After the third time MySpace deleted their band’s page, Matt Mihana, then age 17, and Nabil Moo, then age 18, considered abandoning both the site and the band. It was impossible, the site’s police said, that one song was garnering 50,000 plays a day; the duo was obviously using software…
You probably know the story: The savior-soaked rock star Scott Stapp got arrested in 2006 at LAX airport, a day after marrying a former Miss New York here in Miami, at Vizcaya. But what you don’t know (unless you were there) is what went down at the wedding reception, when…
J. Thompson The Sword are a hard-hitting, sludgy, but epic quartet from Austin, Texas, who are preoccupied with very metally subjects like Norse mythology and the science fiction writings of George R. R. Martin. And irony be damned, they’re damned serious about it. “It’s not a joke at all,” says…
It’s possible that the musicians of Washington, D.C.-area punky, metally, bluesy hard rock quintet Clutch do not know how to take a break. They blasted out of the gate running in 1991 with a seven-inch single, “Passive Restraint,” snagged a deal with EastWest Records, and hit the road. Since then,…
So today, new R&B sensation Jazmine Sullivan has her debut album, Fearless, available in stores worldwide. She’s got a voice that’s at times, reminds me of Lauryn Hill like on the song above, “Need You Bad,” and at other times, she’s unlike anyone I’ve ever heard. The Philadelphia-raised singer used…
Dixon spins at Aquabooty at The King Is Dead. As our economy takes a turn for the worse, there are still people out there who know what people want to do to forget that their life savings are going to shit — drink and dance. So it isn’t a surprise…
Attention bands: If you have yet to play one of Oski’s and Queen of the Scene’s mini festivals at Tobacco Road, and if you’ve got a lady or two in your band, here’s an opportunity. The follow-up to last year’s estrogen-heavy Femme Fest is happening this November, and the promoters…
My arrival timing for events is usually pretty hit-or-miss, but this last Saturday I lucked out at PS14. I had headed over to check out Notorious Nastie’s/Astari Nite’s occasional Static Interference event, which was supposed to start at 10 p.m. I arrived just after 11, and nothing had started –…
Festival announcements are happening all over the place. Last week, while most local music lovers were caught up talking about Langerado’s surprising decision to host the 2009 edition of that concert at Miami’s Bicentennial Park, a lot of people missed that the on-again, off-again International Caribbean Music Fest had an…
Argentine rocker Fito Paez made a rare U.S. appearance at Miami’s Knight Concert Hall. Fito Paez Friday, September 19, 2008 Knight Concert Hall, Miami Better Than: Listening to one of those “Rock en Español” anthology CDs. This being my fifth time seeing Fito Paez live, my expectations were very high…
The musical darlings of the Village Voice Media. Rob Harvilla over at the Village Voice reviews Metallica’s latest offering Death Magnetic only after playing it on Guitar Hero III. The album was offered on the day of its release as a 11-track download for the game. Riverfront Times’ A to…
Friday, September 19: *Argentine rock en español legend Fito Páez performs a relatively intimate concert at the Arsht Center, hoping to gain more fans in the states. Read about his impressive musical track record here. *The album tribute act Classic Albums Live again performs at the Hard Rock, and this…
If you haven’t heard yet of local duo I Set My Friends on Fire, well, you are probably of legal drinking age and/or don’t spend a lot of time on MySpace, so let me fill you in really quickly on what basically every teenager seems to already know about. The…
The fall season is here! Yay! “Why ‘yay?'” you ask. Well in addition to bringing cooler temperatures and hurricane season coming to an end soon, it seems like nightclubs and promoters are waking up from their summer hibernation. The only thing that might rain on this nightlife parade is the…
Just confirmed today: Chicago instrumental almost-metal quartet (and friends of Miami’s Torche) Pelican will play its biggest headlining show to date in South Florida on November 15. As the band has grown in popularity, it’s played in these parts a couple times over the last few years years. Once was…
If Kid Galahad met Nam June Paik in a scratch-off, he might merge to become someone like DJ ICUE. Of course the Kid would have to be a lover, not a fighter, and ol’ Nam June might have to gear his visuals to the street rather than the museum. But…
In the years since its inception in 2002, this local multicultural band has definitely succeeded in its quest to create what it defines as a Latin jam-band sound. The eight-piece act embraces funk, hip-hop, cumbia, timba, jazz, Caribbean rhythms, and whatever else that fits. Much like the Spam Allstars (with…
Chance Gardner and the Blues Daddies Easy Come and Easy Go (Manawa Records) www.chancegardner.com Born in Cuba and fried from birth on Southern blues, good old rock and roll, and Latin rhythms, Chance Gardner is a bizarrely twisted cowboy-boots-clad bald man. This effort yields 15 tracks for almost an hour’s…
In many ways, you could consider this Madrid transplant a Latin pop pioneer. He was one of the first Spanish-language artists to play for arena-size audiences in the United States (a feat accomplished during his 1997 Vivir tour) without the support of a crossover hit. In addition, his 2002 video…
Any moment now, it will be termed prog-disco or sexy-cheese-disco or even chamber-disco. Whatever the case, the -disco must be appended and heeded, for it is back. Hercules & Love Affair’s version of disco can make you wish it had never gone away — really. A former Denver leather-bar DJ…
Candid post-gig photos of Los Angeles DJ Steve Aoki always seem to catch him making like the crazy-drunken Chinese kid from Pretty in Pink, the kind of stereotype that reportedly made his Newport Beach, California childhood a living hell. But the kids who made fun of him in grade school…
Just like last year, house DJ Cedric Gervais returns to the Space Terrace fresh from promoting a mix release on Yoshitoshi, the record label operated by Washington, D.C. super-DJ duo Deep Dish. In 2007, he spent the summer wandering the globe spreading the gospel of Yoshitoshi Miami, whose success led…
