Eric Clapton is one of the greatest guitarists alive. The man — currently gabbing with Buddy Guy on his signature T-Mobile phone on TV — long ago earned his place in the pantheon of rockers as a guitar god.Clapton began his career in the early ’60s playing with British blues-rock…
Every week, we gather some interesting stuff from our sister Village Voice Media publications’ music sections. Just for kicks. Here’s last week’s entry.In the Dallas Observer’s bumper crop of content: Surfer Blood mourns the loss of Jay Reatard and confirms that even Pitchfork has its limitations, and Wayne Coyne calls…
“It’s been a few years now, we’re going strong, we been through a lot of good and bad.” – WarzoneThis list of the Top 20 classic hardcore punk songs is fuckin awesome cause it’s full of good shit, but it’s terrible because there are way more than 20 top songs…
Every Winter Music Conference, one the best parties is the Fool’s Gold showcase. It rarely disappoints and the lineup tends to change at the last minute as special guests arrive to take over the decks.This year lineup, which is taking over the soon-to-be-opened Grand Central (10 NE 7th Street, Miami),…
Acoustic duo Chicken Little (it typically adds an exclamation point) brings old-time post-punk to an in-store Radio-Active Records show Thursday. How do those two disparate styles mix? Chicken Little’s overt Appalachian bluegrass backbone makes the old-timer bit really easy to make out, but one has to dig deeper into the…
UK trio the Wave Pictures plays the Vagabond
Hard-working and constantly touring, Orlando’s psychedelic funk-rock act Diocious is definitely making waves throughout Florida and the Southeast. The trio is riding a swell of shows through March, including three dates opening for the prominent San Francisco jam band Tea Leaf Green and a slot at the La Viance Music…
Locos por Juana’s new EP, Evolución, is aptly named. The band’s perpetually in a state of motion, and not just in the midst of their frenzied live performances around town, but in everything they do. For starters, you might have noticed that the group’s lineup is now two members slimmer…
French duo Air has always occupied a singular astral plane. J.B. Dunckel and Nico Godin create compositions that are nominally electronic but above all organic-sounding. They’re slightly retro, dabbling in the experimental ’70s, while also otherworldly and futuristic. They’re Teutonic in their love of machinery but Gallic in their embrace…
Making up words is fun, but it rarely yields anything worth keeping (unless you count Peter Griffin’s festizio). Lanzallamas Monofónica is an exception. The band name isn’t entirely fabricated: If you know Spanish, you know lanzallamas to be flamethrowers. Meanwhile, monofónica refers to single-channel recording. Though the band most definitely…
New York City trio — well, maybe threesome is a better word — Menya delivers the kind of tech-savvy genre blending that could emerge only from a college dorm in 2K10. These NYU undergrads have file-shared, cut up, and flipped the script on electro-pop, coming up with a project that’s…
It ain’t easy being queen. There’s the gospel career derailed by pregnancy before you reach your midteens and the six-year jazz-pop career that never really gets out of the box. There’s the return to roots under the auspices of Jerry Wexler and Atlantic Records and the transformation into “Soul Sister…
Head Spins: WDNA’s Frank Consola
A guide to the music stages at Calle Ocho 2010
The adorable children above are performing Matisyahu’s reggae-tinged pop smash “One Day,” which got massive play during the 2010 Winter Olympics. On Thursday evening, the Brooklyn-based Hasidic Jewish singer brings his act to West Palm’s SKY309, the rooftop section of Roxy’s Pub. It’s a free show linked to the venue…
DJ Brad Strickland, or Strickly B, as Miami clubland knows him, has been making his mark on the East Coast EDM scene for well over a decade now. He was spicing up Miami nightlife with soulful melodic tunage long before deep house made a comeback and has played no small…
Grammy nominations, superstar collaborations, amazing headlining gigs — it easy to be in awe of all the things Paul Van Dyk has accomplished in his long and illustrious career. The man is the envy of the dance music scene, and who can blame them?Well, he’s going to give everyone more…
Radio-Active Records’ expanded list of Record Store Day exclusives is as long as Joanna Newsom’s new triple album! It’s April 17, folks. (Ohmygosh, John Fahey’s brilliant folk classic Yellow Princess LP!) See also: Radio-Active Records’ Record Store Day Specials Include Fela Kuti, Drive By Truckers and Owl City(?), Record Store…
Seen, well, heard, and then seen in Wynwood, check out the killer sound system on this ice cream truck and its Latin style soundtrack. Next up, subwoofers and an iPod and this truck could be making the rearview shake while making money in club parking lots.We’ve heard plenty of bootleg-ass,…
Wednesday is like the pre-Dr. Virgil Mongalo teeth day of the week over here at Crossfade (the sad news of Corey Haim’s death is not helping). So, special thanks to sister blog Sound of the City for pointing our cranky mouse hand to Dean of American Rock Critics Robert Christgau’s…
The members of Hey Monday look more like they walked off the set of Laguna Beach than like five kids who grew up and cut their teeth in West Palm. But that’s exactly where vocalist Cassadee Pope, lead guitarist Mike Gentile, guitarist Alex Lipshaw, and bassist Jersey Moriarty, and drummer…
Just a reminder that Steel Pulse is in South Florida this evening at Revolution. Arielle has more to say about the legendary reggae group here. This morning, we would merely like to mention that Biblical figures “Daniel, King David and Abraham Israel were all black men,” which is the crux…
