With the countless musical offerings served up alongside delectable little slices of art around the city for Basel this weekend, it’s hard picking exactly where to dive in and gorge. Luckily for you, chanteuse Cucu Diamantes, of Yerba Buena fame, is giving fans and art show goers three different opportunities…
Trying to track all the random shows and parties connected to Art Basel can be exhausting — so here’s one damn good reason to get away from them for one night. The Skinny Dip, at Kitchen 305, is a multiband celebration of life, whose proceeds benefit the Melanoma Research Foundation…
In the mid-’90s, many considered the multimember New York City act King Chango to be part of the larger constellation of ska revival acts flourishing in the Big Apple. But the band’s musical roots ran deeper than those of many of its peers. Yes, the “Chango” in its name is…
For a couple of years in the mid-’00s, it was good to be Adam Lazzara. The Taking Back Sunday frontman ruled the burgeoning third-wave emo scene while being embroiled in a feud with scene-mates Brand New, former bandmates Shaun Cooper and John Nolan, and pretty much every ex-girlfriend he ever…
South Florida lately seems to be a haven for jam bands. Hot new acts such as the Heavy Pets are making their mark, the Jam Cruise has announced its biggest lineup yet, and Langerado folded when it dropped the jam. The Perpetual Groove people are coming to cash in on…
Remember the movie Titanic? You know, the one which countless millions of people flocked to the theaters over and over again to see people who never let go? Aside from catapulting a few actors into superstardom and making millions of soccer moms secretly resent their loveless lives, Titanic also helped…
Roofless Records has got a cunt for Miami. A Megacunt.Friday, December 19 at the American Legion/Harvey’s By The Bay (6445 NE Seventh Avenue, Miami) at 9 p.m., for free, five groups you’ve never heard of will destroy, annihilate, poundfuck your eardrums into submission and then pee on your shoes and…
The Hawaii-based producer Bluetech can be considered part of the extended constellation of the jam band scene, playing and collaborating with other hippies-gone-electronic like EOTO and Flying Lotus. Still, Bluetech is fiercely experimental, citing the likes of Brian Eno, the Orb, and even Erik Satie as influences. He performs in…
Brooklyn’s Telepathe has been creating a stir for a little over a year now. Made up of Melissa Livaudais and Busy Gangnes, the duo’s synth-heavy, atmospheric pop is reminiscent of TV on the Radio, just really girly and not as full-sounding. (TV on the Radio’s Dave Sitek produced Dance Mother,…
Art Basel week is the time of surreal collaborations and appearances, so when New York mag reported a supposed “Sex Pistols concert on the beach,” it seemed plausible. Still, they only got it 25 percent right. One Pistol will, indeed, be performing, at the very swish new Opium Group poolside…
As the week wears on, every morning we’ll post our recommendations for the best public music-related and club events taking place during Art Basel Miami Beach.Wednesday, December 2-6:30 to 7 p.m.: OK Go performs at Design Miami/. Click here for full details. -8 to 10 p.m.: Blueprint for Space opening reception,…
Is it a documentary? A mockumentary? Or propaganda sent out by John Tesh? (He’s an alien, you know.) Buzz has been swirling around “I’m Gonna Do It Until the Day I Die,” (made by West Palm Beach’s Majic Robot Films), which details the tragic disappearance of the Detroit band MOG…
Once you get off the Jam Cruise, you should go ahead and get ready for another show to reminisce with your new found friends and relive the countless hours of meandering guitars, drum solos, and improvised jam sessions with a band that’s been perfecting all those things for 15 years…
More often than not, Apple catches lightning in a bottle with the songs and they become fantastic vehicles for Apple’s newest technology. Brooklyn-by-way-of-Boulder electronic pop trio Chairlift is the outright epitome of iPod fame. The band’s song “Bruises” landed in the aforementioned commercials, and the rest was history. Tonight, they…
Tomorrow, Miami New Times will bring you the full scoop on this year’s edition of Primary Flight. But to summarize, it’s one of the most interesting satellite happenings during this year’s Art Basel Miami Beach extravaganza, a show that is literally at the street level. Starting today, you can check…
Little Louie VegaThe Vagabond, MiamiNovember 28, 2009 Better Than: Any other house music night in South Florida. The Review: By now we all know the story: Louie Vega was born into a world of music. His uncle was the great salsa singer Héctor Lavoe, and his father was an in-demand jazz…
Emo, screamo, post-punk, pop punk, alt-rock, post-hardcore, call it whatever the hell you want–attempting to keep track of the subgenrefication of moody rock bands in eyeliner is practically impossible. But we can all still agree on good music versus bad music, and The Used most definitely falls under the former…
Roger DaltreyHard Rock Live, HollywoodSunday, November 29, 2009The Review:First the good news. Take half of the Who, after being ravaged by the demise of its mighty rhythm section, Keith Moon and John Entwitsle. Then divide the remaining Who two in half, leaving only singer Roger Daltrey, concluding his first solo…
The term “chillwave” might have been coined sarcastically by the parody blog Hipster Runoff, but the music blogosphere has taken it and run with it. A sort of 2k9 reiteration of the old “downtempo,” these producers are influenced more by Animal Collective than Massive Attack, and create tracks with a…
Million Dollar Mano was already a favorite on Chicago’s free-spirited house/hip-hop crossover scene. His new project, though, might get even wider attention, thanks to the addition of a little female energy in the form of frontwoman Drea Smith. Together they are He Say She Say, and over squelching electro-pop, Smith…
Now in its seventh installment, Aquabooty’s infamous Art Basel special, “Fuck Art Let’s Dance”, is going down at the Electric Pickle on Friday night and headlined this time by the legendary DJ/producer and self-anointed “high priest of spiritual house music” Osunlade. The religious title isn’t merely symbolic, as Osunlade is…
A couple recent concert announcements bring a little something for people on both your naughty and nice lists this Christmas. If you or someone you know happens to be on the nice list, consider celebrating Christmas (or at least the ghost of Christmas) a couple weeks early with local stars…
