He never did it. No way. No how. Miami Police Chief John Timoney contends he couldn't have said, "Fuck the Cubans," on February 12 at 1:00 a.m. at a party sponsored by Ocean...
Arab Strap, Scotland's answer to Leonard Cohen, has spun a web of unhappy relationships and bitter regrets for nearly a decade. But the band's music has evolved dramatically...
When speaking with the boyish yet erudite David Castillo, one senses the art dealer is poised to gain traction on some of his gray-beard competitors. "Paris, Barcelona &...
Annie Duke's Conquering Online Poker (Big Vision) The Avengers: The Complete Emma Peel Megaset (A&E) Battle's Poison Cloud (Cinema Libre) Bleak House (BBC Warner)...
For much of the Eighties and Nineties, drivers on the Palmetto Expressway zipped past a revolving, 45-foot tower of Gatsby-era Fords and classic Porsches. It sat atop the...
On this, the band's fifth album, as on the others before it, Lanterna offers up a sensuous mix of undulating, ethereal melodies; shimmering synths; and propulsive rhythms...
The Art of Painting: Malcolm Morley's exhibit at MoCA features more than 30 large works dating from the Sixties. The twists and turns of the artist's formative years pepper...
For Marino Martínez, it began 44 years ago on the streets of Guira de Melena, a small city ringed by tobacco fields south of Havana. Martínez was eight years...
There may be bands that are more technically astute, but few can boast the melodic wherewithal of the Go-Betweens. Four albums and six years into its second incarnation, the...
G-String Hypocrisy A brief history of strip clubs: As a confirmed Libertarian, I have to applaud Forrest Norman's article "Booze Ban in Babylon" (February 16) about my city's...
Rowdy, rambunctious, and oozing spit, grit and verve, Southern Culture on the Skids showcases the full frenzy of the band's unhinged road show with this long-overdue live set....
It is depressing that all Pink has to do to be refreshing is say, "I'm not a bimbo." But though it would be nice if she didn't have to prance around in a bikini (ironically or...
This could be an outtake from Parade or Sign o' the Times, but thanks to Timbaland and countless other R&B producers, the compressed sexuality of Prince's drum tracks never...
They're on Disney-owned Hollywood which explains why this earnest sugar rush is more Hilary & Haylie than Tegan & Sara, but the strength of their voices implies that these...
According to the liner notes, one member of this quintet handles "drone machine" duties. Good luck identifying her contributions in this plodding, molten, proto-Black Rebel...
Are they goth? Are they rock? Does it matter? The Sisters of Mercy have put together more than two decades of smash hits, public roustabouts, great lines, and other oddities....
Styles come and fads go, yet thankfully the funk always lurks, its spirit manifest in different forms and from unlikely tributaries. Believe it or not, New Orleans' Johnny...
What began as a shits-'n'-giggles-in-the-basement kind of band has grown into an unstoppable street punk/Oi! force to be reckoned with. The Dropkick Murphys even have a...
Not unlike Richard Jordan's Sandman character in Logan's Run, there is something sexy about Miami's long-running New Wave/postpunk luminaries that creeps out from around the...
Queen without Freddie Mercury? Isn’t that like the Doors without Jim Morrison (the laughable Doors of the 21st Century notwithstanding)? Or INXS without Michael Hutchence...
