Friday night's weekly
Flamingo Fridays party at PS14 marks the first show in a while on this side of
the county line for the Miami foursome Astari Nite. The band has been playing out relatively frequently, but recent weeks
have seen it playing mostly around Broward and even West Palm Beach.And instead of slowing down for the summer, instead frontman Mychael Ghost and company are ramping it up. They've begun work on an EP, and have provided this MP3 of a rough sketch of the song "Forever
Astari NiteFriday, June 5, 2009Flamingo Fridays at PS14, MiamiBetter Than: A pop goth cocktailAs my esteemed colleague (and de facto boss) Arielle Castillo so keenly wrote in these pages last September, Astari Nite singer Mychael Ghost is unquestionably "a proper frontman." Which is to say (as she said), that he is "a center-stage, singular figure of idolatry," who is, perhaps most importantly, very "hard to ignore."Ghost also happens to be quite cool; in fact he's one of the coolest guys around
via myspace.com/confusedaseverrocksFort Lauderdale quartet Confused As Ever​Redeye '09With Dooms De Pop, Astari Nite, and Confused as EverArtserve Fort LauderdaleFriday, July 24, 2009Better Than: Guy Harvey paintings and seashell collectionsThe Review: Fort Lauderdale is perhaps better known for its nickel slots and three-for-one drink specials than its cultural pursuits. But you could have fooled the hundreds of people who attended Friday night's kickoff party for the multimedia extravaganza