To prevent confusion in our readership, Alesana is not some drop-dead gorgeous model hailing out of Milan. Nope. In actuality, Alesana is six somewhat-OK-looking guys from North Carolina who do the post-hardcore thing with some gusto and panache. Take the usual experimental leanings of the genre and view them through…
This one’s a no-brainer. Those hungry to donate some cash to the less-fortunate folks in Haiti, and starving for some funky tunes on Friday should make haste to this Friday’s H.E.L.P. Event at Revolution. With DJ Spam and the All-Stars, Clambake and Hashbrown, it’s a bill ripe for some edible…
In what’s seeming to be the instrumental of the moment, you couldn’t log online or download a mixtape for a week or so without hearing yet another “Over” freestyle. “Over” being the first single from Drake’s official debut album, Thank Me Later. With months of hype surrounding the ominous first…
Wilco doesn’t demand that much from its listeners. The band’s name stands for “will comply,” and listening to music this melodic, depressing, sleepy, and disarming can feel like popping a Valium. Much like the drug, the band has loads of fans. One such devotee recently named a sandwich shop after…
It seems this weekend was the quiet before the WMC storm as people stayed in preparing for the onslaught of the 24/7 party mayhem that starts tomorrow. Still there were a few events that gave people a reason to come out of hiding. But in case you hunkered down, here…
Over the last 5 years, Miami Gardens’ annual Jazz In The Gardens festival has become a premier concert event and tourist attraction for South Florida and is helping to build a positive national reputation for the largest majority-black city in all of Florida.The two-day event featured performances by Mary J…
The Big Bounce album release showThe Colony Theater, Miami BeachFriday, March 19, 2010Better Than: Many of the popular artists that The Big Bounce hopes to play alongside. The Review:A few hundred people turned out to the CD release show for the Big Bounce’s debut album, Champagne and Apple Juice, at the…
What does it say about scorching three-piece Lavola that within a month of their first live show they’ve booked gigs in Miami, Boca, West Palm, Palm Beach Gardens, Pompano, and Lake Worth? Not just that they are on their hustle, but that they kill it live, which you can find…
In a nutshell, the adorable folk duo Raffa & Rainer will perform tunes from their new album, No Mercy, at the Bubble (810 NE Fourth Ave., Fort Lauderdale) with with Sweet Bronco and Bridget + Luke. Our dedicated writer, Travis Newbill, caught up with R&R recently:”We needed to make up…
Of the 17 acts set to perform during the fifth running of Jazz in the Gardens at Sun Life Stadium, only about half are jazz artists by the genre’s strictest definition. When it comes to headliners Mary J. Blige (featured in the jam “Be Without You” above that you should…
Colombia is a country known for solid exports. And we’re not talking nose candy here. Nor are we talking super hottie hip shaker Shakira. At least not in that capacity. Colombia consistently exports quality music. The aforementioned chanteuse among them. Carlos Vives is another who comes to mind. From Joe…
DeicideWith Kalakai, At Odds With God, Paris Is Burning, and First Born5Revolution, Fort LauderdaleSunday, March 14, 2010Schlepping to Broward from Miami-Dade isn’t too much of a task when the end product is something like metal muthas Deicide. They carry a real Floridian pedigree along the lines of say, a Hunter…
Southern California’s RX Bandits have come a long way from their ska-revivalist roots in the mid-’90s — so long a way, in fact, that it’s hard to discern the roots of their eight full-lengths. One second, there’s a full-fledged horn section; the next, there’s a knock on Yes’ psychedelic-prog door…
First things first: Mexican guitar duo Rodrigo y Gabriela doesn’t play flamenco. Its mostly acoustic music features a bit of flamenco, but it’s more correct to say the pair mixes jazz, metal, and global influences. However, Rodrigo y Gabriela’s sound is expansive enough to include guest appearances: Its latest album,…
Spin’s August 2009 Wilco cover showed a damaged bandleader — Jeff Tweedy — grown healthily and fruitfully boring. That might be a warning sign for fair-weather fans. Still, a good life equals good music on Wilco (The Album), with Tweedy making as bright, lush, and (sometimes) catchy use of happiness…
In the wake of MGMT and Amazing Baby, a whole NYC-via-Wesleyan clique has emerged, including the dance-pop parody band Boy Crisis, whose founding member, Tal Rozen, as a prospective student, slept on MGMT frontman/mastermind Andrew VanWyngarden’s dorm-room floor. “I remember he had all these Phish posters on the wall,” Rozen…
Jesse Cohen (former Professor Murder keyboardist) and Eric Emm (former Don Caballero bassist) started Tanlines as a production team at the peak of summer 2008, releasing a string of remixes for bands such as Telepathe, El Guincho, and Au Revoir Simone. But eventually, Tanlines morphed into something else: a band,…
Do yourself a favor and call in with a hangover this Friday, and blame it on Big Gigantic and Pnuma Trio. Hailing from Colorado, Big Gigantic is an epic soundscape collaboration by Dominic Lalli and Jeremy Salken. Lalli’s sexy, melodic sax and innovative sampling on the keys, combined with Salken’s…
Lil Jon recently sat down with TMZ for about a half-hour-long interview as part of the site’s ongoing video interview series, TMZ Live. In it, he discusses Weezy’s upcoming jail sentence, why he hasn’t worked with Justin Bieber, and why fans should stop screaming “Yeah!” and “Okay!” at him in…
The annual Radio One pool party is almost eerily absent this year, but don’t worry about getting wrapped up in brand names. All of the superstar DJ talent will be here anyways, and still helmed by the legendary Pete Tong — they’ll just be playing under the banner of “Pete’s…
Regular New Times readers will be well aware of what WDNA does for our community, especially with regards to Brazilian Music, be it Bossa nova or MPB (Musica Popular Brasileira). And there’s no better in-town proponent of the form than Rhythm Foundation Development Director and Café Brasil DJ Gene de…
Up on the stage, it’s a bird, it’s a plane. No, it’s SuperSam! Contrary to images that name might conjure, it’s not tomcat Cheers bartender Sam Malone’s super hero alter ego. It’s actually the name of a kick ass Latin rock band that has taken root right here in Miami…
