Turns out mixtapes aren’t just for rappers. But British critical darling Dan Black, who recently played to a somewhat unappreciative crowd at LIV, doesn’t have much use for genre constraints. A rare pop singer (to try to label him simply) who creates his own compositions, he travels easily between electro,…
Photo by Matt GraysonNew Found GloryFireworks, hellogoodbye, Saves the Day, and New Found GloryRevolution, Fort LauderdaleTuesday, February 9, 2010Better Than: Being forced to actually eat sardines, while packed like them?The Review:If last night’s New Found Glory show at Revolution — its second at the venue in the past year –…
While most of the city was freaking out over the Super Bowl, some other legends were in town on Friday night: Phil Lesh and Bob Weir, formerly of the Grateful Dead. In a pretty unusual booking for downtown Miami, the two touched down at the recently revamped Bayfront Park Amphitheater…
Out of all the big-name dubstep producers, Rusko is probably the one with the most obvious sense of humor. His tracks are bass-heavy, sure, but they’re also full of quirky, high-end samples, and generally harbor less of that sense of impending doom that permeates the work of people like Skream…
After a seemingly endless heyday, rap-rock eventually became one of the most reviled musical artifacts of the end of the last millennium. But it’s been more than a decade since then. Fred Durst has disappeared from everywhere except Twitter, and critical darlings like Cage are starting to rhyme over guitars…
via myspace.com/humbertThat Radioboxer and Humbert are playing a Valentine’s-themed show this Friday at the Shack North in Hialeah is not, in itself, huge news. The former has played plenty of warehouse gigs in the City of Progress, and the latter are the town’s patron saints (and owners of the place)…
via 230 PublicityOf Montreal returns to South Florida!Just when those of us in Miami were beginning to despair at the thought of driving to Broward (or even West Palm!) for every decent indie rock show that came through South Florida, this morning opened a serious freaking ray of sunshine. After…
photo by Michael MaryanoffMillionYoungThe Vagabond, MiamiFriday, February 7, 2010Better Than: Listening to Animal Collective’s “My Girls” on repeat for an hour (probably)The Review:Alex Diaz, the man behind the rising Coral Springs act MillionYoung, makes exquisite music for earbuds. Or laptop speakers. It’s intimate, multi-textured, bittersweet, and dreamy, tailor-made for an…
via the Windish AgencyTickets are still available for $30 for Sasha’s extended solo set.As we wrote here last month, the Shelborne and Shine had gotten on the WMC train early, offering some pretty crazy-cheap early-bird ticket prices for its events. Even though the full line-ups at the time were mostly…
The Los Angeles-based five-piece Terror formed in 2002, after the ’90s golden years when hardcore was still hard. Still, burly frontman Scott Vogel and company have from the beginning fought the good fight, keeping the music pummeling and punishing, but without any of today’s trendy death-core trappings. Whenever Terror flirts…
New Found Glory’s 2000 self-titled second album was what really catapulted the Coral Springs quartet into bona fide national stardom. Released before emo had become a dirty word, the mood of the album was boisterous but sensitive pop-punk. The cover collage of faded photos included images of things like videogames…
The Coral Springs-based act MillionYoung has been hailed as South Florida’s own bona fide entry into what is cringe-inducingly called glo fi or chillwave. (The latter word actually started as a joke on the parodic blog Hipster Runoff.) In fact, impending blog hype looms. The one-man band born Mike Diaz…
Music’s push into the digital age has, if strangely, benefited one medium: vinyl! With no more middling-quality CDs to horde, more people are realizing what the hardcore collectors have always known. Records sound warmer, there is more opportunity for interesting art work and packaging, and they’re a hell of a…
Photo by Benjamin ThackerJahfe is among the local acts scheduled to perform.The 17th Annual Bob Marley Movement Caribbean Festival sure has expanded since its relatively humble beginnings at Bayfront Park. (Remember a seeming million years ago when tickets were like $10 plus a couple cans of food?) Take that name…
Photo by Sayre BermanBritney performed at the American Airlines Arena twice last year.Everyone — meaning, uh, people with too much time on their hands on the Internet — flipped their shit yesterday when word got out that Britney Spears was spotted over the weekend in Miami. She touched down with…
Photo by Ian WitlenSurfer BloodZach Baron, at our sister paper the Village Voice, called Surfer Blood’s million-show spate at this past fall’s CMJ a “coronation.” By now, with the glowing reviews for Astro Coast, and rumors it’s entered both the Billboard Heatseekers and Top 200 charts, that seems pretty much…
Photo by Matt GraysonNew Found Glory’s 2000 self-titled second album was what really catapulted the Coral Springs quartet into bona fide national stardom. Released before “emo” had become a dirty word, the mood of the album’s boisterous but sensitive pop-punk was perfectly encapsulated on its cover. A collage of faded…
CC by 2.0, via P Keigan’s FlickrThe bunnies are at the Sagamore on Saturday night.Is it really any surprise? Maxim magazine’s annual Super Bowl bash is famously full of the perky, pneumatic flesh featured in its pages, as well as all the celebrities, pseudo-celebrities, and just wealthy and well-connected people…
via lilithfair.comLoretta is betta!In no particular order:1. Cat Power 2. The Gossip3. Erykah Badu4. Jill Scott5. Metric6. MARY J. BLIGE7. Tegan and Sarah8. Emmylou Harris9. Ximena Sarinana10. Sia11. Chairlift12. Nneka13. Marina and the Diamonds14. Janelle Monae15. La Roux ……..and, my personal favorite, OG country badass Loretta Lynn! Please, quickly become…
Over at our post announcing the first phase of Ultra’s line-up this year, commenters have been divided. One camp seemed appalled by the new presence of jam-scene-birthed acts like Lotus, Pretty Lights, and the Disco Biscuits. The other camp’s reaction can basically be summed up thusly: “FUCK YEAH BISCO!”If anything…
courtesy of Danger VillageThe Coral Springs-based act MillionYoung has been hailed as South Florida’s own bona fide entry into what is cringe-inducingly called “glo fi” or “chillwave.” (The latter word actually started as a joke on the parodic blog Hipster Runoff.) In fact, impending blog hype looms. The one-man-band born…
via myspace.com/monotonixWhen the paramedics arrived at Respectable Street Wednesday night to treat his injured leg, Monotonix frontman initially refused to leave with them. (For a full account of the incident, which cut the band’s headlining set short after four songs, click here.) By shortly before 1 a.m., it was clear…
