Email Author Matt Preira

2011 Stories by Matt Preira

• Five Tips to Help Miami Chum Bucket Get Back on Track

  published May 23, 2011

  At the end of March, punk music venue and multipurpose space Miami Chum Bucket opened with the chaotic roar of powerviolence virtuosos Gorilla Pussy and the wild churning of an inaugural, non-stop mos... More >>

• Spank Rock Talks His New Album, WMC, and Hooking Up With Boys Noize

  published May 23, 2011

  Spank Rock's debut full length, 2006's YoYoYoYoYo, paired the frantic tempo and raunchy sensibility of Baltimore-style club music with the shimmering glean of indie electro-pop and the impressively el... More >>

• Miami Chum Bucket Relocates Perdition and Crazy Spirit Show to Churchill's Pub

  published May 19, 2011

  DIY punk venue Miami Chum Bucket recently had a run-in with John Law and it's now on hiatus. The venue had a lot of shows booked in the next couple of months, and its uncertain status is a definite ... More >>

• Chum Bucket Gets Shut Down, Organizers Try to Figure Out Next Step

  published May 18, 2011

  Just two months after Miami Chum Bucket hosted its grand opening, the punk venue and multipurpose space is under fire. This past weekend, the collective was ratched up to full throttle as hundreds f... More >>

• N.E.R.D. to Kanye to Odd Future: five key moments in hipster-hop

  published May 19, 2011

  N.E.R.D. to Kanye to Odd Future: five key moments in the chronology of hipster-hop More >>

• What Exactly Do Rick Ross and "Tupac Back" Have to Do With the Real Tupac Amaru Shakurr

  published May 16, 2011

  Last week, Crossfade contributor Arielle Castillo reported on Rick Ross's Self-Made: Maybach Music Vol. 1 and "Tupac Back," the record's lead single featuring North Philly rookie Meek Mill. The song... More >>

• Catch Up With Kid Cudi and His Emo-Synth Hipster Hop at La Covacha May 20 CANCELED

  published May 13, 2011

  UPDATE: Via Tumblr, Kid Cudi has stated that the show La Covacha is fake. Read the response from promoters Major Event Marketing and Uprise. Kid Cudi loves Miami so much. In 2009, he threw a free ... More >>

• Five Key Moments in the Chronology of Hipster Hop

  published May 10, 2011

  There is no escaping the young-and-vulgar West Coast hip-hop collective Odd Future. There was a brief incubation period on the internet. But ever since performing on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, the ... More >>

• Bringing It Back for the Kids Fest at Rocketown May 13 and 14

  published May 12, 2011

  Bringing It Back for the Kids Fest at Rocketown May 13 and 14 More >>

• Metallic Brutality: Shroud Eater, Masticator, Orb Weaver, and Slashpine at Beelzebub's Cave

  published May 06, 2011

  Metal bands have the best names. Period. They also have the best names for their venues. You know, any shmuck can give you a flyer. Or, I guess, invite you on Facebook to a show featuring The Bores ... More >>

• Bringing It Back for the Kids Fest With Shai Hulud and Terror May 13 and 14

  published May 03, 2011

  Relative to the universe, rock 'n' roll is a recent phenomenon. Though the exact moment when the genre came into being is hard to pinpoint, the following is undeniable: It's genesis was a distinctly... More >>

• Broken Water at Miami Chum Bucket April 9

  published April 7, 2011

  Broken Water at Miami Chum Bucket April 9 More >>

• Broken Water Brings Bummer Punk to Miami Chum Bucket April 9

  published Apr 01, 2011

  Local label Drugged Conscience hosts a super sparse (yet super tight) three-band showcase at Miami Chum Bucket next Saturday. And the guests of honor are Olympia, Washington's Broken Water, a new-ish ... More >>

• World/Inferno Friendship Society at Miami Chum Bucket Tomorrow

  published Mar 30, 2011

  The World/Inferno Friendship Society is a punk cabaret ensemble. (The word ensemble not used lightly as the band can sometimes swell up to a dozen members.) And it has nurtured an international cult f... More >>

• The Grand Opening of Miami Chum Bucket, March 26

  published Mar 29, 2011

  Miami Chum Bucket, a DIY punk venue, distro, and practice space, held its inaugural event this past Saturday night. The show was free and the lineup featured all of the key South Florida punk bands th... More >>

• Drugged Conscience Delivers a Double Dose of Brutality at Churchill's Pub This Week

  published Mar 15, 2011

  This week, Churchill's Pub hosts a pair of Drugged Conscience-sponsored concerts seething with heterogenous brutality. While the label and booking agency fits under the comfortably broad punk/hardcore... More >>

• Philip Glass at New World Center March 17

  published March 17, 2011

  Philip Glass at New World Center March 17 More >>

• Augurari's Jay Hines Talks Cassette Tapes and Kicking Ass in a Non-Avant Garde Way

  published Mar 04, 2011

  Miami seems to have a lot of record labels these days. The Discosoma singles series is red-hot, with seven-inch releases from Beings and ANR. Destroyio Records and Pendejo Productions hold down the ... More >>

• Philip Glass at the New World Center March 17

  published Feb 28, 2011

  Philip Glass is a heavyweight of contemporary minimalism. Alongside auteurs like Steve Reich and John Cage, Glass is, simply put, one of the biggest, boldest names in 20th century music. Much like t... More >>

• Shitstorm Cancels and Beings' Set Gets Busted by the Cops at the Cave, February 24

  published Feb 25, 2011

  Shitstorm (canceled), Beings, and Holly Hunt Beelzebub's Cave Thursday, February 24, 2011 Better Than: If Beings had canceled too. From inception, this show was an uphill battle. Not that the theor... More >>

• Shitstorm Explodes at the Cave This Thursday

  published Feb 21, 2011

  There is only one adjective that does the almighty Shitstorm justice ... Relentless. For starters, can you think of a local act that plays faster, nastier and harderr We certainly can't. Figure in t... More >>

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  Dino Felipe's Discography Hits the Big Five-Oh!

  published Feb 16, 2011

  An unfortunate side effect of experimental music in the 21st century is the inflated discography. In this age of instant access and oversharing, demos are pressed on vinyl and every piss, moan, and ... More >>

• Barry Manilow at BankUnited Center January 29

  published January 27, 2011

  Does Barry Manilow even exist? Or was the Manilow concept brewed by aesthetes in the Laboratory of Cool to give record-store clerks and music... More >>

• Drugged Conscience is making Miami punk history

  published January 6, 2011

  To the outside world, Miami isn't particularly known for its punk history. We weren't part of the first wave (New York City, Los Angeles,... More >>