According to Surfer Blood guitarist Thomas Fekete, his badass, major press-saturating Weird Wives outfit that was a virtual unknown before we wrote about them on Tuesday is covering the dreamy, two-minute fuzz anthem “So Gone” by Best Coast for a third 7-inch EP due in June.In an e-mail to New…
— One of Miami’s longtime hip-hop heavyweights has got to be Garcia. Representing Crazy Hood productions, Garcia has resurfaced with a new album entitled Shattered Dreams. He held the release party for the album last night and released the album online as a free download. The album is produced predominantly…
Shroud Eater Self-Titled EP (Self-released) www.shroudeaterrocks.com If only the righteous will pass hereon then I’m an ecstatic little fuckin’ piggy to have received this EP in the mail because it is just what I had been craving. Talk about doctor’s orders. This heavy trio does the down-tuned stoner thing very…
We are only about a week away, but we’re pretty sure you haven’t forgotten that Major Lazer is bring its crazy mix of dancehall-meets-electro to Grand Central May 15. If that wasn’t awesome in itself, Poplife has announced that Passion Pit drummer Nate Donmoyer, AKA Shuttle, will be doing a…
La Roux fits comfortably with a wealth of compelling female pop acts with flamboyant hairstyles indicative of their songcraft. Like Robyn, Little Boots and Annie before her, La Roux singer Elly Jackson and music programmer Ben Langmaid are keenly aware of finding a balance between the dancefloor-ready sounds of electro…
Evan Rowe is a local songwriter and performer best known as Catalonia, a professor of political science and history at Broward College, and a small-d democratic strategist with no party affiliation. Each week, we surrender our space for his thoughts on the music industry and how they relate to our…
Remember Heathrow Lounge? No? Don’t worry, it was only a minor blip in South Beach’s nightlife scene. At one point it seemed like it could be the beach’s answer to a downtown rock club, then all of a sudden it got all these really undeserving high praises mostly due to…
Proof that Google Alerts work: We posted this item regarding Surfer Blood’s noisier, sweatier side project Weird Wives on Tuesday morning. By about 5 p.m., Surfer Blood had linked to the story, and posted this Weird Wives EP and this one too on Twitter.On Wednesday afternoon, Pitchfork picked up the…
If you’ve been living in South Florida for the last fifteen years or so, chances are you’ve walked into a musical experience guided by Alex Caso. Young, handsome, full of energy and one of the most knowledgeable individuals when it comes to ALL types of music, Caso is a true…
A barista at Brew Urban Cafe’s Victoria Park location was struck by a moving vehicle over the weekend during the Broward County Critical Mass ride, according to several local sources. In a posting at South Florida Fixed, Crystal Ruiz-Mills is hospitalized with several broken bones in her back.A Paypal account…
Pitbull has the crowd going crazy to his version of “How Low Can You Go” live in this performance footage from a May 4 show at Fryshuset in Stockholm, Sweden.Maybe it’s not until you see this that you realize how big Miami culture is on a global scale. Keep in…
The story goes like this:A few of the principals behind Miami’s New World Symphony were sitting around discussing their dream of building a combination campus/concert hall that would be large enough to handle an ever-increasing crop of talent and bold enough to wow the world.At one point someone mentioned that…
Friend of New Times Ian Witlen took some excellent photos at Friday’s Dashboard Confessional extravaganza at Lynn University in Boca Raton that are now up at Spin.com. Read our wrap of the event, which honored the memory of students and faculty tragically killed in Haiti’s massive earthquake in January, here.In…
A long time ago I came to the painful realization that my dreams and aspirations would go unfulfilled. Publishing a collection of original poetry titled “Fetch Me the Pliers” by downtown Kabul’s most exclusive post-Soviet literary house didn’t bring in the cash. So I did what many failed losers do…
If Jesus and the Devil are arm wrestling, then Miami is the table their elbows are on. Let’s face it, this place is pretty fucked up. Us humans have done a swell job of transforming a river of grass into a den of iniquity. But despite all the evil that…
Fans of anything Neil Young should plan on going to the Neil Young Tribute Show tomorrow at The Gibson Showroom. All proceeds from the event will be donated to Neil’s Charity, The Bridge School. You can expect performances and covers done by The Westar, Rachel Goodrich, Jacob Jeffries, Jim Camacho,…
Cinco de Mayo has long been a night of drunken debauchery and Mexican sombreros. Here, then, our list of the top five spots with music to go to this May 5.-Liv’s weekly Dirty Hairy party turns Dirty Sanchez—no, not that way–tonight with DJs Ross One, Contra and Jessica Who. Party…
The third annual Palm Beach Music & Entertainment Awards will be held at Club Ovation AKA the Spot (Forest Hill Blvd. and S Congress Ave., West Palm Beach) on Thursday, May 20, starting at 8 p.m. Hosted by John Lamur and the Queen of Crunk, the night will celebrate the…
There are few people in the world of music who can take credit for creating so much unadulterated pleasure as pop satirist “Weird Al” Yankovic. Speaking as someone who has to sit and come up with puns ever day in order to write headlines, songs like “Pretty Fly for a…
It seems Miami garage band grungers Lil Daggers have been pretty busy lately. In 2009, they toured the Southeast and the Midwest, ending up at SXSW and appearing in a few festivals. Earlier this year they released a 7″ split single with Satan’s Youth Ministers, and now they’re scheduling the…
Bringing new relevance to the term “high seas,” the ninth installment of Jam Cruise, the floating music festival, will kick off January 4, 2011 from Fort Lauderdale.Among the many acts promoting a positive groove for the five-day drift aboard the MSC Poesa to Roatan, Honduras and Costa Maya, Mexico, are…
Watch out, Cubo’s comin’! You may have heard of the Pitbull affiliate in years past, but apparently he’s making a run for it now with a couple of new videos on the web and talk of a forthcoming album. The video above for his song “I made it” shows a…
