Photo by JipsyAn interior view of the Max Fish pop-up bar during this past Art Basel Miami Beach.Finally. A place to hang out in downtown Miami that’s not a club or a “lounge” or a restaurant or a venue of any kind, just a bar, and one that’s cheap but…
Photo by Ian WitlenThe stoner metal hardliners ain’t gonna like this one, but, shock, horror, Allen Blickle, drummer of the awesome Savannah quartet Baroness, has musical taste besides sludge and doom. (Drummers, because of their scarcity, always seem to be the musical oddballs in bands, though.) Stereogum posted yesterday his…
Haven’t gotten enough Surfer Blood between New Times’ recent feature on the band, its homecoming shows at both the Vagabond and Propaganda, and its places on a bunch of year-end best-of-2009 lists? Can’t wait until the Palm Beach County boys open for Monotonix at Respectable Street on the 27th? Well,…
…They made the “best” list, don’t worry. While these days Buddyhead may not carry the same clout as Pfork or Stereogum, it’s a major-ish blog force on the West Coast (or at least L.A., where it’s based) — and the writers there have big-upped Jacuzzi Boys before. And what Buddyhead…
Video still from Jesp’s music video for “Rising Sun.”The current local buzz about JESP, the new solo project by singer/songwriter/producer Joseph Espinoza, threatens to soon eclipse that of his old band, Outereach. That group, now defunct, never fit into any neat scene categories, floating somewhere in the sonic atmosphere between…
via myspace.com/staticmoon09Saturday’s “Miami Monstrosity” mini festival at Churchill’s features, unsurprisingly, a wildly divergent mix of styles in its all-locals lineup. But among the artists who depart most drastically from the venue’s usual sounds is Static Moon, a.k.a. producer John Paul Sindoni. A multi-instrumentalist on the South Florida scene for the…
via the Windish AgencySasha headlines Shine on March 27.Since everyone’s already buzzing about Ultra, we might as well grapple with the fact that the rest of the WMC announcements are going to be trickling in any day now. Actually, the Shelborne finalized its plans back in early December, but we…
Julius the Mad Thinker spins Saturday at the Vagabond.Friday, January 8*Fort Lauderdale’s Sweet Bronco plays the Vagabond in Miami tonight. Admission is free before 11 p.m., $5 after. Click here for full details. *Former Miami live hip-hop favorites the Square Egg long ago moved to Brooklyn, but for the band’s 10th…
Between Air and this, the Fillmore Miami Beach is landing some OMG-worthy shows this spring. Yes, Jeff Tweedy and company play Miami for the first time in forever on Monday, March 2010, in support of last year’s self-titled album. Tickets go on sale tomorrow, January 8, at 10 a.m. Both…
Photo by Ian WitlenStonefoxIt’s easy just to think of Electric Pickle as the home of Poplife and various underground techno and house events. But besides Champion Sounds Wednesdays, which focuses heavily on hip-hop, soul, and funk, there’s another night that veers from the usual four-to-the-floor program: Stop Drop N’ Roll…
This Fort Lauderdale-based act usually plays small Broward and Palm Beach County venues like the Bubble and Propaganda, so this outing below the Miami-Dade County line is rare. Although the band is technically a three-piece, Sweet Bronco’s driving force is curly-haired Chris Horgan, who still plays often, under the same…
This Fort Lauderdale-based act usually plays small Broward and Palm Beach County venues like the Bubble and Propaganda, so this outing below the Miami-Dade County line is rare. Although the band is technically a three-piece, Sweet Bronco’s driving force is curly-haired Chris Horgan, who still plays often, under the same…
Live in South Florida long enough and the idea of a cruise loses its luster with the appearance of every sunburned, hair-braided tourist clutching a cardboard box of souvenir rum. It’s OK, says Jason Beukema, founder of the Miami Beach-based Whet Travel agency. “I’ve been on 35 cruises, and it’s…
via wasabifashionkult.comCheck out the rest of this collage on Wasabi Fashion Kult’s blog.A new year, a new chance to take a look at the local music/nightlife blogosphere. At the end of 2009, things looked bleak — many blogs had been neglected or completely abandoned. Maybe the new year will push…
The Fort Lauderdale-based act Sweet Bronco usually plays small Broward and Palm Beach County venues like the Bubble and Propaganda, so this outing below the Miami-Dade County line is a rare treat. Although the band is technically a three-piece, Sweet Bronco’s driving force is curly-haired Chris Horgan, who still plays…
While some people just don’t get that the wave of fan videos is unstoppable — hello Fontainebleau on New Year’s Eve, and the entire Universal Music Group — other bands have welcomed that kind of participation and sharing from the beginning. People have been trading concert tapes since the technology…
via myspace.com/animaltropicalmusicFor a while there, especially around the summer of 2008, you couldn’t go to PS14 — or any of those usual Miami local-oriented events — without running into the Down Home Southernaires.Their name never made sense, but what did click was their sort of Talking Heads-esque absorption of world…
Alright, so while it briefly crossed my mind to check out Candyland 14 this past Saturday, in the end I just couldn’t bring myself to do so. I attended a couple of the early numbered editions of this party in the late ’90s/early ’00s, and then popped back in last…
Every time I look at Propaganda’s web site and see the drink specials and cheap prices, I want to crawl up inside it and stay. Unfortunately that’s not an option, as I have to report to offices in the counties south of Palm Beach. But if you live in northern…
Live in South Florida long enough, and the idea of the cruise loses its luster with the appearance of ever sunburned, hair-braided tourist clutching a cardboard box of souvenir rum. It’s okay, says Jason Beukema, founder of the Miami Beach-based Whet Travel agency. “I’ve been on 35 cruises, and it’s…
via magiccitycasino.comThanks to whatever changes in the gaming and racing laws (it’s hard to keep track), there’s finally a pseudo-casino within City of Miami limits: The Magic City Casino. It’s in a new building on the site of the old Flagler Dog Track, in that west-ish area of the county…
Not to be outdone, White Room is hosting its own special events today through Wednesday, courtesy of Glitterglu Productions and Under One Beat Entertainment. The stand of shows is called “Black Curtains at the White Room,” and are all electronic gigs — the flyer bills the series as nights of…
