Mark SeligerThe Hold SteadyOver here at the New Times, we don’t like to keep show secrets to ourselves for too long. So as we were glancing through this week’s issue (May 6-12 in the Miami edition), we were a bit baffled when we came across page 51, something new to…
Google Maps8577 Estate Drive South, where the Dewars are hosting the best keg pool party Wellington has ever seenMany thanks to our amigo Alex Rendon for pointing out to us the many selling points of local folk-rockers the Dewars’ house party being held at their Wellington home (8577 Estate Drive…
James Bratton and Tom Gorrio are a force to be reckoned with. They’ve only been a Miami band since February, and they’ve already scheduled an 18-city tour for the summer. But first the former Call it Radar and Boy and the Wolf bandmates want to get their feet wet in…
Morris Day will not take no for an answerThese four shows in the Broward-Palm Beach area slated for Friday evening appeal to four drastically different demographics, and none would be characterized as casual.Erica K. Landau on drum and bass legend Roni Size:”Mirroring the dark, smoky, sweaty underbelly of ravers’ paradise,…
Jamaican me crazy Major Lazer!We are only about a week away, but we’re pretty sure you haven’t forgotten that Major Lazer is bring its crazy mix of dancehall-meets-electro to Grand Central May 15. If that wasn’t awesome in itself, Poplife has announced that Passion Pit drummer Nate Donmoyer, AKA Shuttle,…
It feels like only yesterday when Jacksonville locals Black Kids released their first single “I’m not going to teach your boyfriend how to dance with you” in April of ’08. Since then, their debut album, Partie Traumatic, has reached worldwide acclaim, landing them the #5 spot of UK Album charts…
Hair Apparent: La RouxLa Roux fits comfortably with a wealth of compelling female pop acts with flamboyant hairstyles indicative of their songcraft. Like Robyn, Little Boots and Annie before her, La Roux singer Elly Jackson and music programmer Ben Langmaid are keenly aware of finding a balance between the dancefloor-ready…
flickr.comHeavy Pets keyboardist Jim WuestLocal jam outfit the Heavy Pets have a CD release party set for Saturday evening at the Culture Room. The gig celebrates the band’s second full-length album, a self-titled affair. Download the album at their site, and get out and groove with them tomorrow. Keyboardist Jim…
Miami indie darlings ANR and MillionYoung are leaving town. They’re both going on an East Coast tour with big cities like New York and Chicago on the slate. MillionYoung even has shows planned for Canada, France, Berlin, Denmark, and London all the way through July. Who knows when they’re coming…
Puerto Rico is known for a lot of things–salsa, rum, mofongo and a perhaps a slightly overblown pride in their flag (c’mon people, on the back of the car, hanging from the rearview and on your hat, all at once?) chief among them. Perhaps a little less, reggae. Of course,…
A barista at Brew Urban Cafe’s Victoria Park location was struck by a moving vehicle over the weekend during the Broward County Critical Mass ride, according to several local sources. In a posting at South Florida Fixed, Crystal Ruiz-Mills is hospitalized with several broken bones in her back.A Paypal account…
Pitbull has the crowd going crazy to his version of “How Low Can You Go” live in this performance footage from a May 4 show at Fryshuset in Stockholm, Sweden.Maybe it’s not until you see this that you realize how big Miami culture is on a global scale. Keep in…
John HoodThe story goes like this:A few of the principals behind Miami’s New World Symphony were sitting around discussing their dream of building a combination campus/concert hall that would be large enough to handle an ever-increasing crop of talent and bold enough to wow the world.At one point someone mentioned…
Van Morrison kept personal interactions to a minimum at Hard Rock Live WednesdayVan MorrisonHard Rock Live, Hollywood Wednesday, May 5, 2010 Preceded by a reputation as one of contemporary music’s most distinctive voices – as well as one of its most curmudgeonly characters — Van Morrison’s first visit to South…
A long time ago I came to the painful realization that my dreams and aspirations would go unfulfilled. Publishing a collection of original poetry titled “Fetch Me the Pliers” by downtown Kabul’s most exclusive post-Soviet literary house didn’t bring in the cash. So I did what many failed losers do…
There’s a reason the typical cover band doesn’t include Pink Floyd in its repertoire. You can’t exactly dance to Pink Floyd music, and it’s a hell of a lot easier to toss out a piece of crap like “Play That Funky Music White Boy” than replicate something as precise and…
Zany SoCal-bred ska punks the Aquabats first strapped on their power belts and anti-negativity helmets 16 years ago and set out to save the world. According to Aquabat folklore, the group washed up on the California shore after drifting from their native Aquabania, and many onstage battles with costumed rivals…
Minneapolis funk and soul group Morris Day and the Time is best-known as Prince’s rival group in his semi-autobiographical Purple Rain. And the only reason this conceit was plausible is because Day and his spirited combo — count mega R&B producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis among them — can…
Roni Size was the champion of electronica sub-genre drum and bass (DnB) at dirty clubs in the late ’90s and early ’00s. With the release of New Forms in 1997 with Reprezant, a drum and bass collective he founded, Size won widespread acclaim. After the album’s release, music critics and…
Skarhead, repping the outer boroughs of New York City, gives those ’90s bands who put the “hard” in hardcore a run for their tough-guy money. The band started as a side project formed by members of Madball and Subzero along with notorious frontman Danny Diablo. The tattoo-covered Diablo had already…
The Heavy Pets’ history spans close to a decade now. Over that time, the group has built up a jam-band following alongside the Disco Biscuits, the Black Crowes, and Railroad Earth. The Pets also attract non-jam-band types by fusing folk-rock with reggae and R&B, which generates danceable music layered with…
via Ongchewpeng on Deviant Art.If Jesus and the Devil are arm wrestling, then Miami is the table their elbows are on. Let’s face it, this place is pretty fucked up. Us humans have done a swell job of transforming a river of grass into a den of iniquity. But despite…
