Jon SecadaFairchild Tropical Garden, MiamiSunday, February 14, 2010 Better Than: Being stuck in an elevator. The Review:Hialeah’s own golden boy Jon Secada, the famed Miami crooner known for his dentist office waiting-room standards like “Just Another Day,” “Angel,” and “If You Go,” performed at the beautiful Fairchild Tropical Botanic Gardens on Sunday…
Electric Pickle must have some serious staff rotations lined up for WMC, because its daily roster doesn’t leave a whole lot of room for sleep. (See, for instance, the 14-hour Crosstown Rebels Get Lost gig, which lasts from 5 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Saturday, March 27).Here’s another daytime gig,…
DJ/producer Martin Landsky is the quintessential Berlin techno artist, his work embodying that Teutonic icy minimalism infused with warm Afro-soul that has made German-bred electronic dance music the sound of the international zeitgeist. A veteran of the ’80s breakdance scene in Hamburg with an early interest in funk and other…
Who’da thunk they’d even heard about dubstep up in West Palm Beach, let alone been in on the action? But it’s true. The U.K.-birthed electronic music phenomenon is alive and kicking up in South Florida’s third county. That either means those folks are hipper than we think, or we’ve been…
It seems that South Florida is recovering from a post-Super Bowl hangover as things seemed to slow down this week — or maybe it was the drop in temperature. Still, there were a few events worth highlighting, so here is what you missed over the weekend:Love is Magic at Friends…
Yonder Mountain String BandRevolution, Fort LauderdaleFebruary 12, 2010 The Review: If there’s one thing that hippies love more than bluegrass, it’s far-out bluegrass played by hippies, for hippies. That’s why Yonder Mountain String Band is as precious as a magic topaz crystal mined from the caverns of Tim Leary’s wisdom-mind (wooooaaah). The…
State Radio With Big D and the Kids’ TableCulture Room, Fort LauderdaleWednesday, February 10, 2010 Better Than: Watching your live Dispatch: Zimbabwe DVD for the 12th time. State Radio plays smart rock.More specifically, it’s educated, punk-infused alt-reggae with socially conscious lyrics. And the band plays it damn well. The trio — Chad…
Welcome to our second edition of Crossfade Live, where we bring you streams and downloads of our original high fidelity concert recordings from bands and venues all over South Florida. We will prove live music thrives here, and hand it to you for playback at your leisure.Last night Shake at…
The impromptu Sunday afternoon sessions at Electric Pickle are becoming Miami clubland’s number one guilty pleasure, and PL0T’s Valentine’s Day throwdown this Sunday is just too good to pass up. Esteemed DJ/producer and Wagon Repair label head Konrad Black will be reloading last year’s “Black Valentine’s” party and congregating Miami’s…
The handsome Canadian transplant Tristan Clopet is something of a musical anomaly on the local scene. With his band, the Juice, he skips both the indie flavors of the week and the super-commercial aspirations of others around town. Instead, his music recalls those heady days of the early ’90s, when…
Aholsniffsglue is all over the fuckin place; street signs, corner walls, toilet seats, gas pumps. We heard he owns his own trucking company, Ahol Dumps. People say he’s the one been killing all those horses in the Redlands. Some lady in line at the store told us that Aholsniffsglue is…
Paleface is an archetypal musician’s musician, the kind of fiercely talented guy whose friends all go on to surpass him in fame, but never stop singing his praises. Known as one of the originators of so-called “anti-folk,” he got his musical start more than 20 years ago thanks to a…
In support of its fifth studio release, 2009’s The Show, Yonder Mountain String Band is deep into the aptly named Cabin Fever Tour. Considering the group hails from the mountains outside Boulder, Colorado, it’s a no-brainer why this four-piece renegade act makes a sunny Florida stop during its annual winter…
There are few artists as quintessentially representative of Cuban culture in the United States as Willy Chirino (and Celia, que en paz descanse). The man is a hero to the exile community not only in South Florida but also nationwide. Whether you came from Cuba or were born here first…
Fanny Lu is a lot of things, and only one of those is super-friggin’-hot. Actually, we could count that quality twice and might continue to mention it. But the Colombian beauty is far more than yummy eye candy. Although the Cali native spent some time putting those looks to good…
The flagship band of the West Coast Black Rock Coalition wing, beloved by artists including the late Miles Davis and OutKast, Fishbone has long persisted as a vital pioneer of stateside ska, striving tirelessly toward an equivalence of diverse styles and visions. Sadly, ‘Bone’s adherence to 2-Tone as well as…
Considering that one half of Gnarles Barkley is the comprised of musical genius/producer extraordinaire Danger Mouse, and the other is Cee-Lo mother-fuckin’ Green, whom we all know is the soul machine, drawing the comparison “the Latin Gnarles Barkley” are some pretty damned big kicks to be stepping into. We’ll leave…
Turns out mixtapes aren’t just for rappers. But British critical darling Dan Black, who recently played to a somewhat unappreciative crowd at LIV, doesn’t have much use for genre constraints. A rare pop singer (to try to label him simply) who creates his own compositions, he travels easily between electro,…
Mayday!, Goodie Mob, and NasThe Arsht Center, MiamiFriday, February 5, 2010 Better Than: BET’s SOS Haiti benefit concert that took place earlier the same night, right up the street at the American Airlines Arena.The Review: Sure, Super Bowl week was chock full of celeb-infested, high-profile events promising “special appearances” by…
Furthur Bayfront Park Amphitheater, MiamiFriday, February 5, 2010Better Than: [Insert clever Grateful Dead song title] cover bandThe Review:With weather on my mind and 50 miles of Super Bowl-enhanced traffic in front of me, I departed home this past Friday with anticipation of what the Grateful Dead’s newest incarnation would have…
Since opening its doors a year ago, the Electric Pickle has emerged as a bastion of quality underground music in a city otherwise tyrannized by commercial and ostentatious nightlife. With weekly bookings showcasing some of the top contemporary EDM talent from around the world in a refreshingly inclusive and intimate…
That Radioboxer and Humbert are playing a Valentine’s-themed show this Friday at the Shack North in Hialeah is not, in itself, huge news. The former has played plenty of warehouse gigs in the City of Progress, and the latter are the town’s patron saints (and owners of the place). What…
