Like a pissed-off, mistreated dog, Travis Reilly yelps, This is how downward spirals start. Then he growls, This is a convoluted attempt to find some source of hope. Later, he barks, This is the best and worst things will ever get. Reilly’s Long Island-based hardcore outfit, This Is Hell, seems…
I know, I know, WMC talk already — yikes, we just celebrated the new year. But if you’ve got any interest in WMC then you know that the Shelborne always grabs absolutely stellar lineups who play legendary parties. If you like big-room house music, you’ve already been to some of…
(Photo via www.donnathebuffalo.com)Donna the Buffalo, a band who hails from Trumansburg, New York, sounds inseparable from the Great Outdoors. These are the kind of old Deadheads who probably chose to cover John Anderson’s Everglades ode “Seminole Wind” because it’s got otters and gars in it. Their originals suggest holistic hippies…
Ultra Music Festival released the second phase of its lineup, and while the biggest names in the list offer no big surprises, a number of other, smaller acts added to the bill demonstrate more of the festival’s forward-thinking approach this year. So here are the titans who will play (again):…
Miami New Times recently ran a feature on the still-alive Holy Terrors, legends of the Miami rock scene. Click here to read that story, which in help sparked the band to get together another reunion show. Rob Elba, William Trev, Dan Hosker, and Sam Fogarino form the classic Holy Terrors…
Mr. Pupp “Da Quarter Million Dollar Man” and 21 Reese from Palm Beach have a message to any female that would dare bust the window out their cars. Here go the video and lyrics to their remix of Jazmine Sullivan’s smash hit as well as I could transcribe them…….
Happy New Year, ya’ll! It’s 2009 and with the economy going south, everyone seems to be looking for answers at the bottom of a bottle — and that means more parties! And January is already gearing up to be spectacular. But let us not get ahead of ourselves, because here…
This Friday’s excursion into sonic brutality at Churchill’s Pub is not just another exercise in aggression. This time, it’s to support a nascent all-ages venue in the inner city, tentatively called GOO. The project is being spearheaded by a local music fan, Kenneth Fee. The graduate of Hialeah High has…
Scottish indie rock act Bis’ overtures were expressed rather neatly in its 1997 single “Tell It to the Kids”: “And now, coming through the airwaves into your home/Introducing the new transistor heroes.” San Francisco’s hey willpower lacks a similar expressive salutation, but it shares Bis’ affinity for trash culture, “kandy…
Little, it seems, can stop the improbable Tampa-based female party – rap juggernaut that is Yo Majesty. Not even the occasional almost-implosion of the group itself. Early last summer, some undefined internal meltdown sent home half of the group, the gospel – trained vocalist – turned – rapper Jewel B…
Justin NamonOur cameras stopped by Off the Radar’s return last night at The Standard in Miami Beach. The off-beat party is looking once again to be the music aficionado’s sanctuary in an often stale South Florida nightlife scene.Click here to view the full slideshow…
from the band’s myspace Treesoundz is a band that could make millions of dollars. I found them on the Internet while I was lurking around for a blog post. I’m a freelancer; I get paid by the piece, like selling crack rock on commission. They need to quit editing…
Last time I saw The Juan MacLean, it was at Poplife when it still called The District home. I actually didn’t know who he was and had just sort of stumbled into the party. But soon after that, I was hooked. The Juan MacLean sound is so smooth and cool,…
“Brooklyn,” as the current day manager of The Vagabond in downtown Miami is known, has done and seen it all around the South Florida music scene since arriving here from his native New York some 12 years ago. Younger types flitting around hipster nightlife know him as the improbably, heavily…
One gets the impression that if there were eight days in a week, DJ Affect would be spinning each and every one of ’em. Hell, it’s a bet he’d be spinning every day of the week if there were 10 or 12 or 20 — that’s how driven the cat…
Even if you have spent only a couple of nights out on the local music scene, your ears have likely taken in the smooth sounds of Buffalo Brown’s guitar playing. He is one of Miami’s most sought-after axe men, in a typical night traveling across town from gig to gig…
Beyond the unending, dentist-office-like whir of hundreds of tattoo needles buzzing, the Miami Tattoo Expo will feature another soundtrack: an impressive lineup of local and national music acts. While other South Florida tattoo conventions have relied mostly on rockabilly cover bands and the like, the Miami convention has garnered a…
“Some people,” laughs Galactic bassist Robert Mercurio, “think we’re just a bunch of college kids playing old New Orleans music.” That might have been the case at one point. But the funk-based, mostly instrumental quintet has garnered plenty of respect over its nearly 15-year existence. Thanks to crossover success with…
If a band exists solely to keep the party going — as California’s Smash Mouth clearly does — it makes perfect sense to catch that band in a tailgate-party setting before a huge football game. For this appearance, Smash Mouth takes a detour from its usual casino engagements to play…
Retro-videogame nerds, don’t get too excited. Friday’s guest act at The Vagabond has nothing to do with the mostly forgotten Nineties Nintendo game, but rather has appropriated the moniker, à la Crystal Castles, to broadcast a fascination with retro bleeps and bloops. The multicolor, eight-bit-style graphics festooning Panic Bomber’s various…
Pat yourself on the back for attending Saturday’s early-evening, all-ages extravaganza at Revolution. It’s sponsored by Music Saves Lives, a California-based group that aims to “create opportunities for people to save lives with simple contributions, and to teach the facts about the effects of what they contribute to.” In other…
On Combichrist’s fourth and latest album, Today We Are All Demons, the band’s mastermind, Andy LaPlegua, effectively ups the ante on the tried-and-true answering-machine intro. It begins with a message from an unfortunate soul on his way to jail on a concealed-weapons charge. His girlfriend, meanwhile, is in the hospital…
