Julius the Mad Thinker spins Saturday at the Vagabond.Friday, January 8*Fort Lauderdale’s Sweet Bronco plays the Vagabond in Miami tonight. Admission is free before 11 p.m., $5 after. Click here for full details. *Former Miami live hip-hop favorites the Square Egg long ago moved to Brooklyn, but for the band’s 10th…
First off let me start off by saying that last year sucked really bad, and I am definitely not sad to see it go. We gained some friends, but lost a few too. Anything that could go wrong, did go wrong. But that’s the beauty of the beginning of the…
Between Air and this, the Fillmore Miami Beach is landing some OMG-worthy shows this spring. Yes, Jeff Tweedy and company play Miami for the first time in forever on Monday, March 2010, in support of last year’s self-titled album. Tickets go on sale tomorrow, January 8, at 10 a.m. Both…
House music reigned supreme at Vagabond Saturdays throughout 2009, with weekly performances by such classic house luminaries as Frankie Knuckles, Little Louie Vega, Jellybean Benitez, and Jesse Saunders. So far the soulful house vibes promise to live on at the downtown hotpot in 2010, and Saturday night brings a special…
Photo by Ian WitlenStonefoxIt’s easy just to think of Electric Pickle as the home of Poplife and various underground techno and house events. But besides Champion Sounds Wednesdays, which focuses heavily on hip-hop, soul, and funk, there’s another night that veers from the usual four-to-the-floor program: Stop Drop N’ Roll…
Ever like a song on a band’s MySpace enough that you want to be able to hear it anytime, without going online?How about digitally recording live radio broadcasts as they’re streamed on a radio station’s website? Wanna do that? Wanna record streaming audio for free on a mac?All you need…
We can’t promise the Miss Colombia candidates will be there…but it could happen.Ever wish you could party in Colombia, but can’t leave the country due to the U.S. government revoking your passport some years back for that incident involving tabletops and fishnet stockings at the airport lobby bar? Well, not…
In case you haven’t heard, tonight marks the first (((SHAKE))) of 2010 at the Vagabond. And it’s gonna be one helluva a party as pioneering Miami DJ Tom Laroc celebrates his 40th birthday with the Shake nation. A renaissance man whose skills on wax are only surpassed by his prowess in…
Is it possible to start out a blog on Gloria Estefan without some sort of allusion to rhythm and its getting you? Is it even possible to avoid aforementioned allusion when the place is called Bongo’s? Considering how inescapably annoying that song is, probably not. But here’s an attempt: In…
Phish’s triumphant return after a five-year hiatus culminated this past week with a four-night run at American Airlines Arena, ending on New Year’s Eve. This set of gigs also marked the ten-year anniversary of Phish’s Y2K Big Cypress party that brought roughly 80,000 fans to the local Seminole reservation, an…
Live in South Florida long enough and the idea of a cruise loses its luster with the appearance of every sunburned, hair-braided tourist clutching a cardboard box of souvenir rum. It’s OK, says Jason Beukema, founder of the Miami Beach-based Whet Travel agency. “I’ve been on 35 cruises, and it’s…
This Fort Lauderdale-based act usually plays small Broward and Palm Beach County venues like the Bubble and Propaganda, so this outing below the Miami-Dade County line is rare. Although the band is technically a three-piece, Sweet Bronco’s driving force is curly-haired Chris Horgan, who still plays often, under the same…
French producer/DJ Bob Sinclar (née Christophe “The French Kiss” le Friant) was Born in 69, as it says literally in the title of his most recent full-length. And you need to sample only a small cross-section from his decade-plus of throbbing tracks to understand his promotion of this double-entendre-imbued birth…
Hey, 2010, I don’t want to start off on the wrong foot with you or anything, but what’s going on? Were the bleary-eyed shambles in which I awoke this morning really necessary? I’ve done nothing to you, buddy. This isn’t paying for my sins — I haven’t had a drink…
Favoring a pounding prog-house sound as shiny and at times as sleazy as the city he now calls home, Paris-to-Miami transplant Cedric Gervais has a reputation as a DJ who plays it both uplifting and up-thrusting. Building his following since 2003, this big-room fixture favors blissfully breezy Ibiza-style tracks buoyed…
If the good life is “a life abounding in material comforts and luxuries,” then yes, Tony Bennett, with his Central Park South aerie and world tours, most certainly has lived it — and is living it still. If the good life is “a life marked by a high standard of…
Dweezil Zappa, the eldest son of late avant-garde rock composer Frank Zappa, has been performing songs from his father’s career for the past three years on the “Zappa Plays Zappa” tour. The multimedia shows include a wide range of the elder Zappa’s material, played by Dweezil and various former members…
For those of you who are like me and wish you could remember your college days better but all the alcohol-poisoned brain cells make that next to impossible, several SoFla bars will help you recapture those memories of empty wine coolers, trash-can punch, and walks of shame (and hopefully a…
It’s common knowledge — electropunk provocateurs Alicia, Russ, and Martin of Kill Miss Pretty are possessed by an unnatural compulsion to “groove your tooties off.” Usually, they’ll just do you metaphorically with music, tossing off some slinky sex magick like “El Gato,” “Girlfriend,” or robot porn instrumental “Bas” to get…
I first heard of Hamburg-based producer H.O.S.H. (a.k.a. Holger Behn) through a mind-blowing 2008 release called “Radar” — a collaboration with esteemed producer and Diynamic labelmate Stimming. This insidious little banger blends delectably nuanced and understated tribal rhythms with weird distended pitch crescendos and a smiting climatic jazz organ breakdown…
Cover art by Charlie RosarioWe’re nearly a week into 2010 and thus far no cubaneo? Well, I simply can’t abide that. And neither should you. Which is exactly why Crossfade’s hooking you up with a track straight off Rumberos de la 8’s self-titled debut. Technically, los Rumberos’ members hail from…
I’m in love, y’all! She’s gorgeous. She’s got this awesome hairstyle that is a cross between Amy Winehouse and some atrocity created with Bumpits. Her skin glows of fake orange tanner that one can only assume she was dipped in Tang. Some asshole thought it was okay to hit her…
