I’m sure I’m late in the game on discovering this one, but Trent Reznor has proved once again that, love him or hate him, he’s always been a forward thinker. Newly freed from the shackles of his contact with Interscope, he’s launched a new site at remix.nin.com. It’s a platform…
The Worst Things In Music This Year, according to Ben Westhoff! 1. Worst Album: the Arcade Fire, Neon Bible This cerebral garbage entertained about 100 people, none of whom didn’t either live in Canada or work as a music critic. Speaking of critics, it’s hard to agree with Sasha Frere-Jones…
What a crazy few months it’s been for Beenie Man. These days, it seems like every time Beenie’s name is in the press, it’s about his personal life instead of his music. He’s the center of a tax evasion scandal, with allegations he owes the Jamaican government more than $600,000…
It’s hard to find anyone with a subtler touch on the keys than Maryland-born pianist Cyrus Chestnut, who draws from modern and traditional jazz while also flirting with R&B and gospel. Such eclecticism has found him performing alongside the likes of Vanessa Williams, Wynton Marsalis, and the Dizzy Gillespie Alumni…
Judging by record and ringtone sales, hip-hop is the most popular genre of music in the country. There’s a host of cocksure yet affable rappers out there for whom people can’t help but cheer these days. But who needs to go over a list of the most beloved rappers in…
It’s nearly 2 a.m. on a recent weekend morning inside a packed Gryphon Nightclub, and the sights and sounds of debauchery are everywhere. The hard-driven electronic beats careening out of the DJ booth are sending the crowd into a frenzy, as measured by all of the dancing and sexual energy…
Better to burn out or fade away? The current musical tendency to fetishize the past, creating new markets through nostalgia, has come up with a new answer to this timeless rock ‘n’ roll question: the reissue. For the second year in a row, David Byrne has chosen this route, and…
It’s Wednesday night at Santo in Miami Beach, and most folks in the hip-hop know are in attendance. Local rapper Jackie-O is in the building with her new partner Remy Ma because the two are looking to create a new girl group called 3Sum. They’re scouting talent tonight for a…
Fathers, hide your daughters. There’s a concert coming through town this week that may have your little angel all hot and bothered sooner than you’d expect. The Up Close and Personal tour hits the BankAtlantic Center on Boxing Day and it’s full of teen heart throbs with bad intentions. OK,…
Blues man Seth Walker sings like a man who’s had his heart broken one too many times. Since his genre of choice calls for a bit of misfortune, that’s not necessarily a bad thing. It doesn’t hurt to listen to his songs if you’re going through a breakup or wish…
Ganey’s 2301 W. Sample Rd. Deerfield Beach 954-974-0251 The indoor waterfall in Ganey’s in Deerfield Beach is the perfect backdrop to my double Johnny Walker on the rocks. Then again, so is the marble top and everything else in plain sight. You see, Ganey’s is almost perfect in terms of…
It’s easy to take Ryan Adams for granted; after all, he’s a prodigious overachiever whose output often manifests in multiple annual offerings. So it’s no surprise to find Follow the Lights, a well-stocked seven-song EP, following closely on the heels of his recent full-length Easy Tiger. But while some artists…
After more than 30 years as a reggae musician, Cocoa Tea should be either a cutting-edge groundbreaker or a torchbearer for easy-does-it standards. As Biological Warfare disappointingly makes clear, he’s neither. The dancehall vibe he’s worked with for most of his career has seen him occasionally flirting with progressive electronic…
In Defense of the Genre, Say Anything’s 27-song, two-disc quasi-concept album — which is twice as long and nowhere near as good as its predecessor, 2004’s Is a Real Boy — is about Max Bemis’ struggles with drug abuse and his very public bipolarity. (He was busted in NYC last…
I can’t remember what set it off now, but I’ve been on a massive shoegaze-revisiting kick lately, diggin’ up the lovely space-rock extravaganzas I first zoned out to as a teenager. True fans of this stuff in Miami can probably be counted on my and maybe a friend’s fingers and…
Café Tacuba Sunday, December 16 the Gusman Theater, Miami There are very few bands around that can continue to garner new, younger fans almost two decades into their careers. Mexico’s Café Tacuba, however, stands as one of those select few. Downtown’s Miami old and marvelous Gusman Theater was brimming with…
Talk about a throwback! Here’s some old school Common from 1994 off of his Resurrection album. He was still going by Common Sense at the time and still living on the Southside of Chicago…not doing Gap ads, not making movies, not wearing cardigans, and definitely keeping his rhymes simple and…
Pregnant chicks are cool, I guess, because they eat like stoners and can hold your beer on their stomach while you play Halo. But I still feel mildly weird about these pictures of Xtina trying to look all uber-slutty with a small human inside her stomach, I guess because a…
“Hit me, you can’t hurt me…Suck My Kiss” It’s been a long time since this video got any spins on the major Viacom stations and as far as the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ catalogue goes, that’s really a shame. It’s a really well-shot video, especially for the time frame and…
Café Tacuba Gusman Center Dec 16, 2007 Media: Check out a slideshow from the concert. Between the art deco splendor of the Gusman Center and the flock of Mexican hipsters making their way through the nipply cold wind tunnels downtown last night – it felt like we were in Chilangolandia…
What do the band and the burger have in common? This hungry scene kid loves them both, and he’s pissed off when one goes missing! KEEPIN WHOPPERS BR00TAL D00D! (Okay, I feel silly passing on an ad, but this is kinda ridic.) — Arielle Castillo…
By ANDY VIHSTADT Led On Those of you waiting on a full-scale reunion tour from Led Zeppelin should find something else to obsess about in 2008. According to Robert Plant’s site , he and Alison Krauss are launching a European tour in May with US dates to follow. In the…
