Nick Cave

Over the Weekend - MLK Jr., Prescription Pot, Artopia and More

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus Anti

MP3 of the Day: "Sorrow" by Jim Wurster

via myspace.com/jimwursterJim Wurster is one of the best almost-kept secrets of the South Florida singer-songwriter world, a leading light of a micro-scene that revolves around small venues like the Luna Star Cafe. While his artist bio may be given to, shall we say, hyperbole, this much is true: Onc ... More >>

Who's Afraid of Henry Rollins?

He doesn't hit women. His band doesn't drown puppies. But the anger is real.

Black Eyes

The Cave man's two-fisted culture romp dredges the depths

Swan Songs

Murder by Death creates stunning, dark works that transcend the provocative name.

Jim Wurster

Hallelujah (Black Janet Music)

Anatomy of a Murder

The famous outlaw, the fawning outcast, and an epic movie that's as stylized as it is insane

Filled with Music

The famous outlaw, the fawning outcast, and an epic movie that's as stylized as it is insane

Interpol

Our Love to Admire (Capitol)

Willard Grant Conspiracy

Let It Roll (Dahlia)

Poetry and Puncture Wounds

DVD releases for the week of September 19, 2006

The Triffids

Born Sandy Devotional (Domino)

Smog

A River Ain't Too Much to Love (Drag City)

Marianne Faithfull

Before the Poison Anti

Lhasa

The Living Road Nettwerk

Willard Grant Conspiracy

Regard the End (Kimchee)

Made With Love

Rosanne Cash is the friend who will say, or sing, what you can't

Forever Punk

They no longer take flying dives into the mosh pit, but for Chuck Loose, Sam Fogarino, and Rob Coe the music is still the thing

Three's a Charm

Fifty years down the line, Johnny Cash still has it

Rotations

Fifty years down the line, Johnny Cash still has it

Apocalypse Wow

Fifty years down the line, Johnny Cash still has it

No Steps Forward, Two Steps Back

Fifty years down the line, Johnny Cash still has it

MP3 of the Day: "Dr. Whisker's Theme" by Damian Lazarus, at Electric Pickle this Friday

Damian Lazarus came to performing music from the enemy side: He started out as a music journalist, a notorious profession in his native England. Still, even as he worked as an editor at the legendary lifestyle mag Dazed and Confused, it was all part of a planned gradual move into the industry. "I di ... More >>

Damian Lazarus

Damian Lazarus came to performing music from the enemy side: He started out as a music journalist, a notorious profession in his native England. Still, even as he worked as an editor at the legendary lifestyle mag Dazed and Confused, it was all part of a planned gradual move into the industry. "I di ... More >>

Don Chambers Playing Solo at Propaganda on July 11

Don Chambers is playing a solo show (meaning he's without his band Goat) with Viva Le Vox at Propaganda on July 11. Chambers is an Athens Georga based singer songwriter in the Tom Waits/Nick Cave mold who's latest album, Zebulon, was produced by Patterson Hood of Drive-By Truckers fame. His music is ... More >>

Don Chambers Playing Solo

Don Chambers is playing a solo show (meaning he's without his band Goat) with Viva Le Vox at Propaganda on July 11. Chambers is an Athens Georga based singer songwriter in the Tom Waits/Nick Cave mold who's latest album, Zebulon, was produced by Patterson Hood of Drive-By Truckers fame. His music is ... More >>

Local(ish) Album Review: Ed Hale - Ballad on Third Avenue

​Ed Hale Ballad on Third Avenue (Dying Van Gogh)Ed Hale's outfit Transcendence was the kind of band that allowed ambition and extravagance to find equal footing. Progressive by design, its sumptuous arrangements often overshadowed Hale's skills as a songwriter, which featured some great melodies a ... More >>

John Hillcoat's The Road is middle-of-the-road

​Ed Hale Ballad on Third Avenue (Dying Van Gogh)Ed Hale's outfit Transcendence was the kind of band that allowed ambition and extravagance to find equal footing. Progressive by design, its sumptuous arrangements often overshadowed Hale's skills as a songwriter, which featured some great melodies a ... More >>

Highlights From Art Basel 2009: Part 1

Nick Cave Soundsuit, 200 at Jack Shainman Gallery​Art Basel Miami Beach is perhaps one of the most overwhelming events modern culture has to offer, and the re-arranged layout sure doesn't help it make feel like any less of bizarre labyrinth through multi-million dollars of contemporary art.To try ... More >>

