Frozen Music and Talking Head Transmitters at Miami Beach Botanical Gardens

​This year at Artopia we awarded Gustavo Matamoros of subtropics.org a Mastermind Award for his audio experimentations.This Sunday, May 23, explore the meaning of sound at Emergency Radio Battery-Check Nightime Event, a “performative installation” that asks you to bring your own radio, tune it to 1610 AM, and walk around…

Jazz Comes Back to Jazid; Singer LeNard Rutledge Tonight

​Since some of us actually like the idea of live music on South Beach, it’s without extra gravitas that week three of KCC Productions and Jazid spearheading a jazz revival on the Washington strip that I’m pleased to go a little apeshit on Miami’s own LeNard Rutledge dropping the smooth…

Concert Review: Agnostic Front at Churchill’s Pub, May 14

Photo by Ben Thacker​Click here to view all the photos from this event.Agnostic Front, with VietNom, Outbreak, Nobody’s Hero, and Trust No OneChurchill’s Pub, MiamiFriday, May 14, 2010 Better Than: Next morning, mosh pit ward at Mount Sinai The Review: Utter madness prevailed at Churchill’s Friday night, as NYC hardcore…

Backstage in South Florida: Avoiding Exile by the Rolling Stones

Keith Richards has lived long enough to talk some smack to Lee Zimmerman​Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman shares stories of memorable rock ‘n’ roll encounters that took place in our local environs. This week, a cutting remark from Keith Richards during a chance encounter with the Rolling…

Street Wars 5 Hits Fort Lauderdale’s the Jamyard on Saturday

​Coming hot on the heels of Fort Lauderdale’s last successful battle, Grind Time’s Broward Beatdown, is Street Wars 5, a Miami-based competition sponsored by the good folks at Vice City Cypher and hosted by longtime MC and battle vet H2O. It takes place Saturday, May 22 at the Jamyard, Fort…

Hombres G at the Fillmore Miami Beach Wednesday

​If you’re either a) one of those that were bummed to have missed Enrique Bunbury, formerly of Heroes del Silencio, at The Fillmore yesterday, or b) were in fact at the Fillmore on said night, catching one of Spanish rock’s old schoolers, than this show on Wednesday at the same…

Lady GaGa Tickets Available Today for South Florida Shows

​We’re going to make this quick: if you fancy yourself a Little Monster, the floodgates open at 10 a.m. today for Lady GaGa tickets. The Monster Ball Tour is coming to South Florida next year on April 12 at BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise and April 13 at American Airlines Arena…

Concert Review: Major Lazer at Grand Central, May 15

Photo by Ian WitlenSkerrit Bwoy and Mimi taking the lead for Major Lazer.Click here to view all the photos from this event.Major LazerGrand Central, MiamiSaturday, May 15, 2010Better than: Dealing with TSA at Miami International Airport in order to actually catch a flight to Jamaica.It was almost two months ago…

Concert Review: The Jameses at Propaganda on Friday, May 14

Photo by Reed FischerThe Jameses in the midst of not holding back at Propaganda on Friday​The JamesesWith Chill Pillars/Cop City, Nervous Systems, Guy HarveyPropaganda, Lake WorthFriday, May 14, 2010The Jameses’ “Gobi Desert” is nearly seven minutes of revivalist lo-fi rock built with a guitar riff every bit as seductive as…

Event Review: 10 X 10 at Miami Art Museum, May 13

Photo by Ben Thacker​Click here to view all the photos from this event.10 X 10 Miami MAM Contemporaries SocialMiami Art Museum, Miami Thursday, May 13, 2010Better than: Ben Stiller’s Night at the MuseumThe Review:10 x 10 is a concept lecture series featuring ten up and coming local creative minds, who…