Fiona Apple has an older sister, Maude Maggart. And she’s kind of a big deal on the cabaret circuit. Drawing praise from most major media outlets such as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, NPR and Entertainment Weekly, Maggart has gained a following for her haunting and exquisite renditions…
Rock and roll will never die. Here’s a video of the Miami Beach Senior High School Rock Ensemble playing “Black Water” by The Doobie Brothers at a recently uploaded performance in the high school’s auditorium. Good to know that with all the talk about budget cuts and elimination of arts…
Make the people screamPool Party taught us about the universal truths that aren’t always the same. They taught us that coffee and sex were equivalent entities.They showed us how to do it right sometimes by doing it like a warrior every time. Now they show us how to be careful…
DJ Nova, a.k.a. Nelson Fernandez, is a Venezuelan transplant and pivotal figure of Miami’s underground EDM scene since the early ’90s. With a lifelong commitment to his craft, Nova’s DJ career has taken him from Miami’s myriad local clubs and venues to bookings all over the U.S. and Latin America,…
myspace.com/jacuzziboysIndie rock taste-makers/breakers Pitchfork Media threw some love to Miami’s tropical-death-metal-slash-swamp-rock threesome the Jacuzzi Boys this morning. In a review of their (comparatively) mellow anti-ballad “The Countess”, Amy Granzin threw up some fairly gushy praise by Pitchfork standards: “A bass drum drives the song straight and steady, but heavy reverb…
To celebrate the upcoming release of their 12″ three-way single, Miami Bass Warriors have released their newest track “Bro, That Chick’s a Basser.” If you saw their performance at this year’s Calle Ocho, you might have already heard it, but this is the actual studio cut, free from the background…
Lissy TrullieThe VirginsWith Lissy Trullie and Anya MarinaWednesday, June 2, 2009Culture Room, Ft. LauderdaleBetter Than: Reading a magazine.The Review:Much of the early hype — and there’s been a lot — about both the Virgins and Lissy Trullie has focused on the “scene” from which they come. Music media addicts know…
One of the two bands currently touring under the L.A. Guns moniker is coming to Culture Room on September 12. Founding member Tracii Guns, Jeremy Guns, Marty Casey, Alec “Big Al” Bauer, and Chad Stewart make up this version of the Guns, while all Phil Lewis, Steve Riley, Stacey Blades,…
It’s the end of an era ladies and gentlemen, especially for those of you who like your pop icons a bit on the schizophrenic side. It seems as if Miley Cyrus has gotten some help with her dissociative identity disorder and has decided she’ll be touring without her alter-ego Hannah…
Going to see the New York Dolls is an odd proposition. On one level, it’s hard to deny the importance of a band so central to the legacy of rock and roll, and punk music in particular. Their genre and gender bending brand of heavy-hitting raunch rock is still vital,…
Let me paint you a picture. It’s a little hazy, but that’s just pot smoke (in the story, I swear). The year is 1969 in L.A., and Frank Zappa has just handed vocalist-guitarist Lowell George his walking papers from the Mothers of Invention. Some legends contend Zappa thought he showed…
Young hunk Ryan Cabrera’s third effort, The Moon Under Water, released last year, was supposedly his entry into serious music. Check out Cabrera’s brunette locks and soul patch as well as his Bono-inspired attire on the album’s back jacket — this guy is a thoughtful rocker, damn it. He’s been…
Friday night’s weekly Flamingo Fridays party at PS14 marks the first show there in a while for Miami foursome Astari Nite. The band has been steadily plugging away at its chilly, Placebo-influenced rock. Now that summer’s here, singer Mychael Ghost and company have set to work on a proper debut EP, heading into…
Animal Collective has released nine albums in the past nine years, all challenging, all imperfect but innovative, all substantially different. Some are placid, others orgiastic; some are convincingly reminiscent of dreams and drug trips, others convincingly reminiscent of third-graders; some are gummy and formless, others almost — just almost —…
The first thing I saw upon approaching Off the Hookah was a brightly dressed bevy of shrieking party girls. Amid running mascara and tiny shaking fists (with perfectly manicured fingernails), I heard rumblings about a “fake I.D.” and witnessed the subsequent expulsion of the entire pack from the club. As…
Hurricane Wilma may have been devastating for a lot of folks, but not for Jenni Foxx. See, on that 2005 day after it hit, she happened to have a scheduled DJ audition at the Clevelander. But there was no power. And a few hours later, when power was restored, Foxx…
Yes, there are more local band battles than you can shake a stick at, but the Fort Lauderdale-based Ghost of Gloria is poised, possibly, to win a big-deal national one. The Hard Rock chain has, over the past few months, sponsored its own “Ambassadors of Rock” series. Hard Rock Cafés…
The Saw Doctors Live at the Melody Tent sawdoctors.com There may not be any such thing as the perfect band – hell, even the Beatles had their flaws – but Ireland’s Saw Doctors damn sure come close. On the one hand, they create the most rousing, exhilarating material imaginable, with…
About BluesWhen I was a little boy I used to sit on the floor in front if a bookcase in my Dad’s living room and look through his records. They were all in alphabetical order and I would play them on his old old old turntable and hi-fi stereo system. …
Post-Prodigy-era bassheads Jackal & Hyde will bring their hard-core blend of industrial-laden, fetish-inspired electro to West Palm’s Respectable Street next month. The duo, made up of Scott Weiser and Todd Walker, has been around since 1998, but dropped their first album The Badlands in 2001. The album featured original material…
From New Times Archives Issue Week June 1 – 7, 1988 Texas might have “Remember the Alamo!” But Dade will always remember the Orange Bowl. Just think, this week in 1988, the Monsters Of Rock tour put NW 3rd street on smash. Wouldn’t it be cool if Metallica rocked Little…
Since revamping in mid-2007, Shine at the Shelborne has continued its program of high-quality, one-off or occasional recurring events (Bliss, etc.). The club’s Winter Music Conference programming this year was, as usual, a highlight of conference too. But now teh club’s getting its first proper weekly event in a long…
