It’s a big night in Miami. Some indie music’s biggest names–Surfer Blood, Black Lips, Vivian Girls–are in town for the inaugural Bruise Cruise Festival, and before they set sail with 400 other seafaring hipsters tomorrow, they’re playing the Bruise Cruise Kickoff Party at Grand Central tonight. We’ll be there live-blogging…
Thanks to the sudden, nasty breakup between Winter Music Conference and Ultra Music Festival, the month of March in Miami just might kill us all. Basically, the party plan has gone from a five-day freakout to an insanely unhealthy four-week marathon. And the only way you might survive to see…
The Bruise Cruise Kick-off Party is tonight at Grand Central, and while we’re totally stoked about the nine-act line-up including Thee Oh Sees, Black Lips, and Surfer Blood, we’re a little bummed Vivian Girls’ Katy Goodman didn’t talk to us. We were so close. We met Goodman last November during…
Sirens & Sealions is a troop of six sea creatures with a mission to spread a bright, feel-good sound throughout the city of Miami. That’s not my line. It’s theirs. Now, I don’t normally open with a quote (notice, I even ignored grammatical convention and ditched the bunny ears), but…
How do you throw a b-day bash for a two-year-old baby named Dirty Hairy? Fire! Confetti explosions! Purple lizards! Vodka shots! Dolla dolla bills! And babes in strategically ripped and/or sheer shirts! Not to mention, you hire Canada’s hottest Canadian electro crew, Dragonette, to provide the entertainment with a quick…
It’s tough to pick out the single most thrilling aspect of the whole Quintron & Miss Pussycat project. Is it the fact that this married duo puts on original puppet shows? That Quintron is the kind of musician who concocts his own musical contraptions, like the theremin-esque Drum Buddy? How…
Win free tickets to Julio Iglesias’s Hard Rock Live show. Now that Julio Iglesias has reached the fine, sweet age of 67, you’ve gotta wonder why he continues to hustle it for grandmothers across the globe. Maybe it’s rivalry with his boy, Enrique, that keeps him stalking the stage. Most…
There are a number of perfectly legitimate reasons you need to memorize the detailed band breakdown for tonight’s Bruise Cruise Kickoff Party. And we can think of three straight away: (1) Maybe you love Jacuzzi Boys, but you hate Black Lips (WTF?), and you’re launching a 38-city boycott; or (2)…
The dude’s been dead for two decades. But even so, jazz demigod, congenital rebel, and cocaine enthusiast Miles Davis looks like he’s gonna have an incredibly packed 2011. Earlier this month, the trumpet-wielding master reissued an expanded Bitches Brew Live, a soul-scorching set of electrified jazz-rock pulled from his infamously…
Conor Oberst is no aging Luddite. Like most Americans, he relies heavily on the conveniences of modern “coffeemakers, telephones, televisions, computers. Everything has a little computer in it these days.” But the 31-year-old ex-wunderkind and cornerstone of the Saddle Creek record label tells New Times via an old-fashioned landline that…
Bad news, lazy hipsters: The inaugural Bruise Cruise is sold out. You literally missed the boat. And now your cooler, richer roommate is rubbing it in your face by giddily stuffing her oversized duffel bag full of Red Bull, airplane-sized bottles of unlabeled vodka, two iPods, back issues of Vice…
Julieta Venegas is a shape-shifter. Hers is a constant evolution, a never-ending series of experiments wherein she tests her own boundaries. She’s not quite reinventing herself — her sound is a signature, featuring quirky upbeat vibes and a soothing, sweet vocal style. But she’s not standing still, either. Nearly a…
Unlike most bands named after seaside apparel and/or accessories (i.e. Swimshorts, Sunglasses, Sandals), bicoastal digi-pop duo Bikini doesn’t spin hazy, wavy sounds designed specifically for sunny, sandy days at the beach. Dark, distorted, and dance-y, this stuff is more like the soundtrack for a drugged-out midnight trip into deep waters…
A self-proclaimed city kid from New York’s East Village, Jesse Marco took a free fall into the music business at the age of 18 when he began an internship with British music mogul Mark Ronson. He gained recognition after taking a number of opening slots at New York City clubs…
The blending of genres and melding of styles is becoming as commonplace in popular modern music as cocaine lines next to grapefruit juice at Lindsey Lohan’s breakfast table. The whole world, including the biggest stars in any genre you can name, has been dabbling with mezcla of late. But just…
Like some kind of benevolent pied piper of international partydom, French electro-pop producer Martin Solveig (né Martin Picandet) bestowed last year’s Dragonette collaboration “Hello” upon the world, luring disco refugees, degenerate club kids, and dirty hipsters to the dance floor like hypnotized rats. And now Solveig wants to let you…
As far as Puerto Rican boy bands with American crossover appeal go, Davila 666 easily beats out Menudo with its balls-out ability to rock, though there’s definitely some overlap in the wearing of leather jackets, chaps, and accessories. Offering both clean garage pop and raw rock and roll, Davila 666’s…
If you wanna shake out your pompadour and sweat through your underwear, then stutter-step down to the Vagabond tonight for DJ Jonathan Toubin’s Soul Clap & Danceoff. Direct from NYC with an assist from the Bruise Cruise people, this rock ‘n’ soul party is so fucking powerful it somehow turned…
Ever since Poe Boy label alumni and North Miami native Billy Blue dropped swagger-heavy summer track “When U Hood U Good” in July 2010, he’s specialized in the kind of click-clack cooked up specifically for cruising the causeways between Miami Beach and the mainland at midnight. And his new-ish single,…
A band’s members can have all the talent in the world, and they can still suck as a band. Because for all the technical prowess, all the mastery of their instruments, you just can’t substitute that particular “X” factor, a seeming nimbleness that lends to improvisation on the fly. It’s…
Ty Segall is one young, talented guy who gets a good amount of buzz that is, thankfully, not Justin Bieber. For all of the awesome noise he creates, he’s a humble dude who more than deserves all of the attention he’s received. His last LP Melted, released on Goner Records, ended…
Working under an assumed fame name inspired by ’60s Swiss sex bomb Ursula Andress and the pseudo-futuristic numerical suffixes used to sell Atomic Age household appliances (i.e. The Cubla Carpet Sucker 500!), Brooklyn-via-Miami mixmeister Ursula 1000 (born Alex Gimeno) has spent ten post-millenial years mining retro musical territory for new…
