John McHale of Breakeven Booking is teaming up with Goo this Saturday to get some funds together to help out Brandon Holding’s mom, who damn well needs it. Holding recently passed away after a long battle with cancer. His family was of modest means and could not afford a funeral…
If you don’t feel like checking out Flosstradamus and Kid Sister up at Liv tonight, then you have a major not-so-secret treat in store for you over at PS14. IamYourVillain is bringing you Gil Mantera’s Party Dream. Thank God for that sweet, sweet Scion money. GMPD is a duo plus…
Minneapolis drunken life-hating poppy punk masters, Off With their Heads are coming back to South Florida for a (gross) Monday night event at Goo, on April 20. This is one of those bands that is awesome live, puts out great records, and doesn’t seem to give up on touring despite…
Miami psych/punk outfit the Jacuzzi Boys are playing a 7″ release party at Churchill’s Pub on Friday, March 6. Needless Records is putting out the split with Austin’s Woven Bones. The Dade County side features “The Countess,” a sort of unearthly slow burner that highlights Gabriel’s vocals and makes a…
Ryan Smith, a.k.a. Induce, is a great DJ, a skilled rapper, a damn fine singer, a super producer and he puts out a very nice mix(tape) from time to time. This edition is the second Valentine’s/Lovey – dovey – mushy version. The first one was purportedly made only for his…
I guess this is a week for me listening to local DJ’s get down on mix tapes. I know they aren’t mix tapes anymore, but that’s how I think of them. There used to be little kiosks in Manhattan that us bridge and tunnel kids would flock to in order…
Look for a split seven-inch with Pink Reason from Miami’s garagey Electric Bunnies, forthcoming from Ohio’s Die Stasi label. Despite longtime creative contributor Eldys Diaz’s partial departure from the bunny-fold, Victor and company are soldiering on, supposedly with a new complete album in the works as well. Their side of…
It’s puzzling why people hell-bent on blowing people’s minds via so-called “noise music” so often also seem hell-bent on blowing their sonic victims’ olfactory senses. So weird smells aside, the International Noise Conference is the place to see and hear shit you will not likely hear in any other venue…
M.D.C., a.k.a. Millions of Dead Cops, a.k.a. Multi-Death Corporation, a.k.a. Millions of Dead Children, a.k.a. Millions of Dead Christians, a.k.a. Millions of Damn Christians, a.k.a. Magnus Dominus Corpus, a.k.a etc., etc., return to Miami on April 11. The hardcore punk originators hail, originally, from Austin, Texas (although now claim Portland…
Propaghandi is coming to South Florida in March. Fans of the long-running thrashy punk band from Canada may or may not be psyched to see them at the Culture Room, but you can be sure that they will go. For starters, the band has never played down here, ever. A…
DJ HealerThis past Tuesday, I passed by Takeout Tuesdays at Buck 15 and caught a few extremely pleasant, acoustic numbers from Cleaveland Jones’s version of reggae blanc at Shiso. Then my compact and highly efficient questing party and I made our way to Bella Rose for another slice of Psychic…
The Miami-based grind outfit Maruta is staying busy (as always) with an upcoming split with Fistula on Animosity Records and a tour with Crowpath in May. Also look for them at Maryland Death Fest, the Auditory Assault Fest in Brooklyn, and at the Midwest Fuckfest. If you don’t know what…
Pure Imagination is a bunch of weird people playing instruments with a story being read over the top of it. Last time I walked in on it, I thought I was listening to an American version of that Velvet Underground track “The Gift,” minus the Welsh accent and the heroin…
The new release from Miami psych/blues outfit the Psycho Daisies, Return from Blood Island, is a wash of feedback, distorted growls, bumps, grunts, reverb, and haunting vocals, courtesy of Johnny Salton and company. Salton’s roots are embedded in Miami musical history, from power-pop group the Reactions, through his extensive work…
Arik, drummer of Lasso the Moon, Baby Calendar, and Call it Radar, draws from a seemingly endless pool of talent and ingenuity. LtM’s super-technical emo/indie onslaught evolved into a more tempered and highly melodic, if precious, Baby Calendar. Now Arik has parted ways with Baby Calendar bandmate Tom Gorrio and…
Kenneth Fee and company have set the date, time and place for the opening of the new all ages venue Goo. We blogged about this before and now it’s starting to gel. The first night a bunch of scene-type kids are going to watch the Fugazi documentary and also a film…
Adam “Atom Xmas” Hernandez of Miami’s Dyslexic Postcards passed away sometime this past Saturday, January 24. Hernandez was a fixture in the Miami music scene for the past several years, frequently collaborating with his brother Josh. At the time of his death, he was developing a new music project called…
Pure crusty hardcore aggression, 305-style, hits the eastern seaboard on the heels of a No Idea split with Religious as Fuck. Mehkago NT is an admixture of some of South Florida’s best known, most notorious HC/punk/sludge/metal musicians. The band features members or ex-members of DNME, Torche, Shitstorm, Tyranny of Shaw,…
Sloane Peterson features members of sludge demons Consular, including Andrew Santalucia, of the informal venue Andrew’s House of Pain. Now they’re getting their act together, courtesy of Dan over at Financial Ruin Records. It will be “Knots” backed with “Telephones.” The band churns out sloppy, hard driving tunes with nice…
It’s puzzling why people who are hell-bent on blowing the minds of other people via so-called “noise music” so often also seem hell-bent on blowing their sonic victims’ olfactory senses. So weird smells aside, the International Noise Conference is the place to see and hear shit that you will not…
About 20-some-odd years after the fact, Dania Beach alt.country.punk.roots pioneer, Charlie Pickett, is finally getting some of the props in mainstream media that he deserves. South Florida natives and music nerds that are in the know have been clocking this guy’s career since the late 1970s when he was slaying…
Federico Nessi, a.k.a DJ Healer, is an artist (see the latest Sweat Records installation) and a repatriated Miamian who likes to dance, but scoffs at the current notions of “indie.” Thus he and Ricardo Guerrero, a.k.a. This Heart Electric, a.k.a. that dude from Animals of the Arctic, a.k.a. DJ R3K+,…
