The last thing the world needs is another rant by some snooty music scribe who actually believes he can peg the next Coldplay or validate some MySpace wannabe. Don't worry; yours truly doesn't make any such presumptions. You won't find any holier-than-thou prognostications here -- just good new sounds worth checking out in the pop/rock/roots/Americana/singer-songwriter/whatever vein. These artists fly well below the radar, but here's some help with tracking their trajectories.The Matthew Herbert
This past November, Miami's New World Symphony held its first mini concerts at the Lincoln Theatre, and the sold-out crowd almost couldn't believe their ears -- or their wallets. Works by Maurice Ravel, Aaron Copland, and Samuel Barber performed live, each for less than the price of a latte? Clearly our town's orchestral academy had lost its well-defined mind. Well, it hadn't. But the minds behind NWS did want to provide each and every member of our community an opportunity to hear some of the w
