For a town so obsessed with dance music, Miami has very few nights devoted to straight-up house. Not electro-, not tech-, just house. And so, besides Aquabooty’s epic events, Backdoor Bamby at the Vagabond has become a required stop for hungry house heads. Titans like Louie Vega and Jellybean Benitez…
Honeyboy Edwards destroyed a sold out house at Miami Beach’s Colony Theatre last Saturday night with a set so full of Delta you could feel it in your bones. The 94-year-old Edwards, who just won 2010’s Life Time Achievement Award at the Grammys, played with backing by Steve Arvey on…
To view a slideshow of photos from the show, click here.Holly MirandaWith Tegan and SaraSunset Cove AmphitheaterFebruary 21, 2010Better Than: Having to brave a bunch of Brooklyn hipsters for some true New York cool The Review:Had Holly Miranda heard that I came to catch her Sunset Cove show straight from…
Click here to view photos from this event.Amanda Blank with special guest Spank RockSaturday, February 20, 2010Electric Pickle, MiamiBetter than: That other white faux hipster hop singer Ke$ha.She may be just some white girl from Philly, but Amanda Blank has been doing her thing since 2005. Her rhyming skills come…
For going on two decades, German DJ/producer Marc Romboy has established himself as one of the preeminent figures of electronic dance music through a rare combination of innovative vision and heartfelt reverence for the classic forms. A childhood fascination with synthesized sounds, via the likes of Kraftwerk, got Romboy hooked…
Since Grass got a much-heralded makeover, including new expanded indoor seating, it was unclear what was going to happen to its lounge-within-a-lounge, The King is Dead. Well, the King is very much still alive (horrible, but I couldn’t resist, sorry). It’s just getting a major entertainment revamp. Past offerings there…
Spank Rock at MansionPhiladelphia MC Spank Rock played a rather odd booking at Mansion Friday night. We are used to seeing the man perform in downtown venues not South Beach megaclubs. Click here to view the full slideshow.Jay- Z at BankAtlantic CenterTemporarily renamed the Jay-Z Center, the rapper superstar kicked…
Click here to view a slideshow of photos from the show.Jay-ZWith Trey Songz and Young JeezyBankAtlantic Center, SunriseSaturday, February 20, 2010Better Than: Listening to the AutoTuned train-wreck on “We Are the World 25 for Haiti.” The Review:Jay-Z’s last two appearances in South Florida, both in 2008, were each in downtown Miami…
Last time Milwaukee hipster hop MC Juiceboxxx performed in Miami, he got everybody sweating at Poplife. This time he returns to the city in the midst of Winter Music Conference along with Puppy Hearts.The 23-year-old is on the road in support of his debut mixtape, Thunder Zone Volume One, which…
Hearing Damage: The Rat Opera is one of those little artistic things that pop up that are so uniquely weird and South Floridian. Yes, it’s an actual opera about longtime local producer and noise god Frank Falestra, a.k.a. Rat Bastard. It debuted last year at Tobacco Road and Churchill’s, but…
Always looking to balance my rock and roll with a little culture, I’m happy to report that Miami Beach’s Bass Museum of Art kicks off its much-lauded winter/spring season of biweekly jazz concerts tonight, February 19. Getting the festivities going will be the Mike Orta Quartet. FIU students will recognize…
Vocally, Detroit-born, Brooklyn-based neo-pop folk songstress Holly Miranda might bring to mind Chann Marshall. But mood-wise she’s got much more in common with, say, American dream pop duo Azure Ray. Both find solace in sleep, and the things that go bump in the night. And each has a way with…
First thing’s first, it’s important you all know one thing about the information contained within the following post. Today is my birthday! How does this relate to Los Amigos Invisibles? Well it doesn’t. Unless, due to the residual effects of last night’s celebration combined with the anxiousness over the upcoming…
Honeyboy Edwards is playing Miami Beach’s Colony Theatre this Saturday fresh off winning the lifetime achievement award at this year’s Grammy’.Tigertail Productions booked the gig well in advance. Tickets are still available for $35 to $50.Honeyboy told us, “I don’t know nothing else to do but play the blues and…
Richard Vission is the perfect musical complement to Jersey Shore. And it’s not just that he looks like a cast member. His party-time take on house is the perfect soundtrack to which to fist-pump, fist-bump, and Jäger-bomb. Hell, the guy even used to have a sweet nickname (Humpty) like everyone…
Mark Knight is on an upward trajectory in the DJ world. Last year, he broke the top half of the DJ Magazine Top 100. As head of the Toolroom label, he’s put plenty of records in DJs’ boxes from artists such as David Guetta, Deadmau5, and Audiofly. His own hits…
In the dance music world, Deadmau5 has a Midas touch that works even indirectly. Two years ago, his remix of L.A. producer Morgan Page’s track “The Longest Road” scored a Grammy nomination, and of course that pointed the spotlight back to the track’s creator. Page was ready to bask in…
For every phrase that results in someone gasping, “That would make a great band name,” there’s an equally lazy epiphany that happens when bands wind up with names such as the Devil Wears Prada, !!!, and Gringo Star. Luckily, the last, a group of Atlanta-based rising indie stars, boasts more…
International techno giant Mathew Jonson is back in Miami on Saturday to play at the Space Techno Loft, and be advised that this will be a party of epic proportions. Canadian-born/Berlin-based producer Jonson heads the esteemed Wagon Repair label and is one of the more virtuosic and boldly innovative figures…
“Fuck the art scene, bunch of boojie motherfuckers. I do this shit cause I need it to live, not for the money.” Those were the words of Fabio Destroyio on the front steps of the Freedom Tower after losing the Miami New Times Mastermind Awards at Artopia. The label would…
Poor Chris Carrabba. In the early-00s, when his project Dashboard Confessional first appeared, he was hailed as the bard of the overly-self-analyzing generatio, an acoustic troubadour reviewed in the pages of too-hip mags like Nylon. But that was before “emo” — which, arguably, he didn’t really play — became a…
The International Noise Conference, organized yearly by Miami’s resident sonic-fucking legend Rat Basterd, is secretly the best music conference the city has to offer. It’s spun off international tours, and events across the globe, but the center piece will always be the Miami original.Featuring over 100 performers delivering 15 minute…
