At Odds With God The Absence, Upheaval, Kalakai, At Odds with God, Synapticide Saturday, August 23, 2008 Culture Room, Fort Lauderdale Better Than: Pushing down the biggest, baddest motherfucker in the mosh pit and stealing his beer. Death metal is kind of like an orgiastic heathen ritual with more hatin’…
Mark Mauer LA Weekly’s blog Play visits the wall where the late singer/songwriter Elliot Smith posed for his Figure 8 album. Since his death in 2003, it has become an informal memorial to Smith. According to SF Weekly, Miami Beach resident Chan Marshall, better known as Cat Power, is scheduled…
Santiago Felipe Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan performed at Mizner Park Amphitheatre Thursday night. Click here to view the full slideshow. Smashing Pumpkins Thursday, August 21, 2008 Mizner Park Amphitheatre, Boca Raton Better Than: Not showering and looking for Molly for four days at a jam-band festival to get the…
ZOMG!!! Have you heard the news? Karu & Y and Bricks are being resurrected! Sorry, I got needlessly excited. The real question is why? They stood for everything that was so very wrong with Miami’s nightlife scene, and worse of all, they were so boring. Those are places I consider…
Sayre Berman Stone Temple Pilots lead singer Scott Weiland performs at the Seminole Hard Rock Live Wednesday night. Click here to view the full slideshow. Stone Temple Pilots Wednesday, August 20, 2008 Seminole Hard Rock Live, Hollywood Better Than: A Jukebox Filled with Hits of the ‘90s You want perspective?…
Matisyahu and local beatboxer Komakozie going in. Matisyahu Wednesday, August 20, 2008 The Florida Room Better Than: Listening to the Klezmatics at a nightclub The Review: There’s something about catching a show at the Florida Room, the laid-back, SoBe speakeasy, that reminds you of a bar from the 40s or…
Crack dealers and suburban gangsters all over America are waiting to buy, download and ringtone Young Jeezy’s third studio album The Recession as soon as it drops. Last week he was on South Beach filming the video for one of the singles, “Vacation,” featuring Trey Songz. My homie Fresh Da…
“You may be T-Pain and you got the mothafuckin’ hits, but I’m DJ Irie and I’m the shit,” boasted our hometown spindoctor at the DJ Battle that the Headliner Market Group had engineered to rock their “It’s Actually Fly.” party last Saturday night. But the Pain didn’t let Irie get…
Some cats really know how to scratch at your heartstrings. A little over a year ago, Miami’s popular octogenarian tango interpreter La Gata had Latin American émigrés in tears when she asked them to join with her in singing “Volver” (“Return”) after a screening of a self-titled documentary about her…
In the beginning, Philadelphia native Garrett “G. Love” Dutton — hitting the national music scene like a fourth Beastie Boy crossed with splashes of Beck and Bob Dylan — created the song “Cold Beverage” with his two-man backing band, Special Sauce. The year was 1994, the shambling song came from…
Within reggae, few people could argue that Beres Hammond is revered as one of the greatest balladeers to ever live — if not the best. His honey-coated voice and soul-jarring lyrics have united lovers for years, and he practically redefined the lovers’ rock subgenre with his classic albums Love From…
In the 1960s, the concept of the “power trio” came into full existence. Bands of the guitar/bass/drums configuration, such as the Jimi Hendrix Experience and Cream, were the prototypes of this style. Arguably however, the Sonny Rollins trio was one of the first bands (within the genre of jazz, no…
If Lil Wayne indeed sleeps, there’s little doubt as to the details of his particular dreamscape — it’s ugly, heaving, hopelessly dark, and in constant flux at the hands of some serious demons. Aggressive, rhythm-bent voices pound in from all sides; wild, chirping sounds stab at the body; and time…
When talking about Foreigner circa 2008, it’s tempting to refer to the group with air quotes around its name: Lead guitarist Mick Jones — who shouldn’t be confused with the Clash guitarist of the same name — is the only original member still playing in the band. But like other…
When thinking of bands that defined the 1970s classic-rock sound, it’s hard to understand why more people don’t consider Boston. The band had a number of chart-topping hits during its early years, and “More Than a Feeling,” perhaps its best-known song, is a staple on hard-rock compilations from that era…
This four-piece outfit is not to be confused with, oh, Walls of Jericho or Fall of Troy or any number of the other heavy acts out there with vaguely ancient-sounding names. These guys hail from the northern reaches of Palm Beach County, where they’ve been slowly churning out their “100…
Dada Restaurant and Lounge is dark — mysterious, even. Its shell, a renovated Jazz Age home, is an appropriate house for this random collection of art, food, alcohol, and music. Inside the old house/restaurant/bar/lounge, you’ll see Dadaist paintings and near-pitch-black corridors and rooms, each as mysterious as the last. The…
Detroit’s Casimer Pascal is a fop-pop genius, the case being made first with three leave-’em-wanting-more EPs and now indisputable with this debut full-length. Caz is the RZA of Pas/Cal’s Wu-Tang Clan (its seven members also play in Hidden Ghost Balloon Ship), and it’s his lavender fist and airy vocals that…
If sanity in hip-hop is sexy, then J-Live might fuck around and become Denzel. The New York underground fixture’s fifth indie release, Then What Happened?, is a consistent collection of songs that promote common-man sensibilities and simple humanity — traits often absent in hip-hop these days. J’s strength is his…
Hip-hop music with a message in 2008 is like a biased voter. It has plenty of opinions but often can’t see the bigger picture outside of whatever it’s ranting about at the time. One major exception to this rule is Pretty Dark Things, the new full-length by local act Cyne…
DJ Gunars DJ Gunars has been spinning all over Miami for quite some time now. His more prominent gigs have included stints at Pawn Shop Lounge (er, back when it was the place to see and be seen) and Rokbar. This week, writer John Hood profile’s Gunars for his “Head…
Peter Beste In tomorrow’s issue of the Miami New Times, music editor Arielle Castillo stumbles upon Vice Books’ True Norwegian Black Metal, a collection of photos by Peter Beste. The book chronicles Norway’s black metal scene which is marred by violence and arson. They say the cold weather makes you…
