The Broward Folk Club will ring in another year of membership Sunday at Cinema Paradiso. Never heard of the Broward Folk Club? It’s a non-profit dedicated to promoting folk and acoustic music, and it holds open mics throughout the year as well as “jam in the park” events. The group will…
Formed in 2005 by DJ/producers Anja Schneider and Ralf Kollmann, Mobilee Records is one of the most forward-thinking and internationally-acclaimed boutique imprints to emerge out of Berlin in recent years. With a roster that includes some of the most exciting and cutting-edge artists of the contemporary European minimal scene, like…
If anyone has had an amazing year, its definitely been the quirky electronic duo from Portland YACHT. After being relegated to relative obscurity since its inception in 2003, their breakthrough came after Claire Evans joined Jona Bechtolt in 2008 transforming the solo act into a duo.Evans contributes much of YACHT’s…
These days everyone likes to pretend they didn’t like electroclash at the turn of the millennium, and that it’s in general a blight on the illustrious hipster recent past. (Give it another couple years and it’ll be time for an electroclash “revival.”) But for all that little flash in the…
Lotus House Thrift (203 NW 36th St., Miami) is a Wynwood extension of Overtown’s Lotus House Women’s Shelter. It is a thrift shop that specializes in selling clothes, furniture, electronics, and household goods to help fund shelter meals, housing, health services, job training, and more. I bought a Sony amp…
No more “sweaty” jokes people, Sweat Records finally got that much needed AC. The independent record store in Little Haiti announced today that it would be resuming its normal hours of operation: noon to 10 p.m., Monday through Saturday, starting Monday.The record store hasn’t had a history of having the…
Who doesn’t like arroz con leche? It’s rice, condensed milk, and lots of sugar, sometimes with cinnamon sprinkled on top, served either hot or cold. As such it’s a dessert meant for the gods (or cheap foodies like myself). But enough of the actual food. Why not try out Arroz…
This evening’s Metallica performance at the BankAtlantic Center will surely attract a tumultuous sea of testosterone covered in black T-shirts and ripped jeans — and maybe even a few women. This all-ages army of metal maniacs will bang their heads, stomp their boots, throw the devil horns and look for…
Native South Floridian Roberto Lange is a busy guy. Aside from having his fingers in the production pot, working with indie up-and-comers like School of Seven Bells, he is also has been known to work with Prefuse 73. And just this past summer, he put out an album of his…
Boca Raton is home to a brand new music store and recording studio called The Garage. Robert Munser and his brother-in-law Bobby Hatton bought the store with the intention of just fixing it up a bit and selling a few instruments and accessories, but things quickly got more complicated.Owner Robert…
Miami’s house music cognoscenti will be rejoicing at the Electric Pickle this Friday night when Aquabooty, the city’s longest-standing and most esteemed house music party, celebrates a whopping 10 years of loving soulful groove. Formed in 2000 by scene veterans Joe Budious and Tomas Ceddia, the ‘Booty has remained a…
The Heavy Pets had really seemed to hit their stride earlier this year when they enlisted Felix Pastorius on bass. The son of bass legend Jaco Pastorius, Felix is a respected musician in his own right who has shared the stage with bass greats Victor Wooten and John Patitucci, among…
The Killers’ Day & Age tour hits the American Airlines Arena
Alice Cooper’s Theatre of Death tour passes through Pompano Beach
Deep house high priest Miguel Migs occupies a position in electronica somewhere between France’s Bob Sinclar and fellow San Franciscan (by way of Las Vegas) Halo. Even though he has done remixes for A-listers such as Macy Gray, Lionel Richie, and Britney Spears, Migs remains a DJ’s DJ, maintaining both…
Even if he hadn’t made his name rapping about kilos and capers, Wu-Tang MC Ghostface Killah’s long-form flow would still be described as straight dope. But Ghostface — AKA Tony Starks, Ironman, Pretty Toney, and now Ghostdini the Wizard of Poetry — did form a reputation from swaggering through tales…
If you recognized the name in this little headline, let’s just get this out of the way: Yes, Brand Nubian is still around. Or rather, since the inception of this original paragon of conscious hip-hop excellence, the group has only periodically faded away and reappeared. There has never been a…
Metallica’s Death Magnetic tour stops at BankAtlantic Center
If you’ve been out and about anywhere in Miami over the past eight years, you’ve probably seen or heard the cat sometimes called Al B. Rotten. Rotten — or Andrews Lorenzana, as he’s known to the DMV — was part of the ragtag gaggle of über-crazies behind the long-running weekly…
Who doesn’t love Los Fabulosos Cadillacs? There is perhaps a handful of bands that can be credited with founding the rock en español movement. But none was more vital to its global spread than perhaps two bands out of Argentina: Soda Stereo, fronted by the legendary Gustavo Cerati, and Los…
Miami duo Raffa and Rainer will bring their quirky folk to the Unitarian Universalist Church of Fort Lauderdale, a place bustling with yogis, peaceful meditation classes, and humanist causes. The show will be at the Church’s Labyrinth Cafe on October 10. For those unfamiliar with one of South Florida’s best…
Lamborghini, Maybach, Ferrari, Kia. Yes, Kia. You don’t know it yet, but the South Korean car might be the next thing you’ll rollin’ down the street on 22s. Auto companies making their brand appealing to young adults through free events isn’t exactly new — Scion has been doing it for…
