Sayre Berman Meat Loaf and the Neverland Express rocked the Pompano Beach Amphitheatre Saturday night. Click here to view the full slideshow. Meat Loaf Saturday, October 18, 2008 Pompano Beach Amphitheatre, Pompano Beach Better Than: Mashed Potatoes If you believe rocker Meat Loaf’s songs and his stage antics, the guy…
Early this morning, Opa-Locka-based rapper Toro, was shot and killed in Miami. The artist, whose real name is Derek Johnson, 23, was killed in a drive-by shooting while leaving Coco’s Strip Club at around 4 am. Toro, who was signed to Iconz Music, was a popular local rapper that didn’t…
Tony Vargas Our cameras stopped by Set last night to scope out the scene. What did we find? Plenty of beautiful people there to catch San Francisco DJ Miguel Migs. Click here to view the full slideshow…
Dolly Parton October 17, 2008 Mizner Park Amphitheatre, Boca Raton Better Than: Any faith healer I’ve ever met. There’s a very simple reason why Dolly Parton’s something of a phenomena, and that has to do with the fact that she’s absolutely phenomenal! Think about it. The great dame’s “highly extraordinary,…
To younger, casual consumers of Miami’s downtown nightlife, Alex Del Bueno was the lord of the Vagabond door, the no-bullshit sentry who guarded the final entrance to the club’s inner sanctum. But to a much, much wider swath of the local music scene, however, Del Bueno was a fiercely loyal,…
Dwayne Nelson The Hip-Hop Live Tour Featuring: B.O.B., David Banner, Talib Kweli Thursday, October 16, 2008 Revolution, Fort Lauderdale Better than: MP3s, CD’s and DAT Machines Last night’s hip-hop buffet at Revolution offered fans a lot of quality “elements” to enjoy. There was b-boying, beatboxing, MCing, DJing, and if only…
We feel it. It’s going to to be one of those weekends — you know, the ones where you see the sunrise every night. Why? Because there is so much to do this weekend that we had a hard time condensing it to this list. Tonight, all the way from…
I wrote about shimmering local quartet Astari Nite — and its charismatic frontman, Mychael Ghost — recently for the Miami New Times, when the band was set to play its own occasional Static Interference event at PS14. While these usually happen once a month, on a Saturday at PS14, the…
All the way from Italy comes the Crookers, a DJ duo who basically put its nation on the electro-house map. For a country who loves its traditional house, it’s refreshing to see someone actually breaking the mold and the Crookers have no problem doing so. So when they stop by…
Something About Dolly One Man’s Appreciation for All Things Parton –John Hood When I first got word that Dolly Parton would be coming to South Florida I got giddy; then I got on the phone. I called my editor. I called her publicist. I called my mom. If Dolly was…
By the ripe old age of 7, Opeth leader Mikael Åkerfeldt already considered himself a metalhead. So his disappointment when his grandmother gave him a classical guitar as a gift that year seems only natural. Like many an aspiring headbanger, Åkerfeldt longed for a way to rock out with the…
Bat out of Hell 3, Meat Loaf’s latest album, is already old news, insists the legendary rocker, AKA Michael Lee Aday. Though he recently toured to promote it, his current show doesn’t focus on that material any longer. He’s already working on a new album with producer Rob Cavallo (My…
The Floating Men Pleasurado! floatingmen.com Formed in Nashville in the early ’90s, the Floating Men were quickly classified as Americana due as much to their hometown as anything. Having maintained a strict indie ethic over the past 15 years, the group has released a steady stream of melodically endowed offerings,…
This past Sunday, Broward County’s West Indian community was alive with music and culture as the sixth-annual Broward Caribbean Carnival rocked Lauderhill in grand fashion. According to early figures, it may have also surpassed the 24th-annual Miami Carnival in attendance for the first time. Upward of 11,000 people showed up…
Although the Radio crew’s talent is well-established, the band’s music has always raised user-friendliness questions: Sure, 2006’s Return to Cookie Mountain was excellent, but did anyone other than rock critics listen to it? Dear Science tackles this conundrum head on, upping the accessibility quotient without smacking of sell-out desperation. “Crying,”…
There’s no need to go into detail about Dolly Parton’s four-decades-old career, the 26 number-one singles, the 42 Top Ten country albums, the Golden Globe nominations she received for The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas and 9 to 5, or the Oscar she got for the latter’s same-named title song…
Ignore the name. All Time Low has nothing to complain about. Two years removed from high school, this Baltimore pop-punk quartet is riding an all-time high. On the heels of 2007’s 100,000-plus selling So Wrong, It’s Right and consecutive fan-favorite Warped Tour appearances — one of which (2007) included winning…
Not really a threesome (tour manager Nolan McGuire often plays guitar for live shows), Chicago’s Alkaline Trio is still one of the best purveyors of catchy and thoughtful punk/hardcore at a time when fashion sense and well-applied eyeliner have sadly become the norm for many in the genre. Even though…
Miguel Migs knows his history. His soulful, song-oriented deep house draws heavily on the style’s disco roots, tinting it with soul, funk, hip-hop, and reggae influences. In the studio, Migs employs live musicians and soulful vocalists, skillfully blending organic elements with electronic textures and programmed beats to create ultraslick yet…
It’s easy to say that Alanis Morissette wouldn’t be where she is today without the success that was Jagged Little Pill. After all, it remains one of the best-selling albums in world history, with more than 30 million units sold. Those kinds of numbers should guarantee that an artist can…
After years of working behind the scenes as a composer and producer with many of Brazil’s new names in the pop scene (Zélia Duncan, CéU, and Pato Fu among them), São Paulo-based Beto Villares emerges with his first solo project, a sonic summary of the various genres he’s worked around…
Music lovers who enjoy sounds of the African continent often hit a wall when trying to delve accurately into Ethiopian compositions. Much of it dates back to Abyssinian tribal music from the early part of the 20th Century that, when fused with American jazz and rock influences of the ’60s…
