A bar is only as good as its bartenders. And while most can make a mean drink, an elite few can make your bar experience truly magical. Here’s a tour of three bars that house the coolest bartenders around. Café Maxx: “He can make gin fizzes!” my friend Fancy shouted…
We’ve been waiting for Brisco’s official debut album Street Medicine for a couple years now. Being that he’s backed by Cash Money Records and Poe Boy Records, you can expect Street Medicine to be a monumental release. Or atleast we hope so. Well, to keep the streets satisfied, Brisco released…
Illustration by Jason SeilerGod, we love this painting.This is either a bail-out from a buddy or a very shrewd buy-low purchase. Just as “Blow Hard”, New Times’ feature on bankrupt megaproducer Scott Storch, is filling newspaper boxes, his manager’s company announced that it was buying his music catalog for $7…
Jesus Loves You!Morbid Opera Jesus Loves You – So Give Us Your Money (Sublapse Records) While holding this seven-inch EP in my hands for what may be the umpteenth time, I finally noticed how goofy the band’s name looks across the top. It looks like something penned on the fly…
Quoting Christopher R. Weingarten: Record Store Day AKA “eBay Eve”In our Moving Units column, Mike Ramirez at Fort Lauderdale’s Radio-Active Records graciously keeps us up-to-date and comments on the current releases flying out of his store each week.Based upon the amount of this column devoted to teasing Record Store Day…
Illustration courtesy of Jason SeilerRoyal Flush: Scott Storch New Times scribe Gus Garcia-Roberts has a gem of a feature about the rise and complete ruin of South Florida hip-hop producer Scott Storch, who once played John Travolta’s role in Grease and can play any top 40 song from the past…
Sweatstock’s sweatiest moment came at the end. By the time noise-punk duo No Age finally stumbled onstage around 9 p.m., the crowd was bigger, drunker, and more chaotic than it had been all day. Fans of every kind packed a pit bounded by NE 2nd Ave., Sweat Records’ north-facing façade,…
The night before Sweatstock, Destroyio Records threw a great show at Churchill’s.We got most of the whole shit recorded, a full 1.5 hours of music from Flees, Enough!, Askultura, Hardware Youth, The Can’t Stand Ya’s, and DJ Skidmark presented in high quality stereo sound.If you like hardcore, punk rock, reggae…
The front and back of Fela Kuti’s 10-inch EP, which was a Record Store Day exclusiveSaturday was the absolutely perfect day to run around, buy records, drink a moderate amount of Strongbow cider, and consume a cornucopia of live music. Except: impressive Record Store Day events were planned for both…
SerumTwo Miami emcees (Serum, LMS) team up with another emcee from Virginia (Oz) for an epic track entitled “At The End Of Dreams”. Serum, LMS and Oz the Arc Raider team up and really give you something special on this one. No hook, no bridge – just straight verses after…
— Basic Vocab has just released their album A Better Way. The album will officially receive its nationwide release on April 27th, but they did a special iTunes early release this past Tuesday where you can get the album at $7.99 for a limited time. Conscious hip-hop from Miami…
GlimpseRunner(Crosstown Rebels)2009 was a big year for EDM’s new dark horse, UK-based producer Glimpse, AKA Christopher Spero. Despite a deeply-rooted underground sensibility and uncompromising experimental flair, he has garnered plenty of mainstream accolades, including a nomination for Producer of the Year by DJ Magazine. Every once in a while there…
Design by Chelly After another shitty day at a shitty job in a shitty city, I decided to relax by listening to an old LP of sci-fi movie sound effects and watching shadows on my bedroom walls while blitzed on acid. At the time, this seemed like the best way…
Photo by Tom BeardUffie doesn’t appreciate you watching her manicureAs we approach the June 8 release of South Florida native Uffie’s debut album Sex Dreams and Denim Jeans, the leakiness will likely turn into a full-on gush soon enough. A radio rip of her electro-heavy upcoming single “ADD SUV” featuring…
Scott Stapp really has a baseball-shaped dome, doesn’t he?The happiest moment of Crossfade’s day so far was transcribing the full lyrics for Scott Stapp’s new musical wet kiss to the Florida Marlins, “Marlins Will Soar.” After the tepid reception his National Anthem performance received at the Marlins’ home opener, it’s…
Dividing time between the Big Apple and the Magic City, Team Rojas have a knack for taking each city’s nightlife characteristics and meshing them into dancefloor gold — New York’s foward-thinking mentality with Miami’s raw grittiness. Compromised by EDG4R (Edgar Rojas) and Stravinsky (Erick Rojas) — they are surprisingly not…
In yet another awesome cover choice, check out ex-Fort Lauderdale synth-rock trio Selebrities’ take on Technotronic’s “Move This” right now. Like, now! Hit it over at the group’s MySpace. For the ’90s-challenged, just think about the song that reminds you to “shake that body” a lot.Thanks to the Guest Lab…
For the most part, the now-incarcerated Lil Wayne is a rapper by trade. But now that he’s behind bars, as we recently pointed out, he now has become a blogger using a computer terminal that probably would not allow him to stream “Lollipop.”The latest item up for perusal over at…
Mike Ramirez of Fort Lauderdale’s Radio-Active Records fully understands the mania that drives vinyl junkies — he’s among their number. The 29-year-old manager and buyer for the store says his Fort Lauderdale home is filled floor-to-ceiling with LPs — gathered since his youth at the Record Bar in Coral Square…
Fort Lauderdale rock, rhythm, and blues act Community Property will tap the Beerfest 2010 festivities this Saturday. The quartet earned the honor to open the event by beating out four other local acts in a Battle of the Bands in late March, hosted by New Times Broward-Palm Beach and Revolution…
For a particular subset of music geeks, a guitar is more than just a means to a musical end. For these ardent acolytes, the guitar itself is the end, the mystical devotional object that imparts divine tone with the addition or subtraction of a pickup, with the thickness of the…
Webbz brings the long awaited God’s Plan project to life. Its technically a mixtape, but most definitely sounds and plays out more like a street album. And with Dade Dilla, Midus and God himself serving as executive producers – God’s Plan has some of Webbz’s best work yet.The mixtape starts…
