The Golden Filter Coming to Poplife December 5

The Golden Filter​We’re about a month away from Art Basel Miami Beach, and yes, the art tends to be the bigger focus, but a great bonus is usually the influx of musical performers during the week. Last year alone, we saw performances by Casiotone For the Painfully Alone, Panda Bear,…

Pete Tong at Mynt Lounge on Tuesday, October 27

​Pete Tong is hardly a man who needs introduction. The hardworking and ubiquitous British DJ, radio personality, label head and perennial host of legendary BBC Radio 1’s Essential Mix is one of the most highly-regarded tastemakers in the world of electronic dance music. An early proponent of house, when the…

Concert Review: Kiss at BankAtlantic Center, October 22

Photo by Christina Mendenhall​Click here to view more photos from this concert.KissThursday, October 22, 2009BankAtlantic Center, SunriseBetter Than: Being 10 years-old all over again.From the number of kids running around the BankAtlantic Center at Kiss’s show last night, many replete with full make-up, it’s apparent that one need not be…

What to Hear in Broward and Palm Beach This Weekend

Alligator Alley is unfortunately closing its doors for good. So if you’re looking for some live music, you should spend the last two nights there. Tonight, Albert Castiglia and friends hit the stage, tomorrow Stonefox headlines.Rock ‘n’ Roll inductee Bonnie Raitt is playing the Pompano Beach Amphitheater tonight at 7:30…

Breaking: Alligator Alley Closing Its Doors For Good this Weekend

Stonefox headlines Alligator Alley’s Saturday send-off.​Sad news for music fans throughout South Florida. Alligator Alley, home to the best combination of food, beer, and music in Broward County, is shutting its doors for good after this weekend. The two-day farewell party begins tomorrow night with Alley staple Albert Castiglia; Jeff…

Downtown Lake Worth Hosts a Night of Free Music on Halloween

via myspace.com/theresolversThe Resolvers​The revelry swings into high gear on Lake Avenue on Halloween as Lake Worth’s inaugural Halloween Street gets under way that Saturday at noon. Organizers promise three stages of music, “Coney Island-style” freak shows, a psychic fair, a costume contests for kids, pets, and adults, and arts and…

Bar 721 Washes Up in Old Laundry Bar Space

Old Laundry Bar space getting scrubbed clean.​For those who have been lamenting the lost of Laundry Bar, and its short lived incarnation Black Sheep Bar, count this as the nail in the coffin of any possible return of the beloved spot. We received a press release yesterday stating that Bar…

A Cameroon Hand Drum’s Details

Jacob Katel​Cameroon is a country partially on the West coast of Africa that is bordered by Nigeria. The name of the country originates from the portugese Rio dos Camarões, which sailors, for its abundance of prawns and crayfish, called the Wouri River when they sailed into it in 1472.According to…

Set Your Goals

Of all the acts signed to a major label in the post-Blink-182 pop-punk boom, who would’ve guessed that New Found Glory would serve as inspiration for hundreds of sound-alikes? Until recently, in fact, NFG was the dominant influence on the pop-hardcore sextet Set Your Goals. But with the July 21…

Revolting Cocks

If semitrailers got down ‘n’ dirty like motor oil in a dank club beneath the highway, Revolting Cocks would be the house band. Spiritual kin of Thrill Kill Kult, this Al Jourgensen (of Ministry) side project does a grind-house, brass-pole version of industrial dance, fueled by all the seething lust…

Drop the Lime

Brooklyn’s Drop the Lime has been nothing if not prescient. Those past few years, while everyone was running around to overly processed, overly happy so-called “blog house,” the DJ/producer born Luca Venezia carefully stuck to his own thing. In the face of all that neon glare, Venezia and his Trouble…

Marc Anthony

It’s tough to nail down one place to start enumerating Marc Anthony’s talents. He’s as complete a performer as Latin music has ever known, amassing accolades for his recordings and captivating fans with his passionate stage presence. And he’s not just a record-setting Latin artist — top-selling salsa singer of…

Bonnie Raitt

Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Bonnie Raitt has been palling around with Harlem-bred bluesman Taj Mahal since the ’60s, bonding through a mutual love of roots music. But this is the pair’s first tour together; they’ll coheadline under the name BonTaj Roulet and will donate a portion of the…

Blue October

Because major labels are all playing it safe, Universal couldn’t be happier to have platinum, guylinered, post-post-post-grunge superstars Blue October, the safest band going. Pray that album track “Jump Rope” doesn’t become a single, as it sets new standards for Hallmark-card insipid: a comically saccharine sentiment (“Life’s like a jump…

Video: Cornerstoners Live at the 2am Warehouse

Here goes a video of Miami live-band-hip-hop-improvisation group The Cornerstoners playing a party at the 2am Warehouse.The audio is mastered low on this video so you’ll have to turn your speakers up, but the mix is nice, with a great stereo field. Listen with headphones, you’ll be right there with…

Nick Curly at Space on Saturday

​After a scintillating summer of top bookings that included headliners Steve Bug, Magda, and Troy Pierce, the Techno Loft at Space shows no sign of relenting in its dominance over downtown Miami’s big-room techno scene. Saturday night continues the Teutonic trend, with a highly-anticipated performance by German DJ/Producer Nick Curly,…

$10 Tickets for Dethklok, AFI, 311, Styx, Jewel, and More

​If you crave live music, but you’re broke and didn’t grab the two for one deal on tickets last week, Live Nation is back with another (although not quite as good) deal this week. Anytime from now until midnight tonight, log on to Live Nation’s website to grab some all…

DJ Alej Varez Wins New Times Summer Spin Series 2009

​The finals for the 2009 edition of New Times’ Summer Spin series were held at Gryphon nightclub last Friday Night. DJs Edgar G., Alej Varez, and Cristi 10Hagen went head to head after each winning their respective contests over the last three months.When the smoke cleared at midnight, DJ Alej…

Peaches Afterparty at Rokbar With JD Samson November 6

JD Samson​Last time Peaches was in our swampy parts, she was busy turning Mansion into a freakshow during Winter Music Conference 2007. But she’ll be back soon — November 6 to be exact — in support of her latest album I Feel Cream.But if for some, hopefully, very good reason…