It’s that time of year again, party people. No, not when your ass sticks to your car seat from the heat and humidity (though it’s annoying that we’re to that, isn’t it?). I’m referring to the Billboard Latin Music Awards and Conference. And we all know what that means? Um…yes…I…
If you’re toying with the idea of seeing New Kids On The Block at Cruzan Amphitheatre on May 31, you should buy your tickets this week. For $10, it’s harder to find an excuse not to check them out. Seriously, even if you hate boy bands and all they stand…
Like a quartet of massive underwater explosions, the next four nights of REV Miami’s 420 Fest carry enough combined payload (80 bands total!) that a tsunami of awesome noise looks inevitable. And after Thursday’s pre-festival Kickoff Party at Black Sheep Bar–superpacked with local weirdos such as Oceanaire, Dyslexic Postcards, and…
Remember record stores? They were the place you bought those plastic silvery things called CDs and also where you could pick up vinyl if you were trying to be über-authentic. Ah, yes the days before iTunes. But while Sam Goodys and FYEs might not be commonplace anymore, local records stores…
Nothing adds megawatts of hype to a South Florida appearance by tabloid twink Pete Wentz like a last-minute Boca ban. Initially, he and his fellow Fall Out Boys were planning to publicly flash their musical junk from the stage at Mizner Park. But now, their pop-punk exhibitionism has been relocated…
Before Pat Stacey, better known as Down Pat, moved to North Carolina and then New York, his band the Groove Thangs were a South Florida staple for lovers of blues, soul, calypso fusion funk. They toured relentlessly in the late ’80s and early ’90s, were signed and then dropped from…
True house music aficionados (myself included) who attended the Electric Pickle’s WMC parties in March got a superlative taste of the new venue’s quality underground deep house bookings and are doubtlessly hungry for more. With its intimate space, dark sultry ambiance, and rapturously superior sound system, the Pickle is an…
Don’t tell the boys from Ghost of Gloria that South Florida isn’t a rock market. The Fort Lauderdale band’s co-manager, Brandon Young, says the foursome committed last year to making being in a band their day job in the hopes of making it big within three years. “The hope is…
Thirsting for a new place to satiate your unquenchable thirst for strong drink and enjoy some good tunes? Rack your brain no further. You may already have heard of Poprox, a new club that opened on SoBe at the start of the month, named after everyone’s favorite mysteriously crackly candy…
Cant’ get enough American Idol despite the fact it’s on television 45 hours a week? Well break out your wallet and get ready to see some contestants live. Megan Joy, Michael Sarver and Scott MacIntyre are already confirmed, and most of the following will also be on the tour: Adam…
Doo-Wop, one of the most innocent sounding and feel good form of music , has been all but completely forgotten. Johnny Maestro & The Brooklyn Bridge and The Mystics are doing their best to keep the uniquely American music alive when they perform at Seminole Casino Coconut Creek on April…
Steven Guarin needs a bone marrow transplant. He has cancer and stupid Medicaid won’t cover it. The situation sucks, but his friends in the Miami music scene are doing something about it. They’ve already gotten a $1,500 donation from Music Cares, the charity foundation set up by the Recording Academy…
After missing Ultra this year, big beat electronica pioneers The Crystal Method will be playing Revolution Live in Fort Lauderdale May 14. Along with The Chemical Brothers and The Prodigy, The Crystal Method helped bring breakbeats out of basements and shady clubs, and into mainstream dance floors and rock stations…
There is she, Ms. Gothic Beauty of… er, America? Our cameras stopped by Black Sheep Bar last night to check out The Mausoleum’s Gothic Beauty Pageant hosted by Notorious Nastie and Shelley Novak in an effort to crown a Ms. Mausoleum. Unfortunately, there wasn’t any swimsuit competition. Click here to…
Country powerhouses Toby Keith and Trace Adkins are joining forces to spread that new country love all over West Palm Beach. On June 27, Cruzan Amphitheatre will host a gaggle of grown men and women wearing costumes dressed in their finest cattle rustling gear yearning for a sense of patriotism…
Imagine if cyberspace had existed when Andy Warhol was alive. He would have been a vlogger, I’m sure. This one is for you Andy! The entire video below was made with my one-and-only Prunk Phone (my friends call it a “ghetto iPhone”). “Drunk” Ken recently called Rollins on the Prunk Phone, because…
Although the place isn’t set yet, the date and the bands are. On July 13th, Aerosmith and ZZ Top will be playing somewhere in South Florida in support of their retirement funds. Aerosmith isn’t releasing a new album (although they do have a new-ish video game on the market: Guitar…
She’s the queen of the darker scene,” promoter Notorious Nastie says of DJ Lady Anime, the copper-maned head spinner for some of the Black Magic City’s more shadowy evenings. See, Nastie and Lady Anime go back, all the way to Hialeah in fact, where both self-dubbed “ghetto goths” grew to…
Rod MacDonald After the War (Blue Flute Music) With a new president and a slightly more optimistic national outlook, you’d think there wouldn’t be much for your ordinary, everyday protest singer to still rail about. Apparently nobody has told that to Delray’s favorite folkie, Rod MacDonald. Though its title might…
If the DJ is a god to some, the mix CD is his communion. Sometime between the personal mixtape compilations of the 1970s and the omnipresent podcasts of today, the DJ mix became an artistic medium on its own, a work that showcases the arc of a dance floor’s heavenly…
Aterciopelados is more than just a Latin alternative band. Rather, these contemporary musical legends provide a loud, clear voice on social issues and hope to spur the kind of deep thinking that inspires change. And ours is a world badly in need of change, says Héctor Buitrago, half of the…
How are things in Glocca Morra, you ask? Well, they’re just swell, if you’re talking about the new local band that features drummer Arik Dayan, formerly of Lasso the Moon, Baby Calendar, and most recently Call It Radar. Zack Schwartz, a young and spunky guitar player and vocalist, joins him…
