Bass Low/Bass Galactica 8Juan Loumiet is on a busy streak. Besides running his venue, promoting shows, and spinning beats, he is finding time to drop deep tracks on his label Basshead. Right now he has this piece coming from Miami’s own Otto von Schirach. It’s a double-A side with two…
AshworthMiami Beach’s Ashworth lays low in the cut doing visuals and lighting most nights at the Vagabond. If you look under that baseball cap of his, you might recognize him as Audioid that noisy experimental electronic musician who builds and mods his own freaking instruments. At any rate, now the…
Next week Juan Loumiet is bringing Andy C to Black Sheep (formerly Laundry Bar). Besides being one of the first kids on the block with that drum ‘n’ bass stuff and besides the fact that he is dope on the tables, not always sticking to two decks, he is also…
N.O.R.E. in ActionRight on the heels of the Jeru show last Friday, the White Room has another performance from a dope MC, this time it’s N.O.R.E. a.k.a. Noreaga, also of Capone n Noreaga. Since his arrest earlier this year down at Fatburger on the beach, N.O.R.E. has been busy, witnessing…
Teenage BottlerocketI’m not going to make the usual references to Teenage Bottlerocket being from the small town of Laramie, Wyoming and then go on to say that they remind people of the Ramones even though they are from this really small town in a western state and the Ramones are…
Awesome New RepublicI just saw this on the Off the Radar blog. Richard Haig aka Panic Bomber gets down with MJ and B-Robb of Awesome New Republic on a collabo remix. This is like a Miami New Times Best of 2009 love fest for dance fans. It’s FreeFreeFree.com. Follow the…
Once upon a time a man named Ace Roller was walking down a canyon wearing a fury coat of arms and carrying a deranged, damaged instrument that seemed like it might have at some point been a guitar. At the lowest point in the valley he came across two musical…
Mark Pollack is expanding his involvement with Cinema Paradiso, at least for one night, bringing back memories of Sunday nights at Tavern 213. The record collector, promoter, personal trainer and walking musical encyclopedia is staging a record swap, punk show and movie screening at the awesome downtown Fort Lauderdale space…
Los StraitjacketsThe Hukilau is a little slice of tiki culture a.k.a. the best current approximation of a mid-century approximation of Polynesian culture. Think aloha shirts, high socks, flip-up sunglasses, wood carvings, fruity drinks of uncommon potency and lots of music. In this specific instance we are talking about surf music,…
Danielle ParsonsThe name kind of says it all. John McHale certainly isn’t getting rich on the backs of HC and punk bands that he brings to whatever venue will have him. He is known for being an honest, if occasionally zany, promoter of all-ages shows in South Florida. This time…
The Sun Rises in the East is a classic hip-hop album from the early 1990s. It is chock full of great — really, really great — beats courtesy of DJ Premier and is almost flawless, other than the annoying and degrading track “Da Bichez.” Jeru takes aim at commercial rap…
Sexist lyrics and heavy beats go together like pork and beans when it comes to dancehall. There is something so good about it though. If you can cast aside the bigotry, the misogyny, the rampant and sometimes violent homophobia, and the bizarre posturing, the beats are savage, the delivery is…
Make the people screamPool Party taught us about the universal truths that aren’t always the same. They taught us that coffee and sex were equivalent entities.They showed us how to do it right sometimes by doing it like a warrior every time. Now they show us how to be careful…
About BluesWhen I was a little boy I used to sit on the floor in front if a bookcase in my Dad’s living room and look through his records. They were all in alphabetical order and I would play them on his old old old turntable and hi-fi stereo system. …
After I blogged the SoCal Punk Explosion show yesterday, I was perusing the Respectable Street site and they have some great shows coming up, in particular Venetian Snares. During Basel last year Aaron Funk a.k.a Snares put on a helluva good set at Laundry Black Sheep Music Lounge 305 Bar…
Not too long after moving to Miami I saw a flyer for D.I./Street Walkin’ Cheetahs at a place called Churchill’s Pub. I went and there was no security, a lot of punks going crazy, and a great live show (SWCs destroyed the place!) It made me love South Florida a…
The Crumbs were once signed to Lookout! Records. They toured the country and wrote great songs that made the kids sing along. But times have changed. Johnny B moved on. Chuck Loose went back to his office. Emil 4 ½ isn’t doing it anymore. But the Crumbs are still pretty…
Never sleep in Miami. Never rest. This Saturday night, May 30, Sneaker Pimps is coming to South Florida again and this time with a live blast from Clipse as well as Cool Kids. I am not a huge fan of CKs but Clipse is extra special good. If you haven’t…
DegenerationSomehow I didn’t notice that Pennsylvania’s War Pigs are playing at Goo tonight, Wednesday May 27. Think of if Black Sabbath met Motorhead but they grew up listening to 1990’s HC and post-HC. Amazing shredding, raw intensity, deep riffs – it’s all fucking in there. If you haven’t picked up…
Cleaveland Jonesle Spam at Suenalo release partyAndrew Yeomanson a.k.a. DJ le Spam has one of the sickest vinyl collections in the swamp state. Anyone who has been to his record sales or has seen him digging in the crates, knows that the man is a walking, talking, scratching, selecting, cutting…
via myspace.com/businessoiVintage Business, with Harley from the Cro-MagsMicky Fitz and the Business have been doing their thing since the late 1970s — writing songs for the working class, in the tradition of street punk and Oi! Fitz formed the band as a reaction to the arty types co-opting the punk…
Tron as FuckI was looking more closely at this Tron as Fuck event that is going down at the original Fat Cats next week. It’s the third in a series that apparently goes down the last Tuesday of every month and it looks like a pleasant cluster fuck of colliding…
