While people complain about the lack of live music in town, and usually the same people complain about going to South Beach for anything, Jazid is a lone soldier quietly battling to prove the naysayers wrong. Sure, the venue has changed plenty over the years — for one thing, only…
Listening to the band’s incredibly tight, über-polished debut album, Manners, it’s hard to believe Passion Pit has been around for such a short time. But fact is, it hasn’t even been three years since frontman and songwriting mastermind Michael Angelakos conceived of the project. Back then, it was a solo…
After releasing separate solo albums, singer Andrea Echeverri and bassist/producer Hector Buitrago reunited in 2007 to record Oye, their first CD as Aterciopelados in five years. The disc wasn’t as rambunctiously rocking as their early work in the mid-’90s. Instead, there were entrancingly lovely interludes such as the upbeat prayer…
Remember when reggaeton first blew up internationally, extending its reach far beyond the confines of Puerto Rico? Every club and radio station from Beantown to Brussels was playing that new booty music from La Isla del Encanto. Few of the cats from that first wave have survived in the industry,…
Sure, socially conscious artists are prevalent in Spanish-language music. But few acts have committed themselves so completely to fighting for the greater good than Aterciopelados, whose zeal for placing social and political causes right before the public’s eye is legendary.The band’s most recent album, last year’s Grammy-nominated Rio, is a prime…
Somehow this slipped under our radar before, but here’s a seeming last-minute booking that may entice the hip-hop heads to get out to a South Beach megaclub. Jay Electronica, one of the Internet’s Favorite Rappers, is set to perform at Cameo Saturday night.While he first gained his hype status in…
Sloppy Seconds, Nobunny, and the Spits at Churchill’s Pub, MiamiThe Axe and the Oak at Sweat Records, Miami Saturday, June 5, 2010 Better Than: Sitting at home on a Saturday night with a $10 dollar jug of wine and having my ass handed back to me on a casual game…
Ghostwridah has risen to the forefront of the local hip-hop scene as of late. Since he dropped his Don Cannon-produced “Red Bottoms” single in February, his stock has grown and the offers from record labels just keep pouring in. Ghost announced back in late March that he did finally sign…
It seems the village of Bal Harbour is tentatively continuing to try to shake its stuffy image, and hopes again to attract some new visitors through live music. We’ll be honest, we were intrigued by the indie-rock-centric Ten-in-One Music Festival this past April, but found it a bit ill-advised. (Surfer…
¡Mira Que Lindas! continues this week, and it’ll live up to its name more than ever. So if you’ve yet to check the kick-ass exhibit of Latin pop album art paired with special showcase performances at Awarehouse, you definitely don’t want to miss this Thursday night’s show. Scratch that, if…
Justin Bieber Justin Bieber Justin Bieber Justin Bieber Justin Bieber…. Did we type his name enough? Anyways, adults over the age of, oh, 22 or so, you may very well be missing an ear part that allows you to truly connect to Bieber’s frequency. It doesn’t matter. This show is…
For the past four years, Boca-based Livid Records has been slowly but steadily releasing some of the better Florida (and beyond) rock records. With a roster that’s curated more by feel than specific genre, founder Chuck Livid has revived the careers of some old South Florida classics — like the…
Fun news. Miami has finally scored a proper show by part of the holy triumvirate of Establishment-Accepted Brooklyn Art-Pop: Yeasayer! (MGMT and the Dirty Projectors would round out the trio…. One can continue to dream.) The only bummer is that by the time Yeasayer down here, the guys might be…
You may recall this post last week, where you were prompted to catch Pacha Massive’s one of a kind live performance at the opening day of ¡Mira Que Lindas!. That’s a music and art exhibition enjoying a three-week stay at Awarehouse. It features a display Latin pop album artwork (519…
The crowd at the recurring Technosluts parties across South Florida is pretty much unlike any other. Think a colorful Venn diagram meeting of that rarified overlap between candy ravers, cyber goths, bass-heads, and fetish enthusiasts, and you’ll get the vinyl and hair-fall-filled picture. For the past four years, this loose artistic…
Imogen HeapThe Fillmore Miami BeachWednesday, June 2, 2010Better Than: Having tea at the lady’s place.The Review:The Fillmore Miami Beach could have been called, well, the Imogen Heap last night. It wasn’t so much that the British chanteuse owned the room (though, in an odd way, she did do that too)…
Destroyed came out in 1989 but it didn’t become a reality in my household until the mid 90’s when my kid brother purchased it and we spent a lot of time listening to it knowing a few facts: this shit was a helluva lot better than Kiss (and while Kiss…
Yes, you read that right. These are the 10 hottest moments we could dig up on Latin pop’s resident heartthrob. Why? Because he’s been making fans swoon for 30 years and showing no signs of slowing down. Because he’s the original Latin Lover. Because, through the cries of adoring (mostly)…
While people complain about the lack of live music in town, and (usually) the same people complain about going to South Beach for anything, Jazid is a lone soldier quietly battling to prove these naysayers wrong.Sure, the venue has changed plenty over the years — for one thing, only one…
Radio Slave, otherwise known as Matt Edwards, toils among the techno proletarians of Berlin. He runs the Rekids label and makes hallucination-evoking, bass-burrowing dance-floor tunes that would never get played on the radio here. One prime example, “My Bleep,” clocks in at nearly six and a half minutes of machinist…
Churchill’s seems to be humming along with renewed energy thanks to the semirecent addition of booker Nayra Serrano. Under her watch, the venue (finally!) got an updated website, an up-to-date online schedule, and a slate of shows by an increased number of touring bands, with overall greater quality control. This…
Dirty South’s methodical mixing skills can be traced to the DJ’s humble beginnings. He was born Dragan Roganovic in Belgrade, Serbia, and the encroaching unrest in then Yugoslavia sent his family packing to Melbourne, Australia, when he was 13 years old. Already a budding music nut, young Roganovic began taping…
