Area 7 will hold its first Opera Mash-Up event Wednesday May 20, an event which “mashes” opera with various genres of music. Singers will come in and perform their favorite opera numbers, while sound engineer Billy (no surname) records them. From 9 to 10 p.m. the night will consist of…
Austin quartet Goldcure plays a straightforward blend of indie-ish pop-rock, but the Texas still comes through. Guitars are bright, rollicking, and purely American, and frontman Adam Buhman’s rough-edged croon can veer close to twang. But the band’s real talent is in reducing its roots and rock influences to their essences,…
No matter what you think of Sugar Ray, you’ve got to respect their choice of titles for their upcoming CD: Music for Cougars. You’ve also got to respect the band that’s been around since 1992 and has admitted it’s failed at trying to branch out and change their sound. In…
Justo Saborit is a band leader of Cuban origin who plays a style of music he terms “Latin/soul.” Here he is performing at a park in Miami Springs. He has a following in Cleveland, Ohio, where his songs play on the radio and where he’s based. How anybody ever ends…
What happens why you forget a good friend’s birthday? Well, you perhaps try to avoid that person for a while until you can figure out how to make it up to them and then give them a kick-ass party insisting this was the plan all along. So perhaps this is…
While Respectable Street has booked a number of darkwave and, um, “old wave” groups of late, this is probably its most impressive coup to date in recent months. Peter Murphy, onetime Bauhaus leader and pretty much the granddaddy of all that is goth, plays the club on June 24. Last…
The decidedly bohemian local six-piece known as Kayakman is taking its music to the streets. For the past two months, every other Wednesday evening, the genre-hopping band has been offering impromptu concerts on Miami Beach’s quaint Española Way. Plugging in their retro gear in front of the modish Contesta Rock…
If you’ve been anywhere at night over the past decade and a half, you’ve collided with Chris Graham, that dread-topped insider who seems to be everywhere at once. Back in the 1990s, he’d spin at any fest in town, including Zen and Ultra, and would often be among the core…
The Crystal Method’s Divided by Night Tour Hits Revolution Thursday
Trombone Shorty Plays Culture Room Friday
Once upon a time, you couldn’t walk down certain lower Manhattan blocks without tripping over sidewalk vendors’ card tables loaded with cassettes. Sometimes, they’d be bootleg concert tapes, but a lot of the time, they were the latest hip-hop mixtapes. And in the golden age of that form, no one…
Chris Martin and company return to the road, again, in support of their latest album, last year’s Viva La Vida. The relatively experimental followup to the number one, 10-times platinum album X&Y, Viva La Vida has drawn both praise and scorn from fans and critics for departing from the previous…
When the mainstream media and trendies of yore decided, in the late 1970s, that punk Version 1.0 was over, the Vibrators never got the memo. Perhaps, in true spiky Brit fashion, they just ripped it up and spit on it. Either way, the London-based band boasts the unique distinction of…
The Cuba Nostalgia expo was created in Miami ten years ago, as its website explains, to provide “a journey back in time for those who remember the island’s glamorous times — and for those who never experienced them.” If you’ve never witnessed the weekend-long event at the Fair-Expo Center in…
It takes a versatile artist to write a number one country hit (1980’s “Starting over Again,” for Dolly Parton), simulate an orgasm on a 17-minute disco record (1976’s “Love to Love You Baby”), and win a Grammy for an inspirational performance (1983’s “He’s a Rebel”). Donna Summer has done all…
Eighties heartbreaker Pat Benatar will play Hard Rock Hotel and Casino July 2 with her husband Neil Giraldo. Unfortunately Blondie, who just announced she and Benatar will be touring together for the first time later this year, will not be there. But one 1980s icon may be enough. Benatar boasts some cheesy songs…
The Electric Pickle is poised to delight downtown’s techno cognoscenti again this Friday night with a special DJ set by acclaimed DJ/Producer Alexi Delano. Chilean-born Delano spent his formative years in Sweden where he was part of the first wave of notable Swedish EDM producers in the mid-’90s. He has…
Jose Feliciano is the international recording superstar responsible for the hit song “Feliz Navidad.” He’s blind as Ray Charles. He was born in Puerto Rico in 1945. Here he is at Univision Studios in Miami as part of the Despierta America show. I found this video online. Witness the impromptu…
Local live electronic act organicArma are doubtless celebrating a wish come true. Band leader Dharma has long been an outspoken admirer of the New York art-electro-pop outfit Fischerspooner, hinting to me last winter that he wanted to book them to play at his expansive Awarehouse venue.He may not have accomplished…
The annual Lip Sync Party is moving up a notch from the Coliseum to Club VooDoo in downtown Ft. Lauderdale this Friday. It’s a super fun drag show that benefits the Wings Foundation, which helps out American Airlines flight attendants in need. It’s an over the top type of show:…
We reported back in February that the creators of crobar were opening a new Fort Lauderdale club called Exit 66 (219 S Fort Lauderdale Beach Blvd., Fort Lauderdale, 954-357-9981). Well if you are burning with anticipation, the wait is over as the nightclub finally opens this weekend. The place is…
Here’s a music festival you can feel good about attending. The May Flowers Music Event is coming to the Corporate Pavillion at C.B. Smith Park on May 23, and net proceeds will be donated to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society to help find a cure for Leukemia, Lymphoma, Hodgkin’s Disease,…
