In 2005, a recently separated (from Poplife) Ray Milian wanted to explore the b-sides, new cuts, and rare grooves of underground and so-called indie and electronic music. To do so, he created at a weekly party, Off the Radar, at the then-newly minted Buck 15. Then there were several venue switches (the Marlin,…
Brisco – Underground Money from Miami New Times on Vimeo. Follow Brisco from his performance onstage at the Miami Tattoo Expo 2009, through the Miami Beach Convention Center, and into the parking lot in this exclusive New Times music interview…
I like an afterparty as much I like playing Ms. Pacman. But, just like Ms. Pacman, afterparties have no ending. I love Ms. Pacman, but level after level, ghost after ghost — they just keep on, until I die. Afterparties are cool but hour after hour, smoke after smoke –…
Little, it seems, can stop the improbable Tampa-based female party-rap juggernaut that is Yo Majesty. Not even the occasional near-implosion of the group itself. Early last summer, some undefined internal meltdown sent home half of the group, gospel-trained vocalist turned rapper Jewel B. The duo’s backbone, the verbose and sheerly…
You’re going to die. But c’mon, have a martini. What better way to celebrate your own withering mortality than by having a lot of expensive drinks and going home with a stranger? That’s pretty much the motto at YOLO (You Only Live Once), a nightclub and restaurant located on Las…
Like a pissed-off, mistreated dog, Travis Reilly yelps, “This is how downward spirals start.” Then he growls, “This is a convoluted attempt to find some source of hope.” Later, he barks, “This is the best and worst things will ever get.” Reilly’s Long Island-based hardcore outfit, This Is Hell, seems…
As the ’70s ended and disco pushed into the mainstream, those who came of age during that period always seemed to be reminded that they had missed out on the great cultural revolution of the raging ’60s. As many recall, former Beatle John Lennon himself pretty much summed it up…
Donna the Buffalo, a band from Trumansburg, New York, sounds inseparable from the Great Outdoors. These are the kind of old Deadheads who probably chose to cover John Anderson’s Everglades ode “Seminole Wind” because it’s got otters and gars in it. Their originals suggest holistic hippies squeezing accordions and strumming…
Scottish indie rock act Bis’ overtures were expressed rather neatly in its 1997 single “Tell It to the Kids”: “And now, coming through the airwaves into your home/Introducing the new transistor heroes.” San Francisco’s Hey Willpower lacks a similar expressive salutation, but it shares Bis’ affinity for trash culture, “kandy…
People are ready for a fresh-faced heir apparent to Paul Simon, and from the looks of things, Brett Dennen is the guy. His warm, socially conscious folk continues to grow in appeal. Maybe it’s the fact that he has more to say about the world than Jack Johnson does and…
“It’s like comparing the different women you’ve fallen in love with,” muses journeyman singer/songwriter Alejandro Escovedo. “Some end up well, some not so well, you know?” But Escovedo isn’t talking about romance, per se — rather, he’s ruminating over the bands he’s played in, a theme that recurs throughout his…
Anybody who’s ever heard a track by Chuck Brown and the Soul Searchers knows the deep power of go-go, that mighty blend of pure funk and raw soul that could come only from the streets of D.C. It’s a heady mix of down-low and way-up-on-high that brings to mind nothing…
Sometime back in the early 1990s, the Holy Terrors were playing at CBGB when an earnestly keyed-up Dee Dee Ramone stuck around and told the guys he loved their music. Dee Dee’s reaction seems to have been widespread among those who got to witness the Holy Terrors in the flesh…
Crossfade has been updating you on the ticketing changes at several South Florida Live Nation-controlled venues, so here’s some more news. Previously, the company announced that the Fillmore Miami Beach, Mizner Park Amphitheatre, and the Pompano Beach Amphitheatre were to only use the company’s own ticketing service from now on…
From driving a biodiesel-powered bus to hangin’ with the likes of Snoop Dogg and Ryan Adams, pretty much everything Country Music Hall of Famer Willie Nelson does is pure, inarguable badass. The OG of the outlaw country movement in the 1970s also continues to add to his considerable songbook, releasing…
Journeyman singer/songwriter Alejandro Escovedo has performed solo for a number of years now, but he sure has played in a lot of bands, too. It’s a theme that recurs throughout his latest album, Real Animal. A loose memoir of sorts, the album’s subject matter and styles span Escovedo’s 30-year musical…
There hasn’t been much word going around about this, but Spank Rock DJ XXXChange will be spinning tomorrow at PS14 for the bar’s Happy House party. Also on the bill are resident DJs Jonathan Brody, Carlos Llanos, C. Mora and Benton.If you either love or hate the current wave of…
Nomadic veteran DJ and producer St. Marc, who now operates his studio out of Miami Beach, currently hosts South Florida’s local weekly broadcast for Montreal-based Techno.FM online radio. The show features St. Marc’s top five techno picks of the week, including unreleased tracks, and live mixes from special guest DJs/producers…
Carl Wilson, ace music writer for the Toronto Globe & Mail, tackles taste at its basest level: in the work of Celine Dion. Through careful ponderings, fan interviews, historical research, Canadian intuition and thoughtful, expert prose, Wilson struggles to understand the hows and whys of the Quebecois Queen, one of…
To read past installments of Miami According to Brooklyn, click here. I want to talk this week about how the younger generation has no respect for the older generation. The younger kids coming up have no respect for the people who have been there, done that sort of thing. I…
Check out this official exclusive video footage of DJ Laz backstage of the Miami Tattoo Expo 2009 before he hits the stage to perform, hangin’ out with Reality Kings Media (Miami reality porn originators), talking about doing commercials for lawyers, and makin’ “Jewish money.”…
James DunnThe Long Ride Homewww.jamesdunnmusic.comEven the title boasts an air of familiarity, one that translates to the sound of the songs themselves. It breeds a connection that finds these muscular melodies recalling the angst-filled anthems of Bruce Springsteen as they might sound if sung by Jackson Browne. Indeed, there’s a…
