Q&A with Saheed About His New Video “The Ups”

Saheed is a 21-year-old Dade County spitfire with a new video for a song called “The Ups,” featuring a beat produced by Numonics. The Mupalia Pictures video follows Saheed from the time he wakes up to when he walks outside to find his car has been towed on South Beach…

Gustavo Cerati Suffers Extensive Brain Damage

Sad news out of Argentina this week. Latin rock pioneer Gustavo Cerati seems to have suffered extensive brain damage from a stroke in his left cerebral hemisphere, as evidenced from a CatScan. Cerati had been hospitalized in Venezuela as of May 15, after collapsing following a show in Caracas on…

LIV, Wall Among the Top 10 Clubs in the World?

Askmen.com is one of those sites that seems to be endlessly generating best-of lists that other people then write about, thus creating an endless Internet circle-jerk. Mind if we join? Oh, it’s of some local interest. The site has released its 2010 list of the “top 10 nightclubs in the…

Q&A With Passion Pit, Playing the Fillmore This Sunday

With a thoroughly buzzed-about debut in Manners and a national tour well underway with a string of sold-out dates, it’s safe to say Passion Pit’s graduated from its humble college beginnings. The Beantown band’s reality today is a far cry from its beginnings as a one-man dorm room project by frontman…

Matt Tolfrey

British DJ, producer, and A&R man Matt Tolfrey has staked his place on the international electronic dance music scene since launching the esteemed Leftroom imprint in 2005. Home to acclaimed emerging artists such as Glimpse, Inxec, and Marc Ashken, Leftroom encapsulates the sounds of a new generation bringing a deep…

Jazid’s 14th Anniversary

While people complain about the lack of live music in town, and usually the same people complain about going to South Beach for anything, Jazid is a lone soldier quietly battling to prove the naysayers wrong. Sure, the venue has changed plenty over the years — for one thing, only…

Passion Pit

Listening to the band’s incredibly tight, über-polished debut album, Manners, it’s hard to believe Passion Pit has been around for such a short time. But fact is, it hasn’t even been three years since frontman and songwriting mastermind Michael Angelakos conceived of the project. Back then, it was a solo…

Aterciopelados

After releasing separate solo albums, singer Andrea Echeverri and bassist/producer Hector Buitrago reunited in 2007 to record Oye, their first CD as Aterciopelados in five years. The disc wasn’t as rambunctiously rocking as their early work in the mid-’90s. Instead, there were entrancingly lovely interludes such as the upbeat prayer…

Angel y Khriz

Remember when reggaeton first blew up internationally, extending its reach far beyond the confines of Puerto Rico? Every club and radio station from Beantown to Brussels was playing that new booty music from La Isla del Encanto. Few of the cats from that first wave have survived in the industry,…

Crystal Castles Live at Grand Central September 11 UPDATE

Easily contenders to top every end-of-the-year poll for the amazingly superb follow-up to 2008’s Crystal Castles, for the similarly named Crystal Castles (AKA Crystal Castles II), Ethan Kath and Alice Glass have shed the electro-house label and positioned themselves as true electronic music pioneers.Their 2009 performance at Ultra Music Festival…

Q&A with Matt Tolfrey, Playing Electric Pickle on Friday

On Monday we previewed the upcoming Friday night performance by Matt Tolfrey at Electric Pickle hosted by SAFE and with the date nearing, it’s already clear that this is one booking highly anticipated by the local EDM cognoscenti. The talented British DJ/producer and Leftroom label owner has taken the London…