Cosmic. Karmic. Ghettotech house. These are a few of the words used by local duo Afrobeta to describe their sound. An ambient blend of disco, funk and house with underpinnings of various other electro styles ranging from breaks to trance and even bit of gabba, Tony “Smurphio” Laurencio and Cristina…
This week’s installment of Soultech at Skybar presents Berlin-based Polish techno producer/DJ Martin Czubala. Not your run-of-the-mill minimal techy, Czubala comes from an extensive background in classical music, having performed in over 300 European concerts in the early ’90s before delving into EDM production. While grounded in minimal house and…
The New York-born, Toronto-raised singer-songwriter Justin Nozuka boasts an entertainment-world pedigree that will perhaps forever haunt him in blurbs such as this. His mother, Holly Sedgwick, is sister of actress Kyra — which makes Kevin Bacon his uncle, and Edie Sedgwick a cousin. His brother, Phillip is an actor, and…
Naming his label Size Records, DJ/producer Steve Angello set himself up for criticism if he couldn’t lay down the magnitude of tracks necessary to command a room like Mansion, where he will help commemorate the club’s fifth birthday on Saturday. Luckily, Angello’s brand of breezy, big room progressive house perfectly…
In a world where divas are bionically enhanced, the bloom of marquees and floodlights can be seen from space, and the energy crisis has been averted by harnessing the kinetic motion of dancefloors, power house is the genre of choice. And those who choose power house choose DJ Boris, who…
DJ and producer Darren Emerson was once in dub-strewn acid house collective Underworld. And lest you forget, he opens and closes his new mix compilation, GU36: Bogotá with the then-progressive trio’s 1993 epic “MMM Skyscraper I Love You.” The two CDs this bookends are Emerson’s third entry for Global Underground,…
Clarence Greenwood is everywhere and nowhere. Turn on the television or go to the movie theater, and you’re certain to hear his driving choruses or melodic refrains leit motifing all kinds of popular culture (see Entourage, Teton Gravity Research, Acura commercials, and others). Greenwood, who records under the name Citizen…
It’s hard to overstate the influence of the long-running Norwegian band Satyricon on the world’s extreme heavy metal scene. Its tenacity alone is amazing — the core of the band, frontman/songwriter Satyr and drummer Frost, has been playing together continuously since 1992. On albums and tours, an all-star cast of…
Maiden fans, despair not: The band’s added, last-minute, a South Florida gig as the very last one of its current Somewhere Back in Time tour. And yes, fans will know that this is Iron Maiden’s first show in Florida in 13 years! The tour was initially set to end in…
via www.tomjones.comYou’d be hard pressed to find a human being on the planet with more “cool” than Tom Jones. Countless hip hop artists claim to have the lock-down on the swagger, but each of them must bow their heads in reverence to Mr. Jones. There’s not a person alive who…
Back in 92′, that’s 17 years ago, Snoop wasn’t the Doggfather, DRE wasn’t unfuckwithable and Luke got tried on wax on a track called “Fuck Wit Dre Day” on The Chronic. The diss apparently stemmed from a song on Luke’s first solo cd, I Got Shit On My Mind, where…
Ximena Sariñana is nothing if not precocious. The Mexican actress/singer-songwriter claims her love affair with music began at the age of 2, when she attended an Ella Fitzgerald concert and at 7 she was enrolled in singing lessons with famed vocal coach, Ricardo Sanchez at the urging of her neighbor,…
Konrad BlackSaturday, February 14, 2009Glass, Miami BeachBetter than: Certainly anything else going on in the Beach that night. The turnout for Konrad Black’s show on Saturday night could have been much greater given the hype. But it was Valentine’s, after all, and most people were probably either at home making…
DWNTWN Concert Series with Afrobeta and ChanaFriday, February 13, 2009Tina Hills Pavilion at Bayfront Park, MiamiBetter than: Ever.Psst…things are happening in Downtown Miami. Especially at Bayfront Park: Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays you can find free yoga; Thursdays you can find delicious organic produce at the farmers market; and second Fridays…
via myspace.com/leeboysThe Lee Boys are not a bluegrass band, although just reading the name may evoke that thought. No, the Lee Boys are South Florida’s finest sacred steel ensemble. The brothers Lee (Alvin, Derrick, and Keith) along with their nephews Roosevelt Collier, Alvin Cody Jr., and Earl Walker play a…
Tonight, Friday the 13th, in a hard luck city in a bad luck wind, Miami New Times Promotions presents four bands battling for the chance to play a show in NYC with free airfare and accommodations. Last week Afrobeta and Tristan & The Juice made it to the finals. Tonight,…
Notorious Nastie is in the business of death, that’s how he makes his living. Zombie this, bloody that, what ever happened to girls wrestling in baby oil? Tonight, Friday the 13th, all the wicked of Miami converge on downtown for a Grave Rave at PS14. I heard they’re going to…
Finishing up what looks to be, perhaps, the last of the Langerado rescheduling announcements, Ozomatli will now appear at Culture Room on Saturday, March 7. Unlike Sunday’s indie-fave head-to-head-to-head showdown of Deerhunter Girl Talk vs. Modest Mouse vs. Tokyo Police Club, Ozomatli’s competition on Saturday isn’t too bad. The main…
via myspace.com/here_we_riseNothing says I love you like thrashing guitars, guttural screams and kids wildly punching the air. The Talent Farm is hosting a very special Valentine’s Day show featuring some of the best hardcore/scream-o/punk acts in south Florida like Here We Rise, Mind Over Matter, Shoot The Messenger, and A…
Ana Gabriel is a living legend in Mexican music, having repeatedly conquered pop, rock and regional charts in her native country, the U.S. and Latin America over the span of her illustrious 42-year career–a career that has borne 38 albums to date. The singer-songwriter, born María Guadalupe Araújo Yong to…
It’s puzzling why people who are hell-bent on blowing the minds of other people via so-called “noise music” so often also seem hell-bent on blowing their sonic victims’ olfactory senses. So weird smells aside, the International Noise Conference is the place to see and hear shit you will not likely…
Yes, Blues Traveler is still around. Long ago, frontman John Popper graduated from the more-is-more school of blues-rock jamming, his dissertation a seven-minute harmonica solo tucked into a 23-minute jam about a sweet-talking hippie. Since 1990, he has led the band in diligent touring and understatement-free recordings, including an album…
