Miami New Times David Macklovitch is almost naked during our interview. Unfortunately, it's over the phone. "Yeah, I'm walking around in my underpants, trying to figure out what jeans I'm going to wear," says the 36-year-old musician, also known as Dave 1, who makes...
With His New Vibe Rap Sound, Mani Coolin’ Is Heating Up
LA Weekly On a dead end street bordering the Hollywood Freeway, Mani Coolin’ sits on a stool in a makeshift home recording studio. His dad is here, as well as his producer, Jay Kurzweil, who owns the studio and lives in the adjoining apartment. A hazy, piano-laced...
SALON: Time For A Typewriter Renaissance?
Salon IT WAS 4 P.M. ON A THURSDAY, two hours until the end of Jesse Banuelos’ workday. He was standing behind the front counter of Berkeley Typewriter, his trademark green apron tied around his waist. A dozen broken typewriters — some electric, but most of them manual...
LAist: 10 Best Used Bookstores In Los Angeles
LAist We may live in an age of digital and e-books, but don't let that fool you. Print is still alive in the City of Angels from Inglewood to Eagle Rock. The stores that made our list were chosen based on a number of criteria, like collection size, pricing, ambiance...
MIAMI NEW TIMES: Carol City Rapper N3ll Raps About “The Life of a Kid From a City That Doesn’t Understand Him”
Miami New Times If you follow internet rap, then chances are you've heard something from Miami's latest underground phonk rapper, N3ll. Though he's been making music since 2008, word has only started getting out about the young MC these past few years. His 2014...
The Breakfast Club’s Angela Yee Serves It Hot
Wesleyan Magazine "Don’t screw this up,” Jay-Z joked when he bumped into Angela Yee ’97 in the hallway. She laughed—she’d known Jay-Z for years and was used to his quips—but still, he was right. Oh man, she remembers thinking, the pressure is really on now. It had...
MIAMI NEW TIMES: Kat Dahlia Talks Debut Album, My Garden
Miami New Times It's been a tumultuous three years for singer-songwriter Kat Dahlia. In 2012, the fledgling recording artist and former waitress signed a recording contract with Epic Records. A year later, she released her first single, the piano-laced hit "Gangsta,"...
MIAMI NEW TIMES: “By the Time the Show Is Over, You’re a Piece of Art”
Miami New Times Sometimes, it takes a disaster to instigate change. In this case, it was undelivered packages. By 2009, Life in Color (then called Dayglow) was picking up momentum. What had started two years earlier as a paint-throwing EDM party for college students...
BROWARD-PALM BEACH NEW TIMES: Twiggy Rasta Masta Is Keeping Hip-Hop “Based”
Broward-Palm Beach New Times IT'S SPRINGTIME IN HOLLYWOOD. The sky is cloudless and blue. Tourists bake in the sun and the Hollywood sign winks from the hills. A low-flying plane poops smoke trails overhead. On the rooftop of a 1920s apartment building, two girls are...
MIAMI NEW TIMES: Metro Zu’s Lofty305 Plunges Head First Into the Art World with Miami Showing
The Miami New Times Lofty305 woke up at 9:40 a.m. in his Midtown Manhattan apartment. It was a Monday. He brushed his teeth with non-fluoride toothpaste and rinsed his XS afro with coconut oil. He ate two Butterfingers, worked out at the building's gym, and snacked on...
MIAMI NEW TIMES: Wynwood’s Danilo Gonzalez To Name Mural Contest Winner: “I Want a Landmark”
The Miami New Times In the bowels of Craigslist, buried in the catacombs of 'Community' is an ad with a plaintive plea. "WE NEED A MURAL!" its title reads in all caps. "SHOW US WHAT YOU CAN DO!" It's a pithy post, no longer than one sentence, with a photo of a long,...
NY OBSERVER: Down & Derby, A Pop-Up Roller-Skating Dance Party
The New York Observer A few weeks ago, Vince Masi’s website, skatedrinkdance.com, crashed due to a virus. It has since been cleaned, resuscitated and put back online, but Mr. Masi has yet to recover. “It was a nightmare,” he said. “I think that was probably, like, the...