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January 5, 2009
Galactic's Show Friday at Revolution Should Be Heavy on Horns, Light on MCs
(Photo via Galacticfunk.com)So how does a group of (mostly) non-native college students go on to become ambassadors of New Orleans funk? For Galactic, of which all but one of the band's current members relocated to the Crescent City in the early Nineties, it took more than just practice and pe ... More >>
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February 13, 2009
The Lee Boys Play City Limits Tonight with Sosos
via myspace.com/leeboysThe Lee Boys are not a bluegrass band, although just reading the name may evoke that thought. No, the Lee Boys are South Florida's finest sacred steel ensemble. The brothers Lee (Alvin, Derrick, and Keith) along with their nephews Roosevelt Collier, Alvin Cody Jr., and Earl W ... More >>
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August 4, 2005
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June 3, 2004
Steel's the Show
A Southern-style church service is a magnet for eerie, heavenly harmonies
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April 15, 2010
Sweat and Lowdown
A Southern-style church service is a magnet for eerie, heavenly harmonies
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April 22, 2010
Swamp Stomp Music Festival 2010 Saturday Bayside Hut
Swamp Stomp Music Festival 2010 from Robert Andrews on Vimeo.Like Travis Bickle said in Taxi Driver, "One day a real rain is gonna come and wash all this scum off the streets." When that day comes to Miami (maybe with a big hurricane this summer), and all the bullshit, plastic, glass, and concrete ... More >>
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April 23, 2010
Around Town This Weekend: NBA Playoffs, LGBT Film Fest, Jim Gaffigan, and Animal Collective
The collective is an animal.Whether you're overworked or unemployed, take a deep breath because the weekend is finally here. But, to paraphrase Les Claypool, weekends don't mean so much when you're unemployed, 'cept you get to hang out with your working friends. So make some plans to get together ... More >>
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April 26, 2010
Crossfade Live at Swamp Stomp with Jahfe and The Lee Boys
Jacob KatelAny given Saturday in Miami the bass, sweat, sex, liquor, music, and dancing flood the concrete tropics like a hurricane on South Beach. This year a bigger, better Swamp Stomp shook the wooden floorboards at The Bayside Hut to their core with more local soul than the Miami section in H ... More >>
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January 14, 2011
Alvin of the Lee Boys Talks Sacred Steel Music, Swamp Stomp, and Coming Home to Miami
via leeboys.comThe Lee Boys are a world-famous family band of Perrine natives who all went to Miami Killian Senior High School. They play an updated, Miami-style version of Sacred Steel music strongly influenced by funk, soul, blues, rock, and R&B. The band tours the world playing 120 shows a ... More >>
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January 22, 2011
Wanee Festival Announces 2011 Lineup: Allman Brothers, Robert Plant, Ween, and 40 Others
via facebook.com/weenWeen! Ditch the monkey suit and dress like a rabbit on acid.You will spend almost every day of your life in a monkey suit, tracking the mysterious movements of the market, haunting the office, and hoarding overtime hours. But for the weekend of Thursday, April 14 through Satu ... More >>
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April 4, 2011
The Lee Boys Bring Sacred Steel Back to the Stage April 8
via facebook.com/theleeboysThe Lee Boys is a world-famous family band of six Perrine natives who all went to Miami Killian Senior High School. It's three brothers -- rhythm guitar man Alvin, and singers Derrick and Keith -- alongside three nephews -- pedal steel guitar player Roosevelt Collier ... More >>
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April 7, 2011
The Lee Boys at the Stage April 8
via facebook.com/theleeboysThe Lee Boys is a world-famous family band of six Perrine natives who all went to Miami Killian Senior High School. It's three brothers -- rhythm guitar man Alvin, and singers Derrick and Keith -- alongside three nephews -- pedal steel guitar player Roosevelt Collier ... More >>
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September 22, 2011
Southern Comforts
via facebook.com/theleeboysThe Lee Boys is a world-famous family band of six Perrine natives who all went to Miami Killian Senior High School. It's three brothers -- rhythm guitar man Alvin, and singers Derrick and Keith -- alongside three nephews -- pedal steel guitar player Roosevelt Collier ... More >>
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November 30, 2011
Virginia Key Grassroots Festival Lineup: Arrested Development and 22 Others
Arrested Development's Speech.The Herd is stampeding toward SoFla. Almost 22 years ago, East Coast fusion rockers Donna the Buffalo led a mass gathering of its friends, fellow bands, and followers -- nicknamed The Herd -- to Ithaca, New York for the inaugural Finger Lakes GrassRoots Festival. I ... More >>
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December 13, 2011
Chaka Khan, Immortal Technique, 14 Others Added to Virginia Key Grassroots Festival
Ms. Chaka Khan is The Queen of Funk.The Herd just got a little thicker. Two weeks ago, the Virginia Key Grassroots Festival -- a SoFla spinoff of Ithaca, New York's Finger Lakes GrassRoots Festival, organized by mountain music crew Donna the Buffalo -- released its initial 25-act lineup, starrin ... More >>
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February 6, 2012
Donna the Buffalo's Jeb Puryear on Real Music, Local Bands, and Virginia Key Grassroots Fest
Photo by John D KurcDonna the Buffalo guitar guy and Grassroots Festival founder Jeb Puryear.In the hot, sweet summer of 1990, Donna the Buffalo guitar guy Jeb Puryear and his bandmates invited a few musical friends and 1,500 fans to Ithaca, New York's State Theater for the first-ever Finger Lake ... More >>
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February 9, 2012
Virginia Key Grassroots Festival with Chaka Khan, Arrested Development, and Donna the Buffalo February 9-12
Photo by John D KurcDonna the Buffalo guitar guy and Grassroots Festival founder Jeb Puryear.In the hot, sweet summer of 1990, Donna the Buffalo guitar guy Jeb Puryear and his bandmates invited a few musical friends and 1,500 fans to Ithaca, New York's State Theater for the first-ever Finger Lake ... More >>