Though the coarse, forceful techno on Metalism is mostly for the dance floor, DJs Chris Liebing and Jochem Paap also generate a sense of brutal, urbanlike decay that would send most Spectral junkies back to the comfort of their muscle relaxers and Geoff White twelve-inches. Collabs 3000: Metalism pairs up…
Hip-Hop Gold Dust calls to mind chemical supplements less powdered than blazed in a hazy 3:00 a.m. fashion. Prince Paul has always been a producer’s producer, but rather than try to mine his De La Soul era hits, this eclectic collection trawls through the back alleys of his career and…
Neil Young is quite possibly the world’s most manic rock star. One day he’s the patchwork-and-patchouli sage dispensing altruistic truisms over back-porch jam sessions, and the next he’s the flannel-shirted godfather of punk who wails against whatever is in sight over roiling feedback and reverb. Prairie Wind, the last installment…
Erick Morillo has achieved a level of success usually associated with big-time rock stars and 50 Cent-like rappers. He is one of few DJs who can go from spinning the soulful and sexy house music of Miguel Migs to the deep and funky house music of Armand Van Helden. He…
Although The Experience might be Jimi Hendrix’s more famous backing crew, few would disagree that Band of Gypsies was better. Hendrix provided the Gypsies’ six-string pyrotechnics, but the heart of the group was Buddy Miles and his supremely in-the-cut drums. Miles wrote and sang the classic “Them Changes” with Hendrix…
In recent years fans of hardcore have suffered from too many frilly pseudo acts lauding their supposed “skills and technique.” But don’t despair, young thrashers, help is on the way. With a lineup of artists that stretches from coast to coast, and with each act supporting recent recordings, Street Brutality…
With more than 60 bands and DJs spread over thirteen hours and six stages on Bicentennial Park’s waterfront site, Bang! is the largest show to hit South Florida in some time. Taking a cue from recent festivals such as Coachella and Los Angeles’s Nocturnal Wonderland, the Bang! lineup includes a…
Springtime and desert glare aren’t the ideal conditions for resurrecting the undead. Yet it was in April of this year, at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California, that the original four members of Bauhaus found themselves back in black for the first time since 1998. Eldritch…
Holly Robb slinks past the large graffiti mural on the corner of Fourteenth Court and Fourteenth Street in Miami’s Overtown district. The tall, curly-haired supermodel is immaculately primped, wearing a translucent orange top with a visible black bra and a short denim skirt that shows off her oiled-up and impossibly…
We just want you to know how much we love you,” VHS or Beta frontman Craig Pfunder mumbles. He cups his hand over his eyes to block the glaring spotlight and slowly scans the paltry crowd at Atlanta venue Vinyl. “We bought up all the tickets for tonight’s show and…
Earth, Water, and Fire: This group homage to three of the four fundamental elements — hurricane-force winds probably deserve an exhibit of their own — curated by FIU professor Carol Damian, hardly does justice to its almighty nomenclature, an imposing task no doubt. For the “Earth” segment, Tori Arpad —…
Walk quickly past Miami Art Museum’s New Work Gallery and you’ll probably miss Shahzia Sikander’s “Nemesis.” Barely visible from the bottom of MAM’s main stairway, the exhibition features a suite of drawings titled 51 Ways of Looking — the clean, white surfaces of the papers scarcely marked by the ink…
Assuming the role of a woman who allegedly inspired 40,000 people to petition the Vatican for her canonization is no easy task. Trying to emulate the qualities that made Eva Pern an Argentine icon — namely sex appeal and dogged determination — is even more difficult while belting out thirteen…
Alcohol dulls pain, but not persistent ennui. And so it was no surprise to find The Bitch idling in Gatsbyesque moodiness, champagne in hand, at the edge of the Antoni family mansion’s dock during this past Saturday’s closing party for the Miami Book Fair International. Fortunately the sulky saluki was…
Much has been made of a union’s recent attempts to organize the University of Miami’s custodial workers. There have been Miami Herald articles, protests, even TV reports. For those of you not in the know, two big acronyms are fighting it out. The Service Employees International Union (SEIU), one of…
Though big-game hunting went so out with bwana, it would be a mercy killing only if someone — Cupid, perhaps — launched an estrogen-tipped arrow straight to the heart of Zenobia, a 650-pound male lion who lives at the Destiny Big Cat Sanctuary in Southwest Ranches. It seems the consequence…
Five minutes into the most closely timed surgery of his 58-year life, Scott Ross stops drilling. He pulls his tiny tool from Andrew Chauser’s gums, turns toward me, and raises his hand. “If I take a picture,” he asks, “will you stop the clock?” I frown, then peer down at…
Hello, Lunkhead Don’t forget the bettor: Regarding Forrest Norman’s “No Horse Race” (November 17): The Daily Racing Form just announced it looks like the new facilities at Gulfstream Park will not be ready for the track’s grand opening the first week of January. This is a crushing blow to Gulfstream,…
On Wednesday, October 12, shortly after 6:00 p.m., three police cars slide into the parking lot of a Walgreens on SW First Street and Twelfth Avenue. The sun is low in the sky, and the first lights are snapping on in Little Havana as residents arrive home from work. Tonight’s…
AVP: Alien Vs. Predator — Unrated Collector’s Edition (Fox) Cheaper by the Dozen: Baker’s Dozen Edition (Fox) 8MM 2 (Columbia/Tristar) Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (Buena Vista) The Honeymooners (Paramount) Keane: Strangers (Interscope) King Kong (1976) (Paramount) King Kong: Collector’s Edition (1933) (Warner Bros.) King of the Hill: Season 5 (Fox)…
Deep down, we all want money for nothing and chicks for free. Back in 1985, when Dire Straits first revealed this eternal truth, it seemed that any goofball with a DayGlo headband could pour himself into package-hugging spandex and become a rock star. But it turned out that noodling on…
Punishment Park (New Yorker Video) This 1971 movie from director Peter Watkins could have been made yesterday, which is no doubt why it finally sees video release long after accruing cult status. Born of the filmmaker’s outrage over the Kent State killings, the war in Vietnam, and other abominations of…
