Mary Anne Hobbs’ Road Warrior Tour With Mary Anne Hobbs, Dr. Strangeloop, Gonjasufi, Lorn, and Take Friday, April 22, 2011 The Vagabond, Miami Better Than: Any of the usual stale club music fare going on wherever else! OK, we’ll just admit that Mary Anne Hobbs is our number-one female DJ…
Rise Against and Bad Religion at Sunset Cove Amphitheater April 23
Ramadanman and Zed Bias at Eve April 23
Mary Anne Hobbs at the Vagabond April 22
Even though they’re separated by a couple of musical generations, Rise Against and Bad Religion have had similar careers. Specifically, they’ve both enjoyed as much mainstream success as true punk bands could ever hope to score while still keeping it real. Here’s a locally relevant case in point: Rise Against…
Mary Anne Hobbs is the kind of globally influential musical tastemaker who can inspire slavish fangirl (and -boy!) admiration. As a female working in two heavily male-dominated spheres — broadcast journalism and underground electronic music — she’s risen to the top of both by fiercely championing what she truly loves…
So much is enviable about Australian cabaret revivalist Meow Meow. To start, there’s her pseudonym; it takes guts to ditch your given name in favor of a slinky feline handle. Then there’s her list of collaborators: She has performed with fellow vintage-styled musicians Dresden Dolls, Hedwig and the Angry Inch…
Dubstep was impossible to avoid during last month’s Miami Music Week. Even electro-house megaproducers like Fedde Le Grand and Benny Bennassi threw some dubby stuff down in the middle of their Ultra Music Festival sets. So it’s safe to say that the womp-womp has hit its saturation point. And even…
The Jerry Garcia Band Featuring Marvin Seals at Revolution April 10
Sure, the South Beach Wine & Food Festival gets all the foodie shine in February. Certainly, that festival is unparalleled in its opportunities for hobnobbing while overindulging. But when it ends, it leaves a dry husk of South Beach in its wake, with some extra clean-up duty and unwanted weight…
Sure, the South Beach Wine & Food Festival gets all the foodie shine in February. And certainly, that festival is unparalleled in its opportunities for hobnobbing while overindulging. But when it ends, it leaves a dry husk of South Beach in its wake, with some extra clean-up duty and unwanted…
When rock ‘n’ roll legend Jerry Garcia died in 1995, he left behind a biblical constellation of musical offspring. Of course, he’s best known as frontman of the Grateful Dead, a position he held for the band’s entire 30-year existence, starting in 1965. And rightfully, the band ended with his…
Back in January, we reported that recurring Crossfade character Black Bobby was going to take a break from hip-hop. Yeah, we didn’t think that would last either. Cutting an MC from a mic is like, well, cutting the average human being off from oxygen. Luckily, you can find much better…
Kool KeithWith Otto von Schirach, Juan Basshead, and othersEveSaturday, April 2, 2011Better Than: Staying home and crying over the demise of LCD SoundsystemThe downtown/midtown Miami corridor found itself in a pleasant hip-hop time-warp last night, with Too $hort playing an unexpected set at Bardot while Kool Keith headlined Eve downtown…
Lil Twist as part of Lil Wayne’s I Am Still Music Tour at BankAtlantic Center April 5
Halfway through the Chemical Brothers’ Ultra-closing set Sunday night, when a skyscraper-size screen repeatedly flashed the words “Don’t Think,” complying was a given. The British duo’s live performance was an all-encompassing sensory experience so powerful in its force, any thought was quickly crowded out by lights and sound. …
For any Internet bellyaching that goes on, Ultra is at its core a homegrown festival. Organizers continue to recognize that by slotting in plenty of local DJs and acts — many of which are virtually unknown out of their microscenes. This year, there were two stages, the Eco Village stage…
Ultra’s third day was intense. Things were getting real Mad Max out there in the field, what with the stranded, tired, and simply out of their minds wandering around in the swirling dust bowl that surrounded the outer tents. Still, the party didn’t stop in its final stretch, and day…
Sure, you could have been at the Fool’s Gold party at Grand Central — a decent enough choice. But you would have missed out on the next-level shit. The Overthrow and Trouble & Bass’ Black Magick party at the Overthrow Castle surely had a darker vibe than other festivities last…
With Armin Van Buuren and Boys Noize blasting the grounds with unrelenting four-four, local act Afrobeta’s early-evening set at the UMF Radio Stage provided some soothing audio balm. The mostly-local stage was practically hidden in a back corner of the park near the bay. But from the beginning, the band’s…
Boys Noize, the pseudonym of German producer/label head Alexander Ridha, has delivered some of the best live P.A. performances of Winter Music Conference over the past few years. This has been thanks to uptempo beats that still brought some melodic nuance and pop structure to everything. Of course, a couple…
Putting Trentemøller on the penultimate slot of Ultra’s Live Stage last night was a ballsy move. As a producer, the smart Anders Trentemøller makes sweeping, beautiful soundscapes that are truly cinematic. But they take patience and concentration to digest.So, in a live performance, how would he translate this with a…
