The members of Bluejay moved back to Miami from Tallahassee in 2012 after finishing school as a pretty much acoustic alt-folk band. But after playing live more frequently and with an increasingly wide variety of other bands, their sound grew in significant ways. “The musical and artistic climate of Miami…
Ska music is made for dancing and parties and fun, which often leads to fans’ buying their favorite band drinks. Drinks they sometimes have to turn down if they’re gonna make it to the next town alive — because they’re professionals who care about their craft. Didn’t expect to hear…
South Florida’s Hollywood generally isn’t the place stars come to when they’re looking to make it big. A new Comedy Central show may start changing people’s minds on that — or at least get them laughing at the idea. The first season of Big Time in Hollywood, FL, a series…
The Pembroke Pines all ages venue the Talent Farm may no longer exist as a location, but it appears that in other way, the talent continues to flow out of this onetime essential venue. Kevin Burns, the man behind the Talent Farm, just finished the debut full length from Brodyn,…
There’s good food, good bars, and full-band karaoke that makes a night in downtown Hollywood a great time. There’s also weird all over that city, most especially all around Young Circle. But is there anything really, really interesting? Cheap Miami, with the help of DJ Woozles (AKA Frankie Guzman of…
Like anybody else who lives in the Northeast, the members of the Sharp Lads are glad to be escaping the impending polar vortex for comparatively warmer weather. The hard-charging punk-rock four-piece is four days into a two-week tour and will make its Fort Lauderdale debut tonight at the Poorhouse, with…
The history of bars and music venues in South Florida is littered with cool rooms that hosted great bands while people had a sick time in the crowd — but most of those places come and go in less time than it takes to get from I-75 to I-95. That…
The history of bars and music venues in South Florida is littered with cool rooms that hosted great bands while people had a sick time in the crowd — but most of those places come and go in less time than it takes to get from I-75 to I-95. That…
Better than: Anything that’s ever happened at your house. Lots of people have art in their homes. Many of them have art outside of them too. But few have murals like the one Shane Watt painted on the back of Andie Sweetswirl’s house in Fort Lauderdale. After two months of…
If a band could sound like a drunken sex party on the beach, the Gun Hoes are it. Busting out song after song of surf-tinged, fuzzed-out garage punk, singer/guitarist Gabe Miranda, drummer Anthony Hernandez, and one of a few bass-playing friends, get the late-night crowds dancing all over Miami and…
It’s so easy (and predictable) to dog the cover band: They’re murdering the songs that made rock ‘n’ roll great. But then again, the best rock ‘n’ roll bands are really cover bands at heart. AC/DC guitarist Angus Young channels Chuck Berry so closely, you almost forget he’s not as…
From his founding role in ’80s icons Boogie Down Productions to his latest solo LP, 2004’s Get Right, KRS-One has always sought to make people think. The Brooklyn-born and -bred MC coined the term edutainment to describe the street-level wisdom — a mix of self-knowledge, anti-corporate awareness, and intense distrust…
Believe it or not, in the dancehall world, a guy can be both a self-declared “grindacologist” and a raging homophobe. Around the world, Beenie Man is equally famous for his big-bounce, hook-filled dancehall and his inflammatory comments — on and offstage — about gays. But though the Kingston-born Moses Davis…
As two South Florida-centric shows, The Real World: Key West and 8th and Ocean, start this week on MTV, you have to wonder how much of a role the local techno-dominated music scene will play in them. The Real World will most likely stay away and stick with the parrothead…
There are a lot of people who think ska is dead — horns twisted and broken, checkered shoes returned to Goodwill — but these are the same people who didn’t know ska existed before 1996. The Ska Brawl tour is proof ska is still alive, not to mention that as…
Anointing themselves “the world’s greatest party band,” the B-52’s established a rather high standard, but the quirkaholic Athens four-piece more than lives up to the job. Despite their rock-as-art mentality, the B-52’s somehow got stuck in the mass consciousness, and now “Love Shack” is heard as much on commercial radio…
Laying down what they call ¨the new disco,¨ Radio 4 is one of several bands teaching the indie kids to dance again. They call it ¨the new disco,¨ first heard on Gotham, the NYC-based band´s 2002 breakthrough album. Like Franz Ferdinand, the Faint, Bloc Party, and others, Radio 4 employs…
An orthodox Jew reggae-rapping about God, the Torah, and clean living? If you hanen’t seen Matisyahu on MTV’s TRL or heard his album Live at Stubb’s, you might not believe it, but the bearded, black-hatted singer is the real deal. The former Matthew Miller grew up in White Plains, New…
For a while, it seemed that emo might be the only kind of punk germinating in Long Island, but Latterman meets at the post-hardcore/pop-punk crossroads those crybabies are trying to get to. Bringing their own spin to suburban teenaged pain and the injustices of the world, the four boys of…
They may not be changing the world, but the Sloppy High Fives wield a brand of hard-charging, three-chord rock that’s more than enough to get the beer-soaked throngs off their stools and in front of the stage. By their own description, the Fives have taken the wheels off the car…
