There are a lot of DJs in the club scene who get off on controlling a crowd. They’re in the booth keeping dance music lovers enthralled with club bangers, but ego sometimes gets in the way of personal enjoyment. For Melbourne, Australia, transplant Ean Sugarman, the approach to the craft…
All of the Winter Music Conference activity over the next two weeks can be fun, but there’s an annoyingly incessant air about it, too. There are countless singles, albums, and DVDs to promote, and often it’s crap that won’t even be attainable for a while by the plebeian public. At…
Roxy Summers prefers to be called Roxy Cottontail, a name that she says perfectly encapsulates her love of drugs and booty. Two years ago, the New York-based DJ/party promoter and branding genius started making her own tunes. The pursuit has both widened her profile to the dance world, attracting well-known…
We here in South Florida have an appreciation for freestyle music that doesn’t always translate to others around the rest of the country. The once popular upbeat style of electro-pop from the ’80s and early ’90s was mainly lauded in urban locales such as Miami, New York, Chicago, and the…
Roots Rock doesn’t really have a home in contemporary reggae any more. A good number of singers are keeping the consciousness aspects of the music alive like Tarrus Riley, I-Wayne, and others, but where those artists shine as individuals, it’s rarer still to find a full band willing to trod…
My brain’s on fire. It’s the Monday after the madness of something like 1,100 bands playing 2,200 shows in four days. That why I was in Austin, Texas, last week, which is where they hold the yearly South By Southwest music conference/showcase/blowout/extravaganza. The thing just keeps growing, which means that…
Call them a jam band or consider them eclectic, but the Heavy Pets’ propulsive blend of rock, reggae, blues, and grooves is perfectly attuned to South Florida’s diverse musical mix. Not only are they Langerado regulars for good reason, but these New York transplants are also a popular draw on…
With over 30 million records sold, the G-man, (and, no, we’re not talking Rudy Giuliani here) is by far one of the most popular, and simultaneously most hated, men in jazz. Hell, even calling what he does jazz is a stretch. His degree was in business, and his skill with…
For some Lemonheads fans, their album It’s A Shame About Ray was the end of the line. 1990s Lovey album crystallized the fusion of tightly wound pop, punk energy, and acoustic flourishes that had made the group so appealing to various sects of the college-radio scene; even the punks who…
Beirbrunnen Pub 425 S. Fort Lauderdale Beach Blvd. Fort Lauderdale, FL 33316 954-462-1008 Bierbrunnen means “beer well.” And when you’re talking beer, well, you’re probably speaking Deutsch. No, you’re not under the bridge in one of Berlin’s famed pub crawlers. You’re a 30-second walk from Fort Lauderdale’s beaches, and you’re…
(A) First of all, don’t do your shout out track as an intro. No one cares that you like the city of Chicago. (B) If you’re going to have DJ Khaled do an interlude, ask him not to refer to you as “the definition of the projects,” because that doesn’t…
There are few kinds of music more evocative of the place from which they come than that made by the Malian desert nomads known as the Touareg. One can almost see the endless stretches of sand laid out in all directions when listening to the sparse guitars and minimal but…
The Mars Volta switches gears on its fourth album, giving beat-propelled dance pop a spin. We kid! The Bedlam in Goliath is stuffed with nine-minute alt-prog epics — the type the band has refined to blood-drawing sharpness over the past seven years. We’re not quite sure what singer Cedric Bixler-Zavala…
L.A. is full of starlets, celebutantes, and wannabe Playboy bunnies. Wannabes that are only too happy to besmirch the name and good reputation of a real female DJ like Colette Marino, who actually knows what she’s doing. And don’t let the pretty looks fool you into thinking otherwise. She currently…
Check out this clip from a 2006 PBS documentary about the band, in which they perform their song “Hey Eugene.” Pink Martini’s music is the kind of music that makes you want to fall in love. Each album contains all the perfect elements of a relationship — drama, seduction, sadness,…
Between Flo Rida’s ubiquitous “Low” and this, Miami is blowing up the Billboard charts. The boss, Rick Ross, officially released his second album, TRILLA, yesterday, at number one on the Billboard 200, with 198,000 physical copies sold… And, haters, it’s also #1 for legal digital downloads too, as well as…
Well, now that Flo Rida’s album is officially out, it’ll be interesting to see how the album sells. His hit song, “Low” has been the number one song in the country for a long time, and despite the fact that we’re paying attention to him because he’s local, the entire…
Day 3, Friday, March 14 I’ll admit, by Friday, day 3 of SXSW, I was already starting to feel the exhaustion a bit, and I was starting to need some motivational cheerleading. Luckily, I got to start the day off easy with the daytime party thrown by the Miami and…
So I’ve finally gotten a decent night’s sleep after getting back on Sunday from SXSW. And, while here in Miami, we have to start down the countdown to WMC (next Tuesday! Get excited)! I still wanted to wrap-up a summary of the live music I saw out in Texas. The…
Everybody and their grandmother, by now, knows at least the chorus and hooks to local guy Flo Rida’s inescapable track, “Low,” featuring T-Pain, that’s spent a bazillion weeks as the number-one pop song in the country. His anticipated full-length, Mail on Sunday, drops tomorrow on Poe Boy/Atlantic. (Wonder what the…
Everyone knows about Jay-Z’s upcoming Heart of the City tour which kicks off in Miami this Saturday. For Jay, the 22 city tour is sure to make him a ton of money and most of the dates are sold out already. That’s pimpin’ but Jay-Z is known to take it…
Here’s the second installment from our guest blogger, Sir Winston, proprietor of Churchill’s Pub in Miami. Here are his highlights for SXSW day three, Friday Rachel Goodrich Rachel Goodrich woos new and influential friends Miami native Rachel Goodrich’s three-song set at the swanky BMI/Billboard Luncheon on the lawn was truly…
