Email Author Brett Sokol

Awards

• 2006 - The Green Eyeshade Excellence in Journalism Awards/Atlanta SPJ, published March 10, 2005

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1999 Stories by Brett Sokol

• Reverend Joe Is in the House

  published December 30, 1999

  Don't call Joe Claussell a DJ. "That's not who I am, I just like to play music," explains the New York City-based producer and, ah, player of... More >>

• Kulchur

  published December 23, 1999

  Rock en español largely remains a promise, an unfulfilled aesthetic vision of Latin-American musicians merging their native grooves... More >>

• Still Making Sense

  published December 16, 1999

  David Byrne -- singer, author, filmmaker, and record-label president -- is celebrated for many things, not the least of which is his own... More >>

• Kulchur

  published December 16, 1999

  An all-too-rare sound filled the intimately lit space inside Timba the Monday before last, as saxophonist David Liebman and... More >>

• Kulchur

  published December 9, 1999

  That cold snap blowing through Miami last week had less to do with Mother Nature than with the specter of José Garcia-Pedrosa returning... More >>

• Monster Mashes, Graveyard Smashes

  published November 18, 1999

  The room is filled with screaming skulls, fiendishly grinning jack-o'-lanterns, skeletons hanging from the ceiling, and several Puppet... More >>

• Kulchur

  published November 18, 1999

  You can take your pick of the many neo-fin-de-siècle gigs vying for millennium-worthy status, from the dueling downtown saccharine... More >>

• Kulchur

  published November 11, 1999

  "Imagine rock music as a beached whale's carcass," suggests pop critic Simon Reynolds. "What seems like intense activity is really necrotic... More >>

• Kulchur

  published November 4, 1999

  Here we go again: The Cuban-exile community has snapped to attention in anticipation of their latest battle, next weekend's concert... More >>

• Kulchur

  published October 28, 1999

  Where have all the Mohawks gone? If you're looking for the perfect symbol of the aesthetic denouement of the underground punk scene, you... More >>

• Kulchur

  published October 21, 1999

  It seemed absolutely fitting that the Los Van Van concert took place during the same week that the Justice Department finally released the... More >>

• Carl Craig's Sci-Fi Jazz

  published October 14, 1999

  Jazz is a word currently being thrown around techno circles, primarily as a way of defending the merits of the form to incredulous critics.... More >>

• Kulchur

  published October 14, 1999

  I was playing a show in Miami in the theater of divine comedy.... -- Bob Dylan, "Caribbean Wind" A tailgate party with... More >>

• Kulchur

  published October 7, 1999

  "I feel sorry for the Cuban community in Miami. Because they have imposed on themselves by way of the Right, the same condition that Castro has... More >>

• Kulchur

  published September 30, 1999

  Quaaludes, the aardvark of the drug world. -- Angela Carter There's a theory that the counterculture of the moment is... More >>

• Kulchur

  published September 23, 1999

  Once again, the cultural commissars of Miami's Cuban-exile community have cracked their whips. The result: the embarrassing spectacle of... More >>

• Better Living Through Chemistry

  published September 16, 1999

  Electronic dance music never completely conquered the United States, in part because the electronica revolution could not be televised. Ed Simons... More >>

• Kulchur

  published September 16, 1999

  Miami finally received a tangible expression of the economic aftershocks of Ricky Martin mania and the newly ascendant Latin chic... More >>

• Girl, They'll House You

  published September 9, 1999

  I am the creator and this is my house, and in my house there is only house music. But I am not so selfish, because once you enter my house it... More >>

• Kulchur

  published September 9, 1999

  It's not easy being a hardcore punk band in Miami. Just ask Jason Deucifer, drummer for the local outfit Where Fear and Weapons... More >>

• Kulchur

  published September 2, 1999

  Politics and pop music are rare bedfellows these days. Instead social consciousness finds itself comically channeled into spirituality, where... More >>

• Cars That Go Boom

  published August 26, 1999

  Some music genres measure success with hit records, others with critical kudos. But in the world of bass, the sound of breaking glass can be the... More >>

• Kulchur

  published August 26, 1999

  For anyone pondering the explosion of interest in Brazilian pop -- particularly David Byrne's tireless stumping on behalf of... More >>

• Kulchur

  published August 19, 1999

  In true South Beach style, no matter how heated a recent three-hour meeting of the Washington Avenue Task Force got, few of the local club... More >>

• Kulchur

  published August 12, 1999

  Think of Miami's current hip-hop scene and bass-influenced figures such as Trick Daddy and the expatriated J.T. Money come to mind,... More >>