The monthly, completely undefinable music night at Churchill’s known as Night of the Weirds celebrates its final installment tonight. For a brief explanation in this week’s issue of the paper, click here. For an in-depth exploration of what Night of the Weirds was all about from Sasha Weisfeld, an active…
Handmade Electronic Music by Nicolas Collins Harold Golen Gallery, Miami Sunday, March 30, 2008 Better Than: Making music using GarageBand There’s beauty in chaos, especially when electronic hardware hacker Nicolas Collins gets his hands on some odd machines and lets his mind come up with unusual, yet stunning sounds. Long…
Antidote party, featuring Bassnectar and the Freestylers Circa 28, Miami Sunday, March 30 Better than: A ripe, juicy peach on a hot summer afternoon while your boombox spills the top 40. A good amount of closing joints were poppin’ off Sunday night to see the close of WMC ’08, but…
Underworld at Ultra Music Festival Bicentennial Park Saturday, March 29, 2008 Even after 10 years of the Ultra Music Festival and 23 years of Winter Music Conference, it’s still sometimes difficult to fathom the onslaught this week brings to Miami. I mean, really. Pulling myself outta Moby’s set in the…
By ANDY VIHSTADT D.C. Cab Death Cab for Cutie returns with Narrow Stairs on May 13. Listen to the first single “I Will Possess Your Heart” at the group’s MySpace page, and check out a live acoustic version of another new one below. Death Cab for Cutie: “Cath…(acoustic live)” MP3…
Handsome Furs, Violens Thursday, March 27, 2008 PS14 Better Than: Fighting the WMC crowds for a taste of something electronic. While the majority of Miami pulsed to the sounds of big name DJs at Winter Music Conference, a select group of indie-minded hipsters enjoyed the electronic-infused rock show by Montreal…
Michelle F. Solomon DJ Bob Sinclar livened up the party remixing the party’s name sake song. Madonna “Four Minutes” WMC Release Party Friday, March 28 Penthouse At The Raleigh Hotel, South Beach We knew Madonna wouldn’t show, but there was just a faint glimmer of hope as they dragged in…
Fool’s Gold Records showcase The White Room, Miami March 28, 2008 Better Than: All the sleep you’re missing from WMC, times 10 Although most of the brouhaha was supposedly occurring Friday night over at Ultra, one seemingly underground party emerged from the woodworks of Downtown Miami. Dubbed by LA Riots…
Justice at Ultra Music Festival Bicentennial Park Friday, March 28, 2008 Better Than: Whatever X those chicks next to me were rolling face on I obviously wasn’t surprised in the slightest to see the typical ravers, rollers and ridiculous public behavior at Ultra, a fest known for its array of…
Tracy Block A-Trak confirmed his incomparable spinning skills Thursday night at Suite, showing serious candidacy for best WMC set thus far. Last Night: “Wish You Were Here” at Suite and Snatch Better Than: A hot and fresh box of Krispy Kremes after blazing up a fatty. Although the snooty door…
Tracy Block Craze ripped a sick never-ending set at Nocturnal Wednesday, March 26 which had beat lovers gettin’ their groove on from the window to the wall. Last Night: Bass Sessions at Nocturnal Better Than: The best ‘90s booty mix you ever bought Downtown Miami’s Nocturnal night club certainly had…
Just got an email from overseas about champion British soundclash veteran David Rodigan’s time in the studio with our own Walshy Fire from Black Chiney. A week and a half ago, Roddy was in town doing a show at Studio A and before he hit the club, he and Walshy…
Today: The Armani Exchange Music Lounge at the Hotel Raleigh Penthouse Better than: Last night’s hangover from WMC kickoff gigs and jet lag combined VIP constitutes access to a slew of stellar events, but during WMC, being “Very Important” grants you access to one of the choicest chill spots on…
With the month of March drawing to a close, a bar-hopping people-watcher like me has had her fill of sightings of sunburned youths in Greek-lettered T-shirts. Scores of them. They leave beer cans on the beach. They stumble along A1A. They’re raucous, super friendly, and brimming with college dorm energy…
New Amerykah, the first real Erykah Badu record in eight long years, kicks off with agitated funk guitar and the Roy Ayers brass-horny blaxploitation groove of “Amerykahn Promise.” With her neo-soul-defining Baduizm back in 1997, the now 37-year-old Southern girl (née Erica Wright) allowed boho songstresses like India.Arie and Corinne…
Soulja Boy may know how to “Crank Dat,” but Detroit’s DJ Godfather still had to crank the kid up several notches — and maybe Superman that ho — for his unofficial remix of the song. Not a problem; really, it was all in a day’s work for the head of…
If the Southern-rap money train ever ran out of steam, it would be fitting for that end to take place in the land of its Technicolor, reality-detached origin: Miami. Flo Rida, proprietor of the most hyped-up album release of this bleak commercial down-cycle, started his career as a hypeman for…
This New Yorker is a DJ who has the talent to venture from rap to rock to house to electro to whatever, without losing people or sounding strained. He was formerly an editor at knowledgeable and adventurous music mag FADER, where he published under his government name, Nick Barat. Now…
Xavier de Rosnay’s honesty is refreshing — even if the words he’s just uttered won’t exactly go down as the most artistically inclined assertion ever made. “We make electronic music,” the musician confesses, “because it’s accessible and easy.” Rosnay is one-half of international dance-floor phenom Justice, whose suave yet glitchy…
Back in the day, a good mixtape was filled with enough variety that it could make you dance, sing aloud, or crack up laughing, depending on what tracks you were listening to at the time. Somehow, producers have gotten away from that over the years, but local sound system gurus…
After longtime concert promoter Jon Stoll succumbed to cancer in January, at 54 years old, realizing that he’d suffer no more was probably a bittersweet relief for those who knew him best. For the many more who knew and admired his company, Fantasma Productions, Stoll’s death raised another concern: that…
Within the genre of soul music there’s been a certain revival of late, with modern artists making music that sounds like it was penned and recorded several decades earlier. The best faces for this revival belong to producers like Mark Ronson, and artists such as Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings,…
