Click here to view a slideshow of photos from the event.MatisyahuThe Vagabond, MiamiWednesday, January 6, 2010Better Than: Your best friend’s bar mitzvah.The Review:Hassidic reggae/hip hop hero Matthew Paul Miller, a.k.a. Matisyahu, dropped into the Vagabond Wednesday night for a last minute private acoustic set, hosted by Birthright Israel NEXT Miami…
Last time Of Montreal came to South Florida, the band stopped at Revolution in Fort Lauderdale. While they aren’t planning to return in the near future, guitarist James Huggins III side-project James Husband will come to South Florida on March 13.Huggins released his debut album, A Parallax I, in October…
Friday, January 8*Fort Lauderdale’s Sweet Bronco plays the Vagabond in Miami tonight. Admission is free before 11 p.m., $5 after. Click here for full details. *Former Miami live hip-hop favorites the Square Egg long ago moved to Brooklyn, but for the band’s 10th anniversary, they return home for a celebration at…
Between Air and this, the Fillmore Miami Beach is landing some OMG-worthy shows this spring. Yes, Jeff Tweedy and company play Miami for the first time in forever on Monday, March 2010, in support of last year’s self-titled album. Tickets go on sale tomorrow, January 8, at 10 a.m. Both…
House music reigned supreme at Vagabond Saturdays throughout 2009, with weekly performances by such classic house luminaries as Frankie Knuckles, Little Louie Vega, Jellybean Benitez, and Jesse Saunders. So far the soulful house vibes promise to live on at the downtown hotpot in 2010, and Saturday night brings a special…
It’s easy just to think of Electric Pickle as the home of Poplife and various underground techno and house events. But besides Champion Sounds Wednesdays, which focuses heavily on hip-hop, soul, and funk, there’s another night that veers from the usual four-to-the-floor program: Stop Drop N’ Roll Thursdays. In fact…
Ever like a song on a band’s MySpace enough that you want to be able to hear it anytime, without going online?How about digitally recording live radio broadcasts as they’re streamed on a radio station’s website? Wanna do that? Wanna record streaming audio for free on a mac?All you need…
Ever wish you could party in Colombia, but can’t leave the country due to the U.S. government revoking your passport some years back for that incident involving tabletops and fishnet stockings at the airport lobby bar? Well, not to worry, Jazid and MiamiAlterLatino.com have got you covered with the first…
In case you haven’t heard, tonight marks the first (((SHAKE))) of 2010 at the Vagabond. And it’s gonna be one helluva a party as pioneering Miami DJ Tom Laroc celebrates his 40th birthday with the Shake nation. A renaissance man whose skills on wax are only surpassed by his prowess in…
Is it possible to start out a blog on Gloria Estefan without some sort of allusion to rhythm and its getting you? Is it even possible to avoid aforementioned allusion when the place is called Bongo’s? Considering how inescapably annoying that song is, probably not. But here’s an attempt: In…
Zappa Plays Zappa performs the classics at Revolution Live
This Fort Lauderdale-based act usually plays small Broward and Palm Beach venues such as the Bubble and Propaganda, so this outing below the Miami-Dade County line is a rare treat. Although the band is technically a three-piece, Sweet Bronco’s driving force is curly-haired Chris Horgan, who often plays, under the…
If you’ve ever been to Lochloosa, you’d wonder why JJ Grey is always singing about it. It’s up in Florida lake country, past nothing and halfway to Hawthorne. There might be a Hardee’s there. But there’s something in Grey’s voice when he sings that song about his hometown. There’s something…
French producer/DJ Bob Sinclar (né Christophe “The French Kiss” le Friant) was born in ’69, as it says literally in the title of his most recent full-length. You need to sample only a small cross section from his decade-plus of throbbing tracks to understand his promotion of this double-entendre-imbued birth…
Favoring a pounding prog-house sound as shiny and at times as sleazy as the city he now calls home, Paris-to-Miami transplant Cedric Gervais has a reputation as a DJ who plays it both uplifting and up-thrusting. Growing his following since 2003, this big-room fixture favors blissfully breezy Ibiza-style tracks buoyed…
Tony Bennett performs at the Arsht Center Friday, January 8
Boris and Benny Benassi spin on the Groove Cruise from Miami
Head Spins: Majica and Mano P, from WDNA’s Latin Jazz Quarter
It’s common knowledge — electropunk provocateurs Alicia, Russ, and Martin of Kill Miss Pretty are possessed by an unnatural compulsion to “groove your tooties off.” Usually, they’ll just do you metaphorically with music, tossing off some slinky sex magick like “El Gato,” “Girlfriend,” or robot porn instrumental “Bas” to get…
I first heard of Hamburg-based producer H.O.S.H. (a.k.a. Holger Behn) through a mind-blowing 2008 release called “Radar” — a collaboration with esteemed producer and Diynamic labelmate Stimming. This insidious little banger blends delectably nuanced and understated tribal rhythms with weird distended pitch crescendos and a smiting climatic jazz organ breakdown…
I’m in love, y’all! She’s gorgeous. She’s got this awesome hairstyle that is a cross between Amy Winehouse and some atrocity created with Bumpits. Her skin glows of fake orange tanner that one can only assume she was dipped in Tang. Some asshole thought it was okay to hit her…
South Florida is still recovering from a heavy dose of Phish-flavored jam. And, with the return of Jam Cruise after a six-day sea escape, bands will extend the tuneage back on land. While a number of highly anticipated shows happen over the weekend through Fort Lauderdale, supergroup Holy Kimoto hits…
