CuCu DiamantesThursday, March 5, 2009The Viceroy, Icon BrickellBetter than: The $7 million chandelier in the lobby. So, impresarios and Miami royalty Gloria and Emilio Estefan, actress Selma Blair, Food Network star Ingrid Hoffman and Emmy-winning Mad Men star Jon Hamm walk into a posh hotel. No, it’s not the setup…
Er, so last night we were suppose to go see Diplo at LIV, but our disco nap turned into a deep slumber. Oh well, no worries, Diplo will be back for WMC, and we are excited about Mad Decent’s party at O.H.W.O.W. during the week.Anyway, we suppose we’ve got some…
Franco De Vita is the Latin Billy Joel. That’s not an exaggeration. Anyone who knows Latin music can back it up. And unfortunately I can’t take credit for the comparison, I’m actually quoting, unofficially and without her knowledge or consent, an old boss and mentor from my very first days…
Naughty Natalia from Miami New Times on Vimeo.Naughty Natalia (host of our best Rock Radio Program award 2006) is to South Florida rock radio what beer is to whiskey, a perfect match. You can catch her live everyday on 93.1 FM from 10am – 4pm during her midday show after…
And the old school hits just keep on coming. Depeche Mode has announced that on September 5th, their “Tour of the Universe” hits the BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise. They’ll be touring in support of their 12th studio album, “Sounds of the Universe”…
Nine years ago (well, and before), nobody expected the original Irish punk rockers, the Pogues, to resurface together. Fans had followed the band’s slow dissolution across the late 1980s and early 1990s, parallel with the personal struggles of its mad genius frontman and songwriter, Shane MacGowan. Born in England to…
Friday, March 6 Bad Brains: With Whole Wheat Bread and Lionize. City Limits, 19 NE Third Ave., Delray Beach. Show begins at 8 p.m. Tickets cost $25. All ages. 561-279-8222, citylimitsdelray.com. The band that spent much of the past 12 years equally as broken up as it was together began…
Stifle yourself, Steve Earle. Lower that middle finger, Hank III. Take another hit from that spliff, Willie Nelson. And then all of you step aside. When it comes to insurgency, you guys pale compared to that cantankerous country crooner David Allan Coe. Banished to reform school at age 9, he…
Clarence Reid, the Magic City’s very own soulful singer/writer turned dirtiest rapper, is celebrating what seems like his millionth birthday, this Friday at PS14. (The party arrives on the heels of his actual birthday — his 70th — which was February 14.) Still, this is a chance to see a…
If there’s a future for popular music, that future belongs to Gregg Gillis, AKA Girl Talk. Think about it. First off, he’s a stand-alone. The proverbial man (or woman) against the world. A lone wolf with a laptop, braying mightily against the dying of our collective inner light. And as…
DJ A-Train’s name alone will tell you where this cat’s coming from. Like the Big Bad Apple’s most fabled locomotive, his sound slips straight outta far-east Brooklyn, roars through the downtown underground, and finds light uptown, at the foot of Harlem’s ever-shaking Sugar Hill. And like the Strayhorn standard that…
Less than Jake has been around for 16 years, no small feat for any band, particularly for one in the subgenre of ska-punk. But neither age nor shifting popularity of genres has stopped the quintet from Gainesville that’s responsible for memorable tracks such as “Happy Days” and “Johnny Quest Thinks…
Propagandhi is coming to South Florida this month for another shot at an actual live concert experience. Fans of the long-running thrashy punk band from Canada may or may not be psyched to see it at the Culture Room, but you can be sure they will go, despite fierce competition…
Paris-based indie electro music/fashion label Kitsuné was founded in 2002 and named after the Japanese word for shape-shifting foxes. It releases tracks that pile on robotic gargling, squelchy synths, new rave’s saw-tooth bass, and four-on-the-floor, French disco-house buildups. The only filter the artists don’t employ is the one in their…
Consisting of former String Cheese Incident members Michael Travis and Jason Hann, the electronic duo EOTO, brings, as expected, heavy shades of the jam scene’s improvisational ethic to its brand of dance music. In fact, the group stresses that all of its sounds are completely improvised, that none of the…
For Sam Hamovitch, the year was 1986, and you were about to witness the birth of a historical moment in rock and roll history. It was called “Hair Metal,” and it was pioneered by Mötley Crüe. Your bedroom walls were festooned with pin-ups of Crüe band members Vince, Nikki, Tommy,…
Used-to-be-local HC/post-HC/metalcore band Shai Hulud have a nice little interview up on Italian music site UnderTheory on their recent tour with Comeback Kid. This interview is a very my-first-zine series of questions in English by Italian cutie, Vale, in a halter top. Things like the band name, music type, and…
This week will be the very last Can you Rock a little Softer?, at least at Churchill’s, at least for now. Raffa and Rainer and her crew are going to take a break and review the situation and their options. The acoustic and open mike night has made Churchill’s Pub…
Although based in sunny Fort Lauderdale, the foursome of Mad Rockets channel the grit of Motor City in their dirt-under-the-fingernails brand of rock and roll. It’s easy to tell where the band’s musical heart lies just by the players’ pseudonyms: frontman Jinx, guitarist/vocalist Sonic Jim, bassist Todd Damour, and drummer…
VIP Elevator from MiamiNewTimes.com on Vimeo.Last night at the Motley Crue show at Hard Rock Live Dennis Rodman showed his support for the band and their music from the VIP bar…
This Saturday is the Second Annual Lourdes P. Aguila Memorial Walk-a-Thon honoring La Reina de la Salsa herself, Celia Cruz. The event is being hosted by La Liga Contra el Cancer and will take place at Tropical Park, where community leaders and celebrity residents of our fair city will turn out…
Those of us familiar with the history of Hardcore Music know that Greg Ginn is not just the man, but a brilliant guitar god. He formed Black Flag in 1977, eventually releasing the band’s records (as well as Bad Brains, Minutemen, Descendants, Sonic Youth, and lots more) on his own…
