Music

Steven Guarin needs a bone marrow transplant. He has cancer and stupid Medicaid won’t cover it. The situation sucks, but his friends in the Miami music scene are doing something about it. They’ve already gotten a $1,500 donation from Music Cares, the charity foundation set up by the Recording Academy…

After missing Ultra this year, big beat electronica pioneers The Crystal Method will be playing Revolution Live in Fort Lauderdale May 14. Along with The Chemical Brothers and The Prodigy, The Crystal Method helped bring breakbeats out of basements and shady clubs, and into mainstream dance floors and rock stations…

Country powerhouses Toby Keith and Trace Adkins are joining forces to spread that new country love all over West Palm Beach.  On June 27, Cruzan Amphitheatre will host a gaggle of grown men and women wearing costumes dressed in their finest cattle rustling gear yearning for a sense of patriotism…

Not actually ZZ TopAlthough the place isn’t set yet, the date and the bands are. On July 13th, Aerosmith and ZZ Top will be playing somewhere in South Florida in support of their retirement funds.  Aerosmith isn’t releasing a new album (although they do have a new-ish video game on…

Aterciopelados are more than just a Latin alternative band. Rather, these contemporary musical legends provide a loud, clear voice on social issues and hope to spur the kind of deep thinking that inspires change. And ours is a world badly in need of change, says Hector Buitrago, half of the…

Lately, Respectable Street’s seemed to turn into a last haven for darker subcultures in South Florida. It hosts a monthly steampunk social and continues, in recent weeks, to book both, um, old-wave bands (Gene Loves Jezebel) as well as newer, angrier, and more electronic acts (Die/Vision). Falling into the latter…

The songman born John Robert Cocker has always possessed a grittier, more soulful voice than anyone would expect from a northern Brit. But a fan since childhood of Ray Charles and company, Joe Cocker honed his own vocal instrument with an authentic bluesy grit only enhanced, over time, by his…

On Chicago outfit Fall Out Boy’s latest album, last year’s Folie a Deux, singer Patrick Stump’s gloriously thick, wondrously bombastic, and defiantly mouthy vocals remain ill-served by bassist Pete Wentz’s melodramatic lyrics. Let’s be honest: His voice deserves better than the eye-roll-inducing “The best of us can find happiness in…

Do you think we’re never going to survive unless we get a little crazy? Have you been kissed by a rose on the grave? Have you twice impregnated supermodel Heidi Klum? If so, then you’re probably Seal Samuel, survivor of a childhood battle with discoid lupus that left you with…

Basshead Productions is celebrating its 8th year anniversary at Black Sheep Bar this Friday with a night of bass-heavy sounds, including an exclusive performance by American drum & bass legend Dieselboy. This best-selling Brooklyn-based producer was the first American to be voted into the UK-based Drum & Bass Arena Top…

photo by Bob FiskGrand Funk Railroad is celebrating 40 years of being an American band this year and will be jamming out during the Pompano Beach Seafood Festival on April 25. Unlike most bands who are still playing after four decades, GFR still consists of original members Don Brewer and…

If you’re a fan of great Latin alternative music, you’re in for a treat this weekend, because this Saturday, April 18, the Miami Rock en Español Fest is going to put La Covacha’s half-open-air palapa structure to the test in ways that hurricanes of past years have only tried to…

Still bummed out about Langerado’s cancellation? If you are, you might not be interested in Wannee Music Festival. Wannee is what Langerado was: a haven for jam bands, not the over-eclectic festival it was becoming. The two-day festival is being held in Live Oak, Florida, on June 5 and 6,…