With a loud and raucous sound zigzagging over the lines of alt rock, rock n’ roll and punk like a driver 14 shots of Jack deep, Cage the Elephant have been rattling the bars of that pen plenty. The quintet out of Kentucky blurs the lines of what their sound…
Borrowing an opening bit from Coffee Talk with Linda Richman, Manchester Orchestra is neither from Manchester, nor a real orchestra. Okay, talk amongst yourselves. They’re actually a five-piece rock band from Atlanta, who just released their second album. And they kick serious ass. Their debut, I’m Like a Virgin Losing…
Who is Paul van Dyk, really? Obviously he’s one of the most famous figures in electronic dance music worldwide — and arguably the best-dressed. But why? Well his industry accolades speak for themselves. Paul van Dyk (born Matthias Paul in East Germany, 1971) is a Grammy Award-nominated artist, named “World’s…
You’ve very likely caught them at one of their innumerable gigs around town, at Jazid or at Bougie’s. At The Vagabond, perhaps, or Tobacco Road? Or maybe even 90 miles from Cuba, down that southbound stretch of I-95, in the good ole’ Conch Republic’s Green Parrot Bar. And you’ve no…
Night Watch is a regular feature about bars and clubs by nightlife columnist Tara Nieuwesteeg. On a bar-hopping tour of Hollywood, I popped into PRL Euro Cafe (1904 A Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood; 954-980-8945; prlcafe.com), a narrow venue with a few chairs at the front and a long bar extending along…
As we promised yesterday, here’s a holiday giveaway of two more tickets to see Ras Kass in a comeback gig at White Room on Friday. Click here to read yesterday’s post with all the details.The rules again are, leave a comment on this entry, and then e-mail me your name…
Night Watch is a regular feature about bars and clubs by nightlife columnist Tara Nieuwesteeg. It was in the low 70s–breezy, but pleasant–as my wingman and I walked up starry Hollywood Boulevard. The air was crisp, and the street was alive with the clicking of high heels, the kind of…
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You could make the argument that Canadian anarcho-industrial-rock pioneer Skinny Puppy has been at its most artistically potent (and successful) over the past 27-plus years when there’s a right-wing boogeyman at the helm of the free world to rail against. The group — long led by frontman Nivek Ogre and…
Few Hispanics have had electronic dance music careers as fruitful and influential as that of DJ/producer Erick Morillo. Born in Colombia and raised in Union City, New Jersey, the house music veteran began DJing in his teens. By the early ’90s, he was experimenting with provocative genre-bending fusions of house,…
After eluding the annals of popular dance music for practically forever, France finally got with the program in the late ’90s thanks to a quirky little duo named Daft Punk. It didn’t take long after that for France to grow its own crop of DJ superstars, whose prime example is…
Ali Shirazinia, AKA Dubfire, is half of the renowned duo Deep Dish, and is its decidedly more musically forward-thinking member. As a solo producer, though, he has garnered equally significant recognition. In 2007, he launched his own label and tastemaking music platform, Science + Technology Digital Audio, and has since…
It’s hard to believe 311 has been at it for 20-plus years, especially after listening to the band’s recently released 12th album, Uplifter. (Well, it’s actually the 15th, if you count three early indie records that were later compiled to form Omaha Sessions in 1998.) The new disc more than…
Kreamy ‘Lectric Santa bridged the awkward end of the ’80s and the massive untamed wilderness of the ’90s local music scene, especially helping to cement Churchill’s Pub as the musical hub of South Florida. But a spinal injury, relocation to Oakland, deaths, and dwindling finances have limited the band’s commercial…
For us, Rob Van Winkle will always be Vanilla Ice
Here is the video for a song called Turkey Murder (The Thanksgiving Song), it’s no Adam Sandler Thanksgiving Song, but that song is played out anyways. What with all this internet and all these cameras, and all these softwares you’d figure somebody would have come up with a new classic…
If you missed Kid Sister’s performance not long ago at LIV, here’s an opportunity to check her out again in a slightly more relaxed setting. Giant Step always curates quality events, and for Art Basel the label is putting on Chicago’s favorite femme fatale electro-rapper at the Delano. She and…
This isn’t an intentional effort to get you out of the lines at the Muvico or Dolphin Mall to clear the way and hedge the odds of getting a better seat for Planet 51, Ninja Assassin or The Road, all opening this weekend. I’m the one person who skipped New…
When Andrei Osyka, Brett Griffin, and Justin Sloe first met in the Los Angeles dance music scene at the turn of the millennium, little could they have known that their newly forged creative partnership would comprise one of the West Coast’s hippest EDM collectives by the end of the decade…
