Surprise! There is other dance music in Miami besides big-room 7:00 a.m. house. Regulars at small underground spots like Laundry Bar and Blue know this already. Here, a couple mixes from two of Miami’s techno warriors, devoted to that sound birthed in Detroit warehouses and huge everywhere else in the…
Akon already caused an international media stir recently when he told MTV UK he didn’t believe in blood diamonds. (He was defending his own purchase of a mine in South Africa). Then, there was the onstage debacle involving a teenage girl in Trinidad that caused him to lose his Verizon…
So I came across this video while cruising the internet and couldn’t believe how much electronic music has grown since these days. Picture Herbie Hancock teaching Quincy Jones how to make techno beats. Yeah, that’s what I thought, ridiculous right… until I saw this. The year was 1983 and all…
It’s official: The Rock the Bells tour is coming! What started as a couple of shows in NYC and California featuring possibly the best quality hip-hop lineup ever has been expanded into a national tour. Prepare yourself: It hits Miami’s Bayfront Park on August 4. Tickets go on sale June…
Is it just me or is T-Pain dominating the airwaves these days? Everytime I turn on the radio, I keep hearing a T-Pain song, or some remix with brand new T-Pain vocals on the hook. Dude is everywhere. Flirting at the club with R. Kelly on “I’m a Flirt,” buying…
Cotton candy? Check. Tiaras? Check. Oversexed pop music? Check. With all of this involved, last night’s Fergie show in Boca Raton was a 10-year-old girl’s wet dream. The Dutchess sauntered in dripping with glitz, in a tiara and a sparkle-lined, bubblegum pink robe. In between belting lines of “Here I…
Recently, acts such as My Chemical Romance and Fall Out Boy have brought the world of eyeliner, girls’ jeans, and angsty lyrics to the mainstream. The success of these bands has prompted the most perplexing, and annoying, question: What is emo? Everybody wants to know. It is the most frequently…
If you missed last month’s KRS-One show at Studio A, you missed out. (When and where else would you get to catch Fat Joe as a hype man?). Still, even though the teacher born Kris Parker seems to make it down here at least once a year, this time local…
Casper & the Cookies perform Sunday, June 3, at City Limits, 19 NE Third Ave., Delray Beach. The show starts at 6 p.m. Tickets cost $10. Perfect Citizen, Baby Calendar, and M. Coast are also on the bill. Call 561-279-8222, or visit www.myspace.com/casperthecookies.com.
Tool performs at 8 p.m. Friday, June 1, at the BankAtlantic Center (1 Panther Pkwy., Sunrise). Tickets cost $52.75. Call 954-523-3309, or visit www.ticketmaster.com.
Bunji Garlin performs at the Unifest 2K7 at Vincent Torrest Park, 4331 NW 36th St., Lauderdale Lakes. The festival runs from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. Tickets cost $5 before 6 p.m. and $10 after. Tony Rebel, Ken Booth, Everton Blender, Slice International, Omar Reid, and the Nubian Players Band are also on the bill. Call 954-730-8885.
One-third of everybody’s favorite avant-groovemëisters Medeski, Martin & Wood is on holiday, but John Medeski and Billy Martin are still hard at work. They’ve been together for nearly 20 years, and. for their debut duo session, Martin is at the drum kit while Medeski sticks to the Hammond B-3 organ…
The roster of artists assembled here — Caetano Veloso, Elvis Costello, Emmylou Harris, Prince, etc. — would make even the most casual Joni Mitchell fan tingle with curiosity. But the sense of “what would that song sound like done by this person?” dissolves as song after song stalls under the…
Mustangs and Madras continues to play a passionate brand of emo that’s woefully (and refreshingly) out of step with the times. From first listen, the act’s latest release recalls a bygone era when scenester kids took style cues from the geek chic of Rivers Cuomo rather than the guyliner of…
The Freakin Hott plays at 9 p.m. Thursday, May 31, at City Limits, 19 NE Third Ave., Delray Beach. Call 561-279-8222, or visit www.myspace.com/thefreakinhott.
From the time you press play, it’s obvious where hip-hop artist Ziggy tha Don and mixtape host Wildman Teddy-T are taking you on this musical journey. You’re transported into a supersecretive sitdown with the “head of the family,” and Teddy-T is playing Marlon Brando himself. They’re playing on the fact…
Last week, Dred Scott got to hang out with the teenybopper crowd and learn a thing or two about the youngest generation of local rock stars emerging in South Florida. Club Revolution was hosting a raucous showcase for young bands called Rocking Idol, which saw 52 bands, mostly comprised of…
DJ Jazzy Jeff was going on award tours and making prime-time television cameos long before hip-hop music was connected to the mainstream. Although many rap artists from the ’80s have either graduated to celebrity status or become the subject of barbershop discussions, Jazzy Jeff, born as Jeff Townes, has managed…
State Radio performs at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 6, at the Culture Room, 3045 N. Federal Hwy., Fort Lauderdale. Tickets cost $10. Call 954-564-1074, or visit www.cultureroom.net.
Fergie performs Thursday, May 31, at Mizner Park Amphitheatre, 590 Plaza Real, Boca Raton. The show starts at 7:30 p.m. Tickets cost $36. Call 561-750-1668, or visit www.ticketmaster.com.
Tu Can Tango 101 N. Ocean Dr., Ste. 210 Hollywood 33019 954-921-0990, ext. 5162 A rare experience: Parking yourself in a monolithic yet curiously empty parking garage and descending a pee-scented staircase to cross the street and enter a similarly monolithic, similarly desolate hotel lobby, where after some struggle you…
Last Saturday, while the Urban Beach Week throngs crowded Miami Beach, two of the scene’s biggest rising stars were hanging on a public esplanade, just a few miles north in Hollywood. Reggaeton artist Zion and multiplatinum R&B singer Akon had come together near Harrison Street, smack in the middle of…