The Arctic Monkeys school Miami in the best of northern Brit rock

Nick Cave Soundsuit, 200 at Jack Shainman Gallery​Art Basel Miami Beach is perhaps one of the most overwhelming events modern culture has to offer, and the re-arranged layout sure doesn't help it make feel like any less of bizarre labyrinth through multi-million dollars of contemporary art.To try ... More >>

Moving Units: Radio-Active Records' Top 5 Releases for March 23-29

Should we just rename the column "Two-ving Units" already?​In our Moving Units column, Mike Ramirez at Fort Lauderdale's Radio-Active Records graciously keeps us up-to-date and comments on the current releases flying out of his store each week.Quoting Ramirez: "What's up with the number 2 this w ... More >>

Q&A With Nick O'Malley of the Arctic Monkeys, Playing the Fillmore Miami Beach Tomorrow Night

The Arctic Monkeys, with bassist Turner second from right.​Thursday's show at the Fillmore marks the Arctic Monkeys' first performance in Miami Beach, but the Sheffield, England rockers already count a famous local resident as an unlikely fan: Diddy. About this time last year, the band was in New ... More >>

Concert Review: The Arctic Monkeys at the Fillmore Miami Beach, April 1

Photo by Ian WitlenClick here to view photos from this event.​The Arctic MonkeysThe Fillmore Miami BeachThursday, April 1, 2010Better Than: Northern English food (black pudding, anyone?)The Review:Last night's debut Miami show by the Sheffield, England rock outfit the Arctic Monkeys gave plenty to ... More >>

Once Is Not Enough

The Swell Season brings stirring songs to the Fillmore.

Iggy Pop to Cameo Star in Beastie Boy-Produced William S. Burroughs Documentary

​Most bibliophiles know about the lurid tales of William S. Burroughs. He shot and killed his second wife by accident while drunk, became openly gay, had an affinity for guns, a serious opiate addiction the last 50 years of his life -- and for all of you Floridians, he spent a small time living in ... More >>

Frank Owen Sues Gerald Posner Over Plagiarism Charges in Miami Babylon

photo by Bill Cooke​Back in March, we were the first to detail local author Frank Owen's charges that Gerald Posner had plagiarized dozens of passages in his latest book, Miami Babylon, from Owen's 2003 book Clubland. The case opened the floodgates on what looks like Posner's career-long habit of ... More >>

Underground and Local: Diet Cokeheads, White Execution, and Bone Owl

​Diet Cokeheads' Nasal EP (Drugged Conscience) Gainesville's Diet Cokeheads is one-third of Florida's holy triumvirate of new, damaged rock 'n' roll. (Lake Worth's Cop City/Chill Pillars and Tampa's Neon Blud comprise the other 2/3.) If you didn't already know, D.C. features Palm Beach expatriate ... More >>

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1: The kids are not all right

​Diet Cokeheads' Nasal EP (Drugged Conscience) Gainesville's Diet Cokeheads is one-third of Florida's holy triumvirate of new, damaged rock 'n' roll. (Lake Worth's Cop City/Chill Pillars and Tampa's Neon Blud comprise the other 2/3.) If you didn't already know, D.C. features Palm Beach expatriate ... More >>

Worth the Drive

​Diet Cokeheads' Nasal EP (Drugged Conscience) Gainesville's Diet Cokeheads is one-third of Florida's holy triumvirate of new, damaged rock 'n' roll. (Lake Worth's Cop City/Chill Pillars and Tampa's Neon Blud comprise the other 2/3.) If you didn't already know, D.C. features Palm Beach expatriate ... More >>

Trentemoller at Ultra Music Festival 2011 Day One, March 25, 2011

​Putting Trentemoller on the penultimate slot of Ultra's Live Stage last night was a ballsy move. As a producer, the smart Swede Anders Trentemoller makes sweeping, beautiful soundscapes that are truly cinematic. But they take patience and concentration to digest. So, in a live performance, h ... More >>

Ice Cream Talks Dessert Food, Being the Satanic Strokes, and the New Split Release With Animal Tropical

Photo by Marta Xochilt Perez​Ice Cream falls somewhere between punk and psychedelia, DWNTWN and the suburbs, children's lullabies and real rock. This young quartet plays curious, kooky music that pairs moaning, Jim Morrison-like incantations with eerie-but-poppy compositions. The band has been a ... More >>