OMG! You’re so, so ecstatic. It’s crazy that you’re actually gonna be there for Mos Def’s brainy hip-hop throwdown this Saturday at the Arsht. The anticipation is enormous. It’s like pretty, little butterflies dropping happy bombs in your belly every hour on the hour. And, to be honest, you’ve been…
South Florida artists — with the exception of Rick Ross — continue to get high marks on the notoriously difficult-to-please music site Pitchfork. This time it is The Postmarks who manage to snag a 7.6 rating from reviewer Matthew Solarski. In the review for their latest album, Memoirs at the…
Summer is almost over, and Live Nation is offering (at least) one more deal to heat it up. From now until midnight tonight, Live Nation is offering all inclusive $10 lawn tickets and select $15 reserved seat tickets to shows at the Cruzan and Bayfront Park Amphitheaters. That means no…
Afro-Cubano seduced by New Orleans soul. That’s not an indictment of your cousin’s last trip to Mardi Gras, and the subsequent case of the crabs that ensued following said seduction. It’s the term Oriente uses to describe their sound. And a damn good description it is. The six-piece orchestra’s deep…
Miami HC/post-HC standouts Capsule are playing at Benton’s weekly No Brainer party next Thursday at PS14. This is part of a string of dates around the Sunshine State that were to be in support of Chicago’s Lautrec, that is until Lautrec’s lead singer hurt himself really badly in California and…
Rob Garza and Eric Hilton, a.k.a. Thievery Corporation, are bringing their electronica/lounge act Thievery Corporation to the Fillmore Miami Beach on October 9. Thievery are almost as well known for their politics as their music. They’re big time supporters of the World Food Programme and have crafted more than a…
A last minute heads up to the house music fiends: Jazzy Eyewear, Miami’s best kept secret and pretty much our most talented local proponent of classic Chicago-style funky house will be spinning at the Electric Pickle tonight. Fabian Giannattasio a.k.a. Jazzy Eyewear is an Argentinian transplant who migrated to the…
You know what’s better than New Wave? Swedish New Wave. And it becomes even more intriguing when the lead singer of the Swedish New Wave band has aspirations to “be the best female vocalist of this century” as she told a Scottish news station. The Sounds most recently visited South…
Click here to view a full slideshow of photos from the event.Aiden Dillard’s Death Print Movie PremiereThe Colony Theater, Miami BeachAfterparty at the Vagabond, MiamiSaturday, August 7, 2009Better Than: Whatever the leathery South Beach cliches at Segafredo next door were up to after they were done laughing and pointing at…
D.I., Agent Orange, and FearWith Bloodhook and Total ChaosRespectable Street, West Palm BeachSaturday, August 8, 2009Better Than: It actually was just as good as fucking while high on cocaine. The Review:My Saturday certainly got itself started with a whole fucking bunch of Parrot Bay on Friday night and a large…
Whether you know it or not, you’ve almost certainly heard a Trans-Siberian Orchestra song. Most likely, it was this commercial that introduced you to TSO.TSO is, quite simply, a rock orchestra who, for one reason or another, have a penchant for writing and remaking traditional Christmas songs. Their stage shows…
A Sunday afternoon barbecue on South Beach is probably not the best place to interview a DJ, especially if the spinner’s been knocking back mojitos for a couple hours before you pose your questions. Then again, this is the Magic City, and a large part of its allure comes from…
The above video is from an 8mm film transfer shot by a fifteen year old South Florida kid on May 18, 1968. The images come from the Miami Pop Festival, which featured The Mothers Of Invention (Frank Zappa’s band), Chuck Berry, Steppenwolf, Three Dog Night, The Jimi Hendrix Experience…
Last week, some unknown goons ran up on Brisco in a barber shop and got the Opa-Locka goon for some cash, his watch, chain, Lemon Head charm, and Range Rover. Now he’s turned his drama into a song and recorded the track, “Revenge,” with a complete mixtape of the same…
In the 14 years Pat Green has been professionally making music, he’s churned out 10 studio albums. He’s also had a top 10 hit with “Wave on Wave” and routinely sells out stadiums in his home state of Texas. Not bad for a guy who admitted to CMT: “I started…
Ch-ch-ch-changes are happening and everyone’s favorite over the weekend recap has moved from its home at Riptide 2.0 over to Crossfade. Why? Well, it seemed appropriate and better yet, now we can focus on all the things happening across South Florida and between both the Miami New Times and the…
The circus is coming to town…the town of Hialeah, that is. At least that’s what the press release accompanying my invitation to Radioboxer’s presentation of their debut album Radio Drama says. Judging by the effort they put into these nifty venereal vids (why do people keep calling them that?) we…
Last week I dropped in on Jacobs Ladder at the Dungeon recording studio in North Miami Beach, where they were working on a new EP. (Pictures and video are coming later this week.) The producer on the project is Cyrus Bolooki, drummer of Coral Springs’ biggest pop-punk exports, New Found…
Viva Le Vox and Alex Nelson Dada, Delray BeachFriday, August 7, 2009 Better Than: Anything else going down on Atlantic Avenue on Friday nightThe Review:Once the waiters start clearing the tables away from the front entrance of Delray hotspot Dada, it’s clear that it’s no longer tuna tartare time. (Well,…
To read past installments of Diary of a Flasher, click here. Let’s be honest here for a second: I can’t be as honest as I would like to be when it comes to what really happens when I am out and about shooting away the nightlife. As much as I’d…
Starting Sunday, the local-music haven Propaganda will officially celebrate its grand opening with the best recent lineup of South Florida acts I’ve seen since the opening of the IWAN concept facility theBUBBLE. Sure that wasn’t too long ago, but cheers to keeping the momentum.Sunday: Sunday is the only day that…
Sex, Cameras and Hip Hop talks dirty with models, strippers, rappers, and people on the street and captures their responses to sex questions. Young Jeezy tells a story about a stripper breaking into his house. It looks like some of it is filmed in Miami. Gloria Velez, who Uncle Luke…
