Melding the skronk of the Cramps with the grim stylings of Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Denmark’s Nekromantix have been swaying suggestible American kids into the dark and decadent waters of psychobilly since 2002’s debut, Night of the Loving Dead, on Hellcat Records. Prior to that, the bandmates had…
Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan has a thousand stories to tell. The group’s only remaining original member helped found the Pumpkins in 1988 after relocating to his native Chicago from none other than St. Petersburg, Florida. He had moved to the Sunshine State briefly in ’85 after graduating from high…
Albert CastigliaKeeping On (Blues Leaf Records)albertcastiglia.comThose familiar with Albert Castiglia’s frenetic local live performances generally get the impression that the guitarist only operates in a playful mode, whether he’s segueing into a string of obscure oldies or wandering out to the curb while flailing away undeterred. However, his recorded offerings…
Swedish electronic dance music has, for the most part, become synonymous with the hopelessly über-commercial and stale sound of big-room players like Steve Angello, Axwell, and Sebastian Ingrosso.Stockholm’s John Dahlbäck, however, may very well be an exception, not just in his own work as an internationally-acclaimed DJ/producer, but as owner…
We’ve featured Ghostwridah a few times over the past few months. Every post was a precursor to the In Love With My Future album that after numerous delays, was finally released on June 30 via DJBooth.net and various web sites.Ghostwridah has always been very focused and precise when it comes…
We all miss Heath Ledger. The Academy Award-winning actor wooed us in 10 Things I Hate About You, and shocked us with his performances in Brokeback Mountain and The Dark Knight. Now his legacy lives on, as a rap video he directed for old friend N’FA has just been released…
Are you literally giddy with excitement over Premios Juventud tomorrow, and tickets to the show be damned? Or perhaps all Spanish language tunage isn’t necessarily your thing, but you do like to get down to the dulcet ghetto-tones of reggaeton. You know, do a little perreando. Get your boricuada on…
Last year was especially good for classic metal in South Florida, as all of the big four — Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Megadeth, and Metallica — made it to the area for headlining shows, and Slayer played a brain-blasting set at the Mayhem Festival. Still, all of those were at…
Legendary Cuban singer Olga Guillot passed away Monday at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach, the Associated Press reports. She was 87 years old.Guillot was born in Santiago de Cuba, but as a child moved with her family to Havana. It was in Cuba’s capital city where, as…
Yes, it was a total bummer this past May when U2 was forced to postpone its local Miami show at Sun Life Stadium, originally scheduled for July 9. Can’t blame them, though: Frontman Bono underwent emergency back surgery this past May, with a required eight-week recovery period. It wasn’t just…
LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, Chris Bosh. Triple word score. The Miami Heat are gonna have Biscayne Boulevard locked up bumper to bumper. The Metrorail, bus, and Metromover are gonna be packed like sardine cans, the parking lot bums are gonna get paid better than we do, and the city’s gonna…
Yes, we mean that Robert Pattinson, a.k.a. R. Pattz, a.k.a. Edward Cullen. We’re not exactly sure what would happen if Twi-hards and Nirvana grungers were to battle it out, but now thanks to Pattinson, we know that vampires pack a mean bite.It all started when rumors surfaced this past April…
When your most popular single is practically your native country’s second national anthem, I guess it’s safe to say you’ve made it. But then, Diego Torres had pretty much made it once he released his eponymous debut in 1992, which eventually hit triple platinum in his homeland of Argentina. Joined in…
Here are three more nuggets of awesomeness from New Times’ Best Endangered Live Music Venue, the Fillmore Miami Beach. Nearly every week brings a new announcement of a major act there, and one more chip away at Broward’s dominance of the touring-band market for South Florida. We hope things keep…
After a couple years of eardrum-hammering from the relentless-banger-addicted sect of the indie/dance crossover scene, acts like Aeroplane come as a welcome shot of sweetness and light. Hailing originally from the somewhat unlikely region of Wallonia — that’s French-speaking Southern Belgium — the duo of Stephan Fasano and Vito Deluca…
It may surprise those who haven’t kept up with the hard rock legends of yesteryear, but Scorpions never actually went away. In fact, with their current “Get Your Sting and Blackout” World Tour, they’re just now getting around to retiring. And they’re doing so in appropriately bombastic fashion, with worldwide…
As the dubstep phenomenon continues to blow up stateside (in Miami it’s been eagerly taken up as a formidable 21st-century successor to Miami bass) it’s easy to forget the genre’s geo-specific roots. But dubstep can be traced all the way back to a very precise point of origin: the London…
This past Saturday, Get Some at the Electric Pickle hosted Mayday for an hour-long set in the upstairs of the club. Wynwood was banging from a heavy-traffic art walk, the night was steamy as a hot bath, and the club was full of people. It should have been awesome.Live sound…
Oh, hai Miami! Not sure if you are aware, but we are in the nightlife photog business now with our new mini-site Clubchaser.com, where you’ll be able to check out how down and dirty Miami gets once the sun sets.This week our cameras stopped by Crystal Cadillac’s live performance at…
You’ll probably recognize Vampire Weekend’s keyboardist/guitarist and backup vocalist Rostam Batmanglij in the video above, where he talks to Converse about his musical beginnings. You can catch him along with the rest of the band on October 13 with Beach House. But if you can’t wait that long, Batmanglij has…
Award season may be well behind us, but then, Univision doesn’t really know the meaning of the word “season” does it? After all, between the Latin Grammies, Lo Nuestro, Juventud and possibly a few others we’re forgetting, they seem to air one a week. Still, this one–Premio Juventud, for those…
The story of DJ Bad Boy Bill (born William Renkosik) reads like the story of house music itself, and namely how this once geo-specific Chicagoan music subculture disseminated itself across the greater American and international cultures to become the mainstream phenomenon it is today. Schooled in the Chicago house boom…
