The first couple times I heard Metric, I couldn’t stand the singer’s voice. Bands with female lead singers who have airy, over processed voices are becoming grating to me, a guy who grew up using Riot Grrl bands as my measuring stick for female vocal performances. Then I heard Metric’s…
Let’s hope this blog post doesn’t ruin anything for :30 Seconds to Mars fans. It’s been said that if venues used the fact Hollywood dream-boat Jared Leto heads this band, he’ll flat out refuse to play the show. I guess we’re safe since we’re clearly not the venue promoting, instead…
No matter how hard the members of Chevelle try, they won’t be able to run away from certain parts of their past or comparisons to other bands. Face it, when you sign with a Christian Rock label and have your first album distributed through Christian book stores, you’re going to…
As if SAFE hadn’t won over enough hearts this weekend by serving up the Ghostly International 10 Year Anniversary Party at White Room on Saturday night, they have a veritable techno extravaganza in store for Miami tonight at Grass Lounge in the Design District, featuring Radio Slave and Argy, along…
DJ Baby Anne started her career as the Queen of Bass in, where else, Orlando, but that doesn’t mean she hasn’t made a gazillion appearances in South Florida over the last 17 years. A major draw for the underground electronica community, the foxy producer belongs to the break beat generation…
Seeing a Hasidic Jewish man on stage free styling and beat boxing between his hardcore reggae songs might seem off-putting at first but it shouldn’t. All that’s happening lyrically is reggae’s traditional Rastafarian religious views being replaced by Jewish teachings, the dreadlocks are replaced by payot, and there’s not nearly…
Panic At the Disco is a very different band from Panic! At the Disco. Back when they had the extra punctuation, they also sported a more dark(ish), electronic, and keyboard laden sound. Once they dropped the !, they also decided to start sounding much more like the Jonas Brothers of…
It’s certainly no secret that jam bands are in love with visiting South Florida. In fact, it seems like every band with a nouveau-hippie following makes it down here at least once a year, so it’s rarely big news. This announcement though, it’ll make some fans go weak in the…
Looking for something to do outside of the Basel grind? Did you lose interest now that the Stooges and the Dolls aren’t opening things up? Like metal, hardcore, punk, grind, thrash? Could you possibly give less of a fuck about a DJ set by a washed up group that you…
-6 p.m.: Vivian Girls with local openers Little Beard at the Pulse Art Fair. Click here for details.-6 p.m. to late night: Opening reception and party for the local-tastic Miami’s Independent Thinkers show. Bands like People From Venus play closer to midnight. Click here for details. -6:30 to 7 p.m.: OK Go…
Brooklyn-based DJ/producer Adrian Michna a.k.a. Egg Foo Young started his musical career DJing parties and gigging in bands on the NYC bar circuit before migrating to Miami in the mid-’90s. It was in our neck of the woods that he co-founded the pioneering hip hop/electronic outfit Secret Frequency Crew, which…
Click here to view more photos from this event.Ebony Bones!At the annual Art Loves Music concert at Collins Park, Miami BeachWednesday, December 2, 2009Better Than: Yelle’s performance at the same event last year.The Review: The Art Positions sub-shot of the official Art Basel Miami Beach, with its avant garde galleries set…
With the countless musical offerings served up alongside delectable little slices of art around the city for Basel this weekend, it’s hard picking exactly where to dive in and gorge. Luckily for you, chanteuse Cucu Diamantes, of Yerba Buena fame, is giving fans and art show goers three different opportunities…
Trying to track all the random shows and parties connected to Art Basel can be exhausting — so here’s one damn good reason to get away from them for one night. The Skinny Dip, at Kitchen 305, is a multiband celebration of life, whose proceeds benefit the Melanoma Research Foundation…
In the mid-’90s, many considered the multimember New York City act King Chango to be part of the larger constellation of ska revival acts flourishing in the Big Apple. But the band’s musical roots ran deeper than those of many of its peers. Yes, the “Chango” in its name is…
For a couple of years in the mid-’00s, it was good to be Adam Lazzara. The Taking Back Sunday frontman ruled the burgeoning third-wave emo scene while being embroiled in a feud with scene-mates Brand New, former bandmates Shaun Cooper and John Nolan, and pretty much every ex-girlfriend he ever…
South Florida lately seems to be a haven for jam bands. Hot new acts such as the Heavy Pets are making their mark, the Jam Cruise has announced its biggest lineup yet, and Langerado folded when it dropped the jam. The Perpetual Groove people are coming to cash in on…
Remember the movie Titanic? You know, the one which countless millions of people flocked to the theaters over and over again to see people who never let go? Aside from catapulting a few actors into superstardom and making millions of soccer moms secretly resent their loveless lives, Titanic also helped…
Roofless Records has got a cunt for Miami. A Megacunt.Friday, December 19 at the American Legion/Harvey’s By The Bay (6445 NE Seventh Avenue, Miami) at 9 p.m., for free, five groups you’ve never heard of will destroy, annihilate, poundfuck your eardrums into submission and then pee on your shoes and…
The Hawaii-based producer Bluetech can be considered part of the extended constellation of the jam band scene, playing and collaborating with other hippies-gone-electronic like EOTO and Flying Lotus. Still, Bluetech is fiercely experimental, citing the likes of Brian Eno, the Orb, and even Erik Satie as influences. He performs in…
Brooklyn’s Telepathe has been creating a stir for a little over a year now. Made up of Melissa Livaudais and Busy Gangnes, the duo’s synth-heavy, atmospheric pop is reminiscent of TV on the Radio, just really girly and not as full-sounding. (TV on the Radio’s Dave Sitek produced Dance Mother,…
Art Basel week is the time of surreal collaborations and appearances, so when New York mag reported a supposed “Sex Pistols concert on the beach,” it seemed plausible. Still, they only got it 25 percent right. One Pistol will, indeed, be performing, at the very swish new Opium Group poolside…
