This Saturday night at Mansion, Armand Pena will introduce his new, slick-as-hell house compilation for Nervous Records, Nervous Nitelife: Miami 2009. The disc features a number of Pena’s own original productions and remixes, in addition to tracks from current “it” boy Chris Lake, Joi Cardwell, Tom “Superchumbo” Stephan, the Cube…
Dirty Hairy, the latest South Beach party promoted by a cohort of downtown kids, prides itself on being over-the-top. Its setting, LIV, is an almost ridiculously glam club in the revamped Fontainebleau hotel, with one of the trippiest light shows around and a seemingly endless font of money to throw…
There are few celebrity figures so peerless, few personalities so much larger than life, few faces so recognizable they transcend cultures. American history boasts some: Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra, Marilyn Monroe. Latinos who fit that steep bill? There aren’t many. Santana. Julio Iglesias. Dezi Arnaz, perhaps. And, of course, the…
As frontman of the New Jersey band Thursday, Geoff Rickly helped pioneer many of the main motifs of today’s landscape of contemporary punk-inspired rock. From the group sprang a distinctive sing/scream vocal technique, wordy song titles and lyrics, and, well, even the use of the calendar as a source for…
Techno Box and the usual suspects of Miami’s techno afterhours scene present Guti live at Eden Terrace Garden on Sunday dawn. This young Argentinian prodigy boasts one of the most imaginative and genre-bending sounds in contemporary house and minimal techno. A virtuosic jazz pianist with a penchant for Latin polyrhythms…
Just got word that Our House West of Wynwood will be hosting a party during Winter Music Conference. The Allapattah gallery hasn’t been open for long, but it’s quickly becoming a favorite. It’s already hosted numerous parties, include a string of them during Art Basel that we’re easily some of…
All you street festival lovers, I know you know what time it is! Last week I asked and none of you answered. But I know that’s purely a matter of laziness, because who doesn’t love street fairs? Well, the granddaddy of all street festivals is fast approaching and it’s celebrating…
David Allan Coe is a sort of an icon in country music. He certainly seems to name himself among the greats any time he’s interviewed and asked about it. And of course, he drops their names into quite a number of his songs. Perhaps the most interesting aspect of David…
DJs E360 and Miss Nikki have combined musical forces under the Twisted Elegance moniker since early 2008, making them the first male/female DJ duo out of South Florida. With residencies at Nocturnal and 330 Lounge, various remix projects in the works, and their first EP due for release in fall…
Alright country music fans, grab your hats and boots and get ready to wrangle up tickets to this summer’s hottest acts while they last. Autocricket.com and megaticket.com are offering the Country Megaticket for 13 days only (March 16th through March 29th). For as little as $70, you can grab tickets…
Belly Dancing By Shayna from MiamiNewTimesBlogs on Vimeo.Professional Belly Dancer Shayna Lee Rogg knows how to move her hips. Belly Dancing By Shayna, her company, was a corporate sponsor of the 20th annual Asian Culture Festival and she performed for a large family audience on March 7, 2009. The Fest…
Girl Talk and Deerhunter Sunday, March 8, 2009 Culture Room, Ft. Lauderdale Better Than: Throwing your own party. To even try to guess which songs Girl Talk was mashing-up at any given time last night would’ve been an exercise in utter futility. I mean, before I figured out one another…
King Khan and the Shrines Saturday, March 7, 2009 The Vagabond, Miami Better Than: Listenin’ to Nuggets while munchin’ on peyote. Until I read Chris Toenes’ preview piece in this very paper, I had no idea that King Khan was a de facto protégé of Raunch Hands’ Mike Mariconda. I…
The first US date for Nine Inch Nails and Jane’s Addiction has been announced and we in South Florida are blessed that it all begins here. Thankfully, It’s not the first stop in the whole tour, so most of the kinks should be ironed out by the time they both…
Modest MouseSunday, March 8th 2009Revolution Live, Fort LauderdaleBetter than: Their performance at this year’s Langerado. Or anyone else’s for that matter.Modest Mouse has got to be the loudest band ever to shun the use of distortion. There’s no humming fuzz, in fact, I don’t even think they use overdrive, other…
CuCu Diamantes’ solo debut CUCULAND is at once a breath of fresh air and a nostalgic whiff of a more glamorous time. It shimmers with the glitz and glamour of an era when catching a show meant dinner jackets and hair tonic, evening gowns and diamonds. But it also bares…
The PoguesWith Kiss KissPompano Beach AmphitheaterSunday, March 7, 2009Better Than: Having to hear about it after the factThe Review: Saturday night’s concert by the Pogues at the Pompano Beach Amphitheatre marked the first-ever South Florida appearance by the band, since its inception in 1982. Judging by the audience’s gently boozy,…
No, this post has nothing to do with the film (which, by the way, is an excellent movie). Instead, it refers to a burning question I intended to begin with. Do any Mexicans read this blog? I have no idea, to be perfectly frank. But I feel like the answer,…
Er, I just received this in my inbox. Actor-turned-rapper Joaquin Phoenix had threatened the world that he was going to become a rap superstar, but I don’t think anyone took him seriously. Well, apparently at next week’s edition of Dirty Hairy with Craze and Klever, Joaquin Phoenix will be performing…
Break out those calendars country music fans and mark Thursday September 24 as the day you’ll be seeing the Grammy Award winning duo at the BankAtlantic Center. Sugarland is doing a huge spring and summer tour across the US and Canada in support of their third album “Love on the…
Maybe it’s the result of years of Catholic school affecting me during this time of the year. More likely, I’m just campaigning for a free tab at Transit Lounge (c’mon guys…how many posts do I have to write before I qualify??). Whatever the case, I find myself compelled for the…
When Scion’s Kitsuné CD release party comes into The Vagabond Sunday, Brooklyn duo-turned-trio Heartsrevolution will be doing a rare live performance in Miami. Crossfade spoke with the band’s newest member Prince Terrence about the band’s full-length debut, the Heartschallenger and Hipster Runoff.New Times: So funny thing, before this interview, I…
