Miami’s techno heads can’t complain about having nothing to do this Saturday night, with club Space featuring an all-night groove extravaganza that includes DJ sets by international sensations Mark Knight, Alexi Delano and Paul Ritch. Bestselling DJ/producer Mark Knight has gained substantial commercial success in the late 2000s through residencies…
If you’re not headed down to Thievery Corporation in Miami tonight, there’s still plenty to hear in Broward and Palm Beach. Ben Prestage and Dex Romweber Duo are playing Propaganda tonight, Johnny Winter is playing The Culture Room, Ever So Klever is playing Poor House, and the battle of the…
Queen Latifah, star of the mid-’90s Fox show Living Single, a.k.a. the greatest sitcom ever, is coming to Fillmore Miami Beach on November 17. Unfortunately, she’s not taking Synclaire, Maxine, Regina, and Overton with her to do live Living Single theater. No, instead she’ll be banking on her musical talent…
Jose Luis Perales is what you might call a living legend. The title seems fitting. Perhaps you don’t think you’re familiar with his work, but if you have parents from Spain or Latin America then rest assured you most certainly do. And if perhaps you yourself are a died-in-the-wool grownup…
The bluesy, punkabilly Dex Romweber Duo is a must-see for any roots rocker. Fronted by Dexter Romweber, the brother/sister pair (or at least Dex, who played in the iconic underground group Flat Duo Jets) has been cited as a major influence by numerous artists such as Cat Power, Neko Case,…
Bob Dylan, popular music’s ultimate shape-shifter, will release the strangest album of his five-decade career next Tuesday, October 13. Christmas in the Heart, as the title suggests, is a collection of 15 holiday classics. Commenters at RollingStone.com and numerous other sites are — or at least were — convinced the…
When a newly reformed legendary Brazilian psychedelic band calls upon you to open up for its national tour, it’s probably best to simply say yes. Of course, leave it to those wacky Os Mutantes to go ahead and dig up the only group that describes their sound as “Spanish-Jewish indie…
This week I decided to try something new — an interview. I asked my friend Tommy Newman of Murderous Rampage ten questions about his band. Here we go. Please let me know what you guys think. Brooklyn: What bands have you been in around South Florida, and what did they sound…
Dutch guy Han Bennink is an awesome fucking drummer. He performs in a three man group called Third Man Trio. He plays drums while Michael Moore plays reeds, and Will Holshauser plays accordion.Tigertail, Florida’s pioneer of innovative arts & culture, now in their 30th year of existence present Third Man…
Do you think David Ellefson might miss playing for Megadeth? He left the band in 2002, and declined to rejoin the band when Dave Mustaine tried to get them back together in 2004. In fairness, every other original member of Megadeth declined to rejoin Mustain, save guitarist Chris Poland. But…
You know the saying “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade?” Well, Awesome New Republic know it all too well. After releasing their latest EPs Rational Geographic Vol. 1 and Vol. 2, October was suppose to bring the release of the final installment. Unfortunately, we’ll never get to hear those…
In the post-hardcore pantheon, the New Jersey guys of Thursday are millennial gods. Led by the unapologetically erudite frontman Geoff Rickly, in the late ’90s and early ’00s, their early loud-soft aesthetic helped define what would later come to be known — often pejoratively — as “screamo.” That accomplishment has…
That little “influences” box on a musician’s MySpace page is usually a repository for not-funny irony or complete bullshit. Shit Robot’s, however, is as sincere and accurate as this single-man-act’s name is not — name-checked here are early electronic heavyweights like Carl Craig, Andrew Weatherall, Derrick May, and Juan Atkins…
Seven hours. That’s how long Ryan Evans mixes up the mayhem at Buck 15 every Friday night. Seven hours. But if you’re the kind of DJ who can begin with ’90s hip-hop, segue through commercial house, and peak with classic rock ‘n’ roll, seven hours is just another drive-by. The…
Washington is the nation’s capital, home to the U.S. government and the hub for power brokers from across the globe. So what better place for the home base of one of the most compelling underground acts of the past 15 years? That’s Thievery Corporation, a duo born from the same…
Os Mutantes resurrect Tropicalia at Culture Room in Fort Lauderdale
New York and London battle over bragging rights as the definitive birthplace of punk rock. Southern California is acknowledged as the second cradle of the genre, home to all of those amazing, sun-bleached ’80s bands. But people tend to forget about the flyover states’ place in the punk pantheon. Sure,…
UK DJ Lee Burridge has become something of a semi-resident at the Vagabond, landing in downtown Miami every couple months or so. Perhaps it’s because he recently relocated to New York. But also, the Vagabond’s cozy dance floor and famously up-for-it Saturday crowd lend themselves well to Burridge’s nuanced, slowly…
These days, everyone likes to pretend they didn’t like electroclash at the turn of the millennium and that it’s a blight on the illustrious hipster recent past. (Give it another couple of years and it’ll be time for an electroclash “revival.”) But for all of that little flash in the…
Laura Pausini possesses arguably one of the most powerful female voices in Latin pop. The Italian-born songstress, who has sold more than 40 million copies worldwide, boasts a blessed set of pipes. Evidence? Her vocal work on hit singles such as “Inolvidable,” off 1996’s Las Cosas Que Vives; her duet…
Jacuzzi Boys/Woven Bones “The Countess”/”Grown Crazy” split (Needless Records) myspace.com/jacuzziboys Here’s another quality split from South Florida’s superinfectious Jacuzzi Boys and Orlando’s Woven Bones. Edgy, surreal guitars propel this 45 into the ne’er-do-well regions of the mind. Is it a coincidence I’ve been singing Jacuzzi Boys’ praises as of late?…
It wasn’t too long ago that N.E.R.D performed like at the somewhat dysfunctional Future Classic Festival. But that didn’t stop them from giving Miami a weekend full of alt hip-hop (arguably N.E.R.D are the original hipster-hoppers).But this past weekend’s performances, both at the W South Beach and Kia Soul Collective…
