Bueno mi gente, Noche Buena is upon us (or those of us who observe it). If you’re like my family, there’s either a large dead pork already chilling on your kitchen table right now, spread eagle on a tartara (large metal sheet pan), or there will be before the day’s…
Naughty By Nature, scheduled to perform at Revolution this past Saturday, had to postpone their show due to weather conditions in New York City. Reportedly the group’s flight out of La Guardia airport was among the thousands canceled due to the intense snow storm that blew across Washington D.C. and…
The Jacuzzi Boys With Boise Bob and His Backyard Band Radio-Active Records, Fort Lauderdale Friday, December 18, 2009Better Than: Being waist-deep in one of them hot tubs with water jets.The Review:The crowd came to Radio-Active Records this past Friday for the Jacuzzi Boys. But for those, like me, who showed…
Flow Official and ¡Mayday! team up for “Down This Road” in a new video to go with the song they put out together. This is just a preview though to let you know that it’s coming up.Go to Flow Official’s myspace, stream the “Down This Road” track and learn all…
How’s everybody enjoying this nice December weather? Really lets you feel like it’s the holiday season, doesn’t it? There are other things like that too. Like going to the mall and parking three miles from the stores, whereupon you can fight your way through the mobs looking for last minute…
Let’s just put this out there first: Lady Gaga is a hack who thinks she’s doing the world a favor by making an “artistic statement.” Sorry, her music and performances are about as artistic as something our 5-year-old niece drew. We’d just like her to admit she’s doing straight-up commercial…
Here’s video of The Sick Puppies playing their “Number one in the country right now!” song “You’re Going Down” live from Cruzan Amphitheater in West Palm Beach with clean audio and a raucous crowd of fans showing their suppoort.The Sick Puppies are originally from Sydney, but are now based in…
No women no cry might have been Bob Marley’s anthem but come February 28, 2010 “No Bougie’s, I’ll cry” is what regulars in the South Miami bar scene will be sniffling. That’s right, folks, South Miami’s chillest dive, Bougainvillea’s, will be shutting its doors for good leaving locals, UM students,…
All the best things in life are free. So wouldn’t it be nice if there were a free New Year’s Eve event to go to? Wait, there is! Thanks to Giant Step — the same people who brought Kid Sister to the Delano for Art Basel — Baltimore’s Rye Rye…
Is it Winter Music Conference yet? No? How odd. Because that seems to be the only time British electro-house duo Simian Mobile Disco ever make it down to Miami. Not that we are complaining. When we heard they were on the bill for Shore Club’s New Year’s Eve celebration we…
In this week’s issue, we previewed Rachel Goodrich’s appearance with Awesome New Republic at the Awarehouse on Saturday. Unfortunately — or fortunately, depending on what way you look at it — American Apparel will be hosting a rummage sale all weekend long at the Wynwood venue so the show has…
Pitchfork’s love affair with West Palm Beach’s Surfer Blood continued this week when the online music site picked “Swim” as the one of the top singles of 2009. It came in at number 37 out of 100. Pitchfork says, “Any self-respecting ‘pop craftsman’ would’ve whittled away at that ‘Needles in…
Actual conversation over iChat:”Are you going to Chelley tomorrow?”Who the fuck is Chelley?”Here.”Oh, THAT SONG!”So, are you coming tomorrow?”What’s in it for me?”A really bad performance for you to publicly hate.”Check out, Chelley tomorrow at LIV for its Dirty Hairy party. For more information, visit livnightclub.com or call 305-674-4680…
If dubstep was a kingdom, then Rusko would surely be its king. The British born, L.A. transplant has been damaging speakers worldwide with his hard hitting beats. But limiting him to the genre of dubstep would be underestimating the 23-year-old. He easily mixes electro, hip-hop, and even pop, within his…
Last Thursday, controversial reggae star Buju Banton (aka Mark Anthony Myrie) was busted for trying to buy nearly 15 7 kilos of cocaine from an undercover DEA informant. Myrie is as notorious for unapologetic, anti-gay lyrics as he is for his wine-worthy music, but according to the AP he could be looking at…
Here’s a freshly uploaded promotional video for Sublime’s demo song called “Miami” from track 11 of Disc 4 on the DVD that comes with the Everything Under The Sun box set, a collection of Sublime bootlegs and rarities released by Geffen Records in 2006.One of the band’s most popular songs…
Pulp Live announced last week, via its various social networking pages, that it had closed until the venue “finds a new location.” Well, that’s always the way closing establishments try to put a nice face on it. The club’s web site, as I post this, is totally offline.We say, good…
Here’s video from a New York band playing Max Fish Miami on December 4. Leave a comment telling us who they are, really, we don’t know, and provide web evidence that proves it, and we’ll send you 20 free random music CDs…
Plenty of things to hear in Broward and Palm Beach this weekend, one of them will even make you feel good about yourself! Tonight, the Help Mend A Heart Benefit Show is happening at The Talent Farm. The $10 cover charge goes to the Maureen Waters Medical Fund (read all…
If you’ve hit up the downtown/Wynwood nightlife scene, you most likely are familiar with LA DJ duo Classixx, even if you aren’t aware of it. They are partly responsible for turning tracks into dancefloor gold through the art of remixing, including Phoenix’s “Lisztomania” and the Ting Tings’ “Shut Up and…
G. Love is the Philadelphia frontman for the band G. Love and Special Sauce. G was down here in Miami for Art Basel week 2009 and played Fountain Art Fair before heading up the street to another show at Bardot.G. Love shouted out Boston punk rock artist Dave Tree a…
When Air’s Moon Safari came out in 1998, I was 15 years old and still in my teenage ska/punk phase. But here was an album with lush electronic soundscapes and minimal beats that really spoke to me. Air is responsible for introducing me to electronic music and the entire Astralwerks…
