Face it. You waited until the last minute to buy Christmas gifts. You could take the easy route and just get everyone gift cards, but a piece of plastic hardly says you put in any thought. That’s where everyone’s favorite local independent music store comes in. Tonight, Sweat Records is…
Once a year at the end of December Christmas takes over everything. See the above flyer of Santa Clause shitting out a full grown Jesus Christ doing the rock and roll sign as he exits Santa’s asshole to see how some people feel about it.This Friday, Destroyio Records presents a…
While still relatively unknown in the States, Portuguese DJ/producer Carlos Fauvrelle is renowned through the Iberian peninsula, a region increasingly associated with the tribal house genre (see Chus & Ceballos, Mastiksoul, etc.) Fauvrelle has been crafting his own percussive-driven brand of tech house since the early 2000s, releases of which…
Paris-via-South Florida singer Uffie has been quiet for the last few years. However, late this year she finally released a video for her track “Pop The Glock” — almost 4 years after it was released. Ed Banger head honcho Pedro Winter, a.k.a. Busy P, explained that the odd move was…
“I’m a Facebook prophet/ I told all the girls that I’d be the hot shit.” Thus sings Kid Cudi on “Soundtrack To My Life,” the uninflected voice of a generation that grew up staring at monitors for hours and spends nights cycling through social networking websites. Embodying the hipster-hop aesthetic,…
Bueno mi gente, Noche Buena is upon us (or those of us who observe it). If you’re like my family, there’s either a large dead pork already chilling on your kitchen table right now, spread eagle on a tartara (large metal sheet pan), or there will be before the day’s…
The Big Day Out Festival is one of those “some-day” trips to daydream about. An annual series of massive one-off fests throughout Australia and New Zealand, it’s like a Reading or Leeds done Down Under, with the world’s biggest festival draws ever. This year’s edition features seven dates from January…
Naughty By Nature, scheduled to perform at Revolution this past Saturday, had to postpone their show due to weather conditions in New York City. Reportedly the group’s flight out of La Guardia airport was among the thousands canceled due to the intense snow storm that blew across Washington D.C. and…
The upcoming three weeks in South Florida are pretty much heaven on earth for “phans” and other chilled-out festival-loving types. Phish’s four-night stand at the American Airlines Arena begins on the 28th, and, of course, kicks off on New Year’s Eve, with a bunch of other livetronica-type afterparties going on…
The American Legion Harvey Seeds Post 29 off of 64th Street and Biscayne (6447 NE Seventh Avenue, Miami) is named after Harvey Seeds, the first Dade County representer killed in action in World War I in France by a hand grenade exploding over a machine gun emplacement.His post was founded…
You wouldn’t immediately assume it from the traditional balladry of “Sundown,” but Gordon Lightfoot is a dark motherfucker. Like his most successful single, Lightfoot can seem out-of-date, boring, and stodgy until you spend a weekend with him. Then, it becomes obvious that dude’s just as oversexed, drunk, and angry as…
The Jacuzzi Boys With Boise Bob and His Backyard Band Radio-Active Records, Fort Lauderdale Friday, December 18, 2009Better Than: Being waist-deep in one of them hot tubs with water jets.The Review:The crowd came to Radio-Active Records this past Friday for the Jacuzzi Boys. But for those, like me, who showed…
Here is a bit of weekend leftovers that we didn’t get around to posting until late. If you missed dubstep master Rusko at White Room on Saturday you perhaps missed the most energetic DJ set you’d probably ever witness. The Brit isn’t just content playing to a crowd, he wants…
It’s there, lurking in your closet buried underneath mounds of clothes. You’d donate it to Goodwill but you know you are obligated to wear it once a year to prove to grandma that you “absolutely love it.” Beside, who would be stupid enough to buy it even if it was…
Night Watch is a regular column about bars and clubs by nightlife columnist Tara Nieuwesteeg. Downtown Delray was awash with Christmas lights. They were crawling up tree trunks and stretching across storefront windows; they dangled from awnings and snaked around wreaths at every art gallery, pet salon, clothing boutique, and…
It’s been almost two years since jam juggernaut String Cheese Incident called it quits in 2007. Since then, things have slowed for some of the former members, while others have picked up the pace with new projects. The latter holds true for the String Cheese rhythm section of Jason Hann…
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,…
A few years ago, the world of every Gen X-er and quasi-’90s kid was unpleasantly rocked when 68-year-old teenager Paul Anka decided it was a good idea to cover Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit.” Sure, it’s easy to see where this smarmy, crooner take on grunge was supposed to be…
Flow Official and ¡Mayday! team up for “Down This Road” in a new video to go with the song they put out together. This is just a preview though to let you know that it’s coming up.Go to Flow Official’s myspace, stream the “Down This Road” track and learn all…
It’s gonna be a fairly quiet holiday week on the local EDM front, but you can get your fill of tasty house and techno beats on Wednesday night when the Miami/LA-based record label-cum-production duo petFood throw down at Electric Pickle. petFood was formed in late 2008 by Miami natives Lazaro…
We are not the same, I am a martian. I recently spent a Friday night in the studios with the Cash Money Heroes as they worked on a new Kevin Rudolf song featuring Lil Wayne, Jay Sean, and Birdman. Here is some footage of Baby in the studio, and watching…
The temperature dropped the weekend, which finally gave us reason to take out our Cosby sweaters. But in case the cold kept you indoors, here is what you missed over the weekend:Surfer Blood at VagabondWest Palm Beach’s Surfer Blood finally came home after being on the road to a warm…
