via myspace.com/titoelbambinoAct fast and you could still score free tickets to see Tito.The good news: There are still some tickets left for some of the free Heineken Inspire events taking place Friday and Saturday at the Moore Building in the Design District.The bad news: That doesn’t include the most coveted…
Trusted scribe Alex Rendon puts out a rock-solid music e-mail newsletter for New Times Broward-Palm Beach every week, which you can sign up for right here. Here’s one stimulating entry from this week’s edition.Ace local booking source the Honeycomb brings massive, nationally-touted reggae ensemble, iLa Mawana to Boca Raton’s the…
Poplife just closed out its last Saturday at Electric Pickle (and its last official weekly for the foreseeable future). Still, someone’s taking over the party’s old venue. Get Some is the new Saturday shindig there, and it’s sponsored by Shake Inc., Culture Parties, and BassHead Music.”Get Some is a branch…
Rolando Grooscors has worn the hats of producer, composer, and arranger, but is best known as an accomplished jazz guitarist. Impressively adequate in all these fields, he’s twice received Latin Grammy nods and his latest album, Thankful, has garnered positive criticism and acclaim from notable jazz musicians. Pianist and…
Rick Ross needs little introduction in this town, but whats curious is that he’s billed here alongside a new protege. Meet Magazeen, a Miami-based dancehall artist who’s a new signing to Ross’ own label, Maybach Music. You may have heard him on a remix to Ross’ single “Here I Am,”…
This thirtysomething singer holds it down for Trinidad on this bill, one of the few artists here to represent soca. Still, if anyone has a shot at bringing the Caribbean style over into the mainstream, it’s Machel Montano. While he’s been recording and releasing albums since his teen years, in…
Swazy Styles is a Broward County rapper whose song “Birthday Suit,” has a beat that recalls the song from Tetris, one of the most popular video games of all time.The song has been added to programming lists at radio stations across the country, and is repped heavily down here by…
Director John Hughes both championed and obscured the Psychedelic Furs, and it’s a wonderful shame. On the soundtrack to Pretty in Pink, Hughes caught the Furs when they were at their absolute best and, in the ears of most music listeners, cemented them there for all time. With the title…
Wailers fans face a similar dilemma that devotees of Asia, L.A. Guns, the Platters, and other groups touring (and squabbling) under the same name face. There are currently two bands touring as the Wailers. The first is the Wailers Band, which was formed by Bob Marley as his backing band…
The State Of exemplifies that oxymoronic moment when something sparse becomes atmospheric — like the most electronic form of analog, or vice versa. The Miami duo of drummer Nabedi Osorio and pianist Steph Taylor — both of whom sing — has developed a melodic sound that is tender and haunting…
Cute Is What We Aim For, an emo indie-pop quartet that formed in Buffalo, New York, in 2005, has seen ups that brought the band into the Billboard charts and downs that nearly led to the project’s dissolution. With clever lyrical twists on emo fare and posturing that highlights the…
Industrial rockers usually work alone — something akin to a mad scientist in the lab, solo, at all hours of the night. 16 Volt’s Eric Powell is no exception. A one-man machine since 1988, Powell’s been machinating within the fringes of the industrial scene, releasing seven full-lengths, a couple of…
Being a prodigy sucks. Take Jonny Lang, for example. When he burst onto the scene as an astonishingly gifted 14-year-old guitar wünderkind, it must have seemed like the coolest thing in the world. Of course, as gifted as Lang is, his success was intimately linked to his youthfulness — a…
Formed in 2005 in Orlando, Between the Trees has risen steadily through two acclaimed releases and additions and deletions of personnel. Always centered on the well-gelled trio of Ryan Kirkland on vocals, guitar and keys and brothers Josh and Jeremy Butler on drums and bass, respectively, their latest effort, Spain,…
Givers’ infectious indie pop recently caught the ear of the Dirty Projectors, and a touring partnership was formed earlier this year. Now the Lafayette, Louisiana, quintet is out on the road as a headliner, and groove-heavy songs like “Ceiling of Plankton” have been positively aligned with Vampire Weekend’s Afro-pop influences…
Over the coming days, leading up to Sunday, May 30, we’ll be taking a look at all of the main artists performing at the huge Best of the Best concert that day. If you haven’t gotten your tickets yet, do so soon. General admission right now is $54, and VIP…
Who’s still the baddest bitch? After a few years’ lull of mixtapes and pushed-back albums, Trina is once again riding high on the success of her fifth studio album, Amazin’. The lead single, “Million Dollar Girl,” which features Keri Hilson and Diddy, continues to tear up clubs and the radio…
Decapitated goats floating in Biscayne Bay, teens arrested for rapping at the drive-thru, knife-wielding psychos turning berserk because the jukebox isn’t loud enough, teachers crafting geometry lessons based on “hypothetical” Obama assassination plots, daddies trading their babies for beer, robots replacing priests … It’s a weird, weird, weird world indeed…
Photo by Jon NuszAlfred von Blume of Daysleeper feels the Joy Division energy.Control: A Tribute to Ian Curtis With Armada!, Daysleeper, Ian Michael, Xela Zaid, DJ Dracula’s Daughter, and DJ Nayra Churchill’s Pub Tuesday, May 18, 2010 Better than: Watching the movie Control on repeat. The Review: Last night, at the…
Country fans can barely drink a glass of water these days without some image of Brad Paisley coming to mind. Last month he dove into a swimming pool while singing his hit single “Water” during the Academy of Country Music Awards, and more recently, he became a poster boy for…
With Pharrell Williams spending a lot of time in Miami for the past few years, he is basically become a local act. But if you need an even stronger local angle, FriendsWithYou-decorated cars aside, you only have to look at the promos circulating around the interwebs for N.E.R.D’s new single…
While stations like 99 Jamz and Power 96 got all the shine in the urban/rhythmic/party music broadcasting wars, contender 103.5 the Beat quietly cultivated its own devoted following. The station’s slogan for a time was “Grown and Sexy … And Loving It!” and its programming and on-air banter reflected this…
