Area 7 will hold its first Opera Mash-Up event Wednesday May 20, an event which “mashes” opera with various genres of music. Singers will come in and perform their favorite opera numbers, while sound engineer Billy (no surname) records them. From 9 to 10 p.m. the night will consist of…
Austin quartet Goldcure plays a straightforward blend of indie-ish pop-rock, but the Texas still comes through. Guitars are bright, rollicking, and purely American, and frontman Adam Buhman’s rough-edged croon can veer close to twang. But the band’s real talent is in reducing its roots and rock influences to their essences,…
Beings is the latest project from Miami musical standout Mike Alén (:nobuhjest:, Secret Service, Foreign Bodies, Map of the Universe, etc). The group has Beatriz Monteavaro (Floor, Cavity) on drums and Ivan Marchena (Bling Bling, Map of the Universe, etc.) on guitar and vocals, and is suitably noisy and catchy…
No matter what you think of Sugar Ray, you’ve got to respect their choice of titles for their upcoming CD: Music for Cougars. You’ve also got to respect the band that’s been around since 1992 and has admitted it’s failed at trying to branch out and change their sound. In…
Justo Saborit is a band leader of Cuban origin who plays a style of music he terms “Latin/soul.” Here he is performing at a park in Miami Springs. He has a following in Cleveland, Ohio, where his songs play on the radio and where he’s based. How anybody ever ends…
What happens why you forget a good friend’s birthday? Well, you perhaps try to avoid that person for a while until you can figure out how to make it up to them and then give them a kick-ass party insisting this was the plan all along. So perhaps this is…
Editor’s Note: In this week’s column, José El Rey asked readers to submit questions and he’d “lead them to a better living.”My old lady doesn’t love me what should I do?CharlesI hate answering questions with more questions. Do you mean old lady like your mom? No, no, no… Old girl…
via standbyrecords.netThe Maryland pop-punk quintet Count Your Blessings headlines the Talent Farm this Sunday night as part of its “Hip Shakers and Trouble Makers Tour.” Click here to read what Brett Gillin had to say about it in this week’s issue of the Broward-Palm Beach New Times.The band’s debut full-length,…
While Respectable Street has booked a number of darkwave and, um, “old wave” groups of late, this is probably its most impressive coup to date in recent months. Peter Murphy, onetime Bauhaus leader and pretty much the granddaddy of all that is goth, plays the club on June 24. Last…
Despite the best efforts of bands like Good Charlotte, Yellowcard, and Sum 41 to kill it, pop-punk is not dead. Proof-positive is Maryland-based Count Your Blessings, currently headlining the “Hip Shakers and Trouble Makers” tour, set to touch down at the Talent Farm on Sunday. Count Your Blessings is cut…
Chris Martin and company return to the road, again, in support of their latest album, last year’s Viva La Vida. The relatively experimental follow-up to the number-one, ten-times platinum album X&Y, Viva La Vida has drawn both praise and scorn from fans and critics for departing from the previous Coldplay…
Roger Sanchez remembers a time when disco wasn’t a dirty word, and he’s not afraid to remind others with the occasional old-school, garage-flavored track. He’s no throwback, though. His particular variety of house heaven is full of spicy Latin rhythms, rolling tribal percussion, and jaunts into progressive and electro territory…
When the mainstream media and trendies of yore decided, in the late 1970s, that punk version 1.0 was over, the Vibrators never got the memo. Perhaps, in true spiky Brit fashion, they just ripped it up and spit on it. Either way, the London-based band boasts the distinction of existing…
Selfishness is a good thing,” says Jeff Lloyd, guitarist and frontman for the Fort Lauderdale quintet the Heavy Pets. Lloyd, an avid reader, has recently finished Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead. And like all bright-eyed disciples of the objectivist author, he believes selfishness suffers from a bad rep. “It’s especially important…
I was leaning back on a fluffy white Tempur-Pedic mattress, sucking down a vodka tonic, and nibbling on a chocolate-covered strawberry. Past the overhead personal plasma screen TV and beyond the wall of bulletproof glass, I could make out the sexy silhouettes of gyrating partiers and hear the pulsating Daft…
It’s been five years since the L.A.-based duo the Crystal Method unleashed its last album, the Grammy-nominated Legion of Boom. But don’t think for a moment that the cats have in any way been idle. “We were sort of busy doing other stuff,” says Ken Jordan, half of the group…
It’s a recent Friday, the second and final weekend of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival held this past April. Although it’s only afternoon, Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews has already sat in with his cousin Glen David Andrews and the Dirty Dozen Brass Band. Later on, he’ll headline way…
It takes a versatile artist to write a number-one country hit (1980’s “Starting Over Again,” for Dolly Parton), simulate an orgasm on a 17-minute disco record (1976’s “Love to Love You Baby”), and win a Grammy for an inspirational performance (1983’s “He’s a Rebel”). Donna Summer has done all of…
If you’ve been anywhere at night over the past decade and a half, you’ve collided with Chris Graham, that dread-topped insider who seems to be everywhere at once. Back in the 1990s, he’d spin at any fest in town, including Zen and Ultra, and would often be among the core…
photo by Justin Namon, thepopnessparty.comTo read past installments of South Florida According to Brooklyn, click here.A couple of months ago I wrote about the difference between Ft. Lauderdale and Miami. I recently moved back to Ft. Lauderdale, and I’ve realized the two places are two totally different worlds. Granted, the…
Eighties heartbreaker Pat Benatar will play Hard Rock Hotel and Casino July 2 with her husband Neil Giraldo. Unfortunately Blondie, who just announced she and Benatar will be touring together for the first time later this year, will not be there. But one 1980s icon may be enough. Benatar boasts some cheesy songs…
The Electric Pickle is poised to delight downtown’s techno cognoscenti again this Friday night with a special DJ set by acclaimed DJ/Producer Alexi Delano. Chilean-born Delano spent his formative years in Sweden where he was part of the first wave of notable Swedish EDM producers in the mid-’90s. He has…
