Subject: Entertainment

• Jackson Browne, Bryan Adams, and Saosin Announce South Florida Shows

  ​A few more concert listings today for your viewing pleasure:Jackson Browne is shedding his band and striking out on a solo tour. The singer/songwriter will play an acoustic set at The Fillmore Miami Beach at the Jackie Gleason Theater on November 21. Tickets aren't on sale yet, but check the Ticketmaster site for more details.Following in the acoustic footsteps of Jackson Browne, Bryan Adams announced an unplugged tour as well. Adams is pimping his 11th studio album, ingeniously titled 11 at

  September 3, 2009

• Top Ten Thursdays: The Top Ten Greatest Rappers Alive (Let the Haterade Rain....)

  via lilwayne-online.comDid Weezy make the cut?​Self-proclaimed "greatest rapper alive" Lil Wayne performs Sunday at the BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise. That boast had serious clout when Tha Carter III dropped last year. But with Weezy's ruinous rock album Rebirth in delay hell -- latest news has it coming out in November -- it's time to reassess the "greatest rapper alive" title. By that, we mean the best rapper right now, and offer a top ten tally (in no particular order) after the jump.Lil'

  September 3, 2009

• Concert Review: Dubfest at Hollywood ArtsPark, September 5

  Bunny Wailer​DubFest Featuring Bunny Wailer, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Reel Big Fish, Goldfinger, and othersHollywood ArtsPark at Young CircleSaturday, September 5, 2009
 Better Than: Anything that has come to the ArtsPark in a very long time.The Review:Last Saturday, the rain just wouldn't let up. By the time 2:00 p.m. rolled around, yet another burst of storm clouds descended on downtown Hollywood. Promoters from AEG Live, along with DubFest's dozen vendors, looked annoyed as they scrambled to

  September 8, 2009

• Gilberto Santa Rosa

  September 10, 2009

• Dainamite: He's Explosive

  September 10, 2009

• Bruce Springsteen at the BankAtlantic Center

  September 10, 2009

• Stargaze on Earth at LIV

  September 10, 2009

• Q&A With Termanology, Performing at PS14 Tomorrow Night

  To understand up-and-coming MC Termanology's commitment to the golden age of hip-hop, just take a look at the production credits on his new album, Time Machine. It's enough to make you cry: the Alchemist, Large Professor, Pete Rock, and even the untouchable DJ Premier all lend beats to this sophomore effort. And of course, the Puerto-Rican-extracted MC didn't get to work with top talent out of nowhere.As a teenager in his heavily Latin hometown of Lawrence, Massachusetts, he started his climb

  September 10, 2009

• Tap Tap Screens The Harder They Come

  ​Starting this evening at 7:00 p.m., with nightly performances at the same time running through Sunday, Tap Tap Haitian Restaurant will be showing The Harder They Come as the feature in the Film at Tap Tap series. Screenings are free to the public, and start promptly -- those who come late will not be admitted. A much better idea is to arrive early and dine on Tap Tap's terrific island fare. Or sit at the bar and sip Red Stripes or the restaurant's unbeatable rum punch -- and then have din

  September 15, 2009

• Wisin y Yandel

  September 17, 2009

• Broadway Ocho

  September 24, 2009

• The Next Big Thing

  September 24, 2009

• Gypsies Minus the Fila Tracksuits

  September 24, 2009

• Brand Nubian

  October 1, 2009

• Metallica's Death Magnetic tour stops at BankAtlantic Center

  October 1, 2009

• Show Announcements: David Ellefson of Megadeth and Raphael Saadiq

  via flick user NRK P3​Do you think David Ellefson might miss playing for Megadeth? He left the band in 2002, and declined to rejoin the band when Dave Mustaine tried to get them back together in 2004. In fairness, every other original member of Megadeth declined to rejoin Mustain, save guitarist Chris Poland. But Ellefson has been downplaying his career with Megadeth, sometimes even failing to mention it during interviews. Sure there was a pretty big falling out thanks to some royalty issues,

  October 8, 2009

• Leonard Cohen

  October 15, 2009

• Frankly Swanky

  October 15, 2009

• Puppeted from Above

  October 15, 2009

• Michelle Obama's Comin'. Will She Join the Top 5 Craziest First Ladies?

