For five years, Cuci Amador and Tony Smurphio have been playing together as Afrobeta. These two are pros at getting crowds sweaty and riled up. Right now, they’re getting ready to kick off a summer tour with the Identity Festival by throwing one more party at the Electric Pickle this…
The Latin Recording Academy announced its intended special awards recipients for this year’s ceremonies yesterday. And late salsa heavyweight Joe Arroyo was among those named to be honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award. The announcement came just hours after Arroyo’s wife, in a call to Colombian radio chain Radio Caracol,…
And the live show announcements just keep pouring in. Early yesterday, Sweat Records announced that Ted Leo and the Pharmacists will be performing at Churchill’s Pub. And word on the street is the Junior Boys will be making their first stop in the Magic City since they played the Vagabond…
When confronted with the phrase French electronic dance music, you probably think of Daft Punk’s glossy stadium house or brash punky indie electro by the likes of Justice. But recently, les français have also emerged as formidable proponents of underground tech house, thanks to hot labels like Freak n’ Chic,…
Over the last few days, the personal twittersphere of Canadian synth-pop duo Junior Boys has been ablaze with titillatingly cryptic little messages about “big news,” “a zillion shows,” and “a good chance we are coming to a town near you.” Thankfully, the Boys’ Jeremy Greenspan and Matt Didemus weren’t just…
Read about the Latin Recording Academy’s announcement that the late Joe Arroyo would be posthumously honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award. Today, Colombia and salsa music lovers around the world are mourning the loss of Joe Arroyo, one of the genre’s favorite sons. His wife confirmed on Radio Caracol that…
Ted Leo’s 2010 Matador debut The Brutalist Bricks was another lap around the field for the seasoned indie-rock veteran. But the run might be getting lonelier with every few feet, as the singer-guitarist belongs to an increasingly rare breed. Leo has done it all. In the late ’80s, he was…
You might remember Beavis and Butt-Head as the greatest minds of Generation X. The adolescent twosome took a hard look at ’90s music videos. They were thoughtful cultural commentators who said “huh, huh, huh” a bunch.The goofy duo are returning to television this October. And creator Mike Judge is going…
This past year has been a whirlwind for Dutch electronic music producer and techno-house DJ Afrojack, AKA Van de Wall. In addition to endlessly touring the US and sitting on a treasure trove of unreleased tracks, including collaborations with Tiesto, Steve Aoki, and Omarion, the international party maestro has landed…
If you can’t love Texas for anything else (and definitely not basketball), be thankful that the Lonestar State puts out some really great music. Case in point: Austin’s Bright Light Social Hour combines its southern roots with good old-fashioned rock ‘n’ roll, tossing off songs that make you wanna lean back,…
Are you too cool to watch E!’s Ice Loves Coco? No effing way. Firstly, Ice T is motherfuckin’ awesome and Coco’s body is banging. Secondly, the rapper, metalhead, and Law & Order badass proves to be a superinteresting guy, both at home and under the big lights. Thirdly, Coco is…
We don’t have enough live music in Miami. We just don’t. So when a band like Stokeswood decides to make its second home in the Magic City, we get a little giddy. Originally from Georgia, the electro-acoustic band will be playing at The Stage this Saturday as part of Soul…
Amy Winehouse’s death has inspired numerous discursive threads, including speculation about her yet-to-be-revealed cause of death, the paparazzi (and YouTube’s) hyperdocumentation of her slow unraveling, and the deep tragedy of the young singer’s thorny personal life. In the face of much morbid, pop culture rumination, a dominant Facebook theme seems…
Good times can be dangerous. We know it. So does six-man punkabilly band Everymen. And this Thursday, the Lake Worth crew and the Crossfade music series — along with The Wholetones, Brain Chips, and Uncle Scotchy — plan to fill The Stage with fun and flames. Thus, a warning: “Our shows…
He’s tried to find the “Road to Riches.” He’s made “The Return.” And now, local spitter J Nics is back with the third official video, “Never Be Free,” off his most recent slab, Champion Rizla. A self-described “attack [on] the reality of political and socioeconomic bondage,” Nics riffs on living…
Tomorrow night, Drugged Conscience will present an Austin invasion at Churchill’s Pub as two Texas acts give us a taste of Lone Star hardcore. No genre better encapsulates the carnage of the Wild West than powerviolence. And Chest Pain uphold the genre’s classic parameters — brevity, winding song structures, cartoonishly monstrous…
Prior to serving 11 months on Riker’s Island, the world knew (and loved) Lil Wayne for being a delightfully schizoid celeb, hypercompetitive workaholic, and the Best Rapper Alive. He dictated the game, ate candy by the pound, sold a gazillion albums, guzzled promethazine-and-codeine cocktails like Diet Sprite, and effortlessly tossed…
TMZ is reporting that Amy Winehouse has been found dead in her London apartment.Their source is a press release from the Metropolitan Police, reposted after the jump. The investigation into the cause of the 27 year old pop-soul singer is underway.Winehouse was last in the news for canceling a string…
See the full 40-photo Britney Spears & Nicki Minaj at American Airlines Arena slideshow. Britney Spears’s Femme Fatale Tour With Nicki Minaj, Jessie and the Toy Boys, and Nervo American Airlines Arena Friday, July 22, 2011 Better Than: A cherry Blow Pop. Forget Britney Spears for a second. Just for…
Not all sequels are total garbage. Ghostbusters II, for example, needed, to happen. If we didn’t have sequels, we would have never seen John Connor battle the badass, liquid-metal T-1000 in Terminator 2: Judgment Day. And let’s not forget Weekend at Bernie’s II, if only for managing to float a second movie…
“I have a special connection to Sun Ra,” insists artist Kevin Arrow. And this Saturday at the end/SPRING BREAK, he will be leading a special listening session, presenting Sun Ra’s recordings decade by decade. Arrow’s seen Sun Ra many times over the years, both in Miami and New York. Most…
If you ain’t a Justin Martin fan, then you ain’t living. The San Francisco wunderkind is easily one of the most beloved DJ-producers on the international scene. There’s no party he can’t get started with his energetic, fun-loving approach to dance music.And as co-owner of the esteemed Dirtybird imprint with…
