Surfer Blood

Ricardo Guerrero on Final Death to the Sun and Why "Miami Venues Still Suck Dick"

Death to the Sun is not only Miami's best rock fest for the new, the hip, and the off-kilter. The annual farewell-to-summer local music bash, hosted by This Heart Electric's Ricardo Guerrero, is also one of the most controversial events spawned from the Biscayne Corridor's art-party music scene. L ... More >>

Surfer Blood's John Paul Pitts Arrested for Domestic Battery in Lake Worth

Usually, Surfer Blood is all about beach-y, positive vibes. On March 31, though, the band's singer-guitarist John Paul Pitts was booked by the Palm Beach County Sherrif's Office on a domestic battery charge after a confrontation with his then-girlfriend. As reported this afternoon by Pitchfork, th ... More >>

"You'll Have to Leave Miami to Make It" and More Wisdom From Florida Music Get Together

​It's not easy being a musician in Vice City. The geographical challenge alone is enough to make any band go crazy. Miami may never be called a musical epicenter. But when Radioboxer's Jota Dazza put out the call for fellow musicians to take part in the Florida Music Get Together, the local music ... More >>

Surfer Blood Backs Out of Sebadoh's
Pre-Weezer Cruise Concert at Grand Central

Photo by Ian Witlen​What were you doin' the night before Dinosaur Jr. alum and indie demigod Lou Barlow announced that his highly emotional side project, Sebadoh, would be visiting Downtown hipster superclub Grand Central for a pre-Weezer Cruise concert on January 18, 2012? Well, Crossfade was h ... More >>

Spa Date

Sebadoh Announces Miami Show at Grand Central With Surfer Blood and Jacuzzi Boys

​Man, oh man! We had the weirdest dream last night. Well, to start things off, Sebadoh was there. Y'know, the weepy and weird side-project-turned-anti-band started by Lou Barlow when his mid-'90s feuding with fellow Dinosaur Jr. bandmate, guitarist and singer J. Mascis, forced his exit. But, lik ... More >>

Ten Best Music-Related Things to Do This Weekend Under $10

Via facebook.com/surferblood​America's 9.1 unemployment rate got you down? Yeah, we're pretty bummed about that shit too. But at least the weekend's here, and there's plenty of stuff to do that's under $10. Treat yourself to a free Surfer Blood concert, or maybe tackle $0.99 beers at Miami's old ... More >>

Five Band Name Trends That Totally Suck

In our day, you had to walk 15 goddamn miles in the snow to name your band. ​We'd say kids these don't know how to name their bands properly, but kids (and, really, we mean grown men, sometimes zillionaires) have been coming up with crappy band names for quite some time now. And it's only going t ... More >>

Best of Miami 2011: Best Live Music Venue

In anticipation of the upcoming Best of Miami issue hitting newsstands June 16, here is a sneak peek at one category and its winner.​Best Live Music VenueGrand Central697 N. Miami Ave.Miami 33136305-377-2277grandcentralmiami.com

Scenes from the Bruise Cruise aboard the Carnival Imagination

A Post-SXSW Miami Music Report From Forward Motion Records' Fernando Perdomo

The most inspiring Miami band of SXSW 2011 ... Pretty Please!​Hey, Miami! Let me report that SoFla was well represented at SXSW 2011 with a large variety of acts playing around Austin: ANR, Dreaming in Stereo, Locos Por Juana, Panic Bomber, and Surfer Blood all played official showcases that mad ... More >>

Five South Florida bands play SXSW

Bruise Cruise Kickoff Party at Grand Central February 24

Vivian Girls' Katy Goodman: The Interview that Never Happened

​The Bruise Cruise Kick-off Party is tonight at Grand Central, and while we're totally stoked about the nine-act line-up including Thee Oh Sees, Black Lips, and Surfer Blood, we're a little bummed Vivian Girls' Katy Goodman didn't talk to us. We were so close. We met Goodman last November during ... More >>

Live Blogging From Bruise Cruise Kickoff Party

​It's a big night in Miami. Some indie music's biggest names--Surfer Blood, Black Lips, Vivian Girls--are in town for the inaugural Bruise Cruise Festival, and before they set sail with 400 other seafaring hipsters tomorrow, they're playing the Bruise Cruise Kickoff Party at Grand Central tonight. ... More >>