  Joyce N. Boghosian Go ahead, make my day Blaise Compaore, President of Burkina Faso ​Michelle Obama has a ridiculously difficult job.  She has to raise a family and schmooze with googly-eyed dignitaries, all the while still having to share her shortbread cookie recipes with Good Housekeeping and her arm workout routine with Women's Health.But some first ladies have not been so well adjusted. Some have mutated into shut-ins, murderesses, control freaks, and prima donnas (ironically,

  October 14, 2009

• Lady Gaga Celebrating New Year's Eve at James L. Knight Center

  ​Pop-singer and fashionista Lady Gaga will be coming to the James L. Knight Center in Miami December 31. The diva's recent tour with Kanye West fell through because West "needed a break." Can West just drop out of the limelight for a few months? Get his ego in check?She counts Madonna and Marilyn Manson as fans and is probably a more honest Katy Perry. Perry kissed a girl and she exploits it. Gaga's bisexuality seems more genuine, though her authenticity in various areas is up for debate. Hmm,

  October 15, 2009

• Weekend Blog Watch - Quizno's, Red Zone, Beer, Banh Mi, Curry, Pumpkins, and Twitpics

  via anonymous9000 flickrWho's watching who?​ We sift, wade, search, and aggregate so you don't have to. Check out these recent posts from other local blogs.Coupons for deals at Quizno's. [MiamiCheap]The hardest working man in food blogging hits up Red Zone in Ft Lauderdale. [JeffEats]Rock Art Beer vs Monster Energy Drink on a legal battlefield. [SouthFloridaBeerBlog]Taste testing Hot Pockets Sideshots mini cheeseburgers. [BurgerBeast]Banh Mi Dac Biet and pork summer rolls in Pembroke. [Chowfat

  October 19, 2009

• Kiss Alive/35 tour stops at BankAtlantic Center

  October 22, 2009

• Ooh, This Is So FLIFFy!

  October 22, 2009

• To the Nines

  October 22, 2009

• The Show Must Go on for Barton G: Prelude Opens Tomorrow Despite Warehouse Fire

  Jackie SayetDaisies adorn the 2nd floor foyer into Prelude. ​Despite the fire that ravaged Barton G's warehouse on Monday night with millions in props and other non-food-related damages, Barton G. Weiss, the seasoned showman that he is, addressed an impressive crowd of media and industry VIPs Wednesday night in a pre-launch event for his new Adrienne Arsht Center restaurant, Prelude by Barton G.  Not a mention was made of the devastating events of two days prior.The restaurant, adorned wi

  October 22, 2009

• The Big Sleep

  October 29, 2009

• MP3 of the Day: Black Metal Soundsystem Mix from Mixhell, Playing White Room November 7

  ​It's enough to make metalhead purists wail and gnash their teeth. Half of the producer/DJ duo Mixhell is Iggor Cavalera, who co-founded seminal Brazilian groove-metal act Sepultura when he was just 15 years old. For the next 20 years, he toured the world and sold out stadiums as the band's drummer, until a 2006 epiphany that came unexpected, at least to outsiders. He changed the spelling of his name from the original "Igor" to its present, two-G iteration, quit Sepultura, and, apparently, dis

  October 29, 2009

• Radio-Active Records Hosting Punk Rock Food Drive

  ​Punk rock has always been more about the attitude than the music. Unfortunately, that "punk rock attitude" is often portrayed as a hate-everything, outsider-only, anti-social group. While some of those things may be true from time to time, things like this can also really show off what punk rock is all about: On November 14, Radio-Active Records is hosting a Thanksgiving Food Drive in conjunction with Big Mama. There is no cover for the show, but if you're going to show up, you'd better bring

  October 29, 2009

• Top Five Dream Miami Heat Lineups for 2010

  Photo by Keith Allison, via Flickr​Running off the pure optimism of Wednesday night's opening beat-down of the New York Knicks, I present to you the top five Miami Heat starting lineups for the 2010-2011 season.As most fans know, the Heat will have perhaps the best cap space situation in the league next summer to lure free agents, thanks to Pat Riley's admirable discipline in not throwing a bad contract to some schlub this summer just to calm the moronic fan base. Some of that $20-22 million

  October 30, 2009

• Q&A With Converge, Playing With Mastodon and Dethklok November 8

  photo by Matt MillerConverge, with Jacob Bannon second from right​To the uninitiated, the Massachusetts quartet Converge can be downright terrifying. And it's not because they appear clad in face paint or leather and chains -- this underground punk-bred foursome would never waste time on costume-like trappings. Rather, part of the reason they are so scary is because they are so physically unassuming, but so loud, and so clearly do not give a fuck. And neither does their crowd, famous for

  October 30, 2009

• Big D and the Kids Table, Unlikely Survivors of '90s Ska, Play Propaganda November 10

  Frankly, the many-membered Boston act Big D and the Kids Table were not, at their inception, among the front-runners for survival of ska's so-called "Third Wave" in the '90s. The band started a little too late - 1995 - to be seen as truly authentic at the movement's peak, around '97 or '98. Its hometown, too, was seen as an also-ran to the big ska epicenters of New York City and Southern California. What's more, the band's slap-happy, distorted punk guitar stylings alienated the genre's so-cal

  November 2, 2009

• Mixhell

  November 5, 2009

• Damas Gratis

  November 5, 2009

• Trade Day for Night

  November 5, 2009

• Not that Sacha

  November 5, 2009

• More Than the Mr. + Mrs.

