Photo by Luciana Val & Franco MussoAirWhen Air’s Moon Safari came out in 1998, I was 15 years old and still in my teenage ska/punk phase. But here was an album with lush electronic soundscapes and minimal beats that really spoke to me. Air is responsible for introducing me to…
via Flickr user AndreaTXWow! Another day of concert announcements without jam bands. Don’t worry, they’ll be back tomorrow. For today it’s all about rock and roll. If you like your rock of the progressive persuasion, you’ll be happy to hear Yes is coming to Boca on February 28. Yes is…
Miami New Times Best Hip-Hop Artist ¡Mayday! recently got down with Lil Wayne for a video shoot and some well deserved national attention. Check out the video below. Thanks to the305.com for the heads up…
Here are a few randomly selected recommendations among the many acts playing the Miami Music Festival. Visit MiamiMusicFestival.org for individual venue details. Many of these funky-named places you’ve never heard of are subdivisions of real venues, with made-up names just for festival purposes. Others venues are tents; Transit Lounge alone…
Here’s a video of Diablo Dimes performing Friday night, December 5th, at Fountain Art Fair 2009 opening for G. Love. Diablo Dimes is a an old-style blues character complete with torn hat, busted old guitar, harmonica, and kazoo, who plays gutbucket, Dixieland, rag time, swamp-ugly music about drinking, fighting, fucking,…
Here are a few randomly selected recommendations among the many acts playing the Miami Music Festival. Visit MiamiMusicFestival.org for individual venue details. Many of these funky-named places you’ve never heard of are subdivisions of real venues, with made-up names just for festival purposes. Others venues are tents; Transit Lounge alone will host…
Here are a few randomly selected recommendations among the many acts playing the Miami Music Festival. Visit MiamiMusicFestival.org for individual venue details. Many of these funky-named places you’ve never heard of are subdivisions of real venues, with made-up names just for festival purposes. Others venues are tents; Transit Lounge alone…
Rachel GoodrichIf you aren’t aware yet, it’s the holiday season, which means the advertisements on television are focusing heavily on toys kids don’t really need and will probably forget about a month after unwrapping. Still, that didn’t stop Crayola from brainwashing children into thinking they need a silly contraption called…
via miamimusicfestival.orgIn an either extremely clever or just brave bit of scheduling, the inaugural edition of the Miami Music Festival launches this Thursday, less than a week after the onslaught of Art Basel Miami Beach. Despite the lack of a long recuperation lag, though, if you truly want to support…
If you missed it last week, please read our post last week on Help Mend a Heart, the social network effort to help save the life of Maureen Waters. After battling a flu for several days, the day after Thanksgiving, she was rushed to the hospital with what turned out…
via Flickr user [AJ]The most successful musical duo ever, Brooks & Dunn, are calling it quits. After selling about a bazillion records, playing every major city in the world, and winning a couple dozen awards, Kix and Ronnie have decided enough is enough. At least after one last tour… If…
Photo by Ian WitlenTo view a full slideshow of this event, click here. OK GoDesign Miami/December 3, 2009Better Than: Stan Brakhage chewing bubblegum — or just as good, anyway.With all the mad dash that was Art Basel, I sadly only had time enough to catch OK Go perform one song in…
Ghostly International 10 Year Anniversary PartyWhite Room, MiamiSaturday, December 5, 2009Better than: Any record label party this side of WMC.Despite the unfavorable weather most of Saturday, things cleared up enough for Miami to enjoy partying al fresco at what was surely the greatest White Room turnout all year. Ghostly International apparently…
via Flickr user Lorri37Remember Coal Chamber? Yeah, didn’t think so, but they were a Nu Metal band in the mid 90s that disbanded due to “creative differences.” Frontman Dez Fafara decided he wanted to do a little less Nu Metal and a bit more death metal so he started Devildriver…
In the world of short-lived electronic dance music fads, electro house is pretty much dead, extinguished by the very intensity with which it alighted on the international dance music scene in 2006-2008. The same brash and abrasive over-the-top sound that made electro house exciting a couple years ago — when…
Kyle MunzenriederThe BlowPulse Art Fair at Ice Palace Studios, MiamiSaturday, December 5, 2009Better Than: A Samantha Ronson DJ set interrupted by a Lohan lover’s quarrel.The Review:It’s not impossible to think that The Blow really had been collaborating with Lindsay Lohan on the tabloid fixture’s upcoming album. In a world where…
Kyle MunzenriederGang Gang DanceMax Fish, MiamiFriday, December 4, 2009Better than: Seeing the band play in a hall way closet, yet also better than seeing them play at a spacious festival.The Review:I want to thank the people who continually stepped on my shoes, the guy who unintentionally gave me a vertical…
Raffa Jo Harris and Rainer Davies aka Raffa and Rainer have finally completed their follow up to 2005’s Stolen Coal. The 11 track long player, No Mercy, was recorded on and off over the past two years at various locations in the Magic City and features over 30 different musicians…
via Flickr user ZanastardustOur Lady Peace is probably the most underrated band playing the Buzz Bake Sale tomorrow. Yeah, they’ve sold over five million albums, enjoyed relative success in the late ’90s, and are revered in their homeland (notch another one for Canada). But aside from their flash of mainstream…
via Flickr user JalapenoThe first couple times I heard Metric, I couldn’t stand the singer’s voice. Bands with female lead singers who have airy, over processed voices are becoming grating to me, a guy who grew up using Riot Grrl bands as my measuring stick for female vocal performances. Then…
via Flickr user AlvinasheridanLet’s hope this blog post doesn’t ruin anything for :30 Seconds to Mars fans. It’s been said that if venues used the fact Hollywood dream-boat Jared Leto heads this band, he’ll flat out refuse to play the show. I guess we’re safe since we’re clearly not the…
via Flickr user Chad DavisNo matter how hard the members of Chevelle try, they won’t be able to run away from certain parts of their past or comparisons to other bands. Face it, when you sign with a Christian Rock label and have your first album distributed through Christian book…
