via physical-music.comM.A.N.D.Y.Last night, I hit up the official Get Physical label site while looking for some info on Philipp Jung of M.A.N.D.Y.’s upcoming DJ gig at Space on the 23rd. On a lark, I decided to hit the little “Miami” tab on the label’s tour dates page, and lo and…
Furious DudesSons of Bitchin’ (Self-released)facebook.com/furiousdudes Thrashy lo-fi garage punk is currently storming out of my speakers with the potential to turn my capable system to abject shit. Wow. Though I can’t wholly get behind the moniker these guys have chosen for themselves (think of the jokes), I do get completely…
As any Argentine worth his Dos Anclas (Two Anchors) salt will tell you, they’re better than you. Also, che boludo! Just kidding about the whole better than you thing. Not so much the cursing. But the holier than thou fame is a bit unjust, something Latinos say when they want…
Photo by Rony AlwinDj Tamara SkyOkay, so I’ll admit this post is really just about posting another hot-as-fuck picture of DJ/model Tamara Sky. So sue me. I’ve already publicly admitted my love for her. So sorry that from time to time I want to look at something pretty.That being said,…
Below is a selection of New Times music writers’ favorite local albums from 2009. This is by no means exhaustive and appears in random order. For the full list, visit Crossfade, New Times’ music blog, at blogs.miaminewtimes.com/crossfade. The Pretty Faces Another Sound (self-released) myspace.com/theprettyfaces Another threesome leading the new fresh…
Radioboxer, which formed in the Magic City from the remnants of a previous incarnation called Falaz, has earned a strong fan base around town thanks to its honesty and sincerity. And of course, because it really rocks out. The band crafts alternative yarns built on thoughtful storytelling while still grinding…
Cash Money Records’ original offices in New Orleans were located between a body shop and a hot tub dealer. Still, the label moved hundreds of thousands of albums from those humble digs and signed an unprecedented distribution deal with Universal Records in 1998. That kept the label largely independent but…
You can easily call Richie Havens a folk singer. He is, after all, an acoustic-guitar-playing Boomer. But you can’t call him typical: His distinctive style couldn’t be further from the sanctimonious post-Dylan stereotype. Instead, he’s continued to propagate the dogged, soulful, street-level folk that made him famous. Havens first drew…
The dance-music underground might be rocking bleepy techno and dark-wave house from Europe, but the stuff that really moves the masses combines the synthetic strings of trance with the tough percussion of house. One look at the most popular DJs in the world, from Tiesto to Deadmau5 to Kaskade, points…
Make no mistake: Four Year Strong loves the ’90s. Not only is its pop-hardcore sound a throwback to genre innovators the Movielife (as well as the guys who took it to the bank, New Found Glory) but its new covers album, Explains It All, is a love letter to the…
Guitarist and vocalist Warren Haynes is a busy man these days, juggling roles in the Allman Brothers, the Dead, and Gov’t Mule, which he leads, having founded it with late Allmans bassist Allen Woody. Like the other bands Haynes is involved with, Gov’t Mule is based on a classic-rock sound:…
Here’s a Haiti Earthquake Twitpic music video we made using Obama’s address to the nation on the Haiti earthquake crisis. The images are Twitpics from across the internets: They’re first-response citizen media reports of crushed buildings, death, destruction, hope, and life.Wyclef’s Yele Foundation has been working in Haiti for years…
2009 was a big year for Wolf + Lamb, the NYC-based DJ/production duo and eponymous label responsible for some of the most exciting and imaginative new sounds in electronic dance music. From their growing cult following, centered around the infamous “Marcy Hotel” parties in Brooklyn, to their recent leap from…
In the early- to mid-aughts there was a huge deluge of post-Strokes revivalists that flooded and clogged the scene. Sometime around 2006, it all hit critical mass, Casablancas and Co. went on indefinite hiatus, and the thing began to die. Meanwhile, a new trend — electro-tinged, indie pop mash-ups –…
Arturo Sandoval’s 2003 release Trumpet Evolution is perhaps the most aptly titled album he, or many others, for that matter, have ever dropped. It’s not only a fitting title for what the listener finds on the record–19 lush jazz tracks that span the history of the genre–but a very accurate…
Photo by JipsyAn interior view of the Max Fish pop-up bar during this past Art Basel Miami Beach.Finally. A place to hang out in downtown Miami that’s not a club or a “lounge” or a restaurant or a venue of any kind, just a bar, and one that’s cheap but…
A new South Beach, velvet-rope spot is anticipated to open before the end of this month. It is a resurrection of the old Rumi locale, next to SET on Lincoln Road. And before you roll your eyes and start a death clock, you should check out the deets from the…
The song title “Eating, Drinking, Shitting,” a single off Murderous Rampage’s recent self-titled album, doesn’t inspire much, at least at first. If anything, it has the opposite effect, bringing to mind back-to-the-basics, Jurassic-age living. And it’s a pretty tame title as far as the genre goes (think Embalming Theatre’s “I…
Photo by Ian WitlenThe stoner metal hardliners ain’t gonna like this one, but, shock, horror, Allen Blickle, drummer of the awesome Savannah quartet Baroness, has musical taste besides sludge and doom. (Drummers, because of their scarcity, always seem to be the musical oddballs in bands, though.) Stereogum posted yesterday his…
Folk Nation isn’t just a street gang.According to Wikipedia, “It has been defined in several ways; as music transmitted by word of mouth, music of the lower classes, music with no known composer.”Folk is the music of ramblers and wildcats, grifters and coal miners, killers, thieves, pimps, train hoppers, hitch…
Calvin Harris performs at LIV Febrary 24.We’ve been a little quiet lately on LIV’s Wednesday night party Dirty Hairy. Partly because the acts that have been booked lately are more gimmicky than actually, er, talented. Nothing wrong with gimmick — a mega-club of LIV’s size needs to make money –…
If you’ve ever wondered what Cuban rumba legend Perez Prado would sound like with an electro makeover, than you’re on the same page as locally born and bred producer/programmer Armando Martinez, better known as Alpha 606. But most likely you haven’t, because there are very few people with wavelengths out…
