By ANDY VIHSTADT Animal Rights Toonces the Driving Cat won’t go down in history as SNL’s crowning achievement, and my guess is the problem was casting. See what could have been with the Rosebuds’ video cover of Salt-N-Pepa’s ahh, “Push It,” or just grab the MP3 below. The Rosebuds: “Push…
The Audition PacTour: The Audition, Envy On the Coast, Danger Radio, Another Day Late Saturday, January 19, 2008 Culture Room Better Than: Dealing with the sweat and rain of an outdoor summer punk festival. I’m pretty certain that anybody who’s anybody at a South Florida high school was at the…
The Spam Allstars helped the New Times celebrate its 20th Anniversary Spam Allstars, Awesome New Republic, and Raffa & Rainer January 19, 2008 Parkwest Nightclub Better Than: Any 20th birthday party I’ve ever been to! Hundreds of people piled into Parkwest on Saturday. Of course they did, it’s not everyday…
It should be a good time as local singer, Casely, will be singing his new hit “Emotional” and Junior “One Blood” Reid has a huge catalog of songs to choose from. All the info you need to know is on the flyer above. -Jonathan Cunningham…
If you’re looking for some reggae this weekend, here’s a show to check out. Marijah & the Reggae All-Stars, voted New Times’ Best Live Band 2007 perform on the main stage at Evening on The Avenue in the Cultural Plaza between Lake and Lucerne avenues and M Street. Jan 18,…
Photo by Ivon David Rojas The Foo Fighters were joined by Against Me! and Jimmy Eat World. Foo Fighters January 16, 2008 BankAtlantic Center Better Than: The ‘70s all over again. Media: Click here to see a slidehow from the concert. Timing. It really is all about timing. Oh, not…
In this week’s edition of the print version of Miami New Times, I wrote about legendary DJ/musician/label impresario King Britt’s gig this weekend at Shine. Because of pesky space limitations, I only got to use a few sentences from our near-half-hour conversation. So, for fans, I’m printing the whole transcript…
As the various Radiohead releases in recent weeks prove, rock box sets aren’t becoming any more sensible. The “disc box” version of the band’s new album, In Rainbows, is stuffed with extras. These range from useful (music), through aimless (booklets and artwork), to mystifyingly redundant (the album on CD, 12-inch…
True to its title, Distortion — the latest album from Stephen Merritt’s long-running prickly pop project The Magnetic Fields — is full of feedback and reverb. Though one might fear that such sonic intrusion would disrupt these carefully crafted tunes, it’s not the case. In fact Distortion is as pretty,…
Get off the Stage marks Too $hort’s 17th album — not counting compilations and reissues — but it’s also the end of an era. It’s his last for Jive, the label he’s been associated with since 1988. “I’m a legend in the game,” he says on “Shittin’ on ‘Em,” adding,…
There’s something deeply compelling about the voice and spiritual lilt of Brazilian samba singer Maria Rita. Upon first listening to her newest album, Samba Meu, you’re instantly transported beyond your speakers to the nightclubs of São Paulo, where samba reigns supreme. Unlike Rita’s (pronounced hee-tah) first two albums, which worked…
Better to burn out or fade away? The current musical tendency to fetishize the past, creating new markets through nostalgia, has come up with a fresh answer to this timeless rock and roll question: the reissue. For the second year in a row, David Byrne has chosen this route, and…
Cuban troubadour and musicologist Gema Corredera, of the melodic duo Gema y Pavel, looks at home while sipping her espresso at El Pub on Calle Ocho. It’s been eight months since she relocated from Madrid to Miami, and she feels increasingly hopeful about her future as a solo artist. But…
King Britt is, above all, a shape-shifter. The Philadelphia DJ, musician, and label impresario is no stranger to Miami, but each time he pays a visit, it’s in a different guise. Last time was during Winter Music Conference, most notably for his annual Art of Seduction party, a soulful gathering…
A band has some kind of amazing longevity if you can still be “the new guy” after 30 years in the lineup. But that’s exactly the case with Rolling Stones guitarist Ron Wood, whose life story is recounted in his new book, Ronnie: The Autobiography. Unfortunately Wood’s recollections consist of…
Bristol, England, has been bestowed with nicknames like “Slackersville, UK.” It’s a graveyard for ambition, we’re told, a place where residents take awhile to climb out of bed in the morning. Some say the locals operate on “spliff time.” This provincial torpor was often cited as an indirect inspiration for…
Check subtlety, pretense, and the past decade at the door: 3 Inches of Blood wants nothing to do with them. Eschewing fads and hipster cred in favor of staying true to their message of metal for its own ridiculous, epic sake, these bandmates go straight for the kill. Their weapons…
When last we left Johnny SexFuk, a pumpkin was about to get its brains — or seeds, whatever — fucked out. That was back around Halloween, when the Hialeah-based punk troupe lowered its standards all the way down to the magma level by playing back-up band during a MoneyTalks.com porn…
Who says big-name, multi-band music festivals have to be filthy, debauched affairs whose main hallmarks are exorbitantly priced bottled water and a dearth of toilets? Who says they can’t be fun and uplifting events suitable for the whole family? Who says music with a positive message can’t be entertaining? Certainly…
Juliett Simms wants you to know she’s damaged. Her band, Automatic Loveletter, just released a five-song EP full of loss, regret, pain, and feelings of inadequacy, and now stands poised to capture the imaginations of sensitive, misunderstood 15-year-olds the world over. Automatic Loveletter seems almost purpose-built for this demographic, tapping…
Long Island emo-prog-rockers Envy On the Coast are trying hard to stand out in a world of Saves the Day and Brand New wannabes. It’s no easy task, and on the band’s 2007 debut full-length Lucy Gray, this quintet reminds us just how hard it can be. With melodic choruses,…
Not just a cover band, the Machine is the Pink Floyd experience. Not content to adequately recreate a thin smattering of greatest hits, like a live classic rock station, this New York-based sonic Ouija board delves deep into the history and legacy of one of rock and roll’s greatest bands,…
