More so than any genre, the blues embrace aging. Players in their sixties are kids to the stars who’ve made it to their seventies, eighties — the legendary Diamond Teeth Mary McClain played annual shows in Miami well into her nineties. So it’s pretty perfect that blues legend Buddy Guy,…
This electronic-music pioneer from Philadelphia has remained a strongly blinking blip on the ever-shifting sonar screen of big-room dance-sound enthusiasts, from his emergence as a live-recording college favorite in the early Nineties to his more recent minimalist house tracks. Wink’s latest album, Profound Sounds: Volume 3, dropped this past May…
Looking for an excuse to wear a costume before October? This one’s for you. The Junina Festival is an annual family-oriented Brazilian event featuring traditional food, music, games, and garb. Popular getups include men dressing as farm boys and sporting suspenders and straw hats, and women as farm girls with…
When a band’s name means “sound mixture,” you know you’re about to hear something deliberately style-bending. Sonido Batido has been performing in Miami since 2003, when it began building a reputation for making extreme live-music mashups work out okay. In the past, the band members used organs, trumpets, and traditional…
Originally from Kansas, Mia Vassilev plays a much meaner piano than Dorothy ever did. Vassilev is a classical pianist who, in addition to performing in her hometown, has played concerts in Oklahoma, Missouri, and Texas. Her renditions have been broadcast on Bulgaria’s Classical Radio Network, and she has performed for…
Prepare to face the dark side of the Force. The Dark Lords of the (metal) Sith are about to invade South Florida. Well, maybe this isn’t quite what George Lucas had in mind, but Vader, the veteran death metal band that takes its name from Lucas’s most famous villain, is…
Timba, the half-century-old outgrowth of Cuban-bred son, is a complex form of danceable salsa that has evolved almost entirely independently of other South American styles. Timba requires such a high level of musicianship that it is frequently lamented it might die out owing to the ban on musicians touring from…
What moves you? According to Scion, the answer is art workshops and DJ sets at a converted gallery space in South Beach. Hosted by Scion and Neverstop, What Moves You Miami is a three-week-long series of workshops and entertainment focused on teaching aspiring artists how to develop their art. The…
To kick off the summer properly, Coral Gables Congregational Church (CGCC) is pushing nightly bingo aside for bigger and better things. Beginning June 1, CGCC, through its Community Arts Program (CAP), will hold a series of jazz concerts every Thursday, including performances by the two-time Grammy-nominated jazz singer Karrin Allyson…
When piano store owners place curtains over their merchandise, it usually means bad news for musicians. However, with Coral Gables’ Piano Music Center, it just means the show is about to begin. “We curtain off areas so people don’t feel intimidated to shop,” says store owner Rick Malinowski. With the…
Rock en español is a fusion of alternative rock, pop, punk, and Latin music. And it’s a term that best defines Tango36 and its music. The group’s songs come across like a sick mix of Hoobastank, Sublime, and Dave Matthews Band — but in Spanish, sung by locally renowned crooner…
If it is true — as it undoubtedly must be — that legends are made, not born, then Joey Youngman is on his way to some truth. Producing at the ripe young age of eleven and spinning at fourteen years old, Youngman was on the make while his peers were…
Roy Haynes, born in Boston in 1925, is one of the most recorded jazz drummers in history and has been a major name in the jazz world for half a century. His early work was with the Sabby Lewis big band, Frankie Newton, and Luis Russell in the late Forties…
Keep the intoxicating vibes going after Faktura Gallery’s artist-meets-alcohol exhibit “Spilt Over Sugar, Crushed Under Foot” with South Florida jam band Side Project. The seven-piece group will perform its acid fusion of funk, rock, and jazz for the afterparty. Side Project’s release, Our Last Album, features twelve tracks of trippy…
As any one of the several hundred insanely lucky converts who were on hand to hear Osunlade spin in Miami Beach this past February will attest, his sets are exhaustive, transforming, uplifting experiences that transcend the auditory, engaging all the senses and, Osunlade hopes, the soul. “I like to call…
Envelope pushers. Experimentalists. Nutters. Call ’em what you will, but when these three musicians sleep, they sleep soundly. Their “experiment” has been ongoing for thirteen years, and accolades and fans have grown exponentially. Meticulous, rambunctious, well-meaning anarchy — rather than free-form experimental jazz malarkey — characterizes their style. Despite operating…
During much of the year, the melancholy tango of Miami’s 60,000-strong Argentine community is often overpowered by the bubbling salsa of the much larger Cuban population. Still, when Argentines want to be heard, they know just how to shake it up — by rocking the city to its core at…
What do candy ravers, goths, and swing kids have in common? They were all products of trends that flourished and then receded into the depths of subcultural obscurity. Several years later the Rainbow Brite-wannabes may have adopted a more demure style, but that doesn’t stop them from coming out of…
Chances are that if you live in Miami-Dade County, you have at one time or another heard the swirling, merengue-tinged rhythms emanating from homes in Caribbean neighborhoods or rising from strip malls that seemingly contain only a beauty parlor and a Haitian video store. Most likely what you are hearing…
Japan’s chromatic quartet MONO balances bursts of catharsis and pleas for clemency. The groups exalts tone-rending reverence with the deft delivery of many Chicago postrock groups and equally hefty, heavenly bands including Boston’s Isis and Texans Explosions in the Sky. Six years in existence, MONO has established itself adroit at…
Assuming the position, following “that cute DJ” Desyn Masiello’s turn, as mixmaster for the Balance CD series (it’s up to number nine) is Paolo Mojo, a British turntablist who has been around since the early Nineties and has flirted often with ignition but failed to quite catch — until now,…
Two punk/hardcore/oi! powerhouses collide within the confines of Churchill’s for what will surely be a drunken testosterone orgy. Legendary British street punk the Business has two-plus decades of fist-waving anthems to its credit, while New Yorker verité Roger Miret of the Disasters made his unquestionable bones fronting Agnostic Front. Though…
