You love the Jiggaman, but do you really know all about his greatness? There are so many facets to Mr. Shawn Carter — loving father, attentive husband, chart-topping rapper, business, man. And thanks to his all-angles hustle, Hova’s latest album, Magna Carta Holy Grail, was certified platinum before it even…
We here at New Times think you should get an early start on your New Year’s resolutions. Take the Gorilla Biscuits approach and start today! We’ll show you how. Our first resolution (after shaking this nasty cough-syrup addiction we developed over the fall) is to stop hanging out at the…
Last Friday night, the Talent Farm of Pembroke Pines hosted a celebration of the new guard of thrash metal. A virulent display of chugging guitars, screaming vocals, and hectic mosh that served as much as a barometer of the strength of South Florida’s own metal and hardcore scene as it…
Y100’s Jingle Ball 2013 with Miley Cyrus, Robin Thicke, Austin Mahone, Ariana Grande, Demi Lovato, Armin Van Buuren, Enrique Iglesias, Fall Out Boy, Flo Rida, Avril Lavigne, Jason Derulo and Fifth Harmony BB&T Center, Sunrise Saturday, December 20, 2012 With our job, we get to go to a lot of…
Have you been naughty or nice this year? And no, Miley, no one is asking you. Because it doesn’t take Santa’s omniscience to know you’ve been a very bad girl. This year, we’ve seen your flat booty more times than we’ve seen our mother’s face. So you’re getting a sexy…
“It’s lineup day!” For the last 21 hours, Ultra Music Festival has been taunting and teasing international beat freaks with its 2014 Phase One reveal. But now it’s finally here … A 105-act roster packed with big-name DJs (Avicii, Eric Prydz, Diplo, Hardwell, Tiësto) and a killer live contingent (M.I.A.,…
Every graduating class of South Florida’s hardcore-punk community has provided at least a band or two that manages to break into the consciousness of the national hardcore scene. Broward-based hardcore group Losin’ It was one such act. It has flown South Florida’s flag on a national scale in recent years,…
For a quarter century, the ever-youthful, heck-no-I-don’t-need-hair-dye singer/guitarist Jim Camacho has rocked South Florida’s stages with a cheerful vigor and a melodic knack. His mother, the ever-present “Momma Camacho” nurtured the Goods — the band Camacho led with his brother, John between 1987 and 1999 — to the point that…
Genesis 6:4 hints, in that cute, sci-fi Biblical manner that giants might’ve once roamed the earth. The Cardiff Giant turned out to be a pretty good hoax back in the 1860s, but make no mistake, Holly Hunt’s Gavin Perry is neither hoax nor Biblical prophecy — and he’s giant through…
The holiday season gets a little hectic for everyone. Maybe you’ve got people visiting, or you’re traveling to see family and friends. Perhaps you’re utterly alone in this world and have to spend time lamenting your absolute and unending aloneness. Or it’s possible you work in retail, and are so…
When most scholars study a subject, they write a book about what they learn. For Colombia’s Totó la Momposina, that was not enough. Instead, in 1968, she chose to embody her area of expertise: the folk music of the Mempos Falls in the Atlantic coastal region of Colombia. For more…
Tortuga Music Festival took the salty life to the next level by planting a beer-, boob-, and beach-friendly festival square on the sand in Fort Lauderdale. The inaugural event brought in waves of music lovers in cowboy hats and flip-flops. The lineup was country-heavy, but there was some folk, blues,…
Photo by Marco Torres Fool’s Gold Day Off With Trick Daddy, A-Trak, Danny Brown, and others Mana Wynwood, Miami Sunday, December 8, 2013 They called it a Day Off, but that shit was lasted from early in the afternoon till way after dark. The insta-midnight feel inside Mana Wynwood’s warehouse…
Photo by Ian WitlenGon’ Basel Castle surfing with Travis Scott. Basel Castle 2013 Grand Central Park, Miami Saturday, December 7, 2013 In the past, the setting for The Overthrow’s Basel Castle extravaganza had been a slightly cartoonish, sort of fragile-looking fortress in Wynwood. But that shit is dead, son. Last…
South Florida seems to have become quite the magnet for music festivals lately. There’s the burgeoning worldwide popularity of the Winter Music Conference and Ultra Music Festival, not to mention this year’s debut of Tortuga and the annual gains being made by the Virginia Key Grassroots Festival. Add to that…
All sorts of things happened on Saturday. Art Basel parties were in full swing down in Miami, which seemed to bring out both a special kind of tourist and an even more special South Florida native. Local musicians fought for a chance to flex their muscle while nationally inflated acts…
Photo by Ian Witlen Tegan & Sara VH1 and SCOPE’s ART + MUSIC + BEACH Party SCOPE Pavilion, Miami Beach Friday, December 6, 2013 At 8 p.m., the massive oceanfront tent that houses one of the largest auxiliary fairs during Art Basel Miami Beach week, Scope, closed its doors for…
By Adam Katzman While the debate over selling art to save Detroit from bankruptcy rages, Danny Brown’s music continues to pose the question of whether doing what you had to do to survive in a city with such deep infrastructural damage can even be alleviated by artistic output. His new…
Photo by David Von Bader Black Lips Shore Club, Miami Beach Thursday, December 5, 2013 It’s fair to say that Art Basel Miami Beach has come under critical siege at times for its supposed devolution from world-class art festival to glorified party. However, while plenty of people critiquing Basel are,…
Back in March, we introduced you to Christopher Moll’s newest musical exploit. We saw Moll continuing to yearn for yesteryear with his musical inclinations; the Lovers Key, like the Postmarks before them, presents a throwback sound that hints the group’s records are vinyl gems rescued from some studio’s magic vault…
I’m usually jovial enough at gatherings to let certain rye libations behind my wheel and commandeer conversations at social gatherings — in a rather obnoxious manner, I’m usually told — and shanghai any topic into a “me-me-me” scenario. Unfortunately, the beers I’ve had now aren’t enough to muster that kind…
Last night, I tweeted at Kanye West for the first time ever. Did I think he’d read the tweet? No, duh. But I did want to document that my feet hurt a lot, and that it was his fault entirely. A substantial group gathered under the Flaunt magazine tent in…
