What makes the Joy Division mythos similarly captivating and difficult to penetrate is it’s dominated by three genius spirits, each one threatening to consume the other. There’s frontman Ian Curtis, Keats-like in how he conveyed those aspects of human fragility. There’s Factory Records svengali Tony Wilson, with his P.T. Barnum-evoking…
Continuing to prove that psychedelic rock was as omnipresent in the Sixties as it is loosely defined today, the 10th volume in the QDK Media series further breaks down the definition of “Latin American psychedelic music,” the label explored in its second volume. After delivering tunes from Brazil (Volume 6)…
Dance music dilettante Hans Peter Lindstrøm believes that old adage regarding life being about the journey rather than the destination. He’s known for lush forays into the breach, led by disco’s ebbing conga pulse and a glimmer of stoned wisdom. With fellow Norwegian collaborator Prins Thomas, he’s cultivated the subset…
Legendary reggae artist Toots Hibbert is coming to Broward County this weekend. If you’re even vaguely familiar with the history of reggae, you’ll know that Toots is a long-time staple of the genre…so much so that he lays claim to being the first musician to use the word “reggae” in…
Gotta love the Designer Drugs. No not those designer drugs, we’re talking about Designer Drugs, the DJ duo from New York. The duo will stop by Miami September 8, as part of their mini-tour of Florida, where they will take over the decks of White Room’s Monday night bash Exposure…
There is no denying our love for Miami’s own Lazaro Casanova, so when he posted up a new track via his MySpace yesterday we were sort of excited to say the least. His first release “Venganza” was a dancefloor thriller that had us shaking the moment we heard it, and…
Since it’s Throwback Tuesdays and the post below this one mentions local guitarist, Daisy Berkowitz, who used to play in Marilyn Manson and the Spooky Kids, I figured I’d scour the Web for old Spooky Kids footage. The band was a staple in Fort Lauderdale’s metal scene long before they…
So Boynton Beach electro-rockers, Kill Miss Pretty, recently shot a new video for their song, “Drawing Pictures of Haunted Houses With You.” It’s the first single off of their new album, Permission for Strange, which the band is having a CD release party for this Saturday at Respectable Street in…
I got a random email last week stating that H.R. of the Bad Brains is going to be in Miami this Saturday at Churchill’s. I haven’t heard dick for promotion on this and Churchill’s doesn’t even have the show listed on their website. But random emails and word on the…
Is it WMC already? Nope, but LA Riots is coming to town anyway! Last time the Los Angeles duo were here was in March, playing multiple venues like The Vagabond and Rokbar. They return to The Vagabond (30 NE 11th Street, Miami) Friday, September 12 in what promises to be…
Ernest Barteldes Still Black, Still Proud: The African Tribute to James Brown with the Spam All-Stars August 22, 2008 Lincoln Center, New York Shortly prior to nightfall in Manhattan, Miami’s own Spam All-Stars hit the stage during the last weekend of summer outdoor concerts at Lincoln Center to kick off…
At Odds With God The Absence, Upheaval, Kalakai, At Odds with God, Synapticide Saturday, August 23, 2008 Culture Room, Fort Lauderdale Better Than: Pushing down the biggest, baddest motherfucker in the mosh pit and stealing his beer. Death metal is kind of like an orgiastic heathen ritual with more hatin’…
Mark Mauer LA Weekly’s blog Play visits the wall where the late singer/songwriter Elliot Smith posed for his Figure 8 album. Since his death in 2003, it has become an informal memorial to Smith. According to SF Weekly, Miami Beach resident Chan Marshall, better known as Cat Power, is scheduled…
Santiago Felipe Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan performed at Mizner Park Amphitheatre Thursday night. Click here to view the full slideshow. Smashing Pumpkins Thursday, August 21, 2008 Mizner Park Amphitheatre, Boca Raton Better Than: Not showering and looking for Molly for four days at a jam-band festival to get the…
ZOMG!!! Have you heard the news? Karu & Y and Bricks are being resurrected! Sorry, I got needlessly excited. The real question is why? They stood for everything that was so very wrong with Miami’s nightlife scene, and worse of all, they were so boring. Those are places I consider…
Sayre Berman Stone Temple Pilots lead singer Scott Weiland performs at the Seminole Hard Rock Live Wednesday night. Click here to view the full slideshow. Stone Temple Pilots Wednesday, August 20, 2008 Seminole Hard Rock Live, Hollywood Better Than: A Jukebox Filled with Hits of the ‘90s You want perspective?…
Matisyahu and local beatboxer Komakozie going in. Matisyahu Wednesday, August 20, 2008 The Florida Room Better Than: Listening to the Klezmatics at a nightclub The Review: There’s something about catching a show at the Florida Room, the laid-back, SoBe speakeasy, that reminds you of a bar from the 40s or…
Crack dealers and suburban gangsters all over America are waiting to buy, download and ringtone Young Jeezy’s third studio album The Recession as soon as it drops. Last week he was on South Beach filming the video for one of the singles, “Vacation,” featuring Trey Songz. My homie Fresh Da…
“You may be T-Pain and you got the mothafuckin’ hits, but I’m DJ Irie and I’m the shit,” boasted our hometown spindoctor at the DJ Battle that the Headliner Market Group had engineered to rock their “It’s Actually Fly.” party last Saturday night. But the Pain didn’t let Irie get…
Anybody who has hit the Strip knows just how much action there can be on even a block or two. What you might not know is how much of that action is soundtracked by a single DJ. Whether you’re swinging at Rokbar or Skybar or the Florida Room, chances are…
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…
