Five Questions with Evan Rifas

Evan Rifas has been active in South Florida’s music community since the early ’90s and he has maintained a relatively quiet presence that has allowed him to fine-tune his astute and articulate sensibilities. Aside from being a great poetic lyricist, he seamlessly weaves personal experience with observation and quirky pop…

Hotflush Label’s Mount Kimbie Hits the Electric Pickle April 9

With a veritable tsunami of unclassifiable dubby breakbeat flooding the international scene right now, it’s easy for music critics to lump the entire mishmash under the dubstep genre. But don’t even think about calling Mount Kimbie dubstep. Their sound has more in common with the musique concrète of early 20th…

Five Questions with Pool Party’s Creep Guirdo

Creep Guirdo is one of those musical aberrations that occurs from time to time. Unintentionally funny due to being a German national of Hialeah descent, he’s largely been the figurehead for local disco rock ‘n’ rollers Pool Party. He recently sat down with us in preparation for April Pool’s Day…

World/Inferno Friendship Society at Miami Chum Bucket Tomorrow

The World/Inferno Friendship Society is a punk cabaret ensemble. (The word ensemble not used lightly as the band can sometimes swell up to a dozen members.) And it has nurtured an international cult following that goes back to the early ’90s. World Inferno, a common abbreviation for the group’s lengthy…

Tony Dize Finds the Money on the Dance Floor at La Covacha This Saturday

Few reggaeton artists possess the suave flow required to believably move from spraying gasolina to romancing the masses. But Tony Dize doesn’t consider himself a mere reggaetonero. He’s “the melody of the streets,” a ponytailed Don Juan who harmonizes, rap-sings, and straddles the line between lusty romance and nasty raunchiness…

Six Questions With the Dyslexic Postcards’ Joshua Xmas

The Dyslexic Postcards have been around in one way, shape, or form for a long time now. And their particular breed of rock ‘n’ roll via the acid wash of alt-psych, punk, blues, and New Wave inflections are the makings of a love-’em-or-hate-’em type of band. Regardless of which, the…

The Grand Opening of Miami Chum Bucket, March 26

Miami Chum Bucket, a DIY punk venue, distro, and practice space, held its inaugural event this past Saturday night. The show was free and the lineup featured all of the key South Florida punk bands that have played a role in the space’s emergence. In the course of extended fundraising,…