Ya know, there are worse things in the world than naming your band something annoying — things like killing people or donning a diaper and chasing some astronaut cross-country or, I dunno, literally getting away with murder only to years later bust into some Las Vegas hotel room with a…
Tori Amos is now on tour supporting American Doll Posse, her best CD in years. It’s the piano-playing singer/songwriter’s tenth studio album — if you count the record she made with Y Kant Tori Read, a cringe-inducing hair-rock band she formed in Los Angeles at the end of the ’80s…
1977 was pivotal: Disco was becoming a major cultural force (impacting even the Rolling Stones with Some Girls) and there were strange rumblings in the U.S., the U.K., and Jamaica all based around new music. Brit punk rock and roots reggae were inextricably intertwined. Disenfranchised youths were attracted to the…
Since the release of Bestial last year, hardcore rock band Black Cobra has been one vicious critter. The guys have toured all over the United States and Europe and left most of their audiences with their mouths agape and scared shitless. They hail from South Florida (the Bay Area is…
Musicians are known for toeing the line amid two different worlds — drifting between good and evil — or various mind states to become successful. We’ve all got multiple personalities, so that’s not groundbreaking news, but the split between Muslim rapper Musab and Las Vegas-based pimp Minnesota Slicks is hard…
It’s hard to know when — or if — the Australian one-man dance act known as Muscles is being serious. Live, ensconced behind a small tower of keyboards and contraptions, he might yell to a mixed-bag hipster crowd, “This is my trance song! Do you all like trance?!” Before anyone…
Soulja Boy’s entry in the minstrel rap sweepstakes is called Souljaboytellem.com, and it has been virally marketed in a savvy way. Still, it’s about as stripped-down as a record can be. This is what rap would sound like if it had been invented in the 19th Century — simple snaps,…
So Alicia Keys currently has the number one single in the country with the song “No One” which is as catchy and soulful as anything the 27-year-old singer has ever put out. While that tune is burning up the charts, here’s a fresh remix featuring Keys and Jamaican singer Junior…
Here’s another local music mystery… A reader writes: “Hi, I’m trying to figure out the name of a local progressive band from the late 90s, (1997-2000). I know they were signed to a major label, and were influenced by bands that sounded like the Cure, and that the entire band…
Booka Shade: DJ Kicks (!K7) Henrik Schwartz: Live (!K7) Ricardo Villalobos: Fabric 36 (Fabric) It used to be so easy for DJs. Refine a set over a couple of years, license the necessary tracks, mix them all together and voilà! Genres were born, scenes were codified and superstar DJs were…
BY ANDY VIHSTADT Jukebox Hero Cat Power turns on the Jukebox January 22. The mostly covers album (and bonus disc) will include a bit of everything from Hank Williams to the Hot Boys. Here’s the tracklisting. For those of you hoping for her rendition of “Hanging on the Telephone” from…
The Morrissey concert originally scheduled for tonight at the Fillmore Miami Beach is officially cancelled. No official word on why, or whether or not it will be rescheduled. Refunds at point of purchase. Gossip to follow, I’m sure at www.morrissey-solo.com. Don’t ask me anything else right now because I’m too…
It’s not every compilation of house music that starts out with a Sun Ra track. In fact, this may be the only one. Still, coming from Henrik Schwarz, this isn’t all that surprising, considering that he opened his 2006 DJ-Kicks set with a number by Moondog and wove a slew…
“I came back from NY, nigga lost his deal/Felt sick to the stomach, almost lost his meal,” Phonte raps on Getback’s first track, “Sirens.” He’s referring to his duo Little Brother’s exit from Atlantic Records after sales of its major-label debut, The Minstrel Show, failed to meet expectations. Getback was…
The story of Against Me! begins in the college town of Gainesville, Florida, in 1997. Then-17-year-old Tom Gabel would play his angst-filled compositions with an acoustic guitar on street corners for spare change. The tunes were catchy, and his lyrics were about, well, being an angry, punk-rock 17-year-old in Gainesville…
Destruction. Doom. Death. These themes have been heavy-metal hallmarks since more or less the inception of the genre, and let’s face it, the music wouldn’t be as fun or compelling without them. But for New Orleans residents, these words have a much deeper meaning in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina…
The Thrills’ 2003 debut, So Much for the City, was a fanciful homage to the California myth, as filtered through the Day-Glo haze of wistful ’70s euphoria. Its playful imagery summoned endless vistas of surf and sand, idealized and admired from a vantage point somewhat distant and distinct. It’s not…
Longtime Miami DJ Oscar G has a penchant for driving the city’s dance culture forward. He’s been the resident DJ at Club Space for years and has a faithful following that packs the club every weekend he’s in town. This is not just because of its early-morning debauchery but because…
The cover to New Seasons — a rural landscape dipped in shades of electric raspberry — looks a lot like the jacket for Charley D. and Milo’s 1970 debut LP, a lost treasure in lysergic country pop. That’s not surprising. The Sadies, as their sixth studio album clearly demonstrates, retain…
So it stands to reason that there’s only one American Gangster album that people should be interested in and that’s Jay-Z’s new release. It’s his second full length album post retirement and it’s not getting the greatest of reviews, partly because it’s his second full length album post retirement and…
Jay-Z American Gangster (Roc-A-Fella) American Gangster is one hell of a comeback album. For Diddy. Alongside his production team, The Hitmen, Sean Combs produces the album’s hottest tracks, “Pray,” and “Roc Boys (And The Winner Is),” outshining hit makers like the Neptunes and Jermaine Dupri. As for Jay-Z, let’s hope…
So it’s finally the fourth quarter in the music industry and record companies are desperate for some real sales. CD’s practically have one foot in the grave anyway so whatever dollars record companies can squeeze out of consumers by Christmas is a miracle. But alas, the heralded fourth quarter isn’t…
