A band can put weeks into rehearsing and getting its sound just right only to have it all fall apart on stage. There´s either feedback coming from the monitors, instruments are out of tune, or it all just sounds terrible and the audience gives up on you halfway through the…
So attendance at Florida Marlins games is rather low. The bleachers look empty every time somebody hits a home run, and folks at the P.R. office are out to change that. Insert a raucous concert series after all of the Saturday-night home games and Dolphin Stadium will be alive with…
So I came across this video while cruising the internet and couldn’t believe how much electronic music has grown since these days. Picture Herbie Hancock teaching Quincy Jones how to make techno beats. Yeah, that’s what I thought, ridiculous right… until I saw this. The year was 1983 and all…
Fergie performs Thursday, May 31, at Mizner Park Amphitheatre, 590 Plaza Real, Boca Raton. The show starts at 7:30 p.m. Tickets cost $36. Call 561-750-1668, or visit www.ticketmaster.com.
Last week, Dred Scott got to hang out with the teenybopper crowd and learn a thing or two about the youngest generation of local rock stars emerging in South Florida. Club Revolution was hosting a raucous showcase for young bands called Rocking Idol, which saw 52 bands, mostly comprised of…
Bunji Garlin performs at the Unifest 2K7 at Vincent Torrest Park, 4331 NW 36th St., Lauderdale Lakes. The festival runs from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. Tickets cost $5 before 6 p.m. and $10 after. Tony Rebel, Ken Booth, Everton Blender, Slice International, Omar Reid, and the Nubian Players Band are also on the bill. Call 954-730-8885.
Casper & the Cookies perform Sunday, June 3, at City Limits, 19 NE Third Ave., Delray Beach. The show starts at 6 p.m. Tickets cost $10. Perfect Citizen, Baby Calendar, and M. Coast are also on the bill. Call 561-279-8222, or visit www.myspace.com/casperthecookies.com.
It’s time for the Caribbean massive to stand tall once again. The biggest reggae concert of the year takes place in South Florida this weekend, as the inaugural Best of the Best stage show hits Miami’s Bicentennial Park. The concert features quite a few bona fide legends such as Barrington…
Gospelized Soul
Ziggy Marley performs Wednesday, May 30, at the Kravis Center, 701 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach. Tickets range from $15 to $90, and the show starts at 8pm. Call 561-832-7469, or visit www.kravis.org.
Lady Saw performs with Buju Banton, Barrington Levy, Shaggy, Elephant Man, and others on Saturday, May 27, at the Best of the Best 2007 Dancehall Festival at Bicentennial Park, 1075 Biscayne Blvd., Miami. Tickets cost $45. Call 305-438-9488, or visit www.bestofthebestconcert.com.
It’s almost midnight in the lobby of the Jacksonville Sheraton Hotel, and Grandmaster Dee, legendary DJ and key member of Whodini, is acting the fool. With his low-cropped fade, blue Jumpman tracksuit, and white sneakers, he does not stand out as a celebrity at all. That’s the problem — or…
George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic perform Thursday, May 17, at Club Revolution, 200 W. Broward Blvd., Fort Lauderdale. The show starts at 8 p.m. Tickets cost $25. Call 954-727-0950, or visit www.jointherevolution.net.
Corey Harris performs Friday, May 11, at the Back Room, 7200 N. Dixie Hwy., Boca Raton. Tickets cost $5, and the show starts at 9:30 p.m. Call 561-988-8929, or visit www.coreyharrismusic.com.
Call it greed if you want, but sometimes American audiences just can’t appreciate the music talent we have in front of us. We’re exposed to so much musical authenticity in the birthplace of jazz, soul, blues, house, rock ‘n’ roll, as well as tons of subgenres that it’s hard to…
There’s absolutely no reason to show up to a reggae show on time. You can almost guarantee that no matter when such a gig is supposed to start, it won’t get going until a couple of hours later. Maybe more. And such was the case at Monday morning’s band show…
Take a look at the media coverage of the past few weeks and it’s evident that hip-hop is in the midst of a midlife crisis. Typical of these sorts of life-altering events, the results are not pretty. The genre is facing the same dilemma as a lot of American men,…
There’s a natural tendency to dislike anything that comes out of Orange County, California. Known for its rich residents and terrible TV shows of the same name, the O.C., with all of its glitz and glamour, isn’t a place that evokes much sympathy. Down-to-Earth music lovers probably wouldn’t expect to…
Working as the head of a record company is a difficult job. You’ve got artists to manage, sales figures to monitor, record samples to clear, budgets to attend to, and that’s all before noon. Try sticking to this regimen and being an artist on your own record label and you’ve…
At times, hip-hop is famous for its Voltron-like music cliques. The genre has always had its share of groups and solo artists who reside within “crews” for performance purposes — Juice Crew and Boot Camp Click come to mind, but the list of these affiliations are endless. Here in South…
It’s a familiar story in the music business: bright ideas, no money for studio time. A finished CD but no cash for distribution. Throw in just the notion of hiring a publicist to help push the finished product and the outlook is bleak. The dilemma cuts across the board. Label…
Southern California is home to a wide variety of music acts, but few are as strange as the Locust. The group has been around for more than a decade, making post-futuristic synthetic punk rock and breaking down barriers along the way. With the subtlety of a sledgehammer, the quartet speeds…
