Three years is a pretty good run for a club in transient South Beach, especially if the club features live music. That’s what Jazid (1342 Washington Ave., Miami Beach) does, and that’s how long the place has been at it. And it’s not showing any signs of slowing down. Every…
The only way a guy as ugly as Blaine Cartwright could get two women to kiss each other in front of him every night is by paying for it — or by being a rock star. He’s the latter, at least according to patrons of juke joints across the United…
Clubland has some treats for trick week. Perhaps the most provocative gathering is the Beach Witch Project, taking place Sunday in the Botanical Gardens behind Miami Beach’s convention center. That’s where club staples Alan Roth, Sean Saladino, and Michael Tronn, along with Ocean Drive magazine, will try to re-create the…
While Shadow Lounge (1532 Washington Ave., Miami Beach; 305-531-9411) is preparing for its hallowed music fest next week, where you’ll hear almost as many big-name DJs as beats per minute, this weekend offers a bevy of activities. Following last year’s enormously successful Tranceport compilation featuring DJ Paul Oakenfold, Tranceport Vol…
It is not every weekend that you can see an Austrian marching band and then walk a few blocks to hear a 70-year-old North Carolina bluesman. But on Sunday you can catch just such a combo by sauntering from the Oktoberfest block party in front of Mozart Stube restaurant (325…
Rap on this weekend as South Beach houses the hip-hop conference “How Can I Be Down,” when homeboys and girls from across the land urbanize the million-dollar sandbar. Many events weren’t confirmed at press time, but among those that were: Rakim (see “Kulchur” ) on Friday night at Zen (1203…
The Mission (637 Washington Ave., Miami Beach; 305-534-5420) turns tricks again when Chicago’s Bad Boy Bill celebrates the release of the fourth CD in his Bangin’ the Box series, at Friday night’s Tricks II. Besides Bill’s three turntables, he’ll be joined by fellow spinners Stew, Smiley, and six other DJs…
Leo Casino is at it again. Nope, he’s not celebrating a new play or movie that he penned, and he didn’t land a big acting role. On Thursday at Satchmo (60 Merrick Way, Coral Gables; 305-774-1883), the saxophonist unveils his latest CD, Better Days, and shows the video premiere for…
The party people at Bash (655 Washington Ave., Miami Beach, 305-538-2274) are busy this week putting on a couple of specials that include catwalks, live Cuban music (yes, Miami, a Cuban band), an Internet simulcast, and a Dolphin. On Thursday Ocean Drive magazine hosts a fashion show featuring Body Map…
In a town that’s infamous for restaurants and bars that last as long as a sun shower, restaurateur Mark Soyka has managed to create eateries that have the staying power of a sizzling Miami summer. His latest creation, Soyka, near Morningside, is booming. His bustling News Café which he co-owns…
Live music may be limping ’round these parts, but at least local musicians look out for their own in times of trouble. At old rock and roll suturer Churchill’s Hideaway (5501 NE 2nd Ave., 305-757-1807) this Saturday, area bands stage the first of two benefit shows (the second is at…
South Florida’s youth isn’t known for its radical political activism, especially when it comes to creating art. So how’s life in Miami for the politically conscious ska-flavor punk band Against All Authority? Just fine, especially because they’re not here very often. But even when the Miami septet is in town,…
“The festival is intended to be a celebration of both the artistic palette and the one in your mouth,” says Marshall Davis, executive director of Feast for the Palette. The inaugural event is taking place this weekend in and around Bayfront Park. Billed as the largest multiethnic festival in South…
It was about 1:00 p.m. on December 31 and Peter Zage was standing next to a new red Buick Riviera on one side of the Julia Tuttle Causeway. Out of gas. Zage was sun-drenched, his gray hair a bit matted with perspiration. But he appeared Old World suave in his…
Pole CD1 2 (Matador) Brian Eno put it best when, after working with U2 and DJ/producer Howie B on a project, he concluded that rock musicians think of albums as novels, while electronic musicians think of them as magazines. It’s a great analogy for understanding both the basic difference between…
There’s only one spot in South Florida where on any weekend from January to mid-March you can catch acts such as Cheap Trick, Air Supply, or Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, and it’s not the Button South. It’s the unlikely locale of Gulfstream Park. “We’re selling a day of entertainment,”…
A couple of times a year count on Bill Wharton and the Ingredients, modern-day troubadours from Monticello, a little town in Florida’s panhandle, to pass through some juke joints between Del-ray Beach and the Keys. During a New Year’s Eve bash tonight and an encore performance Saturday, Wharton (a.k.a. the…
Afghan Whigs 1965 (Columbia Records) On the Afghan Whigs’ sixth album, singer Greg Dulli showcases his fascination with hip-hop and R&B by quoting Puff Daddy, Mase, Nas, the Temptations, and Marvin Gaye. It’s not that Dulli isn’t capable of coming up with his own words — his twisted-love narratives are…
Joe “Queer” King doesn’t think it’s weird for a 37-year-old man to perform songs with titles like “Ursula Finally Has Tits.” King — songwriter, vocalist, and guitarist for New Hampshire’s the Queers — is simply another foul-mouthed punk rocker looking for something irreverent to rant about. All in the name…
Beck Mutations (DGC) Over the course of the half dozen or so albums Beck Hansen has released, on indie labels as well as for major DGC, what is emerging is the sound and thought of a truly visionary (albeit warped) artist. Don’t be surprised if Beck turns out to be…
thursday november 19 Unlike most photographers, Cindy Sherman spends a lot of time in front of, as well as behind, the camera when she works. Sherman is her own best model. In the late Seventies she made her name with “Untitled Film Stills,” a series of photos that depict her…
Ask a musician what his band sounds like and if not short, such as “blues,” or “rock and roll,” the answer will likely be a reflection of unclassifiable originality, maybe goosed by familiar antecedents. In other words, you’ll get some blather akin to “It’s kinda like the Beatles’ songwriting with…