Ty Segall Talks the Ocean and Girl Drummers

via Facebook.com​Ty Segall is one young, talented guy who gets a good amount of buzz that is, thankfully, not Justin Bieber. For all of the awesome noise he creates, he's a humble dude who more than deserves all of the attention he's received. His last LP Melted, released on Goner Records, en ... More >>

Turbo Fruits' Jonas Stein Talks Bruise Cruise, Hair Metal, and Free Socks

via facebook.com/turbofruits​Jonas Stein is a very busy guy. Not only does his band Turbo Fruits tour regularly, but he's also co-organizing the Bruise Cruise, leaving from the Port of Miami this Friday. The Nashvillian was first introduced to an international audience as the fresh-from-high-scho ... More >>

Bruise Cruise Sold Out, But Tickets Still Available for the Dry-Land Kickoff Party

Photo by Loren WohlBruise Cruise is sold out. You will never play footsie with Vivian Girls.​In a little over a week, the most ironic theme cruise in kitsch travel history will hit the high seas. That's right, the first ever Bruise Cruise will set sail aboard Carnival's Imagination "Fun Ship" with ... More >>

Ian Svenonius Sails Out as Bruise Cruise Director

Meet your cruise director Ian Svenonius.​The Bruise Cruise is a little over a month away and Crossfade's still begging El Jefe to pony up $1230 for us to secure an interior, two-person cabin on the Carnival Imagination. Maybe the fact that Ian Svenonius will serve as the cruise's master of cerem ... More >>

Miami's best albums, EPs, and, mixtapes of 2010

Afrobeta's Do You Party EP

​AfrobetaDo You Party? EP (Do IT Entertainment)Since 2006, Afrobeta has been peddling its sugary electropop to Miami's small music scene. But the pair's marketing machine hit high gear in 2009 after hooking up with Ultra Music Festival co-founders and Do IT Entertainment label bosses, Russell and ... More >>

Rachel Goodrich's Thugnificent "Light Bulb" Video One of the Year's Best, Says IFC

​It's no surprise that Surfer Blood is racking up the end-of-the-year listicle awards. But every now and then a curveball is thrown into the mix. This year's odd pick: Rachel Goodrich's "Light Bulb" snagging a place on IFC's Best Music Videos of 2010 list.Considering the video has probably ne ... More >>

Bruise Cruise Kickoff Party at Grand Central With Black Lips, Surfer Blood, Vivian Girls

The Black Lips​As if the promise of a big hipster party out at sea isn't reason enough to pack up your favorite American Apparel swimsuit and head to sunny Miami in February ... Now the Bruise Cruise  (the world's first-ever hipster cruise?) is throwing a pre-party at Gran ... More >>

Jared McKay of Coral Morphologic Talks Discosoma Records and Random Fandom

Get Guy Harvey and other awesome stuff at Discosoma's official website.​You might have visited Coral Morphologic/Morphologic Studios (AKA Jared McKay and Colin Foord) during the third leg of the Weird Miami tours. Or maybe you checked out the duo's recent zoanthid photo show at the Biscayne Nature ... More >>

School of Seven Bells and Active Child at Grand Central, October 16

School of Seven BellsWith Active ChildGrand Central, MiamiSaturday, October 16, 2010Better than: Floating on cloud nine. When we arrived at Grand Central last night, one thing really stuck out to us: The crowd was mostly dudes. Were they all there to catch a glimpse of drop-dead gorgeous Schoo ... More >>

Death to the Sun: Full Set Times for Tomorrow's Noise Fest at Bar

S. PajotIce Cream's screamer molests the crowd.​For eons, humanity has celebrated the autumnal equinox. Back in the day, summer ended and the pagans immediately noticed that the dirt was dying, crops were rotting, and only the grave lay ahead. So they said "Fuck it!" and threw an apocalypse party. ... More >>

The Drums' Adam Kessler Quits; Band Still Playing Grand Central on Saturday

​We posted an interview we did with The Drums' Jacob Graham recently on Crossfade. But the band seemed happy with how things were moving forward for them, with no mention of bandmates leaving or any turmoil within the group. We've got some sad news to report, though: It's been confirmed that The D ... More >>

Coral Support

Around Town: World Cup Parties, Naked Bike Rides, Pains of Being Pure at Heart, and Passion Pit

