features local bands Trust No One, Knock Em’ Dead, Hardware Youth, Routine Scheme, and Unit Six doing covers of your favorite songs from back in the day…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnseb/ / CC BY 2.0Live on wax.”The hate you gave little infants f**ks everybody” is the breakdown of the THUG LIFE acronym Tupac Shakur had tatted on his belly. Before exploding metal cylinders sent his body to the pavement and his soul to Heaven’s ghetto, he’d already survived five bullet…
Jacob KatelAny given Saturday in Miami the bass, sweat, sex, liquor, music, and dancing flood the concrete tropics like a hurricane on South Beach. This year a bigger, better Swamp Stomp shook the wooden floorboards at The Bayside Hut to their core with more local soul than the Miami section…
via myspace.com/llamabeats Lurking in the trenches of obscurity, tomorrow’s super producers toil in darkened studios surrounded by empty malt liquor bottles and ashtrays full of blunt roaches.Or maybe they’re up and grinding at The Setai. Either way, Llamabeats Crew bring a sample heavy musicality to live guitar, bass, and key…
Like Travis Bickle said in Taxi Driver, “One day a real rain is gonna come and wash all this scum off the streets.” When that day comes to Miami (maybe with a big hurricane this summer), and all the bullshit, plastic, glass, and concrete is gone, we’ll be left with…
Stone crab, lobster, fish both local and fresh, South Florida is the friggin’ best. We get drunk and have good times, stomachs full, dressed to the nines. We dance in the party lights, just to work up our appetites. We drink a few rounds of red and a few rounds…
The night before Sweatstock, Destroyio Records threw a great show at Churchill’s.We got most of the whole shit recorded, a full 1.5 hours of music from Flees, Enough!, Askultura, Hardware Youth, The Can’t Stand Ya’s, and DJ Skidmark presented in high quality stereo sound.If you like hardcore, punk rock, reggae…
South Dade gets it in. We’ve told you a couple times before about Black Flag, B.O., Gunline Entertainment and Goon Muzik. Well Richmond Heights is at it again with their “Hottest Nigga In Da City,” B.O., putting out another mixtape.The song in the above video is called “What I’m Into”…
via Destroyio Recordsclick for fullsize.Punk rock lives at the house of holy hell, Churchill’s, this Friday with Destroyio Records and the official release of the third edition of Concrete Jungle punk rock zine.Spray paint the walls, shake things up, talk that noise, hate on pigs (real police are good though,…
via WDNA.orgMusic Director Michael Valentine with the Big Poppa E Epiphone.WDNA is the realest Jazz station in Miami-Dade. Alright, so they’re the only one. No commercials, no heavy rotation, no computers choosing what songs to play, just real DJ’s selecting whatever tracks they want 7 days a week, 24 hours…
Musician’s Discount Center can seem like it’s half way to Key West if you live in downtown Miami, Cuba if you’re in NMB, or Argentina if you’re in Broward, but for Cutler Ridge, West Kendall, Palmetto Bay, Pinecrest, Florida City, and the whole Down South, the store is pretty…
Tito Puente Jr.”Go with your family, go with your friends, for good times, where fun never ends.” If those lines sound familiar then you probably grew up hearing Youth Fair commercials too.Well the fair dropped the “youth” and is all grown up now. That means beer, concerts, and dancing into the…
