BuikaGusman Theater, MiamiJuly 9, 2009Better Than: My little brother’s high school graduation (the last event I attended at the Gusman) The Review: Afro-Spanish flamenco fusion queen Concha Buika truly shook the dust off of downtown’s historic Gusman Center last Thursday night. Her passionate performance had the full house laughing, crying,…
Last time we posted it was in May. Why? Because you’re boring us Miami! Same shit every weekend over and over again. We thought the economic crisis would force clubs and promoters to get creative — obviously, they don’t care they are hemorrhaging money. Whatever, Miami can use one or…
Friday, July 10*King Kong Bass is a new party devoted to all forms of, well, bass, starting tonight at PS14 in Miami. Juan BassHead, Wreck, Peasant with Feathers, Serge Roc, and Keen are among the spinners on the bill. Admission is $5. Click here for full details. *The, errr, eclectic,…
Here’s a video where globally known DJ Mark Knight says that his best gig in America so far was right here in Miami during WMC. What party? Watch the video and find out. He’s playing New York, Vegas and L.A. in August, but no stop in Florida. What an asshole…
Behind every stadium pop star is a king-size producer, and behind every king-size producer, you got the secret weapon: the “mixing engineer.” Most people can’t name one mixing engineer, let alone explain what they do. But that will change this Friday when the Red Bull Music Academy features Marcella Araica,…
I started this diary talking about slowing down my club life, but I haven’t seemed to slow down.My Fourth of July started at the Fifth Annual IndepenDance party where I grossly ended up in the pool and was there for part of the Danny Tenaglia set. One of the murkiest…
Col. Bruce Hampton (Retired) and his current band, Quark Alliance, is bringing a whole new kind of jam/funk/blues/avant garde to Revolution Live on August 21.Col. Hampton has been pounding out the tunes since 1963, playing in bands like The Hampton Grease Band, The Late Bronze Age, and The Aquarium Rescue…
If you or someone you know ever gets that smug sense of accomplishment, that they’ve done so much with their lives or they’re just crazy busy and don’t have time for much else, and you’d like to knock them down a peg or two, have them look up Ruben Blades’…
If you missed the killer performance by local rock badsasses Soniko at Transit Lounge back in May, shame on you. After all, we told you all about it right here. And that, the CD release party for their sophomore album Antidoto Parcial, the much anticipated follow up to their 2004…
It’s Timb Krueller’s birthday. And the six-foot-three, perennial appreciator of the absurd will celebrate Friday with a bunch of South Florida favorites including the Freakin’ Hott and Zombies! Organize!! He will play an acoustic set, though, so leave the fetish boots at home. If you haven’t heard of Timb or…
It’s impossible to hyperbolize here: the Brit DJ titan John Digweed — along with longtime partner Sasha — is progressive house. Digweed started DJing as a young teen in the late ’70s and early ’80s, but it was in the early ’90s that he finally got his big break, spinning…
In case you haven’t heard enough quite enough of the King of Pop over the last few weeks (is it ever enough?) Who’s Bad, “The Ultimate Michael Jackson Tribute Band”, is coming to Revolution Live on July 22. Founded in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, five years ago, Who’s Bad has…
Respectable Street’s 22nd Anniversary Party is coming up on August 22, and down-under rockers Sick Puppies have announced they’ll be playing that same night. Sick Puppies are touring in support of their upcoming Tripolar album, their third studio album to date. As far as what they sound like, well think…
Concha Buika refuses to hide behind a false veneer of personality. She needs no carefully crafted persona, media image or handlers.Instead, the singer who has won a devoted following in Spain and beyond with a powerful blend of flamenco, jazz, African and Latin American music prefers to reveal all -…
Click here for a free Harvey Milk MP3.Harvey Milk, like most if not all other bands, has been the subject of only semi-accurate comparisons to the influential groups that have gone before them during the course of the career. Most frequent among these has been a comparison to the power…
Miami Duo the State Of Performs in Aventura and Wynwood This Week
Shelton Hank Williams III terrifies most folks in his hometown of Nashville. He has alienated himself from every Music City name, including his estranged father, Randall Hank Williams Jr. Taking his cue from the legendary, hard-living grandfather he never knew, Shelton has dedicated himself to a life of alcohol, pills,…
Few sounds are as infectiously timeless as New Orleans funk. Credit bassist George Porter Jr. for helping create that unstoppable sonic template while he was a member of the Meters in the mid-’60s. He has since maintained the smoldering grooves as a side man for the likes of David Byrne…
In the late ’80s and early ’90s, the smack-talkin’, party-startin’ Philadelphia duo DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince gave millions of young American suburbanites their first introduction to the joys of hip-hop. With multiplatinum-selling status and unforgettable songs such as “Girls Ain’t Nothing but Trouble,” “Parents Just Don’t Understand”…
Why can’t we just let Ian Curtis die already? It’s what he wanted! Still, if you’ve been waiting for the newest incarnation of Joy Division since She Wants Revenge, downtown Miami venue the Vagabond might provide the fix you need this Friday. Besides, with pink slips looming over everyone’s head…
This show has pretty much nothing to do with the martyred gay San Francisco city supervisor. The quintet Harvey Milk may have named itself in tribute to the man, but that’s where any political notions end for this band. Rather, this sludgy, experimental noise-rock-style act spews the kind of weirdness…
The legend of Chan Marshall draws its power from her beauty, her Southernness, and her mental illness. Oh, and from that time she flashed her bush at the readers of The New Yorker. Still, the singer, who performs under the moniker Cat Power, is on an upswing that began when…
