Art Basel Music: Radio Slave and Argy Play Grass Lounge Tonight

​As if SAFE hadn’t won over enough hearts this weekend by serving up the Ghostly International 10 Year Anniversary Party at White Room on Saturday night, they have a veritable techno extravaganza in store for Miami tonight at Grass Lounge in the Design District, featuring Radio Slave and Argy, along…

Baby Anne Plays Respectable Street Wednesday, December 23

​DJ Baby Anne started her career as the Queen of Bass in, where else, Orlando, but that doesn’t mean she hasn’t made a gazillion appearances in South Florida over the last 17 years. A major draw for the underground electronica community, the foxy producer belongs to the break beat generation…

What to Hear in Broward Palm Beach This Weekend

via Flickr user Dark Botxy​Plenty to hear in Broward and Palm Beach this weekend, no matter what you’re into. If you’re in the mood to see an iconic punk band, The Misfits are playing Culture Room tonight. Sure they’re minus Danzig, but Jerry Only is still around to blast out…

Buzz Bake Sale Preview: Matisyahu

via Flickr user Chrontourage​Seeing a Hasidic Jewish man on stage free styling and beat boxing between his hardcore reggae songs might seem off-putting at first but it shouldn’t. All that’s happening lyrically is reggae’s traditional Rastafarian religious views being replaced by Jewish teachings, the dreadlocks are replaced by payot, and…

Buzz Bake Sale Preview: Panic at the Disco

via Flickr user NRK P3​Panic At the Disco is a very different band from Panic! At the Disco. Back when they had the extra punctuation, they also sported a more dark(ish), electronic, and  keyboard laden sound. Once they dropped the !, they also decided to start sounding much more like…

Concert Announcements: Phil Lesh, Bob Weir, and David Gray

via Flickr User Between a Rock​It’s certainly no secret that jam bands are in love with visiting South Florida. In fact, it seems like every band with a nouveau-hippie following makes it down here at least once a year, so it’s rarely big news. This announcement though, it’ll make some…

Dr. Dre a No-Show at Blue Print For Space Opening and Afterparty

​Time for a cheesy joke about how Dre “forgot about Miami” or “forgot about Primary Flight” or something. Dr. Dre’s connection to the Primary Flight street art installation around Wynwood — more specifically its gallery version, Blue Print for Space, at the Art Center South Florida — was much hyped…

Concert Review: Ebony Bones! at Art Loves Music, December 2

Photo by Ian WitlenClick here to view more photos from this event.Ebony Bones!At the annual Art Loves Music concert at Collins Park, Miami BeachWednesday, December 2, 2009Better Than: Yelle’s performance at the same event last year.The Review: The Art Positions sub-shot of the official Art Basel Miami Beach, with its avant…

Art Basel Music: Cucu Diamantes at Nikki Beach This Weekend

​With the countless musical offerings served up alongside delectable little slices of art around the city for Basel this weekend, it’s hard picking exactly where to dive in and gorge. Luckily for you, chanteuse Cucu Diamantes, of Yerba Buena fame, is giving fans and art show goers three different opportunities…

Chairlift

Somewhere along the line, Apple Computer Inc. started hiring staffers with a knack for searching out perfect pop songs. These employees have an acute sense for picking catchy, pop-driven songs to pimp their lines of iPods. More often than not, Apple catches lightning in a bottle with the songs, and…

King Chango

In the mid-’90s, many considered the multimembered New York City act King Chango to be part of the larger constellation of ska revival acts flourishing in that city. But the band’s musical roots ran deeper than many of its peers’. Yes, the “Chango” in its name is indeed a nod…

Perpetual Groove

South Florida of late seems to be a haven for jam bands. Hot new acts such as the Heavy Pets are making their mark, the Jam Cruise announced its biggest lineup yet, and when Langerado dropped the jam, the festival folded. The Perpetual Groove people are coming to cash in…

Taking Back Sunday

For a few years in the mid-’00s, it was good to be Adam Lazzara. The Taking Back Sunday frontman was the king of the burgeoning third-wave emo scene while being embroiled in a feud with scene mates Brand New, former bandmates Shaun Cooper and John Nolan, and pretty much every…

Tigercity

It’s not every day that you find a group of musicians who can straddle the line between the dreamy atmospheres of Ambient Works-era Aphex Twin and the soul-pop of Hall & Oates while striving for the arrangement sophistication of Steely Dan. But that’s precisely what this Massachusetts-via-Brooklyn quartet does well…

Innerpartysystem

Innerpartysystem knows all about the DIY approach. Since its formation, the band has spent countless hours dissecting technology, transforming it to suit its needs. Its light show, for instance, aside from a few stock lasers, was all hand-built. Any fan who has seen the act more than once has also…

Concert Announcements: Gaelic Storm and Henry Rollins

by Kevin Gilbert via myspace.com/gaelicstorm​Remember the movie Titanic? You know, the one which countless millions of people flocked to the theaters over and over again to see people who never let go? Aside from catapulting a few actors into superstardom and making millions of soccer moms secretly resent their loveless…

Roofless Records Presents Freeform Friday and Megacunt Will Be There

When it rains, it sux.​Roofless Records has got a cunt for Miami. A Megacunt.Friday, December 19 at the American Legion/Harvey’s By The Bay (6445 NE Seventh Avenue, Miami) at 9 p.m., for free, five groups you’ve never heard of will destroy, annihilate, poundfuck your eardrums into submission and then pee…

Art Basel Music: Bluetech at the Moksha Art Fair, December 5

via myspace.com/bluetechmusic​The Hawaii-based producer Bluetech can be considered part of the extended constellation of the jam band scene, playing and collaborating with other hippies-gone-electronic like EOTO and Flying Lotus. Still, Bluetech is fiercely experimental, citing the likes of Brian Eno, the Orb, and even Erik Satie as influences. He performs…