Most Popular
-
Failed School
In Allapattah, kids threaten teachers, and bosses look the other way.
-
Love Is No Contract
A litigious Pinecrest man sues his ex-honey, and it's not the first time.
-
The Shooting of Estefano
One of Miami's best-known songwriters was nearly killed in a possible contract hit.
-
L.L. Aqua Girl
It’s a spectacular Sapphic celebration in South Florida.
-
Puff, Puff, Class
We’re hitting the hookah at the Ritz-Carlton.
-
Failed School (118)
In Allapattah, kids threaten teachers, and bosses look the other way.
-
Love Is No Contract (55)
A litigious Pinecrest man sues his ex-honey, and it's not the first time.
-
Shirley Q. Liquor's Racist Scum (24)
Ban ugliness from Miami Beach.
-
Blowing Up (9)
Does Hialeah have the fattest school in the nation?
-
Death Becomes Her (7)
Naked Stage makes morbid abstraction a little lively.
-
Remaking Michael Jackson
Why waste money on (or steal) those bogus Thriller remixes when you can get better ones legally for free?
-
Duran Duran Does Boca
The Red Carpet Massacre brings the band full circle in time to tour.
-
Sugar and Spice
Trina speaks up about what still makes her the baddest.
-
Blaze of Glory
Jon Bon Jovi for governor?
-
No One Ever Really Disappears
Pharrell Williams is happy to be just one of the band again.
-
StreetWorks - Miami Design District
08:43AM 05/21/08 -
Pretty in the City - Here Comes Hot Pants!
02:38PM 05/20/08 -
Magic City Kitty - M.C. Quickie 04:32:58
08:51AM 05/20/08 -
Full Q&A with Yo Majesty
02:07PM 05/21/08 -
Switches Tonight at Revolution
12:40PM 05/21/08 -
Pitchfork Gives Rick Ross Album a 2.4
10:51AM 05/21/08
What we are writing about
- Arsht Center
- Bicentennial Park
- Churchill's
- CiFo Art Space
- Coconut Grove
- Coral Gables
- Culture Room
- Design District
- downtown Miami
- Fillmore
- Fort Lauderdale
- Hollywood
- Julia Tuttle Causeway
- Little Haiti
- Little Havana
- Marc Sarnoff
- Miami Art Museum
- Miami Beach
- Miami local art
- Miami local music
- Miami local theater
- PlayStation
- sex offenders
- Studio A
- Tobacco Road
- Ultra Music Festival
- White Room
- Wii
- WMC
- Wynwood
Recent Articles By Nicholas L. Hall
National Features
-
SF Weekly
Viva Farolito!
Former pros from Latin America help make an "amateur" soccer team unstoppable.
By Lauren Smiley -
Village Voice
The Barely Legal Empire of Tony Alamo
A nutty polygamist pastor rebuilds his church--with help from New Yorkers.
By Maria Luisa Tucker -
Houston Press
The Myth of the Bachelor's Degree
A growing number of educators face a hard truth: not every kid is college material.
By Todd Spivak
Don't let Tera Melos fool you with its textbook cover. For this California three-piece, "math rock" means much more of an affinity for chaos theory than for the staid and stoic world of algebraic expressions. In fact to the uninitiated, the term might call to mind things like precision, restraint, and formula. While accurate in a sense, these words find a whole new meaning when fed through a dizzying array of perception-warping time signatures, effects pedals, and sideways harmonic sensibilities.
Jarring rhythmic transitions, caterwauling anti-melodic shenanigans, and a total disregard for the listener's ability to keep pace are all integral variables in the Tera Melos equation. At times it almost seems as if bassist Nathan Latona and drummer Vince Rogers' primary goal is sonic vertigo. Just when you think you know where they're going, they turn about face and head in the other direction. One minute, guitarist Nick Reinhart is tapping his way through graceful and tuneful arpeggios; moments later, he's sending his axe shrieking against the grain he'd so carefully exposed. Like a bunch of kids playing dominos, they set you up only to knock you down. And you're glad to be treated so roughly.
