Uncle Luke Fucks With Miami New Times, Ya Heard?

Old Luke Records publicity shot.​There are seven dirty words that got George Carlin arrested for disturbing the peace while doing a stand up comedy routine in 1972. In the ’90s, Luther Campbell, or Uncle Luke to you, white boy. who put them into action and made a world famous career…

In Defense of Lyrikill’s Viral Marketing Strategies

Before he was crashing live news coverage to get himself on TV, Lyrikill Dot Com already had a sophisticated viral marketing strategy in place. See the above video of the Lyrikill song “You Done Messed Up” intercut with celebrity gossip photos and titled “Chris Brown Beat Rihanna [Picture Rihanna on…

Audio: Pre-Show Interview With Honeyboy Edwards, 94-Year-Old Blues Legend

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mausaldanha/ / CC BY 2.0Honeyboy Edwards in July, 2006.​Honeyboy Edwards is playing Miami Beach’s Colony Theatre this Saturday fresh off winning the lifetime achievement award at this year’s Grammy’.Tigertail Productions booked the gig well in advance. Tickets are still available for $35 to $50.Honeyboy told us, “I don’t know nothing…

Video: Miami All-Star Band, City of Progress, Rocks For Haiti

Look, we’ve never liked having to say this, but basically the Red Cross fucking sucks. They do a lot of shit, but certainly not as much as people believe, definitely not as much as they portray, and beyond a shadow of a doubt with the heavy burden of “administrative costs”…

Destroyio Punk Rock Show at Art of Freedom in Little Havana

via Destroyio RecordsBorn to dude. Click for full size.​”Fuck the art scene, bunch of boojie motherfuckers. I do this shit cause I need it to live, not for the money.” Those were the words of Fabio Destroyio on the front steps of the Freedom Tower after losing the Miami New…

Crossfade Live: The Cornerstoners and Alukard at Shake at The Vagabond

Jacob KatelCrossfade Live at Shake at The Vagabond February 11.​Welcome to our second edition of Crossfade Live, where we bring you streams and downloads of our original high fidelity concert recordings from bands and venues all over South Florida. We will prove live music thrives here, and hand it to…

Top 10 Moments in Black Music History at the Palms in Hallandale

public domain image via Florida Guy 128 on wikimedia commons.Hallandale Beach at Sunset​The image above is of the sleepy-looking beachside town called Hallandale, Florida and gives no indication of the city’s Black musical history. But the Palms in Hallandale, just north of Miami, otherwise known as the Million Dollar Palms,…

Crossfade Live: Free Album, Locos Por Juana at Jazid, February 5

Jacob KatelShot from October, 2009, when we caught Locos at the WDNA studio for Sound Theory Live.​Locos Por Juana are fuckin’ awesome, and we’ve got the proof. Welcome to our first edition of Crossfade Live, where we bring you our original high definition concert recordings from bands and venues all over…

Top 10 Super Bowl Weekend Parties in South Florida

Image via Flickr / CC BY 2.0Let’s all get wasted.​The big game is almost here, but even if you don’t give a shit about that, there’re plenty enough parties going on that may well prevent you from waking up before 10pm Sunday night.Here are our Top 10 Super Bowl weekend…

Destroyio Rocks For Legal Rights For Our Immigrant Bros

via Destroyio RecordsClick for full-size image.​What if you woke up this morning and the government decided it was time for you to leave this country? Ever been imprisoned and deported? In Miami, it happens every day. Destroyio Records says it’s wrong, and in an effort to keep one of their…

Video: Tuesday Night of The Living Dead

Amateur scientists have told us that if you go too long without eating, your brain will start feeding on itself. That’s kind of how Miami is when it’s not tourist season. For local musicians it can mean ritual cannibal death. Miami thrives as a playground for the rich, famous, and…

Video: South Beach Was Racist Once

It’s not that long ago that Miami Beach was proud to be a racist entity. Segregation meant that by law the beach was only for whites. This week, South Beach will go insane with Super Bowl parties for everybody to enjoy, but don’t forget what a fucked up place it used…

Hialeah Park Horse Races Music Video

Here’s a Dade history doc I made about Hialeah horse racing at the Hialeah Park Race Track with an original soundtrack. Frank Sinatra and a lot of other famous people used to go to the Hialeah Park Race Track. It opened in 1921 and is one of the oldest recreational…

What is a Dub Plate?

via Reggae Zine UK​A dub plate used to refer to an acetate disc used in mastering studios to test recordings before mass producing the vinyl.Caribbean battle music in DJ vs DJ soundclashes took on the dubplate to create exclusive remixes to popular songs usually with the artist shouting out the…

Top Five Uncle Luke Videos

via Luke Records​We don’t advocate theft, but when our little buddy stole a II Live Crew tape from the Spec’s by what’s now Sunset Place sometime in the ’90s it changed our life. Luke taught our eight year old self to cuss out politicians (“Fuck Martinez, Fuck Fuck Martinez”), and…

Wyclef Live From Jacmel Beach, Haiti, Free Concert

Here’s our footage of Wyclef live from Haiti back in 2006 for a free concert to 50,000 on Jacmel Beach. The show was sponsored by his foundation, Yéle Haiti.Wyclef admits that his Yéle Haiti organization has made mistakes in the past, but denies that he ever personally profited from them…

Destroyio Records and ENOUGH!, Miami Fucking Punk Rock

ENOUGH! is Fabio Destroyio, Homer, and Mikey Steele.​Fuck y’all know about ENOUGH!? Probably not enough. Well, there’s not enough Miami punk rock. Not enough people going to shows. Not enough bands, not enough venues, not enough glass to break, levels on the volume knob, beer to drink, fences to jump,…

Spam Allstars Are From Cuba, According to MIT College Radio

​Gotta love college radio.Listen to this: The Spam Allstars are Miami as fuck. Everybody knows that. Well, everybody in Miami. In Cambridge, Massachusettes, not so much. At least not on Spherio, a weekly radio show on WMBR, the MIT university radio station. Their January 8th show, archived online, evidences Spam’s…

Haiti Earthquake Twitpics Music Video

Here’s a Haiti Earthquake Twitpic music video we made using Obama’s address to the nation on the Haiti earthquake crisis. The images are Twitpics from across the internets: They’re first-response citizen media reports of crushed buildings, death, destruction, hope, and life.Wyclef’s Yele Foundation has been working in Haiti for years…