FusikTuesday, November 25Mix Ultra Lounge, HollywoodConsidering that there aren’t many places for hip-hop culture to truly thrive in South Florida, it’s no surprise that folks are starting to cross county lines to check out Mix Ultra Lounge on Tuesday nights.The semi-upscale martini bar seems like it’s the last place you’d…
Do you have plans for New Years yet? If you’re a hip-hop fan, then you do now. The Roots have announced that they’ll be performing in Miami–at the Florida Room inside of the Delano Hotel of all places–on New Years Eve. It’s definitely going to be one of the hottest…
Reigning Sound The party continues at the Kill Your Idols space on Friday, December 5, first with Hex Dispensers, an Austin quartet who overdosed on the Ramones, but not so much the Beach Boys (it’s a good thing ). Brutal Knights hail from the much colder climes of Toronto, and…
This isn’t a live performance by the Gossip per se. But the band will most certainly be in the house at O.H.W.O.W. tonight, for a party following the opening of Portland Now, a group show at the Bas Fisher Invitational space. (It’s curated by the band’s guitarist, Brace Pain, a.k.a…
Matt and KimSome of the best music presented this week comes courtesy of the ongoing Converse-sponsored Kill Your Idols event in the Design District. An ode to current movers and shakers keeping the original punk spirit alive (albeit in mutated, advanced forms), the space features a photo exhibit by Eileen…
Longtime legends of the lower-lower Manhattan underground, the quartet A.R.E. Weapons have been steadily chugging along since 1999, blasting out something along the lines of electro-rock as imagined by former punk rock types. The band’s noisy assault of party-in-your-face found some near-mainstream success in the U.K., where it scored a…
Broken Social Scene with Land of TalkSaturday, November 22, 2008Club Cinema, Pompano BeachCanadian experimental/indie-rock supergroup Broken Social Scene descended on South Florida last night like a swarm of indie bees, and buzzed up a two-hour storm for jubilant fans at a packed Club Cinema in Pompano, on the last night…
I just got off the phone with the folks at the Dive Bar in Fort Lauderdale and learned about an upcoming show that sounds enticing. Popular Puerto Rican rock band, Black Guayaba is going to be performing next Friday night here in South Florida, and they’ve got the eclectic Teri…
Tonight there’s a going to be a good set of music going on over at Atmosphere Lounge in Fort Lauderdale. Coral Springs-based folks singer Andrew Bayuk will be on hand singing songs of love, of protest, of peace, and of passion. He’s been grinding away in South Florida’s indie music…
Hyphy as a “movement,” per se, may have disappeared as quickly as the driver of a ghost-ridden whip. But in the fallout after the thiz high finally wore off, the Yay Area’s most talented bona fide MCs have survived. And the man to come out closest to the top so…
John Hood Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band Tuesday, November 18, 2008 Culture Room, Fort Lauderdale Better Than: The Eagles after they slept with Leonard Cohen. This should really be called The Night Before Last Night seeing that ol’ Bright Eyes’ boy wonder played on Tuesday rather than Wednesday,…
You might have heard that Stones Throw Records biggest artist, Madlib, is headed to Miami to play a show in conjunction with Art Basel. A selective email blast went out about it last week, but eerily left out most of the details about when the show would be, where it…
Rachel Goodrich While seemingly the whole highbrow world descends on Miami Beach tonight for the official opening of Art Basel, across the causeway, the Vagabond kicks off the artsy extravaganza with a locals-centric fiesta. Okay, so Miami New Times is an official sponsor of the event, but it’s never a…
Like so many postgrunge outfits in the mid-Nineties, the Toadies were plucked prematurely from the garage by opportunist label scouts. The Texas-bred alt-rockers were soon shown the stars above with their monster debut, Rubberneck, and then quickly thrown to hell below. Though the bandmates were primed and hyped to no…
In a city where mainstream hip-hop culture rules the airways, the guys in Dangerflow are striving to create a different type of vibe. This new local six-piece specializes in fashioning soulful, dance-oriented hip-hop grooves mixed with a dash of old-school Seventies free funk. Think of them as the Roots meet…
At age 18, Randy Singer left his native Ohio in search of a full-time career as a performer. The first stop was New York University, where he earned a degree in music. Then came a stint of traveling through various countries, including Brazil and the Czech Republic, in order to…
The seemingly-out-of-nowhere appearance of the young Kendall duo I Set My Friends on Fire has been recounted in New Times’ pages several times in recent months. But just to recap: teenagers Matt Mihana and Nabil Moo, formerly of a more by-the-numbers post-hardcore band, wanted to form a new project. They…
Joe Jackson Saturday, November 15, 2008 The Fillmore Miami Beach at the Jackie Gleason Theater Joe Jackson has always occupied an upper strata in the world of rock, an artist who’s daringly dabbled in a variety of seemingly disparate genres and pulled each off with convincing aplomb. He took flight…
Ben Thacker SoCal surf-punk band Agent Orange rocked Churchill’s Pub Saturday night. Click here to view the full slideshow. Agent Orange with To Be Hated and O.P.S. Saturday, November 15, 2008 Churchill’s Pub, Miami SoCal surf/skatepunk legends Agent Orange gave an all-out performance last night to a packed crowd at…
Trans-Siberian Orchestra Thursday, November 14, 2008 BankAtlantic Center, Sunrise Better Than: A piping mug of hot chocolate and a handful of candy canes on a warm South Florida day. Before mentioning the jolly thrashing Trans-Siberian Orchestra dispensed at the BankAtlantic Center last night, it should be noted that I have…
Sayre Berman Chris Robinson, lead vocalist of the Black Crowes, performs with the band at the Fillmore Miami Beach. Click here for the full slideshow. The Black Crowes With the Buffalo Killers Wednesday, November 12 The Fillmore Miami Beach Better Than: Watching Almost Famous and wishing real rock and roll…
Rap mega star of the year, Lil Wayne, just recently announced the launch of his “I Am Music” Tour and naturally, it includes a local date in Miami. The rapper, who now calls Miami home, will be joined by Keyshia Cole, Gym Class Heroes, and Mr. Thank God for Auto-Tune…
