Arlo Guthrie Plays the Parker Playhouse this Sunday

There are certain unforgettable snapshots that frame Arlo Guthrie’s life and career. They’re prefaced by the lingering legacy he inherited from his father, the great Woody Guthrie, one of America’s most indelible folk singers, the patron saint of protest and the man who inspired generations of young men like Bob…

Kings of Leon to Play BankUnited Center on May 7

Concert season is beginning to take shape with some pretty big concert announcements over the last week, and Kings of Leon are the latest to announce a stop in South Florida. Fresh of their meteoric rise to stardom/sellout status thanks to their song about flaming sex, the Tennessee bred band…

Morrissey Cancels South Florida Show … AGAIN

Local Morrissey fans were super-excited at the end of 2007, when it seemed the singer would return for a second area show that year. After an extremely well-received performance at Boca’s Mizner Park Amphitheatre, he was slated to end his extended United States run with a date at the Fillmore…

Random Video: Bob Marley at Criteria Studios

Light your spliff early and watch this video of Bob Marley And The Wailers rehearsing at the famed Criteria Studios, now Hit Factory, in North Miami on September 14, 1980.Marley Fest is this Saturday February 28th. click here for more info …

No Doubt Announces Tour, West Palm Beach Date

Fresh off a solo project that arguably provided more fame and fortune than the project which brought her onto the scene, Gwen Stefani has reunited with No Doubt. And the band has announced a massive tour across the U.S. and Canada which brings it to the Cruzan Amphitheater in West…

Last Night: Kid Sister and Flosstradamus at LIV

Kid Sister and FlosstradamusWednesday, February 26, 2009LIV at the Fontainebleau, Miami BeachBetter than: Getting your toes done up.When I got the invite for LIV’s newest party, Dirty Hairy, I was sort of skeptical that it was actually going to happen. I mean, the party’s whole concept is better suited for…

Ex-Norwegian

The band members have last names like Garcia, and there’s nothing even particularly Scandinavian-sounding about this homegrown trio. Formerly known by the definitely worse name Father Bloopy, the group refreshingly mines musical territory often forgotten in these parts — classic guitar power-pop of yesteryear. And filling this musical void has…

Kryptonite Metal Festival

No one can ever accuse Oski Gonzalez, the tireless booker at Tobacco Road, of favoring any particular genre in his famous multiband minifestivals. So heavier stuff gets its due this weekend at the second annual Kryptonite Metal Festival. Including some 18 bands on three stages, the lineup features much of…

Ludo

Hmmm, Ludo? Isn’t that the nickname for a certain much-abused narcotic of somewhat ill repute? Or could it be that Boz Scaggs hit song from way back in the day? Or maybe it’s the nickname your college buddy chose because he always shunned his given name. Well… no. This Ludo…

Take Action Tour

Hopeless Records and nonprofit organization Sub City have joined forces with music chain F.Y.E. to put on the eighth annual Take Action Tour. To date, the tour has raised more than $550,000 for DoSomething.org, a nonprofit focused not on one particular charity, but rather on providing tools, resources, and motivation…

Mötley Crüe

This Tuesday night at the Hard Rock, the L.A. glam-metal heroes of Mötley Crüe will sling their grown-up and toned-down debauchery while still delivering their searing Sunset Strip sound. Infinitely underrated guitar god Mick Mars, enigmatic songwriting bassist Nikki Sixx, genre-defining vocalist and aging pretty boy Vince Neil, and wildly…

The Kryptonite Metal Festival Returns to Tobacco Road this Friday

No one can ever accuse Oski Gonzalez, the tireless booker at Tobacco Road, of favoring any particular genre in his famous multi-band, mini-festival extravaganzas. So heavier stuff gets its due this weekend at the second annual Kryptonite Metal Festival. Including some 18 bands on three different stages, the lineup features…

Friday: MastikSoul at Eden Terrace Garden

Portuguese DJ/producer Fernando Figueira a.k.a. MastikSoul will be rocking the new Eden Terrace Garden at Nocturnal this Friday night. With a career spanning almost two decades and a signature sound strongly rooted in African percussive rhythms, Figueira is a pioneer of the tribal Latin house Miamians so adore. Nothing like…

Missy Higgins tonight at The Culture Room

Sometimes you hear a song on the radio, a television show, or a commercial and simply must find out who sings that song. I’m sure this was the case with many people who heard “Where I Stood” on Grey’s Anatomy and I’m just as sure that those people who decided…

Conjunto Progreso Brings Old School Cuban Flavor to Transit

Conjunto Progresso ain’t your mama’s Cuban jam band.  Well…maybe they are.  The fact is, the orchestra, specializing in son and Latin jazz, is about as traditional as it gets.  Don’t let LEBO’s artwork emblazoned on their album covers and flyers fool you, they aren’t Spam Allstars.  And they aren’t trying…

Citizen Cope tonight at Culture Room

Tonight is the night for those who would have been gearing up for Langerado this week to forget about the defunct festival and revel in a somehow-still-undergroundish artist who would have fit perfectly in the jam festival’s earlier years. Clarence Greenwood, aka Citizen Cope, brings his breezy brand of acoustic…