In a culture bombarded by information, Múm offers plenty to attract your overtaxed attention: It’s from Iceland! It records albums in remote lighthouses! Until recently, it included a pair of twin sisters whose singing voices resemble those of 6-year-old tree nymphs! Yet play one of Múm’s records in your bedroom…
Though he deserves many of the accolades that come with being a world-renowned DJ, Sasha hasn’t reveled in the glory lately. Having achieved just moderate success with 2002’s uneven Airdrawndagger, Sasha couldn’t garner the same level of respect for his full-length labor of love than he does for an eight-hour…
Attention, all candy-ass punks and faux-metal fuckwits contemplating a career in music: GIVE UP NOW. You will never in a bazillion years touch Motörhead mainstay Lemmy. He’s old enough to have bent your hippie mom over an amp in the back of a tour bus when he was a Hendrix…
Uh-oh. TVT’s collection of Southern thug rappers is pretty much — to borrow a phrase from actress Lindsay Lohan — completely retarded. The Dirty South’s incarnation of gangsta rap doesn’t hold a candle to the West Coast’s industry-shaking forebears like ‘Pac and Eazy. Lil’ Jon and the Eastside Boyz, Atlanta’s…
Out of the Shadow is the sound of music getting good again. It’s the sound of pop music distilled to its true essence; the toe-tapping, hand-holding, paper airplane-throwing soundtrack to a breezy summer day. And it’s flowing out of the amps of San Francisco quartet Rogue Wave. The perfectly crafted…
Can you possibly compare Iron Maiden to Poison? Not really, but the Wildhearts are often compared to their U.K. brethren the Darkness. They’re two different animals, and the Wildhearts’ latest record leans further toward the dark chasm of metal than the glitter of glam-pop. The guitar work is ultimate shreddery,…
If you can’t find much info about Long Island-based punks As Tall as Lions, you can always check out their My Space account (www.myspace.com/astallaslions/) — you know, the place where everyone went when they “got tired” of Friendster. Once you get there, you’ll see ATAL has 485 friends who are…
So, exactly how many cover songs do the Remnants know? Quite a few, actually. OK, a lot; more than 70 — some punk, some garage, and some just plain rock. But that¹s not to say the Remnants are a cover band. Five of the six tunes on this disc are…
Remember how fun it was to sneak out of your room after bedtime and watch MTV — at least for us 20- and 30-somethings labeled as the “MTV Generation.” Well, MTV pretty much sucks now, but in pockets of Palm Beach County, you can still find a local show that…
Cramming a band into the living room at Dada can be like watching clowns pile into a VW bug. With a setup that includes three horn players, a bulbous standup bass, an elaborate drum setup, and a vibraphone, 8-Track Mind provides the sultry soundtrack for dining couples and packs of…
A friend of mine went to a drum and bass night in Berlin a few months ago and said people were busting moves he’d never seen on a dance floor before — young men in knitted sweaters and women with bleached crew cuts were doing splits and back flips, and…
The following heated exchange took place one recent Friday between a man and his angry girlfriend outside the Porterhouse, 201 SW Second St., Fort Lauderdale: Woman: Aren’t you even going to walk me to my car? Man: Why, so you can bitch at me some more? That South Beach Diet…
When it comes to interviews with overexposed, platinum-certified stars such as D12, the conversations can sound a bit… scripted. For example, check out this chestnut posed to group-member Swift: “What makes you stand out from Kuniva, Bizarre, Kon Artis, Proof, and Eminem?” “I’m a hardcore MC. I’m a lyrical assassin,”…
Although I slept through my freshman micro-economics course far more than I attended, and thus am hardly an expert in such matters, I believe a band may safely be deemed “efficient” if it can make an entire album for $6 (no matter how long it takes) or in five days…
Is it fair that mambo pioneer bassist Israel “Cachao” Lopez is 85 years old and still producing beautiful music, when the rest of us are just sitting around doing nothing? Well, no, but as long as he keeps making records like this, it just doesn’t matter. All the information you…
Antibalas’ latest album, Who Is This America?, finds the 17-piece ensemble from Brooklyn making lemonade out of the bitterest lemons, whether it’s misogynistic urban culture or stilted U.S. foreign policy. While a bit more overtly political than 2002’s Talkatif, Antibalas offers a bright, danceable sound that’s given backbone by a…
The title of the Ponys’ debut, Laced with Romance, is as accurate as that Spears girl is chaste. With lines like “I only love ya ’cause you, ’cause you look like me,” the band is like that disheveled boyfriend who drinks too much at parties and never says he loves…
For those who have a Dead Can Dance-shaped hole in their hearts since the group’s dissolution — and for those who liked them but were put off by their occasional goth dalliances — take heart. Vas has picked up where DCD left off. Vas is the duo of vocalist Azam…
While the four turntablists in the X-Ecutioners appear god-like on stage behind the wheels of steel — pawing at breakbeats and twisting tempos into a rhythmic frenzy — their work as producers has been pedestrian, ranging from the decent-but-simple to the simply horrendous. Their latest, Revolutions, is hardly a masterpiece,…
Colombian pop rock singer Andrés Cabas’ website is totally en español, but from what we can gather, the 26-year-old is the son of composer Eduardo Cabas,; he worked with producer Chucho Merchán (who has played with heavies like Billy Bragg and Everything But the Girl) on his 2002 album Cabas,…
He’s a rapper, producer, and co-founder of the West Palm Beach hip-hop promotion company Tha Union. But Ctraffik is also a sensitive guy. He took time to answer the question: What song always makes you cry? The entire Wu-Tang Clan Enter the 36 Chambers CD would probably get some tears…
Last Friday night at Ohm nightclub in West Palm Beach, I learned a few things: (1) Hardly anyone drinks beer at a hip-hop show. It’s all about Hypnotiq, Grey Goose, and good ol’ Hennessy with lime. (2) Hats are in. It doesn’t matter if it’s one of those annoying mesh…
