All thanks and praises to MySpace Photo by Tovin Lapan Last night, MySpace threw a “secret show” at Studio A, which was PACKED by 9:30 pm (what kind of secret is that?), featuring Stephen “Raggamuffin” Marley and his brother Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley as performers. The show opened with Mr…
After a major American tour backing Panic! At the Disco in 2006, Bloc Party has returned to our shores. This time, they’re headlining large venues in support of their sophomore album, A Weekend in the City, released this past February. Sunday night was the band’s South Florida stop, at the…
Barington Levy Miami’s Best of the Best concert, which took place over Memorial Weekend, was a star-studded reggae extravaganza that exceeded the six months of hype that was attached to it. Consider that Barrington Levy, who was on stage belting out hits like “Under mi Sensi, and “Too Experienced” was…
Ten years gone It’s hard to believe that it’s been ten years since beautiful troubadour Jeff Buckley went for a final midnight swim in the mighty Mississippi. Ten years since Grace, ten years since that last, haunting “Hallelujah.” But like so many other stars with silver screen looks who have…
Photo by Jeffrey Delannoy Seal Since Seal had his couple of big stateside hits in the Nineties (the seemingly immortal “Kissed By a Rose” being the most recognizeable), lately he seems to have been relegated to the role of Mr. Heidi Klum. So who goes to a Seal concert in…
Sax player Ori Kaplan, keyboard player Tamir Muskrat, and MC Tomer Yosef, the madmen behind Balkan Beat Box, are spearheading the latest underground music trend — Eastern European mashup. Like their New York compatriots in Gogol Bordello, the trio takes the fractured rhythms of the Eastern Bloc and drops in…
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.
Bloc Party performs Sunday, May 27, at the Pompano Amphitheater, 1806 NE Sixth St., Pompano Beach. The Noisettes are also on the bill. Tickets cost $30 in advance, $35 at the door. The show starts at 7 p.m. Call 954-523-3309, or visit www.fantasma.com.
Weird Al performs at 8 p.m. Friday, May 25, at the Pompano Beach Amphitheatre, 1806 NE Sixth St., Pompano Beach. Tickets cost $38 to $68. Call Ticketmaster at 561-966-3309 or 954-523-3309.
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.
Things have never been easy for platinum-selling, Grammy-nominated, neo-soul crooner Anthony Hamilton. Before briefly touching superstardom with his 2003 So So Def hit Comin’ From Where I’m From, Hamilton bounced from short-lived label to short-lived label. Hamilton, who honed his gritty chops singing in his Charlotte, North Carolina, church choir,…
Guns and Goth
Ah, the joys of living in Paradise… paradise as defined by a ready vat of margaritas, a reliable pair of flip-flops, and any optimism — however misguided — that it’s actually possible to dodge a hit by a killer hurricane over the next six months or so. That’s the view…
With the term jam band incorporating everything from blues to bluegrass these days, it’s an overused handle that barely describes all the disparate bands lumped within its parameters. Still, Assembly of Dust has found its fit there, mostly due to its freewheeling dexterity, a sense of retro revival, and a…
There’s been something simultaneously low-rent and high-minded about the progressive funk that Aja West and his Mackrosoft co-conspirators have been churning out since the late ’90s. Total Recall 2012 nails that dichotomy beautifully. The retro-futuristic vibes evoke the loose-limbed weirdness that can come only from a skilled musician set loose…
With a sensational string of hits, including the recent “Say It Right” and “Promiscuous Girl,” Nelly Furtado has become a pop phenom to be reckoned with. Since teaming up with hip-hop super-producer Timbaland, Furtado is reaching a fan base that frankly didn’t care about the waifish Canadian during her last…
Gospelized Soul
Walter Trout and the Radicals perform at 9:30 p.m. Saturday, May 26, at the Bamboo Room, 25 S. J St., Lake Worth. Tickets cost $32. Call 561-585-2583, or www.bambooroomblues.com.
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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…
The guys of Underoath love Jesus, make no bones about it, and want you to know that. But the St. Petersburg-based quintet isn’t about that hands-in-the-air, holier-than-thou proselytizing stuff. Theirs is a mission of integrity and respect. “Something we try to do is be a real band for kids that…
Since becoming a parent, I’ve increasingly believed this: If a 1-year-old doesn’t respond to a song, there’s a strong chance the music stinks. A nine-month-old won’t try to tell you Thursday’s music is really sophisticated pop. (It’s not.) A 2-year-old won’t bore you with an argument that Slayer is one…
