Down Home Southernaires were at one point known as Pygmy, and as Pygmy, they were great. As the DHS, they are even better. Imagine some country-fried soul R&B in the vein of Hialeah’s pride Coke (the band!) mixed with Clarence Reid’s Blowfly high jinks. Add Elastic Bond’s eclectic Dashiki express,…
Ahh, to be an aging rock star. What better possible way could there be to live out one’s golden years than trying vainly to relive one’s golden youth? Leather pants, screaming groupies, pharmaceutically enhanced machismo. The Dennis Hopper-endorsed, carpe-diem boomer mentality has given second wind to bloated rock corpses the…
At all times, legendary hip-hop drummer Ahmir “?uestlove” Thompson is a man pulled in many directions. The 37-year-old musician, producer, blogger, and hip-hop tastemaker usually has enough projects going on that he could win a multitasking award (if one existed). Aside from being a mainstay in his long-term band the…
Duran Duran boasts a rare longevity in the world of pop music — 12 albums and some 30 years in the business. The group’s two distinguishing members, synth master Nick Rhodes and vocalist Simon LeBon, still speak to each other. Fans have accustomed themselves to the periodic, reptilian sloughing of…
Now that the kids in Be Your Own Pet aren’t exactly kids anymore – they were still in high school when the explosive garage-rock band was born, but they’re nearly drinking age now – it’s not surprising that they’re beginning to show a little bit of, um, maturity. Sure, Jemina…
The Broward Center for the Performing Arts’ Amaturo Theater is sure to shake with sweet vibrations Friday when the county’s Brazilian Voices pays homage to samba music. The performance is the first time the 50-woman ensemble, directed by vocal divas Beatrice Malnic and Loren Oliveira, has tried to move and…
Speak to anyone in their 50s about Carly Simon and their eyes flicker. It’s like asking today’s youth about Jay-Z or Radiohead; she’s a musical powerhouse that changed the trajectory of boomer culture. Her life story is made for daytime TV, from her early rise in her hometown of New…
The weepy white girls who relentlessly spun Portishead’s two ’90s studio albums may find little on Third that recalls the existential meltdowns they had during their collegiate days. There’s no spy-movie danger, there’s no filigreed trip-hop beats, no faux-Billie Holiday vocals… there’s no beauty. Instead, there’s just raw dread, crackly…
Whoever came up with genre classifications for music obviously never heard of Santogold. The alarmingly catchy self-titled debut by Philly native Santi White offers an endless cache of crossover tunes ranging from indie pop, punk/ska, and dub reggae to new wave and electro club. In many cases, the genre-busting aural…
They certainly didn’t invent Americana music or, for that matter, reinvent it, but the BoDeans were responsible for one of its biggest hits, courtesy of an irrepressible anthem called “Closer to Free.” Thrust into the genre’s top ten after the television show Party of Five made that tune its theme…
Scrolling the Weezy files doesn’t always lead to stellar tracks. He’s got plenty of home runs, too many triples, a decent amount of doubles, and straight up strikes out that don’t even come close to a single on the windiest day. But check this track out between Kanye and Lil…
(photo by Martynka Wawrzyniak) The Virgins are the latest white-hot (in every respect, meow) NYC quartet you are going to really care about very, very soon, if you’re not clued in already. In this week’s issue of the Miami New Times, we tell you why in our music section’s Live…
The verdict is in and New York rapper Remy Ma has been sentenced to 8 years in a federal prison for assault, weapon possession and attempted coercion after shooting her friend, Makeda Barnes Joseph, last July in a dispute over money. Remy Ma accused her girlfriend of stealing $3,000 from…
In this week’s issue of the Miami New Times, we give you the rundown on Duran Duran’s latest album, The Red Carpet Massacre, and the group’s appearance next Monday at Mizner Park in Boca. Click here to read that story. But of course, there are plenty of outtakes left from…
We hear at the New Times camp are die fans of all things old school. So as I came across this stellar footage of Teddy P doing his thing (while still walking I might add) from 1979, it seemed appropriate to share it with the blogosphere. He’s undeniably looking good…
While we’re on the subject of old dance jams, here’s another classic: “Security” by the Beat Club, which dropped around ’87 or ’88. This classic record had both that tinkle-tinkle that linked it both to freestyle and electro in these parts and the emerging early rave sound in England –…
Instead of just posting an old song, this time around, Throwback Tuesdays brings you a bunch of video goodness of some Miami legends who represented a these-days-often-forgotten element of hip-hop: B-boying! (No b-girls in these videos, oh well – if anyone out there knows of some web videos of breakdancing…
In case you missed the news in the world of Myspace and blogs, Dead Prez is popping up kinda randomly for a show tonight — a pretty good coup for a weekly party in Hollywood, known as Mellow Mondays. It’s a soul-poetry-funk-conscious sort of thang, and followers of that scene…
In case you missed this on Deco Drive or Idolator, things went haywire on the set of Rick Ross’ recent video shoot for his upcoming single, “Here I Am,” featuring Nelly. A tiger hired to add some menace or flair or whatever to the set apparently wasn’t a fan of…
This was no interview, it was my dream date. The Diamond Princess sparkled like my logo right there. Read the whole story here, and listen to a few minutes of Miami royalty here below. – Jason Handelsman…
There’s absolutely no reason for Mindless Self Indulgence to be around in 2008. For starters, their aggressive, quasi-industrial sound – on paper, at least – is long past its sell-by date. Furthermore, they’ve been up and down the indie-major-indie label rollercoaster and should now be experiencing their inevitable decline into…
Honestly,” laughs Mindless Self Indulgence frontman Little Jimmy Urine, “I’d rather fuckin’ be drawing a comic strip like Garfield and have it be syndicated. I’d just draw one joke every day and collect giant wads of cash. That’s my dream!” For now, though, that dream will have to wait, as…
