Altruism and philanthropy are rare things in the hedonistic world of electronic dance music and club culture, where we’re all too busy dancing away and self-indulging to care for any real world causes. That is why Musical Missionary’s first installment for new “Dance for a Cause” charity fundraiser at the…
New Orleans based swamp rockers The Radiators are coming back to South Florida on November 6 and 7 to play at Culture Room. It’s rare that a band originally formed in 1978 would still be playing shows at all, but The Radiators take that one step further. They’re still playing…
Soulful, sultry and 100 percent heartfelt, Lizette Santana’s music is as much a product of her upbringing as her very personality, and it seems almost as though the two are one and the same. Her recently released debut album Aun Sueño En Ti (I Still Dream of You) is a…
Post hardcore band Thursday will be bringing their sing-scream-sing combination to Revolution Live on October 22. Thursday’s latest album Common Existence is a concept album of sorts. They didn’t exactly try to evolve their sound, but instead wrote songs that reflected some of the band’s favorite poets and authors like…
This is a little late, but we just got word from the City of Miami police that Brisco got got last Wednesday, in the middle of the afternoon, while trying to get a haircut at a barbershop at NW Sixth Avenue and NW 63rd Street. Four men invaded the store…
Are you ready for another punk rock show? Of course you are! Strung Out, The Flatliners, and Pour Habit are making their way to Culture Room on October 8. Strung Out released their second B-Sides and rarities album, Prototypes and Painkillers, earlier this year and are working on a new…
Alexander Tsotsos a.k.a. Gummihz is a Greek-born and Berlin-based DJ/producer who has garnered much praise from the international dance community in recent years. Drawing inspiration from a variety of musical styles– including disco, jazz, and the whimsical sounds of chanson — his floor-friendly techno productions have been critically-acclaimed for their…
It’s been three years since the last studio offering from the famously volatile DMX. That seeming artistic dry spell starting in 2006 saw just a couple of greatest-hits type releases and a few film appearances. The last we really heard of DMX locally was this past December, when he was…
Black Sheep as we know it may be extinct, but its erstwhile proprietor, Juan Basshead, is still dedicated to the low frequencies. As such, he’s got a hand in a number of wall-rattling events around town, and this Thursday, he and the (((Shake))) crew will reunite for Get Low, a…
Sometimes a party isn’t just a party. Sometimes it’s Local Motion, the annual charity electro concert benefiting the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life, organized by Loscar Rodriguez — AKA HenceSoLo — and presented by Lexyn Intelligence and Nocturnal. First launched in February 2006, Local Motion has been fighting the…
We should all mourn the death of the cassette, because mixtapes change lives. Case in point: Marques Wyatt. Originally a teen vinyl junkie from Santa Monica, California, he became a world-touring house DJ/producer in part because of a few carefully compiled tapes. Weaned by a jazz-addled father and three funk-obsessed…
Davila 666 is Puerto Rico’s answer to the Black Lips — these delirious rockers possess their Atlanta brethren’s ability to come off like crazy little shits who’d ace rock history quizzes. These triple-sixers filter three decades of scuffed-up leather jackets through the Spanish-language translator. Disparate patches of Radio Birdman, the…
For all his band’s purported fascinations with life’s uglier aspects, Slayer frontman Tom Araya sure is a cheerful guy. Calling from a moving bus in rural Washington state, Araya laughs seemingly every couple of minutes. Surely, though, it’s this laissez-faire sense of humor that’s gotten him through almost three decades…
Poplife’s Last Stand at White Room Features Black Moth Super Rainbow
It’s a Sunday evening at the local studios of WDNA, one of the only true indie radio stations in all of America. It’s raining outside, an unholy alliance of torrent and drizzle, but in here there’s nothing but sunshine. Brazilian sunshine, that is. As if one were on the beaches…
Local Motion: Jennings and Keller’s latest CD, As the Universe Unfolds, sees them at the top of their game.
The latest issue of Spin is on the newsstands, and in it there are a few shout-outs to South Florida. Besides a peek inside Iggy Pop’s clubhouse (disclaimer: I wrote it), a couple locals are mentioned in one of the magazine’s main features: “The 100 Greatest Bands You’ve (Probably) Never…
If you’re curious how Green Day opened their set last night at American Airlines Arena here’s a video recap. This fan-made video has good audio, clean picture, and is right up in the front rows. Welcome to 21st Century Breakdown. Enjoy…
To view a full slideshow of pictures from the show, click here. Green DayTuesday, August 4American Airlines Arena Better Than: A show by any other pop-punk outfit playing today. The Review: Green Day still rules, despite the fact they’re all grown up. Sure, in their early days, the snotty punks…
In case you hadn’t noticed, throughout the course of the last year Luis Fonsi has vaulted to the much sought after and seldom attained elite status in the Latin Pop world, to stand among the heavyweights in the genre. It almost seems as though he’s achieved this rather quietly, lacking…
What’s a helpless independent record store to do when it needs to raise money for a new AC unit? Get some star power, of course.For months, it seems Sweat Records has lived up to its name, forcing owners Lauren “Lolo” Reskin and Jason Jimenez to amend store hours and cancel…
Fans of Adult Swim’s Metalocalypse are probably not reading this post right now. No, they’re feverishly searching out tickets for the show, which goes down on November 8 at Pompano Beach Amphitheater.If you’re not familiar with Metalocalypse or Dethklok, the death metal band it profiles, here’s the skinny. Dethklok is…
