John HoodGirl Talk and Deerhunter Sunday, March 8, 2009 Culture Room, Ft. Lauderdale Better Than: Throwing your own party. To even try to guess which songs Girl Talk was mashing-up at any given time last night would’ve been an exercise in utter futility. I mean, before I figured out one…
JipsyKing Khan and the Shrines performed at The Vagabond Saturday night. Click here to view the full slide show.King Khan and the Shrines Saturday, March 7, 2009 The Vagabond, Miami Better Than: Listenin’ to Nuggets while munchin’ on peyote. Until I read Chris Toenes’ preview piece in this very paper,…
The first US date for Nine Inch Nails and Jane’s Addiction has been announced and we in South Florida are blessed that it all begins here. Thankfully, It’s not the first stop in the whole tour, so most of the kinks should be ironed out by the time they both…
Ari Justin Rothenberg Modest Mouse performed at Revolution Sunday. Click here to view the full slide show.Modest MouseSunday, March 8th 2009Revolution Live, Fort LauderdaleBetter than: Their performance at this year’s Langerado. Or anyone else’s for that matter.Modest Mouse has got to be the loudest band ever to shun the use…
CuCu Diamantes’ solo debut CUCULAND is at once a breath of fresh air and a nostalgic whiff of a more glamorous time. It shimmers with the glitz and glamour of an era when catching a show meant dinner jackets and hair tonic, evening gowns and diamonds. But it also bares…
The PoguesWith Kiss KissPompano Beach AmphitheaterSunday, March 7, 2009Better Than: Having to hear about it after the factThe Review: Saturday night’s concert by the Pogues at the Pompano Beach Amphitheatre marked the first-ever South Florida appearance by the band, since its inception in 1982. Judging by the audience’s gently boozy,…
No, this post has nothing to do with the film (which, by the way, is an excellent movie). Instead, it refers to a burning question I intended to begin with. Do any Mexicans read this blog? I have no idea, to be perfectly frank. But I feel like the answer,…
Show time was at 8 and I – clutching my bowl of cereal – didn’t even think about the shitty sideshow going on at the AAA. Now it’s 9, the cereal is gone, and if I had a box full of fucks I still wouldn’t give one away to find…
Er, I just received this in my inbox. Actor-turned-rapper Joaquin Phoenix had threatened the world that he was going to become a rap superstar, but I don’t think anyone took him seriously. Well, apparently at next week’s edition of Dirty Hairy with Craze and Klever, Joaquin Phoenix will be performing…
Break out those calendars country music fans and mark Thursday September 24 as the day you’ll be seeing the Grammy Award winning duo at the BankAtlantic Center. Sugarland is doing a huge spring and summer tour across the US and Canada in support of their third album “Love on the…
Maybe it’s the result of years of Catholic school affecting me during this time of the year. More likely, I’m just campaigning for a free tab at Transit Lounge (c’mon guys…how many posts do I have to write before I qualify??). Whatever the case, I find myself compelled for the…
Heartsrevolution perform at The Vagabond Sunday.When Scion’s Kitsuné CD release party comes into The Vagabond Sunday, Brooklyn duo-turned-trio Heartsrevolution will be doing a rare live performance in Miami. Crossfade spoke with the band’s newest member Prince Terrence about the band’s full-length debut, the Heartschallenger and Hipster Runoff.New Times: So funny…
CuCu DiamantesThursday, March 5, 2009The Viceroy, Icon BrickellBetter than: The $7 million chandelier in the lobby. So, impresarios and Miami royalty Gloria and Emilio Estefan, actress Selma Blair, Food Network star Ingrid Hoffman and Emmy-winning Mad Men star Jon Hamm walk into a posh hotel. No, it’s not the setup…
Er, so last night we were suppose to go see Diplo at LIV, but our disco nap turned into a deep slumber. Oh well, no worries, Diplo will be back for WMC, and we are excited about Mad Decent’s party at O.H.W.O.W. during the week.Anyway, we suppose we’ve got some…
Franco De Vita is the Latin Billy Joel. That’s not an exaggeration. Anyone who knows Latin music can back it up. And unfortunately I can’t take credit for the comparison, I’m actually quoting, unofficially and without her knowledge or consent, an old boss and mentor from my very first days…
Naughty Natalia from Miami New Times on Vimeo.Naughty Natalia (host of our best Rock Radio Program award 2006) is to South Florida rock radio what beer is to whiskey, a perfect match. You can catch her live everyday on 93.1 FM from 10am – 4pm during her midday show after…
And the old school hits just keep on coming. Depeche Mode has announced that on September 5th, their “Tour of the Universe” hits the BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise. They’ll be touring in support of their 12th studio album, “Sounds of the Universe”…
Nine years ago (well, and before), nobody expected the original Irish punk rockers, the Pogues, to resurface together. Fans had followed the band’s slow dissolution across the late 1980s and early 1990s, parallel with the personal struggles of its mad genius frontman and songwriter, Shane MacGowan. Born in England to…
Propagandhi is coming to South Florida this month for another shot at an actual live concert experience. Fans of the long-running thrashy punk band from Canada may or may not be psyched to see it at the Culture Room, but you can be sure they will go, despite fierce competition…
Paris-based indie electro music/fashion label Kitsuné was founded in 2002 and named after the Japanese word for shape-shifting foxes. It releases tracks that pile on robotic gargling, squelchy synths, new rave’s saw-tooth bass, and four-on-the-floor, French disco-house buildups. The only filter the artists don’t employ is the one in their…
St. Patrick’s Day is the greenest, most wonderful day of the year, a day we celebrate free-flowing liquor, drunken shenanigans, lightly disguised alcoholism, and the snogging of random strangers just because they claim Gaelic ancestry. OK, so St. Paddy’s special day isn’t until later this month, but I just couldn’t…
DJ A-Train’s name alone will tell you where this cat’s coming from. Like the Big Bad Apple’s most fabled locomotive, his sound slips straight outta far-east Brooklyn, roars through the downtown underground, and finds light uptown, at the foot of Harlem’s ever-shaking Sugar Hill. And like the Strayhorn standard that…
