Waukesha, Wisconsin transplant and Addict Records founder Dan “Doormouse” Martin has made more than a few different moves in the Miami and international music scenes. He evolved from a party (i.e. rave) DJ to become the godfather of Midwest hardcore, only to later transmogrify into a downtown and SoBe DJ…
Miami New Times recently ran a feature on the still-alive Holy Terrors, legends of the Miami rock scene. Click here to read that story, which in help sparked the band to get together another reunion show. Rob Elba, William Trev, Dan Hosker, and Sam Fogarino form the classic Holy Terrors…
If you’re reading this article, it’s either because (1) you’re shocked that any mainstream press is going to a show like this one, (2) you actually have no idea what Murphy’s Law and 25 ta Life are, or (3) you’re homeless and bored. Chances are, if you fall into the…
Remember that scene from Freaky Friday in which Lindsay Lohan wins the battle of the bands and her family becomes reunited and everything is great and grand? No? If you don’t know that movie, maybe you are familiar with the concept of a battle of the bands. Several groups compete…
Way back before the King Khan and BBQ Show ever began, Mark Sultan (a.k.a. BBQ) and King Khan (then referred to as the Blacksnake) were in a Canadian garage band known simply as the Spaceshits. Ten years and several continents later — after Khan had fostered a faux-celebrity explosion in…
What could be more fun than a Saturday-evening show with Humbert, Hialeah’s very best rock band? How about a show with newcomer Pyrojet, debuting its first effort, Living Funeral; and the ever-present the Stop Motion? Humbert blends a certain kind of quirky pop with stick-in-your-craw songwriting skills. Following a successful…
They play incredibly wonderful music that crosses over genre boundaries, and they play it with an incredibly infectious fervor. The drummer, tambourine in hand, wades out into the crowd, leading an impromptu sing-along. The people respond by joining in. Isn’t this supposed to be Miami? Isn’t that guy with the…
Hahahelp! fits into a long Miami tradition of experimental noise-trash musicians, in the line of Harry Pussy, Laundry Room Squelchers, Monotract, the Curious Hair, and others. The band exists as a collection of odds-and-sods drums, cheap synthesizers, out-of-tune guitar and bass, and improvised vocals. The group began as a free-form…
Performing as Hydroplane since 2003, Renzo Gorrio produces a mix of experimental hip-hop, electronica, and weird shit thrown in with some handclaps and whoop-whoops. This particular musical endeavor (Gorrio is also active in live music, such as the recently sadly-winding-down Objects in Transit and the new project Late Night Curly)…
Five Across the Eyes (F.A.T.E.) looks like a typical South Florida new-school tough-guy hardcore punk group. The bandmates’ T-shirts feature elaborate lettering and spider webs with designs printed on the side. The cover of their self-released EP, Empty Bottles and Liquor’d Spit, features an outline of a brass knuckle. Imagine…
Timba, the half-century-old outgrowth of Cuban-bred son, is a complex form of danceable salsa that has evolved almost entirely independently of other South American styles. Timba requires such a high level of musicianship that it is frequently lamented it might die out owing to the ban on musicians touring from…
Rock en español is a fusion of alternative rock, pop, punk, and Latin music. And it’s a term that best defines Tango36 and its music. The group’s songs come across like a sick mix of Hoobastank, Sublime, and Dave Matthews Band — but in Spanish, sung by locally renowned crooner…
Chances are that if you live in Miami-Dade County, you have at one time or another heard the swirling, merengue-tinged rhythms emanating from homes in Caribbean neighborhoods or rising from strip malls that seemingly contain only a beauty parlor and a Haitian video store. Most likely what you are hearing…
In a sabbatical of silence in the desert, Sam Sanford of Sound Team had time to ponder. “I was at a point in my life where I wanted to find something to do…. I didn’t want to work in restaurants my whole life. I had been an assistant teacher, but…
Are they goth? Are they rock? Does it matter? The Sisters of Mercy have put together more than two decades of smash hits, public roustabouts, great lines, and other oddities. Okay, so they don’t have any smash hits, but try telling that to the rabid fan base the Sisters have…
George Van Orsdel has taken his penchant for rockabilly, punk, and horror to a whole other level. The ubiquitous hometown favorites the Van Orsdels have begun their own monthly party, dubbed Psychobilly Spookshow Saturdays, at the spookiest venue in Miami, Churchill’s Pub. Van Orsdel made his name in Miami as…
In 2004 Sweat Records established itself as ground zero for Miami’s fledgling indie scene. Store owners Sara Yousuf and Lauren “Lolo” Reskin not only offered the most diverse selection of CDs and records in Miami-Dade, but also created a sense of indie community by hosting live shows by local acts…
Dan “Doormouse” Martin, a six-foot-tall electronic musician who sports a beard and an all-too-revealing high school cheerleader outfit, screams across the stage, beckoning DJ Baseck to do a set of jumping jacks. Miami native and Schematic recording artist Otto Von Schirach stands off to the side, appearing frightened as a…
DJ Tom Laroc has thousands of records, and every Thursday he brings more than 2000 of them to the Pawn Shop to spin a seven-hour mix that encompasses everything from hip-hop and R&B to reggae and freestyle. His sets have become increasingly popular with the bobbing masses of SoBe exiles…
Perhaps you have been under a self-imposed no-fun curfew the past eighteen months, or maybe you simply hate anything that isn’t denser than a solid block of frozen steel, but otherwise you probably know and perhaps guiltily love some of the tracks on the new Fabric Live 24 featuring Diplo…
The scene: a Brooklyn brownstone party circa 1999. Halley DeVestern passes a pound to Metric’s James Shaw, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Nick Zinner totters by the keg, and the Stars’ Torquil Campbell and Chris Seligman are on the stage, playing their first show. Out of the speakers billow pylons of…
For Real Rock IV, Curious Hair and Evol Egg Nart Records’ Jeff Rollason have organized a show of rocktastic proportions, simultaneously stirring the semislumbering princes of Miami’s dormant rock history while raising a spotlight to the very much awake projects being proffered by veterans and newcomers alike. This is an…