  November 5, 2009

• Concert Review: Dethklok, Mastodon, Converge and High on Fire at Pompano Beach Amphitheater, November 8

  photo by Ian WitlenClick here to view a full slideshow of photos from the show.Adult Swim Presents the Dethklok Tour 2009With High on Fire, Converge, Mastodon, and DethklokPompano Beach AmphitheaterSunday, November 8, 2009Better Than: Getting home in time for Robot Chicken.The Review: The current Dethklok tour, which landed at Pompano Beach Amphitheater this past Sunday, was a work of booking genius. A headlining set by a band birthed on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim block got kiddies -- lit

  November 10, 2009

• The Get Up Kids Rise Again

  November 12, 2009

• Killer Nuns and Clowns with Knives

  November 12, 2009

• Films Done Short and Sweet

  November 12, 2009

• Megadeth At Revolution on November 25... Yes, Really, Revolution

  ​One of the most tragicomic moments in the 2004 Metallica documentary Some Kind of Monster features not the band itself, but rather Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine. In an touchy-feely, on-camera counseling session, Mustaine reveals some seemingly major inferiority issues to Metallica's drummer Lars Ulrich. He even seems to come uncomfortably close to tears as he recalls how fans, in the '80s, would yell "Metallica!" at him on the streets.It's with that in mind that it only seems more stinging,

  November 16, 2009

• A Primer on the '90s Survivors at the Ska is Dead Tour, Thursday at Culture Room

  The fourth edition of the recurrent Ska is Dead tour lands at Culture Room on Thursday with a bill straight out of 1997. Ska has been reviled and declared dead for about the last 30 years, but it seems its horn-heavy effervescence just can't be dampened. The genre itself pre-dates reggae, coming out of Jamaica in the early '60s and incubating the careers of later stars. Outside of the island, though, its flickers in the mainstream have, to be honest, come through white punk kids' appropriat

  November 17, 2009

• Megadeth

  November 19, 2009

• The Sixth Annual Organic Hip Hop Artist Showcase

  November 19, 2009

• Ska Is Dead tour lands at Culture Room this Thursday

  November 19, 2009

• Concert Announcements: Hey Monday, Four Years Strong Coming to Culture Room.

  via Flickr user Linzera​A couple of shows chalk full of pop-punk are coming to Culture Room. First up is the West Palm Beach-based Hey Monday, who are on the verge of being pop-punk's next big thing. Sure pop-punk bands are a dime-a-trillion, but this local act has a beautiful female lead singer (in appearance and vocally) and a sound custom made the kids to love and bitter bloggers to scoff at. Unwarranted negativity aside, they've signed to Decaydance and just two years after going full time

  November 19, 2009

• Concert Review: The Ska Is Dead Tour at Culture Room, November 19

  ​The Ska Is Dead TourWith Deal's Gone Bad, Voodoo Glow Skulls, Mustard Plug, and the ToastersCulture Room, Fort LauderdaleThursday, November 19, 2009Better Than: Remembering the misled late-'90s mainstream notion of the Mighty Mighty Bosstones supposedly epitomizing ska.The Review:In 2009, ska sure isn't the healthiest genre of underground music. But it sure ain't dead, either -- or if it is, the several hundred people packed into Culture Room last night missed the memo. It was the most crowde

  November 20, 2009

• Head Spins: DJ Meta 4, Spinning at Space on Saturdays

  ​You want cool? Try this on for size. In a town and a time where everyone works every angle and drops every name, here comes a cat who, in this Head Spins interview, didn't mention the fact that we both knew each other in the old-school days of Jessie's and Rose's and Brandt's Break and Chili Pepper. Whether he did so to spare me the potential embarrassment of not immediately remembering, or simply because he wanted to stand strong on the laurels he's earned since then, is really beside the po

  November 23, 2009

• Showcase Schedule Is Up for the Miami Music Festival

  ​With all the Art Basel hype (only one week away, woooo), you can be forgiven if you forgot our previous announcement about the Miami Music Festival. In its inaugural year, it's a three-day shebang styled after bigger industry conferences like SXSW and CMJ, with simultaneous showcases at a bunch of different venues, and panels and workshops with industry folks. You can also be forgiven if that last sentence makes you really skeptical, considering how other large-scale local music festivals hav

  November 23, 2009