For Miami-based guitarist and bandleader DJ Le Spam (a.k.a. Andrew Yeomanson), his band’s name, the Spam Allstars, has nothing to do with the famed meat substitute. Instead, what the moniker actually represents is this eclectic act’s mission “to blend improvisational electronic elements and turntables with Latin, funk, and dub to…
Call It Radar The Longevity of Flight (self-released) www.myspace.com/callitradar I was a big fan of the summertime bubblegum diabetic shocks that came through the speakers courtesy of the now-deceased local outfit Baby Calendar. So when former band member Tom Gorrio put another outfit together, I fucking listened. Taking the proven…
Some cats really know how to scratch at your heartstrings. A little more than a year ago, Miami’s popular octogenarian tango interpreter La Gata reduced a crowd of Latin American émigrés to tears following a screening of a self-titled documentary about her at the Spanish Cultural Center in Coral Gables…
This four-piece outfit is not to be confused with, oh, Walls of Jericho, or Fall of Troy, or any number of the other heavy acts out there with vaguely ancient-sounding names. These guys hail from the northern reaches of Palm Beach County, where they’ve been slowly churning out their “100…
Ireland native and longtime New York resident DJ Dara has had untold influence on the taste and purchases of drum ‘n’ bass DJs across the nation for the past 12 years. He’s one of the core managers at the seminal record shop Breakbeat Science, which operates both online and as…
Over the past few years, brothers Justin and Christian Martin, with their Dirtybird and Buzzin’ Fly crews, have harnessed their San Francisco hometown’s thermal currents to establish themselves and their city as an increasingly potent presence on the international techno circuit. Including cohort Claude VonStroke, the Dirtybird gang launched a…
Since 1994, locals have known Venezuelan-born DJ Lazardi from the parties he’s grown not only at Space but also at Nocturnal, Amika, Maze, Opium Garden, and Liquid. He began at Space in 2004, when the club’s owner, Luis Puig, decided to try an “international party” in what was then the…
This Friday, one of Miami’s longest-standing underground bands, Locos por Juana, will have the opportunity to skank the pants off new and old fans alike during the group’s album-release extravaganza at Little Havana’s Manuel Artime Theater. Thank the forward-thinking folks at FUNDarte, a local cultural nonprofit dedicated to promoting new…
It’s a humid Friday morning in Miami Beach, and the guys of the group ¡Mayday! respectively give a stretch and yawn, attempting to shed last night’s hangover. It’s been nearly two years since the crew dropped its acclaimed solo album but continued along the independent route. Now there are four…
Alanis Morissette does not wear Guy Sigsworth well. Their collaboration on Flavors of Entanglement was certainly meant to be one based on embellishment, like a well-chosen accessory to complement an outfit. Unfortunately Sigsworth’s production works more like a shroud than a shawl. Throughout most of the album, Morissette seems like…
Hip-hop music with a message in 2008 is like a biased voter. It has plenty of opinions but can never see the bigger picture. One major exception to this rule is Pretty Dark Things, the new full-length by local act Cyne. On its third disc, the two-MC, two-producer team delivers…
This new disc from the legendary Fania finally tells the story of Joe Bataan, an Afro-Filipino singer whose style fermented in the Puerto Rican environs of East Harlem. Concentrating on his early work, the compilation tracks the cross-pollination of Latin boogaloo, salsa, and American R&B that he helped popularize. What’s…
After a four-year layoff from writing and releasing new material, 67-year-old Gilberto Gil has emerged with a collection of songs that marry ideas from northeastern Brazilian street poetry (cordel) and contemporary concepts. He opens with the upbeat “Despedida de Solteira” (“Bachelorette Party”), whose humorous lyrics tell the story of a…
DJ Gunars DJ Gunars has been spinning all over Miami for quite some time now. His more prominent gigs have included stints at Pawn Shop Lounge (er, back when it was the place to see and be seen) and Rokbar. This week, writer John Hood profile’s Gunars for his “Head…
Peter Beste In tomorrow’s issue of the Miami New Times, music editor Arielle Castillo stumbles upon Vice Books’ True Norwegian Black Metal, a collection of photos by Peter Beste. The book chronicles Norway’s black metal scene which is marred by violence and arson. They say the cold weather makes you…
Versatile saxophone player, LeRoi Moore, of the Dave Matthews Band died yesterday at a hospital in California. He was just 46-years-old. He’d been in the hospital for several weeks suffering from complications he suffered on June 30th when he was thrown from his all-terrain-vehicle on his farm in Charlottesville, VA…
Tonight’s Smashing Pumpkins concert — or Billy Corgan and Jimmy Chamberlin with some other people who aren’t James Iha and Darcy Wretzky — at the Center for the Arts at Mizner Park has been reschedule for Thursday, August 21. Tickets purchased for tonight’s show will be honored Thursday. — Jose…
Martijn Ten Velden performs at Set on Sunday. First dabbling in hip-hop during his teen years in the late Eighties, Martijn Ten Velden delved into the house music scene in the Nineties, quickly proving himself a force to be reckoned with. The Dutch DJ and producer has racked up a…
Alexandra Lipsitz Talk about creepy: Village Voice’s Sound of the City posts up a promo picture for the movie Soul Men, which features the late Isaac Hayes and the late Bernie Mac. Quick, someone get Samuel L. Jackson to a panic room! LA Weekly gives us a glimpse of the…
Courtesy of Laundry Bar Pack up the suds. Laundry Bar has its last wash. South Beach venue Laundry Bar is calling it quits. Well, not exactly. The place we come to know as Laundry Bar will in fact cease to exists, but its owners are still planning to keep it…
Justin Namon Asses were shakin’ as local turnable master Craze and Baltimore DJ Dave Nada put The Vagabond’s bass to the test. Thursday night party Money Shot brought the duo’s Borrachos Locos tour to the Downtown Miami venue, along with resident DJs Contra, Mike Deuce and DS. Click here to…
Courtesy of Girls Gone Wildlife You love this ass! Debbie Attias takes a cross country bike ride to raise money for the World Wildlife Fund. Does she look like a slut? No, Debbie Attias, half of the now-defunct, Brooklyn-based, MIA born-and-raised Avenue D, looks like a cyclist. She and friend…
