I’ve got a certain amount of love for Ace Hood. For starters, he’s the first rapper to go major out of Broward County in a long time, possibly ever. There’s been a few “could have been/should have been’s” out there, but nobody has made it stick to the degree that…
Earlier this week, we wrote how Opium Group’s newest lounge Louis is opening this weekend. Well according to our sources, it’s a maybe. Why? Not sure, but the anticipation is killing us. Work faster Opium Group! Still, there is plenty to check out this weekend and look for our special…
I just got off the phone with the folks at the Dive Bar in Fort Lauderdale and learned about an upcoming show that sounds enticing. Popular Puerto Rican rock band, Black Guayaba is going to be performing next Friday night here in South Florida, and they’ve got the eclectic Teri…
Tonight there’s a going to be a good set of music going on over at Atmosphere Lounge in Fort Lauderdale. Coral Springs-based folks singer Andrew Bayuk will be on hand singing songs of love, of protest, of peace, and of passion. He’s been grinding away in South Florida’s indie music…
Hyphy as a “movement,” per se, may have disappeared as quickly as the driver of a ghost-ridden whip. But in the fallout after the thiz high finally wore off, the Yay Area’s most talented bona fide MCs have survived. And the man to come out closest to the top so…
Coral Springs-based hip-hop artist, Butta Verses, is still riding the buzz of his critically acclaimed new disc, Reality BV. National hip-hop blogs have been giving the record overwhelmingly positive reviews and it’s all deserving since Butta definitely brought his A-game lyrically on the album. Here’s a new video for the…
John Hood Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band Tuesday, November 18, 2008 Culture Room, Fort Lauderdale Better Than: The Eagles after they slept with Leonard Cohen. This should really be called The Night Before Last Night seeing that ol’ Bright Eyes’ boy wonder played on Tuesday rather than Wednesday,…
You might have heard that Stones Throw Records biggest artist, Madlib, is headed to Miami to play a show in conjunction with Art Basel. A selective email blast went out about it last week, but eerily left out most of the details about when the show would be, where it…
Rachel Goodrich While seemingly the whole highbrow world descends on Miami Beach tonight for the official opening of Art Basel, across the causeway, the Vagabond kicks off the artsy extravaganza with a locals-centric fiesta. Okay, so Miami New Times is an official sponsor of the event, but it’s never a…
For the past three years, concert promoter Sammy Zuniga has fought to find a home for hippie-music culture in Lake Worth. The friendly, longtime concert producer and sun-drenched Peruvian ex-pat also puts on Lake Worth’s annual Earth Day Peace Jam and staunchly advocates bringing alternative music to that city. His…
Did she cheat on her hubby with A-Rod? Is she a crazy control freak with an exercise addiction and anti-aging obsession? Does she insist no one even look at her behind the scenes of her current Sticky and Sweet tour? Gossip galore has come out since the launch of Madonna’s…
These are turbulent times in America. Between the current economic crisis and the endless wars abroad, it’s surprising that more local musicians aren’t speaking out against it all. There used to be a time when art and protest went hand in hand, but these days, not so much. That’s why…
This South Florida soul and funk quintet has existed only for a little over a year, but it’s already created a serious demand for itself on dance floors across the tricounty area. By focusing on the core elements of old school hip-hop, it taps straight into the boogaloo sounds of…
Here in the North Caribbean, AKA South Florida, a bunch of bands claim to capture the Afro-Latino demographic perfectly in their music. Plenty try, but few accurately succeed as much as Miami’s Suénalo does with its polyrhythmic display of funk, mambo, hip-hop, and jam-band-style playing. The group has a rotating…
It was a big-deal time slot: Lollapalooza co-headliners Wilco and Rage Against the Machine were scheduled to go on at 8:30 p.m. over the summer, only about an hour after the Toadies were scheduled to perform their own gig at the three-day Chicago festival. And in a sense, it was…
Perhaps no other group in rap’s history defined the early ’90s golden-era-style of hip-hop better than A Tribe Called Quest. The group put out two of the most influential rap records of all time, Low End Theory and Midnight Marauders, both of which contain singles that get spun on dance…
At the turn of the 21st Century, few predicted the overwhelming influence that Canadians would have on music in the coming years. With apologies to the Arcade Fire, indie-rock supergroup Broken Social Scene is the leader of that movement. Comprised of a revolving cast of 19 or 20 members of…
Isn’t a lavish, coffee-table hardcover book on “The Only Band That Mattered” something of a sellout, a blatant attempt at a cold-cash grab reaching out to middle-aged men whose Mohawks have turned gray or mall kids who think the Ramones are too soft? Apparently so, according to co-author and Clash…
L.A.-by-way-of-N’Awlins brothers Krispy Kream and Rah Al Millio are among a dying breed of hip-hop artists who were signed during that once-magical time of big-money major-label record deals. Joining Interscope in 2006, the duo promptly headed for the Hollywood Hills to live “like Slash and Axl Rose up in ’87.”…
While the MD of the title of Kenny Garrett’s Mack Avenue debut disc likely refers to former boss Miles Davis, Sketches sounds more like a tribute to McCoy Tyner and early 1960s John Coltrane… not that there’s anything wrong with that. The opener, “The Ring,” evokes those moody, slow-building compositions…
The same problems that plagued Bombay Dub Orchestra’s self-titled debut — released as a double-disc set to accommodate a bunch of unnecessary remixes — are notably present on 3 Cities. The duo of Garry Hughes and Andrew Mackay are still trafficking in trip-hop and downtempo beats that are thoroughly anonymous…
How has T-Pain done it? He’s not attractive, his fashion sense leaves much to be desired (at least for those without Dr. Seuss/LSD fetishes, in any case), and without the benefit of the computer program Auto-Tune, his voice is nothing special. And yet, considering his hip-hop and R&B radio dominance,…
