Furious DudesSons of Bitchin’ (Self-released)facebook.com/furiousdudes Thrashy lo-fi garage punk is currently storming out of my speakers with the potential to turn my capable system to abject shit. Wow. Though I can’t wholly get behind the moniker these guys have chosen for themselves (think of the jokes), I do get completely…
Okay, so I’ll admit this post is really just about posting another hot-as-fuck picture of DJ/model Tamara Sky. So sue me. I’ve already publicly admitted my love for her. So sorry that from time to time I want to look at something pretty.That being said, despite her astonishing good looks,…
Here’s a Haiti Earthquake Twitpic music video we made using Obama’s address to the nation on the Haiti earthquake crisis. The images are Twitpics from across the internets: They’re first-response citizen media reports of crushed buildings, death, destruction, hope, and life.Wyclef’s Yele Foundation has been working in Haiti for years…
Finally. A place to hang out in downtown Miami that’s not a club or a “lounge” or a restaurant or a venue of any kind, just a bar, and one that’s cheap but not depressing and full of bros. Okay, okay, so we loved PS14 and everything as a late-night…
A new South Beach, velvet-rope spot is anticipated to open before the end of this month. It is a resurrection of the old Rumi locale, next to SET on Lincoln Road. And before you roll your eyes and start a death clock, you should check out the deets from the…
We’ve been a little quiet lately on LIV’s Wednesday night party Dirty Hairy. Partly because the acts that have been booked lately are more gimmicky than actually, er, talented. Nothing wrong with gimmick — a mega-club of LIV’s size needs to make money — but let’s not sit here and…
If you’ve ever wondered what Cuban rumba legend Perez Prado would sound like with an electro makeover, than you’re on the same page as locally born and bred producer/programmer Armando Martinez, better known as Alpha 606. But most likely you haven’t, because there are very few people with wavelengths out…
Haven’t gotten enough Surfer Blood between New Times’ recent feature on the band, its homecoming shows at both the Vagabond and Propaganda, and its places on a bunch of year-end best-of-2009 lists? Can’t wait until the Palm Beach County boys open for Monotonix at Respectable Street on the 27th? Well,…
…They made the “best” list, don’t worry. While these days Buddyhead may not carry the same clout as Pfork or Stereogum, it’s a major-ish blog force on the West Coast (or at least L.A., where it’s based) — and the writers there have big-upped Jacuzzi Boys before. And what Buddyhead…
Here’s our video from the week of Art Basel Miami 2009. It features footage from the streets of Wynwood, Notorious Nastie, Primary Flight, Lynn Yohana Howard, Laqui, Art Miami, Art Loves Music, Pulse Art Fair, Fountain Art Fair, Os Gemeos, Tony Goldman’s Wynwood Walls, Shepard Fairey, Jim Darling, Dave Tree,…
Warning: Kesha-bashing post to follow.I almost threw up in my mouth when New York Times wrote a piece of trashy pop star Kesha and made comparisons to Philly MC Amanda Blank. Yea, they are both white and they rap, but Blank has been doing it for years and has plenty…
The current local buzz about JESP, the new solo project by singer/songwriter/producer Joseph Espinoza, threatens to soon eclipse that of his old band, Outereach. That group, now defunct, never fit into any neat scene categories, floating somewhere in the sonic atmosphere between pop and prog. (This was, after all, an…
Saturday’s “Miami Monstrosity” mini festival at Churchill’s features, unsurprisingly, a wildly divergent mix of styles in its all-locals lineup. But among the artists who depart most drastically from the venue’s usual sounds is Static Moon, a.k.a. producer John Paul Sindoni. A multi-instrumentalist on the South Florida scene for the past…
Here comes the Ultra Music Festival shuffle! You have to remember nothing is concrete even on the day of the festival (Bloc Party canceled last year at the last minute). According to an official press release from Ultra’s organizers, indie-rock band Passion Pit has been added to the Day 1…
Hercules & Love Affair perhaps single-handedly ushered in the nu-disco era that South Florida’s hipsterati current find themselves dancing to. Their self-titled debut album was a breakthrough filled with glittery gems including tracks like “Blind” and “Hercules Theme.” While we wait for a follow-up, Andy Butler, the main force behind…
Last time Of Montreal came to South Florida, the band stopped at Revolution in Fort Lauderdale. While they aren’t planning to return in the near future, guitarist James Huggins III side-project James Husband will come to South Florida on March 13.Huggins released his debut album, A Parallax I, in October…
Is it possible to start out a blog on Gloria Estefan without some sort of allusion to rhythm and its getting you? Is it even possible to avoid aforementioned allusion when the place is called Bongo’s? Considering how inescapably annoying that song is, probably not. But here’s an attempt: In…
Have you ever been on the “Plug The Band” section of Backpage.com?Today we found this amazing video of Anjell singing her future classic, “A Girl Has To Do What A Girl Has To Do.” The song is produced by Tad Sharpe for Batovision Digital Entertainment.Click here to Anjell’s full ad…
I rarely ever take flier handouts while walking at night around South Beach, but for some reason as I was leaving Klutch I took an Ultra flier from a guy. Honestly, the first thing I felt was exhaustion because I don’t know if I can handle the fact that Winter…
Click to read parts one, two, and three of this list.Jacuzzi BoysNo Seasons (Florida’s Dying)myspace.com/jacuzziboysMiami’s best garage rock threesome seems to succeed in spite of itself. Where a lot of local bands spend all their time on self-promotion through social media abuse, the Jacuzzi Boys really couldn’t care less. Instead,…
Click to read parts one and two of this list.Jacobs Ladder Ours For The Taking (JMB Records)myspace.com/jacobsladderLook past the complicated MySpace presence, deliberately goofy promo photos, hell, even the hair of this Miami threesome. Jacobs Ladder is not yet another color-by-numbers pop-punk band. Sure, in some of the tunes there are…
Welcome to 2010. Newsflash Fontainebleau: Where mainstream, corporate, and alternative media cameras cannot shoot Lady Gaga, citizen cameras can, and this year they’ll get better and more able to easily subvert your stupid rules.Here’s video of Lady Gaga in a bikini (does her cock flop out the side? Is Lady…
