Ernest Barteldes Latin Alternative Music Conference, Day 3 Friday, July 11, 2008 Roosevelt Hotel & Prospect Park, New York On the second day of panels and networking at Midtown’s The Roosevelt Hotel, former producer Moses Avalon discussed the various pitfalls faced by young musicians in the dog-eat-dog world of show…
Against Me! will be in town this weekend for the Vans Warped Tour. I interviewed their lead singer and founder Tom Gabel last year while the band was in Europe and as you can hear, I am an “obnoxious reporter.” var so = new SWFObject(“http://media.newtimes.com/players/vvmMiniPlayer.swf?audioFile=http://media.newtimes.com/2336228.0.mp3&autoPlay=no”,”theSWF”, “91”, “32”, “8”, “#FFFFFF”); so.write(…
I just got word that Miami’s favorite girl band, A.K.A. is playing a show at the Vagabond tonight which is sure to be a good time. If you’re not hip to them yet, go and get acquainted. They were just voted best female band by the New Times (since when…
Jose D. Duran Gravy Train!!!! perform at White Room Thursday night. Gravy Train!!!! with Mission Veo and Jose El Rey Thursday, July 10, 2008 White Room, Miami Better than: Er, gay porn I suppose. Gravy Train!!!! (yes, the exclamation points are part of the name) are one of those bands…
Ernest Barteldes Los Fancy Free perform at the Bowery Ballroom Thursday night during the Latin Alternative Music Conference in New York. Latin Alternative Music Conference, Day 2 Thursday, July 10, 2008 Roosevelt Hotel, S.O.B.s and Bowery Ballroom, New York On the second full day of the Latin Alternative Music Conference…
If you haven’t been to White Room’s Monday night party Exposure, I don’t blame you — you are probably thinking why party at the beginning of the week when so much happens on the weekends. Well, sorry to tell you that plenty of action happens during the week, and Exposure…
Charles Sweeting There’s a good chance that you’ve been hearing his new hit, “She Bout It” a few times a day if you’ve listen to Power 96 lately. His name doesn’t initially seem ready-made for stardom but his sound definitely is. And when you think about it, if you’re a…
Move over Fillmore Miami Beach, Bayfront Park Amphitheater is about to get in on some of the Live Nation action. Whether you love or abhor it, Live Nation, one of the nation’s leading concert promotion companies is set to take over the operation of Bayfront Park Amphitheater in Downtown Miami…
Ernest Barteldes Cucu Diamantes, lead singer of Yerba Buena, performing at Central Park in New York. Latin Alternative Music Conference, Day 1 Wednesday, July 9, 2008 Central Park Summerstage & Mercury Lounge, New York An overcast sky over Central Park and a severe weather forecast that never came to fruition…
Bertha, the first hurricane of the season formed in the Atlantic this week, and while its no threat to South Florida, it definitely brought with it the summer slowdown we’ve been expecting for a while. Nightlife pickings are slim this week and probably won’t pick up until the fall. Such…
Electro DJ N-Ter is from Croatia, a fact that instantly incites curiosity among history dorks about how he survived the small European country’s bloody civil war. He’s the wrong tree to bark up, however. “I can say that my generation doesn’t care much about politics. My generation is trying to…
Sometimes rap music is like an ice-cold glass of lemonade on a hot summer day. If you’re going to be out cruising around in the sun, it’s best to have some driving music by your side to help you not think about the heat. Fort Lauderdale’s Swazy Styles recently released…
How best to catch the sprawling, guitar-driven extravaganza that is the Vans Warped Tour? To put it simply: You can’t see all of it. Faced with multiple stages and 50-plus bands, you’ve got to prioritize. To help, Miami New Times has compiled a list of our favorite can’t-miss acts, from…
Whoever said nice guys finish last has obviously never had the pleasure of meeting Ray Milian, who’s definitely one of the nicest guys in DJdom. But don’t let the soft-speak fool you. For beneath that mild-mannered exterior lies the heart and the soul and the chops of a monster, a…
Even though New Order has officially split up, bassist Peter Hook isn’t exactly resting on his laurels. The 52-year-old travels the world as an in-demand DJ, amid writing and recording new music with Freebass, a project he formed with ex-Smiths bassist Andy Rourke, ex-Stone Roses/current Primal Scream bassist Mani, and…
Fresh from a two-year stint at Berklee College in Boston, where he fell hard for the sounds of Ella Fitzgerald and Dizzy Gillespie, Juan Luis Guerra went with his heart. Fixated by jazz arrangements, the then-unknown Guerra decided to splash the form’s rhythms all over Soplando, his first album since…
The last time the Miami rockers of Shufly got some extended New Times love was in 2001, when it was duly noted that a bunch of teenage girls found them hot. That’s not a hard thing to believe when you’ve got singer Scott Smith’s soap opera waif-stud looks. Then there’s…
Looks like everyone’s favorite Hassidic reggae singer/rapper might just outlast his novelty status after all. But that doesn’t necessarily make it safe to go back in the reggae waters for anyone aspiring to stand out based on his, uh … demographic makeup alone. On one hand, it’s unfortunate that Matisyahu’s…
I’d be willing to wager that, in 1995, more Americans knew all the words to The Nanny theme song than to Coolio’s chart-topping rap single “Gangsta’s Paradise.” Both were cultural phenomena in the mid-Nineties, but no pop single has the broad-spectrum appeal and mass distribution of a major TV sitcom…
Sigur Rós’s latest is positively festooned with danger signs: the first album to be mainly recorded outside the band’s home base of Iceland, the first to feature a track sung in English, and the first coproduced by a big-shot dial-twister (Flood, of Depeche Mode fame). Somehow, though, this series of…
The hip-hop disorder that sampling producer/arranger duo The Herbaliser (Jake Wherry and Ollie Teeba) loaded onto the FabricLive 26 compilation two years ago stands in sharp contrast to the pair’s previous LP’s spy-film grooves. It was a clear sign the British twosome was exploring new sounds, and real fans have…
If albums, unlike books, could be judged by their covers, then Conqueror, the newest release from The Gates of Slumber, should rank as one of the greatest metal albums in the history of man. A barbarian warrior, his loincloth fashioned from a bronze skull, stands victoriously. In one outstretched hand…
