The economy hitting you hard? Well, you might want to purchase your tickets to Ultra Music Festival now. The event, which is being held March 27 and 28 at Bicentennial Park, already has early bird two-day passes on sale for $99.95 and VIP passes for $350. The tickets went on…
Yelle is coming back ya’ll! We just called the Art Basel’s Florida offices and they confirmed that the French electro-pop outfit is returning to the Magic City to kick off the Basel festivities at its Art Loves Music event Wednesday, December 3 at 10 p.m. The free concert will take…
Today one of South Florida’s most slept on MC’s, Rahsaan, released a new mixtape with DJ Epps of G-Unit/Shadyville fame that’s worth downloading.The project is called, Dadeland: The Dade County Project, and is a good intro to Rahsaan’s style for anyone that’s not familiar with him. He’s originally from Guyana,…
Do you have plans for New Years yet? If you’re a hip-hop fan, then you do now. The Roots have announced that they’ll be performing in Miami–at the Florida Room inside of the Delano Hotel of all places–on New Years Eve. It’s definitely going to be one of the hottest…
Marilyn Manson has been many things — the anti-Christ, an androgynous alien, a Weimar theatric — but little know of Manson’s other character, that of a painter, a role he takes pretty seriously. In fact, for the past two decades he’s been amassing a body of work which will be…
Reigning Sound The party continues at the Kill Your Idols space on Friday, December 5, first with Hex Dispensers, an Austin quartet who overdosed on the Ramones, but not so much the Beach Boys (it’s a good thing ). Brutal Knights hail from the much colder climes of Toronto, and…
I got a last minute press release that should warm the hearts of local families in need. Poe Boy Records artists, Flo Rida, Billy Blue and Brisco will be giving away turkeys from 6pm – 8pm tonight at the Carol City Apartments between 183rd Street and 37th Ave in Miami…
This isn’t a live performance by the Gossip per se. But the band will most certainly be in the house at O.H.W.O.W. tonight, for a party following the opening of Portland Now, a group show at the Bas Fisher Invitational space. (It’s curated by the band’s guitarist, Brace Pain, a.k.a…
Matt and KimSome of the best music presented this week comes courtesy of the ongoing Converse-sponsored Kill Your Idols event in the Design District. An ode to current movers and shakers keeping the original punk spirit alive (albeit in mutated, advanced forms), the space features a photo exhibit by Eileen…
As of this morning, mega pop-star Madonna and her former husband, film director Guy Ritchie, have been granted a “quickie” divorce through a court in London. The details of the divorce aren’t nearly as sweet and sticky as some gossip hounds would like: Ritchie isn’t expected to take a dime…
Longtime legends of the lower-lower Manhattan underground, the quartet A.R.E. Weapons have been steadily chugging along since 1999, blasting out something along the lines of electro-rock as imagined by former punk rock types. The band’s noisy assault of party-in-your-face found some near-mainstream success in the U.K., where it scored a…
Last year, when we saw M.I.A. live in concert at Studio A, we met an adorable young girl who commanded us to shake it to the ground and then to bring it back up and twirl it all around. That girl was Baltimore wunderkind Rye Rye. Her story is pretty…
Broken Social Scene with Land of TalkSaturday, November 22, 2008Club Cinema, Pompano BeachCanadian experimental/indie-rock supergroup Broken Social Scene descended on South Florida last night like a swarm of indie bees, and buzzed up a two-hour storm for jubilant fans at a packed Club Cinema in Pompano, on the last night…
As I was cruising the blogosphere over the weekend, I came across an interesting story that definitely caught me by surprise. MTV, home to all things exploitive and pop, just held their first annual African Music Awards in Abuja, Nigeria this past Saturday. It’s a move that could bolster more…
Really? Heathrow, WTF? Where are you getting these bookings? We aren’t worthy of your mercy. Let’s recap: Chromeo, Crookers, Switch in December, and now we find out, via MiamiNights, that MSTRKRFT is coming? Now, we’ve personally seen the Canadian duo spin a bajillion times (yes, bajillion is a number), but…
I’ve got a certain amount of love for Ace Hood. For starters, he’s the first rapper to go major out of Broward County in a long time, possibly ever. There’s been a few “could have been/should have been’s” out there, but nobody has made it stick to the degree that…
Earlier this week, we wrote how Opium Group’s newest lounge Louis is opening this weekend. Well according to our sources, it’s a maybe. Why? Not sure, but the anticipation is killing us. Work faster Opium Group! Still, there is plenty to check out this weekend and look for our special…
I just got off the phone with the folks at the Dive Bar in Fort Lauderdale and learned about an upcoming show that sounds enticing. Popular Puerto Rican rock band, Black Guayaba is going to be performing next Friday night here in South Florida, and they’ve got the eclectic Teri…
Tonight there’s a going to be a good set of music going on over at Atmosphere Lounge in Fort Lauderdale. Coral Springs-based folks singer Andrew Bayuk will be on hand singing songs of love, of protest, of peace, and of passion. He’s been grinding away in South Florida’s indie music…
Hyphy as a “movement,” per se, may have disappeared as quickly as the driver of a ghost-ridden whip. But in the fallout after the thiz high finally wore off, the Yay Area’s most talented bona fide MCs have survived. And the man to come out closest to the top so…
Coral Springs-based hip-hop artist, Butta Verses, is still riding the buzz of his critically acclaimed new disc, Reality BV. National hip-hop blogs have been giving the record overwhelmingly positive reviews and it’s all deserving since Butta definitely brought his A-game lyrically on the album. Here’s a new video for the…
John Hood Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band Tuesday, November 18, 2008 Culture Room, Fort Lauderdale Better Than: The Eagles after they slept with Leonard Cohen. This should really be called The Night Before Last Night seeing that ol’ Bright Eyes’ boy wonder played on Tuesday rather than Wednesday,…
