Music fans around town are likely already familiar with Herbieman. He’s been making a name for himself both around town and abroad since 2003. An Argentine-born singer-songwriter with a penchant for composition, Herbieman’s sound is at times straight rock, at others more folky, but always heartfelt. His MySpace actually draws…
Night Watch is a regularly occurring bar review with nightlife columnist Tara Nieuwesteeg.Liquor is a cruel, messy mistress, and she doesn’t love me. The last time I saw her, she left me with a hangover that lasted for three days. So, as I do every time she leaves me aching,…
Photo by Aki Pekka StilinoskiAnnieMark this as a must: Annie, who is best known for her tracks “Chewing Gum” and “I Know Ur Girlfriend Hates Me,” will be making a quick stop at LIV in Miami Beach November 25 for a DJ set alongside Ross One and Contra. We’d really…
Lizard King Jim Morrison, one of the most influential American rock singers ever, was born in Melbourne, Florida on December 8, 1943.He went to UCLA film school, graduated, and hung out on Venice Beach, where he and Ray Manzarek started The Doors.There’s a famous incident that took place at Dinner…
via groovemaker.comCan you hear that faint thump? It’s the heads of turntable purists smacking their heads against their desks. Still, like it or not, what constitutes “DJing” has forever changed with technology — it’s only a matter of time before somebody figures out how to use the DJ Hero controller…
This past Sunday I put together a show at the Poorhouse with two of the best rock and roll bands in South Florida, the Furious Dudes and Mad Martigan, both from Miami. They are both underrated but awesome, and needless to say the show was amazing, just a good time…
via Flickr user LinzeraA couple of shows chalk full of pop-punk are coming to Culture Room. First up is the West Palm Beach-based Hey Monday, who are on the verge of being pop-punk’s next big thing. Sure pop-punk bands are a dime-a-trillion, but this local act has a beautiful female…
Photo by Ian WitlenMiami, she goes hard. Santigold performing at the Paris Theatre in Miami Beach.Click here to view more photos from this show.Diesel U:Music Tour with Santigold, Kid Cudi, Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt, Jemina Pearl and DJ Mom JeansTuesday, November 17, 2009Paris Theatre, Miami BeachBetter Than: Well, some were…
If you’re still reading, author/actress (Seriously. She’s on IMDB.) and Elvis’s cousin Edie Hand will be at Borders Saturday to sign copies of her latest novellas A Christmas Ride: The Miracle of Lights and The Soldier’s Ride. Although those don’t have anything to do with Elvis, she has paid homage to…
I’m going to resist the urge to use the name of this weekend’s festival in question in some ill-conceived pun or a shoddy play on words, and just power through right into the info you seek. I’m also going to try to ignore that little bit of track music that…
Nassau’s gone funky, and Nassau’s got soul. Just ask the Beginning of the End, the band that sang all about just that in the classic “Funky Nassau.” In fact, contrary to hum-drum, steel-drum clichés, the Bahamian capital has always swung to a relatively citified beat. So it only makes sense…
Few artists in Latin music — or in any genre, for that matter — are as prolific and talented as Ruben Blades. He’s a singer and a songwriter. He’s an actor. He’s even a lawyer and a politician. And if all this sounds like exaggeration, check his IMDB page for…
The fourth edition of the recurrent Ska Is Dead tour lands at Culture Room on Thursday with a bill straight out of 1997. Ska has been reviled and declared dead for about the past 30 years, but it seems its horn-heavy effervescence just can’t be dampened. The genre itself predates…
One of the most tragicomic moments in the 2004 Metallica documentary Some Kind of Monster features not the band itself but rather Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine. In a touchy-feely, on-camera counseling session, Mustaine reveals some major inferiority issues to Metallica’s drummer, Lars Ulrich. He even seems to come uncomfortably close…
Don’t expect the usual array of underground indie rock at Propaganda on Friday. Sure, you have Lake Worth’s melancholic rock hero, John Ralston, headlining the night. His set will offer fans a sample of the new material he’s been polishing. And then there are the syrupy sounds of Fort Lauderdale’s…
Every year, the Organic Hip-Hop Conference rallies conscious troops from all over the continent and beyond for a weekend of fighting for better communities through activism, vegetarianism, and music. Sponsored by Difference Makers Non-Profit Organization and Urban America Newspaper, the 2009 edition will kick off Friday with a keynote address…
As both the precocious bard and poet laureate of the Laurel Canyon elite, Jackson Browne’s late-’60s/early-’70s repertoire found him standing shoulder to shoulder with the other notables of the day. With peers like Joni Mitchell, James Taylor, and Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, Browne helped to define the West Coast…
If you weren’t skulking around dirty South Florida clubs in the ’90s and early ’00s, you probably don’t know about the duo sometimes referred to as Miami’s electro-bass overlords. But if you were a club kid covered in glitter, hair slicked back in tight buns, dodging projectile glow sticks and…
Some last names in pop culture resonate beyond just celebrity status. They evoke emotions, nostalgia, even the feelings of an entire era. In music, think Lennon or Dylan and, of course, Marley. So imagine bearing that last name and trying also to live up to its powerful artistic legacy. Such…
Liquor is a cruel, messy mistress, and she doesn’t love me. The last time I saw her, she left me with a hangover that lasted for three days. So, as I do every time she leaves me aching, I swore her off. It won’t last, of course — but it…
Beware! Strange European techno dancing may erupt in the streets of West Palm Beach for Dynamix II at the Respectable Street Cafe on Wednesday, November 25, 2009.According to the YouTube description for the above video, “The Techno Vikings themselves return to our local stomping ground after a well deserved break…
If time between shows is any indication, you may have to wait another 76 years to catch Cuba’s legendary Septeto Nacional on yanqui shores again. The band made its last U.S. appearance at the 1933 World’s Fair in Chicago, where it won a Gold Medal by spreading the Afro-Cuban music…
