Sun Ra

Summer of Weirds II at Churchill's Pub August 19

Kathryn Marks on Ear Conditioning, Dino, Rat Bastard, Intellectual Miami, and Techno Grandpa

Oh, yeah! ​Artist and accomplished violist Kathryn Marks has made music with both traditional orchestras and prolific genius Dino Felipe. Recently, she partnered with nomadic art project The End/SPRING BREAK for Ear Conditioning, a monthlong experiment in sound that took place throughout July. W ... More >>

Sun Ra Listening Session With Kevin Arrow at The End/Spring Break

Kevin Arrow looking very Sun Ra. "I have a special connection to Sun Ra," insists artist Kevin Arrow. And this Saturday at the end/SPRING BREAK, he will be leading a special listening session, presenting Sun Ra's recordings decade by decade. Arrow's seen Sun Ra many times over the years, both in M ... More >>

Lemonade at Electric Pickle December 11

Kevin Arrow looking very Sun Ra. "I have a special connection to Sun Ra," insists artist Kevin Arrow. And this Saturday at the end/SPRING BREAK, he will be leading a special listening session, presenting Sun Ra's recordings decade by decade. Arrow's seen Sun Ra many times over the years, both in M ... More >>

Lemonade Talks Doom, Digital Sounds, Sade, and Dancing

Photo by Alyssa Robb.​A gothic metropolis in sunny California, San Francisco is a city suffering from a schizo split. It's bred hippies, Hells Angels, and the Zodiac Killer. And five years ago, old San Fran gave birth to a certain psych-pop trio called Lemonade that luxuriates in the idea of swi ... More >>

Local Album Review: Michael Feinberg - Evil Genius

via michaelfeinbergmusic.comMichael FeinbergEvil Geniuswww.michaelfeinbergmusic.comTo the uninitiated, jazz generally falls into one of two broad categories -- that which is readily accessible and that which isn't. That's an unsophisticated observation to be sure, but one with which many non-aficion ... More >>

Saturday Night: King Khan and the Shrines at The Vagabond

JipsyKing Khan and the Shrines performed at The Vagabond Saturday night. Click here to view the full slide show.King Khan and the Shrines Saturday, March 7, 2009 The Vagabond, Miami Better Than: Listenin' to Nuggets while munchin' on peyote. Until I read Chris Toenes' preview piece in this very p ... More >>

Kenny Millions Tonight at Radio-Active Records

JipsyKing Khan and the Shrines performed at The Vagabond Saturday night. Click here to view the full slide show.King Khan and the Shrines Saturday, March 7, 2009 The Vagabond, Miami Better Than: Listenin' to Nuggets while munchin' on peyote. Until I read Chris Toenes' preview piece in this very p ... More >>

Album Reviews: Booka Shade, Henrik Schwartz, Ricardo Villalobos

JipsyKing Khan and the Shrines performed at The Vagabond Saturday night. Click here to view the full slide show.King Khan and the Shrines Saturday, March 7, 2009 The Vagabond, Miami Better Than: Listenin' to Nuggets while munchin' on peyote. Until I read Chris Toenes' preview piece in this very p ... More >>

Mr. Entertainment and the Pookiesmackers

JipsyKing Khan and the Shrines performed at The Vagabond Saturday night. Click here to view the full slide show.King Khan and the Shrines Saturday, March 7, 2009 The Vagabond, Miami Better Than: Listenin' to Nuggets while munchin' on peyote. Until I read Chris Toenes' preview piece in this very p ... More >>

Mr. Entertainment and the Pookiesmackers

JipsyKing Khan and the Shrines performed at The Vagabond Saturday night. Click here to view the full slide show.King Khan and the Shrines Saturday, March 7, 2009 The Vagabond, Miami Better Than: Listenin' to Nuggets while munchin' on peyote. Until I read Chris Toenes' preview piece in this very p ... More >>

Payola on the Cheap

Bribing DJs used to be expensive, but now mere trinkets will do the trick

Current Art Shows

Bribing DJs used to be expensive, but now mere trinkets will do the trick

Life Is a Comic Strip

For Victor Muñiz it's a countercultural banquet with a sense of humor

World Beats

Progressive acts manufacture new sounds

Zero dB

Reconstruction (Ubiquity)

World Records

Reconstruction (Ubiquity)

BEST JAZZ RADIO PROGRAM

Weekend Jazz Saturday with Tracy Fields

One love, one orchestra

All people within Miami

Double Helix

Recluse DNA replicates and conquers

Best Record/CD Store

Blue Note Records

Big Youth

Natty Universal Dread 1973-1979 (Blood and Fire)

Ornette Coleman

Dancing in Your Head
Verve

MC5

The Big Bang! Best of the MC5 (Rhino)

Best Rock Club

Tobacco Road

Panther, Panther Burning Bright

MC5: Gun-toting revolutionaries say the darndest things

Anthony Braxton and Amiri Baraka & the Sun Ra Myth-Science Arkestra

Trillium R -- Shala Fears for the Poor (Braxton House)
The Black Mass (Son Boy Records)

Ken Vandermark's Sound in Action Trio

Design in Time

Kulchur

Tom Smith knocks Miami rock

Reverend Joe Is in the House

House music as secular gospel? Amen, brother

Digital Orisha

Io combines two of Miami's biggest bugaboos

Kulchur

Dueling at the millennium

Best Band From Another Planet

Afro Polyphonic Space Orchestra

Road Roots

Afro Polyphonic Space Orchestra

Jingle Decibels

Afro Polyphonic Space Orchestra

Rotations

Afro Polyphonic Space Orchestra

Rotations

Afro Polyphonic Space Orchestra

Rotations

Afro Polyphonic Space Orchestra

Rotations

Afro Polyphonic Space Orchestra

Attack of the 50-Foot Band

Afro Polyphonic Space Orchestra

Sonic Reducers

Afro Polyphonic Space Orchestra

Bring the Noise

Cover your ears or bask in the blare. Miami avant-skronkers Harry Pussy, Rat Bastard, and Tom Smith's To Live and Shave in L.A. have launched an audacious aural assault on the senses. But is anyone out there listening?

Industrious Resolutions

Miami artists share their wry hopes, sly hopes, and high hopes for the coming year

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Miami artists share their wry hopes, sly hopes, and high hopes for the coming year

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Miami artists share their wry hopes, sly hopes, and high hopes for the coming year

Irrefutable Evidence

One lable hopes to prove the blues deserve a fair hearing

Program Notes

One lable hopes to prove the blues deserve a fair hearing