Best Club DJDanny Dazemyspace.com/djdannydaze Danny Daze has been doing the DJ/producer thing for a while now, but he has definitely been getting plenty of attention recently. He spends as much time on the decks at clubs around the nation as in Miami, and when he’s here, you can catch him…
Last summer, local musician and hip-hop activist Brimstone celebrated four successful weeks of his inaugural P.A.T.H. School of Hip-Hop Culture. As Brim told New Times last year, the camp was an outgrowth of his attempt to start a hip-hop history and culture program through Miami Dade college. That didn’t work…
Astari NiteFriday, June 5, 2009Flamingo Fridays at PS14, MiamiBetter Than: A pop goth cocktailAs my esteemed colleague (and de facto boss) Arielle Castillo so keenly wrote in these pages last September, Astari Nite singer Mychael Ghost is unquestionably “a proper frontman.” Which is to say (as she said), that he…
To read past installments of Diary of a Flasher, click here. Here it is, the rainy season. For months it was dry. So dry, that we knew global warming was upon us and our days were coming to an end. We had a cold winter with gorgeous sunsets, dry afternoons…
Here’s exclusive behind the scenes footage from the Birdman & Lil Wayne feat. Mack Maine video shoot for their song “Always Strapped.” The song is forthcoming on Birdman’s new album, Priceless. Footage shot by the “how is he everywhere at once” hip-hop photographer Derick G. Enjoy…
Sexist lyrics and heavy beats go together like pork and beans when it comes to dancehall. There is something so good about it though. If you can cast aside the bigotry, the misogyny, the rampant and sometimes violent homophobia, and the bizarre posturing, the beats are savage, the delivery is…
Here are ten wallet-friendly music events this weekend around South Florida.Tonight, Friday, June 5*Atlanta-based power-pop-rock trio Last November plays at Transit Lounge. Cover information is kind of murky but it should be cheap or even free. Click here for a free Last November MP3 and more details about the show.*A…
Country/Blues icon Bonnie Raitt has announced an October 23 date at Pompano Beach Amphitheater. She’s recently released her 18th album, and simply refuses to stop touring. Most of this tour is being performed with Taj Mahal, but they won’t be making the trip down to Pompano Beach. Instead, Bonnie will…
Are you sick of the old tried-and-true musical formula for your Friday night carousing? If you usually go out clubbing in South Beach and you still have any semblance of distinction and personal taste left after sustained Top 40 self-abuse, you’ve gotta be eager for a change of pace. Or…
Looking to see a good live show in Broward or Palm Beach this weekend? Well you’re in luck.One of our favorite bands, Ex Norwegian, is playing Propaganda tonight starting at 9 p.m. $5 gets you in the door.Looking to folk it up a bit instead? Try country-pop-folk duo Friction Farm…
Rachel Goodrich, Tinker ToysIt has been a good year for South Florida’s quirky local indie darling Rachel Goodrich, what with a glowing shoutout from the New York Times this past December and her official debut appearance at SXSW this past spring. It was all well-deserved and timed with the October…
The Talent Farm20911 Johnson St., Ste. 111, Pembroke Pines954-438-3488Look, everyone knows about the Broward/Palm Beach holy trinity of venues for mid-sized touring acts: Revolution Live, Culture Room, and Respectable Street. But what about hyper-local spots that nurture homegrown talent, especially the kind that can’t legally get into most other venues?…
Miami New Times, Churchill’s, and Epiphone are sponsoring a new series of acoustic performances on Wednesday nights at the sort-of-English pub. (Guess since Raffa and Rainer pioneered Can You Rock A Little Softer? (R.I.P.) there, Wednesday is now the official acoustic night!) The series starts on June 17 and runs…
Fiona Apple has an older sister, Maude Maggart. And she’s kind of a big deal on the cabaret circuit. Drawing praise from most major media outlets such as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, NPR and Entertainment Weekly, Maggart has gained a following for her haunting and exquisite renditions…
Rock and roll will never die. Here’s a video of the Miami Beach Senior High School Rock Ensemble playing “Black Water” by The Doobie Brothers at a recently uploaded performance in the high school’s auditorium. Good to know that with all the talk about budget cuts and elimination of arts…
DJ Nova, a.k.a. Nelson Fernandez, is a Venezuelan transplant and pivotal figure of Miami’s underground EDM scene since the early ’90s. With a lifelong commitment to his craft, Nova’s DJ career has taken him from Miami’s myriad local clubs and venues to bookings all over the U.S. and Latin America,…
Indie rock taste-makers/breakers Pitchfork Media threw some love to Miami’s tropical-death-metal-slash-swamp-rock threesome the Jacuzzi Boys this morning. In a review of their (comparatively) mellow anti-ballad “The Countess”, Amy Granzin threw up some fairly gushy praise by Pitchfork standards: “A bass drum drives the song straight and steady, but heavy reverb…
The VirginsWith Lissy Trullie and Anya MarinaWednesday, June 2, 2009Culture Room, Ft. LauderdaleBetter Than: Reading a magazine.The Review:Much of the early hype — and there’s been a lot — about both the Virgins and Lissy Trullie has focused on the “scene” from which they come. Music media addicts know all…
One of the two bands currently touring under the L.A. Guns moniker is coming to Culture Room on September 12. Founding member Tracii Guns, Jeremy Guns, Marty Casey, Alec “Big Al” Bauer, and Chad Stewart make up this version of the Guns, while all Phil Lewis, Steve Riley, Stacey Blades,…
It’s the end of an era ladies and gentlemen, especially for those of you who like your pop icons a bit on the schizophrenic side. It seems as if Miley Cyrus has gotten some help with her dissociative identity disorder and has decided she’ll be touring without her alter-ego Hannah…
Animal Collective has released nine albums in the past nine years, all challenging, all imperfect but innovative, all substantially different. Some are placid, others orgiastic; some are convincingly reminiscent of dreams and drug trips, others convincingly reminiscent of third-graders; some are gummy and formless, others are almost — just almost…
Let us paint you a picture. It’s a little hazy, but that’s just pot smoke (in the story, we swear). The year is 1969 in L.A., and Frank Zappa has just handed vocalist-guitarist Lowell George his walking papers from the Mothers of Invention. Some legends contend Zappa thought George showed…
