Another Huge DJ Booking For Broward: Sharam at Gryphon This Saturday

via myspace.com/sharam​Sharam Tayebi – known to the dance community as just Sharam, for short – first made a name as half of the progressive house duo Deep Dish. As an individual producer, though, Sharam’s style has sort of been the yang to partner Ali “Dubfire” Shirazinia’s ying. While the Dubfire…

Wish You Were There: Future Classic Festival on Twitter, YouTube

photo by Logan Fazio​Ah, Twitter. How better to vicariously live through events you’re not attending, by reading the 140-character summaries posted by celebrities and people who aren’t really your friends? So if you missed the Future Classic Festival last Saturday — dammit, it was a trending topic locally, according to…

Concert Review: 30 Years of Churchill’s, 30 Years of Punk, September 12

photo by Sarah Tyler​To view a full slideshow from the event, click here. 30 Years of Churchill’s, 30 Years of Punk Churchill’s Pub, Miami Saturday, September 12, 2009 Better Than: Getting drenched anywhere else.The Review:The 30-year anniversary celebration at Churchill’s this past Saturday night seemed largely like business as usual, except three times as…

Rare Live Performance by Way Out West at Shine This Saturday

​Both members of the Bristol, England duo Way Out West – Jody Wisternoff and Nick Warren – have become international star DJs in their own right. But it’s in this twosome that they really sparkle as creators of warm, expansive dance music that knows few genre bounds. At Way Out…

South Florida According to Brooklyn: More Bike Rally Talk

​Fort Lauderdale had its own alley cat bike race this last weekend, the River Rat race put on by Justin Brunetti, who does the South Florida Fixed blog. It was sponsored by the Bike Spot, Atlantic Bikes, and Keirin Cycles of Miami, and they all also donated their time by…

Q&A With Termanology, Performing at PS14 Tomorrow Night

To understand up-and-coming MC Termanology’s commitment to the golden age of hip-hop, just take a look at the production credits on his new album, Time Machine. It’s enough to make you cry: the Alchemist, Large Professor, Pete Rock, and even the untouchable DJ Premier all lend beats to this sophomore…

Killing Me Softly With His Song

Growing up in Fort Lauderdale, Marco Argiro was a precocious talent on the local rock scene. As frontman of the Screeching Weasel-style pop-punk act the Outrights, Argiro was headlining at local clubs by the time he was barely old enough to drive. After relocating to New York City, he started…

30 Years of Churchill’s, 30 Years of Punk

Churchill’s Pub, the storied, gentrification-repellent venue in Miami’s Little Haiti, is a real institution in an institutionless town. Like time itself, it seems to have no beginning and no end in sight; it’s just there, always, changing little. But Churchill’s did, of course, have a beginning – back in 1979,…

The Killing Floor

Growing up in Fort Lauderdale, Marco Argiro was a precocious talent on the local rock scene. As frontman of the Screeching Weasel-style pop-punk act the Outrights, Argiro was headlining at local clubs by the time he was barely old enough to drive. After relocating to New York City, he started…

Synth Saviours

There are reasons Depeche Mode is so often called “critic proof.” The group’s performance this past Saturday night at the BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise was, in a word, transcendent. That sounds like hyperbole, but ask any of the nearly 20,000 people in attendance that night. The performance drew its otherworldy…

Concert Review: Depeche Mode at the BankAtlantic Center, September 5

​Depeche ModeWith Peter, Bjorn & JohnBankAtlantic Center, SunriseSaturday, September 5, 2009Better Than: Any other show I’ve been to this year — seriously.The Review:There are reasons why Depeche Mode is so often called “critic-proof.” The group’s performance this past Saturday night at the BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise was, in a word,…

Share Your Favorite Churchill’s Memories

​Oh Churchill’s. Everyone has a favorite (or a few favorite) awesome funny, strange, or just appalling memories of the place. (Anyone remember when a girl just peed on the dance floor during a Municipal Waste show a few years back? Also, personally, I will sadly never forget this chicken-mascot porn…

Kaskade

Enough has already been said about Kaskade’s Mormon upbringing in Salt Lake City. Blah, blah, blah – a little faith never prevented anyone from making good music, even if that music was meant to be played in the decadent world of nightclubs. But Kaskade, born Ryan Raddon, has always listed…

Marco Antonio Solis

Mexican singer, composer, and producer Marco Antonio Solis began his career early – he was just 12 when he began performing with his first group, Los Hermanitos Solis. But it was with his next one, Los Bukis, that he became a Latin American megastar. Although he started the group when…