It's all about balls this weekend.​Thanks to our proximity to South America, Miami cares a little bit more about the World Cup than most U.S. cities. Still, it's no England, where half of all workers bees are expected play hooky from their day jobs to watch a little footie at the pub. On the other ... More >>

Grand Central Announces Miami Shows by Aterciopelados, Los Autenticos Decadentes, and More

Photo by Ben ThackerAterciopelados play Grand Central on Thursday, June 10.Grand Central is on fire ever since it celebrated its official opening. Regular weekly parties on Friday and Saturday nights are bustling (it seems aiming for a lower age restriction of 18 was particularly wise), and a number ... More >>

The Hold Steady clinks bottles in the Design District

Q&A With Matt Shultz, Lead Singer of Cage the Elephant; Playing Culture Room Saturday

Photograph taken by Danny Clinch​Cage the Elephant's self-titled debut album has held steady on the Billboard 200 chart for 52 consecutive weeks already, and their first single "Ain't No Rest for the Wicked" has a catchy chorus that talks about societal flaws while still showing off their youthful ... More >>

Moving Units: Radio-Active Records' Top 5 Releases for April 27-May 3

No confirmation if Caribou's album title is a nod to Surfer Blood​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.Hole is officially back. And, er, so is C ... More >>

Poplife, the Party, Says Goodbye to Electric Pickle May 8, Future Unclear

Will Poplife be a thing of the past?Remember indie-dance parties like Revolver, Spider-Pussy, and Vice? Well, Poplife may soon be joining them in the ranks of parties of clubland past. Poplife, the party, will official come to a close next Saturday, May 8 at Electric Pickle, while Poplife as a event ... More >>

Countdown to Sweatstock: Q&A With Sweat Records' Lolo Reskin, Part Two

photo by Jonathan PostalThis New Times file photo from 2005 shows Reskin, left, with Sweat co-founder emeritus Sara Yousuf, and a young DJ Matt Cash.​Earlier today we posted the beginning of a chat with Sweat Records head Lolo Reskin, looking back on five successful, even improbable, years as an i ... More >>

Harboring Surf Rockers

SF Weekly Expresses Concern About Surfer Blood's Education

Photo by Shannon CottrellVery nearly a schoolteacher, J.P. Pitts​In this week's SF Weekly music section, the focus of their concert preview is that Surfer Blood frontman J.P. Pitts "was just a semester shy of a degree in secondary education from Florida Atlantic University when he decided to drop ... More >>

WMC 2010: Nite Jewel, Tanlines & MillionYoung Break in Grand Central

Kyle MunzenriederNite Jewel preforms at Grand Central​Nite Jewel, Tanlines, Million Young ft. Awesome New Republican, Palm Trees and Night WaveGrand Central, MiamiWednesday, March 24, 2010Better Than: Still sobbing over the fact Studio A is dead and gone ...and actually a lot better than most of t ... More >>

SXSW: Wristband-Covered Meatist Returns, Only 357 Days Til SXSW 2011

Bradford's rainbow wrists​Last week and this week, we had the pleasure of following the adventures of our very own Meatist, Bradford Schmidt, during his first visit to South by Southwest in Austin, Texas. In addition to providing us with coverage, he tweeted and blogged his face off. Get all of ou ... More >>

SunFest's New Music Night: These United States, Crash Kings, Constellations, Gringo Star, and We Are Scientists

Photo by Sarah LawAbout to become SunFest professionals: These United States​Whoa, we were sure excited the day SunFest announced their initial slate of performers the 28th installment of the music festival, which takes place April 28 - May 2 in downtown West Palm Beach. Nas, Damian Marley, the F ... More >>

SXSW: Hey Monday's Cassadee Pope Outlines Festival Survival Kit

​Now Spinner has tracked down two South Florida acts playing SXSW with this interview with West Palm Beach's Hey Monday. Where's the love for Every You?Anyhow, the current Alternative Press cover darlings' lead singer Cassadee Pope says she'll carry "sunglasses, lip balm, gum, a bottle of water, m ... More >>

Around the Voice: The Flaming Lips and Gil Scott-Heron State the Obvious

Wait, he's not new here?​Every week, we gather some interesting stuff from our sister Village Voice Media publications' music sections. Just for kicks. Here's last week's entry.In the Dallas Observer's bumper crop of content: Surfer Blood mourns the loss of Jay Reatard and confirms that even Pitch ... More >>