Youssou N’Dour November 16, 2007 Gusman Theater Better Than: Being at S.O.B.’s in the Eighties The Review: If it makes sense that Youssou N’Dour kicked-off his current North American tour in the polyglot melting pot that is Miami, it makes even more sense that he did it at the behest…
Bonnie Raitt Thursday, Nov 13 Hard Rock Live The people who show up at Bonnie Raitt shows these days are white, married, and between the ages of 40 and 60. The only teenagers I saw were two blond chicks that sat next to me and left after the third song…
That1Guy Thursday November 15th 2007 Dada, Delray Beach Better Than: Emmet Otter’s Jug Band Christmas The Review: I had no idea what to expect out of this performance. It turns out that nothing really could have prepared me for what was about to happen. It started out with That1Guy bringing…
Tegan and Sara November 13, 2007 The Culture Room, Ft. Lauderdale Better Than: An aimless drive – but not by much. The Review:I didn’t wanna dig Tegan and Sara’s Culture Room show Tuesday night – I expected to. In fact, I’d never even considered anything otherwise. I mean, I dug…
Nightwish November 14, 2007 Culture Room Better Than: Staring at the cleavage of a hot European rocker chick stuffed into a tight, leather corset. Okay, so maybe that’s not so bad. When the lights went down and the guitars came up in the Culture Room last night, Nightwish, the melodic…
This weekend famed house artiste Laurent Garnier appears at Shine for his first gig in Miami in more than a decade. The star DJ, one of the prime cogs in the late-Eighties Madchester scene, boasts his share of storied appearances. There was the time he stood in for Guns N’…
She has teamed with Iggy, Elvis, Moby, Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, and Miss Guy (of Toilet Boys). She has spoken up and out on AIDS, the Human Rights Campaign, and even the incarceration of Lil’ Kim. Her songs are now tracking a West End staging of Desperately Seeking Susan and racing…
Together for less than a year, the world experimentalists of Bachaco prefer their career trajectory like their tequila: straight up. Already armed with enough original material to fill a couple of albums, the Miami band is at work on its first, as-yet-untitled full-length for Onesound Records, due out before the…
Tokyo quartet Melt Banana really is the perfect band for fans of both Puffy AmiYumi and AIDS Wolf, if such a creature actually exists (the fan, not the wolf). On the cute side of things, there are frontwoman Yasuko Onuki’s vocals, which are mostly hyperactive squeals, squawks, and chants comprehensible…
No matter how much he shuns the public eye, no matter how many times he threatens to disappear, no matter how tired he might seem, Morrissey will always have fans who flock to him. When the Manchester-born Moz — an eloquent bard of countless slightly dark, bookish, often myopic misfits…
Eric Prydz is serious about energy conservation, but that isn’t why he’d love to see airplanes abolished. The Swedish techno DJ/producer is deathly afraid of flying — it’s a wonder he’s making a stateside trip to begin with. Thus it makes sense that he’ll be killing two birds with one…
Shane McGowan would be proud: Irish-inflected punk is alive and kicking with booted feet. The latest heirs to the royal court currently led by the Dropkick Murphys and Flogging Molly are the members of Flatfoot 56, a quartet hailing from the Windy City. Like any self-respecting Celtic rockers, they’ve got…
This weekend, jazz fans who head out to Sandoval’s will have a unique opportunity. Instead of listening to a sole bandleader doing his thing, they’ll be able to sample two veteran musicians in a coheadlined concert showcasing material from the repertoire of both artists’ long careers. The concept, says New…
Black Moth Super Rainbow: Now that’s a mouthful. Not only does the name resonate like a confusingly translated Japanese cartoon, but also it conjures up elements of science fiction, mythology, and, most of all, sensory saturation. It’s not unlike a midnight walk through Tokyo’s manic, multimedia freak-out Shibuya district. In…
The name Scary Kids Scaring Kids is only partially accurate. They’re really more cute than scary. They definitely are young, though. The sextet from Gilbert, Arizona, formed in 2002, during most of the members’ junior year of high school. Their mothers bought them some of their first pieces of equipment…
The sometimes West Palm Beach resident Killa Cam’ron has a new double mixtape out today. I’m not going to waste a lot of time loving it or hating on it as I’ve only heard a few tracks which didn’t move me in either direction. But here’s a funny post from…
Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez American Airlines Arena Nov. 2, 2007 Better Than: Sonny and Cher The Mennifer, or shall we say, J.Ant show is so overwhelmingly over the top, you can’t help but marvel at the star power in all of its pyrotechnics. Friday night at the American Airlines…
Annie Lennox October 31, 2007 The Carnival Center Better Than: A Weimar-era balladeer in a blender. I don’t know what’s better, that I got a privileged seat for the set of Annie Lennox last night, or that I got to sit next to the Herald’s Howard Cohen, who I thought…
To visit Whole Wheat Bread’s MySpace page — which pairs a profile photo of three unsmiling black men with streaming strains of fast, melodic punk — is to suspect an elaborate hoax. Not because black dudes can’t play punk (Bad Brains obliterated that silly stereotype two decades ago), but because…
Chances are good it’s already too late to get yourself into Studio A for the only U.S. date on UK DJ James Zabiela’s fall 2007 tour. One thing that’ll probably be there is a small band of haters standing around with arms crossed, silently cursing Zabiela for bringing turntablism into…
We found this blurb on Yahoo!, describing the Kings of Leon’s official Web site: “Rock band from Tennessee whose songs teem with primal emotions and rangy rhythms.” First, somebody from the Kings’ camp wrote this. Second, somebody in the Kings’ camp thinks their songs teem with primal emotions and, moreover,…
It’s difficult to believe it’s been almost 20 years since the Reverend Horton Heat released his first album — and he hasn’t changed a bit. Of course, the whole point of psychobilly is an unabashed dedication to purity of sonic identity. (That, and getting just fucked up enough to let…
