It’s the sixth edition of the Langerado Music Festival, and what started out as a concert for jam-band enthusiasts has grown into a megafestival that all South Florida music lovers should be proud of. Every genre you can think of is here, and with lots of great bands playing at…
Why is Janice Turner grinning so widely? It’s just after 7 p.m., ten days before last Christmas, and she’s backstage at the Y-100 Jingle Ball show at the BankAtlantic Center. A bunch of performances are due to kick off in a half-hour or so, but just now, folks are squeezed…
O’Malley’s Sports Bar 1388 N. State Rd. 7 Margate 954-979-8540 O’man, O’Malley’s is fucking nuts. I mean, what goes better with a frosty glass of Heiney than a comfortable stool? Poker? Check. Pool? Check. NBA on a big-ass telly? Check, mate. (That thing could play center for the Phoenix Suns…
…And folks in Ohio, Texas,Vermont, and Rhode Island are headed to the polls, it only makes since to play some election music. Here’s some Obama love from the Lone Star state. — Jonathan Cunningham…
Ky-mani Marley rocking in front of thousands of fans. 15th Annual Caribbean Festival AKA The Bob Marley Festival Saturday, March 1, 2008 Bayfront Park Amphitheater Better than: Staying home and listening to Exodus on repeat. Over the weekend, one of Miami’s most treasured music festivals returned to the city for…
Austin’s mega music festival, South By Southwest (SXSW) is almost here and there’s a bunch of great bands from around the world that should be headed to Texas for it next week. Last year was a special treat as the Good, the Bad, and the Queen seemed to descend on…
By ANDY VIHSTADT Casino King For those of you holding out for the follow-up to LCD Soundsystem’s Sound of Silver, Stereogum’s got something to hold you over. The song, “Big Ideas,” will appear in 21, the film adaptation of Ben Mezrich’s Bringing Down the House. The O.S.T. hits stores March…
Jose Gonzalez February 29, 2008 Artime Theatre Better Than: Sitting in an isolation tank in the middle of Biscayne. Miami is so much fucking cooler than most people give it credit for. We’ve got the Book Fair, we’ve got Winter Music Conference, and, of course, we’ve got Art Basel Miami…
Three weeks ago, I spoke on the phone with the two women who will be starring in Florida Grand Opera’s upcoming production of Tosca, Giacomo Puccini’s great opera about a brave, doomed painter, a jealous, doomed singer, and a very-mean (and very-doomed) police chief. One of these interviews was published…
The Gipsy Kings didn’t set out to redefine world music. They didn’t intend to scandalize the world of traditional Flamenco music through their inclusion of pop instrumentation and rock song structures. They just wanted to make pretty girls dance, and they succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. The history of the…
Chalk another victory up for the super-cool promoter folks at New Art School. Their latest coup? The legendary Mudhoney!! I don’t want to use the “g” word (ok, grunge) here, but they were one of the first rad bands to come out of Seattle in the late Eighties/early Nineties. And…
(Via Idolator). Liberal mag Mother Jones did us all the favor of putting together an imeem streaming play list of songs used during military prison interrogations, according to various leaked documents. And I have to say — I, too, would crack pretty quickly if forced to listen to “Babylon” by…
The Really, Really Good Looking Tour: Cobra Starship, Metro Station, We the Kings, the Cab Wednesday, February 27, 2008 Culture Room Better Than: The programmed sounds coming from your 1985 Casio keyboard. The bands on this tour could have held an open casting call, but they wouldn’t have found a…
…when you can use VOCALOID, a totally fascinating, vaguely unsettling singing synthesizer program from – where else? – Japan. It doesn’t just do the robot voice box or vocoder sounds – this one actually sings, mainly through the reedy female voice of a fictional character, Miku Hatsune (based, however, on…
For starters, you gotta love anyone who can bring that sharp-tongued Simon Cowell close to tears. That’s exactly what transpired when Paul Potts auditioned for Britain’s Got Talent, the U.K. version of American Idol. His show-stopping performance mesmerized YouTube gazers worldwide and made the onetime supermarket stocker and mobile-phone salesman…
Last July, thousands of folks, including the mayor of Detroit and the governor of Michigan, gathered in Motown at the NAACP’s annual convention for a symbolic funeral for the n word. This wasn’t long after Michael Richards flew off at the mouth at a Los Angeles comedy club, Don Imus…
“Have you seen the Futurama episode where they posit that in the future, Star Trek will be a religion?,” asks Arif Mirabdolbaghi, bassist for Canadian math-metal outfit Protest the Hero. “It’s probably true. I mean, there’s such a volume of text there that you can make a pretty epic series…
This weekend marks the impressive 15th anniversary of the local annual event known colloquially as the Bob Marley festival. It’s sponsored by his estate’s official organization, Bob Marley Movement, and each year’s headliners are composed of various configurations of his extended clan. And in the spirit of Marley’s humanitarian message,…
Rolling, writhing lesbians aren’t exactly a dime a dozen where I come from. My mama raised me deep in the heart of Texas (that red, cattle-ropin’, lethal-injection-givin’ stretch of pancake-flat land where everything is fucking bigger). And in my holier-than-thou hometown, good luck finding a decent drink special, let alone…
Jazz drummer Steve Reid (not to be confused with same-named New Age percussionist/composer) has a résumé that would make most musicians wince with envy. How many can lay claim to having played on Martha & the Vandellas’ “Dancing in the Street” and having performed or recorded with Ornette Coleman, Miles…
If you’ve never owned a vinyl album, I feel very sorry for you. Plainly put, you’ve never actually enjoyed music in your life — you just think you have. In truth, your life is a decrepit bowl of suck, and you have no chance at happiness. Kill yourself. One of…
Everyone’s had that embarrassing moment, right? You’re belting out the lyrics to your favorite song standing there like Freddie Mercury at Wembley Stadium, acting the ham. The jukebox is playing all the tunes you fell in love with as a teenager. You might as well sing along, right? You’re slightly…
