Imogen HeapThe Fillmore Miami BeachWednesday, June 2, 2010Better Than: Having tea at the lady’s place.The Review:The Fillmore Miami Beach could have been called, well, the Imogen Heap last night. It wasn’t so much that the British chanteuse owned the room (though, in an odd way, she did do that too)…
Head Spins: DJ Radamas
It’s 2 a.m. on a Saturday night at Space. College kids and club crawlers, thugs and lovelies, Latinos, Key rats, and tourists from every country with an airport are all losing themselves en masse to the thunder of DJ Radamas. “I love this,” shouts Radamas over a wicked mix of…
Digital-age chanteuse Imogen Heap plays the Fillmore Miami Beach June 2
The Swell SeasonThe Fillmore Miami BeachMonday, May 24, 2010Better Than: Any heady lullabies you’ve ever heard. The Review: There was an air of quiet excitement at the Fillmore Miami Beach Monday night, in advance of the Swell Season’s Miami debut. The crowd was diverse, consisting of both the more discerning pop music…
When the Swell Season took the stage at the 2008 Oscars, the band’s appearance seemed about as incongruous as that of a songbird in a mineshaft. Hell, for all anyone knew, the Academy, in all its infinite wisdom, had booked the then relatively little-known duo simply to see if the…
Next Wednesday, amid the glide and slide that signifies mainland Miami, the Electric Pickle will go off with a soul-stirring spectacle courtesy of the cats known as Champion Sound. It’ll be a birthday of sorts, because Champion has been sounding off at the Pickle for one full year. But it’ll…
Head Spins: DJ Brooke G
Back in November New Times’ own Riki Altman asked whether Miami was ready for Urbanite. Well, it turns out the answer is “not yet.” Because as of Saturday night the bistro known as Urbanite is no more Altman also asked whether or not Urbanite was ready for Miami. But without…
The story goes like this:A few of the principals behind Miami’s New World Symphony were sitting around discussing their dream of building a combination campus/concert hall that would be large enough to handle an ever-increasing crop of talent and bold enough to wow the world.At one point someone mentioned that…
Head Spins: Sire Esq.
The best DJs dig deep into the sounds they’re spinning. And that doesn’t mean just the the components of a given track – the structure of the beat, the motion of a melody, the drive of a bassline, and so on. No, the best want to know where a song…
If there’s one head spinner in town who just might one day claim the fame enjoyed by DJ Khaled, it’s DJ Epps. Like Khaled, Epps is affiliated with some of the biggest names in the business of hip-hop. Both have been on the grind for some time, and both are…
Caetano VelosoThe Fillmore Miami BeachApril 20, 2010Better Than: A world cruise through an aural netherworldThe Review:It’s virtually impossible to categorize the music of Caetano Veloso. World Beat is weak. Because though what he does is both global and rhythmic, the term doesn’t even begin to describe its aural majesty. World…
The Black KeysThe Fillmore Miami Beach at The Jackie Gleason TheaterApril 18, 2010Better Than: Being stuck between rock and a hard placeThe Review:There was one moment during The Black Keys’ Fillmore Miami Beach set that entirely defined what the Akron combo does to and for this thing called rock music…
He’s been called “the Brazilian Bob Dylan” on too many occasions to count. But he could just as easily be considered the Brazilian equivalent of Leonard Cohen, someone with a deep appreciation of both the classic and the modern, and unafraid to bring both to a profound and often swingin’…
Stephen StillsThe Fillmore Miami Beach at The Jackie Gleason TheaterSaturday, April 17, 2010Better Than: Having to mud through WoodstockThe Review:Okay, it’s a given that I and everyone else who has ever heard American music am somewhat familiar with the work of Stephen Stills. I mean, how could anyone not be?…
This Sunday night the Fillmore Gleason is gonna rumble with the roar of The Black Keys. The Akron-born two-piece — which consists of Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney — is hitting to road in support of their upcoming LP, Brothers. New Times sent over a few quick questions via email;…
The raw rock two-piece the Black Keys hails from the Midwest — Akron, Ohio — but boasts a penchant for ripping the roots out of American music. It was a project that began in 2002 with the pair’s debut album, The Big Come Up, and hasn’t subsided since. It was…
For Stephen Stills, 1968 was a particularly good year. Sure, his band Buffalo Springfield had imploded in a mass of clashing egos. But the Byrds had also recently kicked David Crosby to the curb, and the latter, Stills’s old pal, was looking for a collaborator. Crosby had taken to the…
The raw rock two-piece the Black Keys hails from the Midwest — Akron, Ohio — but boasts a penchant for ripping the roots out of American music. It was a project that began in 2002 with the pair’s debut album, The Big Come Up, and hasn’t subsided since. It was…
Head Spins: DJ 360
