Q&A With Sound Tribe Sector 9, Playing Revolution This Saturday

With the explosion of live music hitting South Florida this week (and next) comes Atlanta’s Sound Tribe Sector 9, complete with cult following and a new, tricked-out LED wall. The instrumental/experimental electro-jam band headlines Revolution in Fort Lauderdale on Saturday, January 2, before setting sail on the Jam Cruise. New…

Jodi Jo feat. Tragic, “Yo Pussy Is The Best”

Here’s a brand new upload from Jodi Jo who apparently is from Chicago, but likes to tag his yotube uploads with “Miami.” Anyway, the strippers down here might like this song so here’s the video and some of the lyrics that were funny from Jodi Jo’s new song “Your Pussy…

The New Year’s Eve EDM Lowdown

Miami’s big-room nightclubs usually go all out for New Year’s Eve celebrations by booking some of the biggest names in international dance music, and this year is no exception. Here’s the lowdown on some of the top NYE parties going down on Thursday night: Cocoon Label Party at Nocturnal’s Eden…

Q&A With Orchard Lounge, Playing Tonight at the Vagabond

​Miami prepares today for the Great Invasion of 2009, a.k.a. the Phish Comeback New Year’s Eve Concert Run. Along with the four arena shows by these road warriors comes a string of  local afterparties. One of the best kickoffs tonight is Orchard Lounge’s late night dance-a-thon at the Vagabond, curated…

DJ Le Spam Spins at White Room, Tomorrow Night

Everyone knows that Spam Allstars are the shit. They are, without a doubt, one of Miami’s best homegrown acts. Stellar descargas spin out seemingly without end, a delectable torrent of Afro-Caribbean, Latin, funk, electronica and other treats all melded into one unified and supremely danceable groove. As a group, they’re…

A Christmas Drink Recipe, Courtesy of Tryst in Delray

Night Watch is a regular feature about bars and clubs by nightlife columnist Tara Nieuwesteeg. Tryst4 E. Atlantic Ave, Delray Beach 561-921-0201 The halls of Tryst had been more than significantly decked. The tree in the back patio dining area was full of lights; inside, poles had been wound with…

Cider Flows Freely at the Bull Bar in Delray

Night Watch is a regular feature about bars and clubs by nightlife columnist Tara Nieuwesteeg. The Bull Bar 2 E. Atlantic Ave.Delray Beach 561-274-8001, thebullbar.comAcross from the Bull Bar was a park with an “ice skating rink” and a giant Christmas tree all decked out in blue, purple, red, and…

PrunkTV: Cash Money Heroes, Part 2

I’d rather be pushin’ flowers, than in the pen sharin’ showers. Most Prunk TV episodes get like 60-200 views in a month. But, this Cash Money episode that I put up on Monday has almost 4,000 views as of this writing. People are putting up comments on You Tube like:…

Nonpoint

It’s hard to believe that at the end of the decade, any band once labeled “nu metal” is still going strong. So leave it to musicians from South Florida, land of anomalies. In late 2009, Fort Lauderdale’s Nonpoint still enjoys an active touring career and a healthy, loyal fan base…

Edwin McCain

Who hasn’t been to a post-1998 wedding in which the couple danced to Edwin McCain? The saxophone-drenched ballad “I’ll Be,” in which McCain promises, in essence, never to be a douchebag, granted him the one commercial success he needed to live easy. He’s since dropped off the mainstream music radar…

Candyland 14

Above all else, Candyland deserves an award for being South Florida’s longest-running annual electronic music festival. Yeah, uh, “festival” — that’s what they’re called now, to avoid that pesky “rave” word. Make no mistake, though; in its late-’90s heyday, Candyland was one of the highest-budget, complete-fantasy “parties” ever. Of course,…

EOTO

It’s been two years since jam juggernaut String Cheese Incident called it quits in 2007. Some of the former members have dropped off the radar, while others have appeared with new projects. The latter holds true for the String Cheese rhythm section of Jason Hann and Michael Travis with their…