We all breathed really heavy sighs when we heard that Metallica was going to release a DVD along with Anthrax, Megadeth, and Slayer, but realized they won’t be joining them for their October 3 South Florida show. After all, what’s real metal fan doesn’t have a little Metallica stashed away…
Ahhh La Ciudad Que Progresa. It’s not uncommon to hear jokes at its expense, like the classic rhyme, “Hialeah, agua, fango y factoria,” (water, mud and factories). Sure, motorists tend to end up more lost in Hialeah than Helen Keller without a seeing eye dog. After all, it’s like, “WTF,…
See Crossfade’s review and photos from Ms. Lauryn Hill’s UM Homecoming concert. After some rumbling that Lauryn Hill could be making a rare live appearance at the Arsht Center turned out to be false, it turns out she’s making a Miami appearance after all. The reclusive legend is set to…
Sander Van Doorn at Eden Terrace September 17
What do you do once you have a handful of Grammys? When you’re not only the first solo salsa star to sell out Madison Square Garden — even though the venue is situated in the seat of Nuyorican salsa, courtesy of Héctor Lavoe, Willie Colón, and Celia Cruz — but…
The golden era of house music came and went with the early-’80s-to-early-’90s heyday of pioneering legends such as Frankie Knuckles, Steve Hurley, and Larry Heard. But with his grasp on the soulful essence and rhythms of classic house, there’s no denying that DJ-producer Dennis Ferrer is carrying the torch into…
The last time Surfer Blood was in Miami, the local crew caused a stir, swearing it’d never again play Grand Central. Now only a few months later, the group has made amends and scheduled a return to the downtown venue, this time with Brooklyn indie-poppers the Drums. Surfer Blood is…
In contrast to Washed Out’s idyllic, well-manicured Life of Leisure, the first full-length, Causers of This, from Toro y Moi (AKA Chaz Bundick) is an intentionally chaotic affair. But it turns out that chillwave, even in deconstructed form, has its virtues. Though Causers is an undeniably piecemeal assemblage, there’s something…
Señor Stereo is what you get when you put together a Kendall boy and two Midwesterners. Individually, Danny Daze, Gigamesh, and Joe Maz have accomplished a lot, but it only gets better when they churn out disco-house tracks together. “We all have the same style, and we feed each other…
Bassnectar at Fillmore Miami Beach
Drake at James L. Knight Center September 20 and 21
British rock band James’s 28-year career has endured the kind of trials and tribulations that would make for a riveting episode of VH1’s Behind the Music — unpaid £250,000 tax bills, drug addictions, and a six-year breakup — but its resplendent jangle pop lives on. While never commandeering the charts…
The Kings of Rap Concert scheduled for this Saturday with Ludacris and Rick Ross has been canceled. We started to get a bit suspicious when we saw the James L. Knight Center’s site mention that Rick Ross will no longer be performing, but kept our hopes up, anyway.We’ve just received…
We’ve been showing Afrobeta some love lately, naming them as “Best Band,” tracking down their latest releases, and even following them around their home studio recently, and with good reason. The duo have been combining synths, heavy basslines, and catchy, often Miami-themed bilingual lyrics that makes us just want to…
In quite possibly the coolest vinyl promo we’ve ever seen on video, Third Man Records has just revealed their latest releases — and they’re good. They’re releasing glow-in-the-dark Halloween 45s, black and blue live series LPs, tri-color 45s, and a peach-scented Karen Elson LP. As if all of that weren’t…
Alright, Jacory Harris isn’t getting any fruit baskets this week. But don’t lose faith in the U just yet. And while we’re telling you to keep supporting the Canes, how about supporting a Hurricane alum? No, Michael Irvin won’t be live at Jazid this weekend. And no, Gino Torretta isn’t…
Fucked Up With Neon Blud and Jacuzzi Boys Churchill’s Pub Tuesday, September 14, 2010 Better than: Bleeding from your eyes. It’s now eight and a half hours since Fucked Up played their last song. But still my hearing is dangerously (permanently?) damaged. Human voices sound like muffled, faraway echoes from…
Leave it to a Brit to almost beat Americans, North, Central, and South, at our own global funk game. Yes, stateside, we’ve been enjoying a classic R&B renaissance courtesy of acts like Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings, Eli (Paperboy) Reed, and, of course, the Mark Ronson juggernaut (and all…
We were all pretty excited when we heard news that System of a Down’s Serj Tankian was coming to South Florida with a full orchestra. So excited, in fact, that we decided to launch a contest to giveaway tickets and a meet and greet for the show on October 9.Well,…
Dead rock stars are a dime a dozen. They usually drink themselves to death, overdose on narcotics, crash cars, or get on faulty aircrafts with drunk pilots on drugs who crash cars. But murdered musicians? That’s where it gets gruesome. Check out these 10 tales of death by murder…
Photo courtesy of Jahrue It seems like YNG (pronounced Why-En-Gee) is the new kid on the block. The best way to describe him is that he’s a smooth type of emcee with a little consciousness mixed with a youthful frame of thought. He’s a new member of #TheNewMiami movement, and…
Illustration by by Johnnie Cluney, via Daytrotter Toro Y Moi had managed to stay slightly below the radar until the chillwave movement took off in the Summer of ’09. The barely-there often only one-man band fronted by Chaz Bundick is at once relaxing and arm swaying, and as his voice…
