The revelry swings into high gear on Lake Avenue on Halloween as Lake Worth’s inaugural Halloween Street gets under way Saturday at noon. Organizers promise three stages of music, “Coney Island-style” freak shows, a psychic fair, costume contests for kids, pets, and adults, and arts and crafts vendors galore. The…
Love and indifference are your only real options with Detroit-based sextet Electric Six. Their remarkable production values are unaffected: Singer Dick Valentine begins shows wearing a customized cape (“FLASHY”) for the song “Flashy Man,” removing it at song’s end to reveal a second customized cape (“SHOWTIME”) for “It’s Showtime.” His…
Have your cardigans handy on Tuesday night as Propaganda brings us an evening chock-full of sentimental, emotive indie rock. In keeping with promoter Steve Rullman’s vision of packaging bands, the four acts on this night’s bill cross similar heart-on-sleeve territories. Two of them, All Get Out and the Working Title,…
Jewel has had a hell of a musical career for someone barely into her mid-30s. The folk singer/songwriter went from living in a van to MTV stardom in 1995, thanks to her hugely successful debut album, Pieces of You. She then penned a collection of poetry, A Night Without Armor,…
It’s entirely possible, unless you reside in Little Buenos Aires (right up there between North and South Beach …where Las Vacas Gordas throws down!), that you’re unfamiliar with Damas Gratis. Hailing from Argentina, the eight-piece band has never been to Miami before. But these guys have been putting together some…
It’s about time that someone take back the synth-pop sound back to the Magic City. Joseph Espinoza, a.k.a. Jesp, seems to be doing exactly that. With sound that something of cross between Chromeo and Jan Hammer, Jesp will drop his debut album, Heart Rhythm, November 3 via Sweat Records’ website…
It’s Wednesday again, so Live Nation is rolling back some prices to make concert tickets just a little bit more affordable. This week, tickets for most shows at Cruzan Amphitheatre, Pompano Beach Amphitheatre, and The Fillmore Miami Beach are available at face value. No additional convenience fees, parking fees, or…
Jacob KatelThree sixths of ¡MAYDAY!Last Friday, Miami live-action hip hop group ¡MAYDAY! brought six band members, keyboards, amps, monitors, guitars, drums and a sound guy named Monkey to a WDNA studio further cramped by a show host, engineer, intern, and 3 separate camera folk.The occasion was the real time broadcast…
photo by Cindy FreyA cross between the melodic punk of Lawrence Arms and the churning hardcore of Rise Against, A Wilhelm Scream combines a high quotient of both heft and hooks. Original drummer Nicholas Pasquale Angelini is the beast’s backbone, driving tempo like Jeff Gordon, and keying a thick bottom…
Photo by Ian WitlenMiami band Awesome New Republic at Fontana’s in the Lower East Side. Click here to view more pictures.Just a few months ago, Awesome New Republic seemed the next South Florida band likely to strike big. But a few months is a million years in blog time, and…
Ed Hardy must die.The Ed Hardy T-shirt. Nothing is a bigger symbol of douchebaggery in clubland than it. It’s a faux-tattoo armor for those too wimpy to get real ones. Bedazzled and they achieve a whole another level of douchiness. Oh, and if you’re wearing Affliction you have two strikes…
via Flickr user Mat McGeeYou might have heard of U2 before. They’re this little band from across the pond who’ve redefined what stadium shows can be. Even playing in front of tens of thousands of people, U2s shows feel intimate and epic. The biggest problem with trying to see U2…
Tallpree is a Soca artist from Grenada who’s song “Wicked Jab” has been tearing up the streeets. Here is an interview with Tallpree live from Carnival Miami 2009.Here’s the song. Where’s the Miami style remix? Get to work…
photo by Alex RendonThe Alligator Alley Allstars played the bar’s send-off party on Friday night.Alligator Alley was one of the most distinctive venues we had in South Florida. Where else could you munch on savory gator ribs, sip on a crisp microbrew, and listen to funky New Orleans zydeco all…
Benton Galgay may play records, but he’s got his own ideas about what it means to be a DJ. First off, aside from Wooden Shjips, there are very few new artists he’s into spinning. And when he does wax au courant, it’s on behalf of labels such as Sublime Frequencies,…
Here’s a last-minute heads up: Tomorrow night is the local screening of Hori Smoku Sailor Jerry, the new documentary about the life and times of the tattoo legend. Born Norman Keith Collins, he became the go-to ink man in Hawaii, where he developed his singular style on the bodies of…
via myspace.com/ebonybonesEbony Bones on the cover of the French magazine Focus VIFHeard of her? Neither had we. But a little birdie told us the London-based “jungle-punk” performer was scheduled to perform at this year’s installment of the annual free “Art Loves Music” show, as part of Art Basel Miami Beach…
Here’s a video of Vicki Raye performing at Chrystal Hartigan’s Songwriter’s Showcase at Broward Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Ft. Lauderdale in collaboration with Daniel Pearl World Music Days on October 20.Vicki Raye is a country music artist born in Puerto Rico, adopted, and raised in South Florida…
Legendary British DJ/producer Stave Lawler will be playing at Gryphon Nightclub at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino this Thursday night. A child of the ’90s UK rave scene, Lawler got his start organizing some of the infamous M42 Motorway illegal parties as a teenager, before getting his big…
The late Spanish singer and actress Rocio Jurado wasn’t known as “La Mas Grande” (“The Greatest”) for nothing. From the mid sixties until only a few years ago, Jurado was, and likely still is, considered one of the motherland’s most beloved performers of all time. The quintessential diva, her command…
Photo by Lex HernandezJunior Boys with WoodhandsSaturday, October 24, 2009The Vagabond, Miami Better Than: Staying home, lighting some candles, putting So This Is Goodbye on blast and spending some quality bedroom time with someone special …well maybe. The Review: The Junior Boys threw a Halloween party at the Vagabond and…
Marc AnthonyMarc AnthonySaturday, October 24, 2009American Airlines Arena, MiamiMelodramatic Latin tenor extraordinaire Marc Anthony was personally handed the keys to Dwyane Wade’s house Saturday night. Wade, NBA star player of the Miami Heat, surprised Anthony on stage midway through the the singer/songwriter’s performance to make sure he would feel right…
