Fresh from the butcher.We love festivals, even the small ones. But while most of our local festivals give non-natives the limelight, So Raw Festival aims to showcase the city’s local artists and musicians to finally prove once and for all Miami possesses the rawest talent. The lineup so far includes…
Thanks to Lady GaGa, here’s hope for the brave and unabashed pop worshipers still out there. About the middle of last year, a relatively unknown artist born Stefani Germanotta stormed onto the scene, infiltrating the airwaves with tracks that sounded like a mashup of Billy Idol, Madonna, and Peaches spun…
This past November, Miami’s New World Symphony held its first miniconcerts at the Lincoln Theatre, and the sold-out crowd almost couldn’t believe its ears — or wallets. Works by Maurice Ravel, Aaron Copland, and Samuel Barber performed live, each for less than the price of a latte? Clearly our town’s…
Los Fabulosos Cadillacs formed in 1985, stumbling into the dimly lit bars of their native Buenos Aires. Back then, they were just a ska group poised on the crest of a Latin rock revolution still far from shore. The following year saw the release of their debut album, Bares y…
I was at Fuci-Fino’s, chatting with the good-old-boy bartender. It was Wednesday, the night the place does its Scaryoke — hardcore karaoke for goths. It brings out a playful crowd of spiked, tattooed, and pierced vamps, rockers, and punks. Suddenly the music started and a booze-addled karaoke performer stepped onto…
Like the Allmans or the Wainwrights in their own genres, the Marsalis clan is indisputably one of the first families of jazz. Of the six sons raised by the family’s 74-year-old patriarch, Ellis Marsalis Jr., and his wife, Delores, four have grown into revered jazz musicians in their own right…
Anne Heaton Blazing Red annieheaton.com The latest in a series of superb, self-released albums, Blazing Red finds this Boston-bred singer/songwriter/pianist offering a set of low-lit ballads that ring with a plaintive emotional pull. With keyboards being Heaton’s primary focus, comparisons to Tori Amos and Fiona Apple become almost inevitable. But…
Iron Maiden emerged from East London in the mid-1970s, and its defiantly metal middle finger to that city’s punk explosion was, intentionally or otherwise, punk as fuck. Mainman/bassist Steve Harris had a vision of something timeless; 20-plus arena-filling years later, it seems he had a point. Sidestepping the obvious head-bangin’…
Southern-fried piano swamp funk doesn’t get better than Leon Russell. His greasy R&B cadges a hopping, Delta blues stomp, fueled by his gravelly croak and his percussive pounding at the piano. Russell left Tulsa for L.A. at 16. There, he learned guitar from rockabilly legend James Burton and soon became…
JipsyJipsy of www.nefariousgirl.com is on the interweb radio now. This is the woman who takes the pictures at parties that make everyone look like they are doing something eminently awesome, which, hopefully, at least sometimes, we are. This show highlights the stuff that makes Miami cool, focusing on items that…
According to celebrity pulicist Mike Ock, Robert Smith and Vince Neil met while shopping on South Beach, hit it off and will be forming a supergroup to be called Motley Cure. They plan to cover r&b songs from the 50’s and 60’s and create an elaborate stage show involving acrobats,…
Looks like Miami’s late-night techno scene took no time at all in bouncing back after the week of hardcore WMC partying. Pornograph Events will be throwing down at Electric Pickle this Thursday night with Marco Donato –one half of Italoboyz, those minimal rascals who pleased audiences at this year’s Get…
Let’s say you’re a washed up boy band looking to make a comeback. What’s the best way to bring back the crowds you used to pull 15 years ago? NKOTB are on their “Full Service” Tour, which sounds like a very interesting way to bring back the old fans…
This past November, Miami’s New World Symphony held its first mini concerts at the Lincoln Theatre, and the sold-out crowd almost couldn’t believe their ears — or their wallets. Works by Maurice Ravel, Aaron Copland, and Samuel Barber performed live, each for less than the price of a latte? Clearly…
Video is a few weeks old, but just in case you haven’t checked it out, here is a video of the Miami Bass Warriors — minus Otto Von Schirach who was in Germany during Calle Ocho — performing their newest track “Bro, That Chick’s a Basser.” Jose El Rey and…
via www.myspace.com/coliseumMellowness might be anathema to Louisville’s Coliseum, judging by its reckless velocity and nihilistic harangues. “My lungs are filled with fumes…There’s no air in this city/I need something pure,” sings Ryan Patterson on 2004’s “This Mind Locked Inside This Body.” The band’s anti-authority lyrics and relentless backbeat qualify it…
Do you recognize the super-sexy blond cutie in the picture you see at left? You should. This little Colombian bombshell is Fanny Lu. Her 2006 release Lágrimas Cálidas won her all sorts of acclaim, including a nod in the Latin Grammy, six for the Billboard Awards and two in Premios Lo…
Black Owl Music is an independent blues label based in Miami that started in 2003. It seems to have been founded by or is at least very closely related to local bluesman Poppa E, whose show schedule reads like that of a player 40 years his junior, and whose band…
RatatatWell the Brooklyn sort-of electronic artists and remix impresarios Ratatat are coming down for a turn at Ft Lauderdale’s Revolution, April 12th. Even though I wouldn’t ever really classify myself as being into electronic music per se, Ratatat has always bent my ear in a pleasant, highly listenable fashion. They…
Can’t get enough pop-punk? Well grab three friends and head over to Livenation, because Fall Out Boy just announced a huge sale on a four pack of tickets. Individual tickets are regularly priced at $38.50, but for just $99, you get 4 general admission tickets for the April 21 show…
Here are some fan made videos I found on YouTube from Ultra Music Festival. We’ve got David Guetta, Tiesto, Bloody Beetroots, Juan Basshead, Deadmau5, The Drum and Bass Tent, and Swedish House Mafia. These were chosen based mostly on the decency of sound quality — I sacrificed my own ear…
Ian WitlenMSTRKRFT performing at the Bayfront Stage at Ultra Music Festival Day 2.With two-days worth of performers, Ultra Music Festival is still to this day the show to attend during Winter Music Conference. Our cameras were out there in full-force to give an unprecedented visual compendium of everything that went…
