New Times Groove On Battle of the Bands: Your Guide, Part 2

Tonight, Friday the 13th, in a hard luck city in a bad luck wind, Miami New Times Promotions presents four bands battling for the chance to play a show in NYC with free airfare and accommodations. Last week Afrobeta and Tristan & The Juice made it to the finals. Tonight,…

Full Ultra Music Festival Lineup Revealed

So in addition to yesterday’s news of the unexplainable choice of booking the Black Eyed Peas for next month’s Ultra Music Festival, the final phase of the lineup has been announced. Notable additions include Rinton, Rye Rye, Surkin, Para One and Shiny Toy Guns to Day 1, and MSTRKRFT, BT…

EDM Sunday Action

A heads up to the house and techno heads looking to console their Sunday blues or unrequited Valentine’s by keeping the party going past the usual Saturday cutoff point… Gooshie House has a sweet lineup for their House 101 jam at Black Sheep Bar this Sunday. Talented locals Stryke, DJ…

Black Eyed Peas to Perform at Ultra Music Festival (UPDATED)

Black Eyed Peas bringing their humps to Bicentennial Park.There are some things in this world better left unexplained, but this is definitely not one of them. It’s been confirmed that the Black Eyed Peas (yes, the very same ones that created the weapon of mass destruction called “My Humps”) are…

Oddest. Booking. Ever? Diplo and Dave 1 (Chromeo) at LIV

Diplo spins at LIV March 4.Really, we don’t know why are shocked anymore. It’s getting obvious that clubs are grasping anything in order to stay afloat. But during our daily Pitchfork read, we stumbled upon the news that M.I.A./Santogold producer/DJ Diplo would be spinning at LIV alongside Dave 1 of…

More Langerado Rescheduling: Ozomatli at Culture Room, Mar. 7

via www.ozomatli.comFinishing up what looks to be, perhaps, the last of the Langerado rescheduling announcements, Ozomatli will now appear at Culture Room on Saturday, March 7. Unlike Sunday’s indie-fave head-to-head-to-head showdown of Deerhunter Girl Talk vs. Modest Mouse vs. Tokyo Police Club, Ozomatli’s competition on Saturday isn’t too bad. The…

Electric Bunnies to Release Split Seven-Inch With Pink Reason

Look for a split seven-inch with Pink Reason from Miami’s garagey Electric Bunnies, forthcoming from Ohio’s Die Stasi label.  Despite longtime creative contributor Eldys Diaz’s partial departure from the bunny-fold, Victor and company are soldiering on, supposedly with a new complete album in the works as well. Their side of…

More Valentine’s Ideas: The Talent Farm

via myspace.com/here_we_riseNothing says I love you like thrashing guitars, guttural screams and kids wildly punching the air.  The Talent Farm is hosting a very special Valentine’s Day show featuring some of the best hardcore/scream-o/punk acts in south Florida like Here We Rise, Mind Over Matter, Shoot The Messenger, and A…

Ana Gabriel Comes to Miami for Valentine’s Day

Ana Gabriel is a living legend in Mexican music, having repeatedly conquered pop, rock and regional charts in her native country, the U.S. and Latin America over the span of her illustrious 42-year career–a career that has borne 38 albums to date.  The singer-songwriter, born María Guadalupe Araújo Yong to…

The Postmarks and John Ralston

Friday’s show at Respectable Street Café features two of the finest local acts to break out of Broward and Palm Beach counties: John Ralston and the Postmarks. Of the two, the Postmarks are perhaps better-known, garnering a degree of international critical acclaim by largely refusing to play small local shows…

Blues Traveler

Yes, Blues Traveler is still around. Long ago, frontman John Popper graduated from the more-is-more school of blues-rock jamming, his dissertation a seven-minute harmonica solo tucked into a 23-minute jam about a sweet-talking hippie. Since 1990, he’s led the band in diligent touring and understatement-free recordings, including an album of…

The International Noise Conference

It’s puzzling why people hell-bent on blowing people’s minds via so-called “noise music” so often also seem hell-bent on blowing their sonic victims’ olfactory senses. So weird smells aside, the International Noise Conference is the place to see and hear shit you will not likely hear in any other venue…

Black Tide

The last time the Miami-born quartet Black Tide made it back to South Florida was September, when the foursome played a date at Revolution on its tour with Welsh metallers Bullet for My Valentine. It was an extremely short homecoming, to be sure. And the band’s nonstop touring schedule has…

Sevendust

Known for dark melodies laden with churning guitars, chunky riffs, and lead singer Lajon Witherspoon’s haunting timbre, Sevendust carved its niche in the alt-rock/nü-metal landscape some years ago. The release of the band’s third record, Animosity, in 2001 is largely regarded as the quintet’s breakthrough into mainstream popularity. Still, by…

MDC to Return to South Florida, at Churchill’s on April 11

M.D.C., a.k.a. Millions of Dead Cops, a.k.a. Multi-Death Corporation, a.k.a. Millions of Dead Children, a.k.a. Millions of Dead Christians, a.k.a. Millions of Damn Christians, a.k.a. Magnus Dominus Corpus, a.k.a etc., etc., return to Miami on April 11. The hardcore punk originators hail, originally, from Austin, Texas (although now claim Portland…

HEARTSREVOLUTION, Guns ‘n’ Bombs at Vagabond March 8

Choose your own adventure when HEARTSREVOLUTION comes to The Vagabond March 8.The Scion A/V Tour is coming back to Miami for the millionth time March 8. This time its to celebrate the CD release Pioneer, a Scion A/V mix by French record label Kitsuné. The tour’s first stop is Miami…

Gipsy Kings to Perform Tomorrow Night at AAA

Tomorrow night the Gipsy Kings will perform at the American Airlines Arena’s Waterfront Theater. Known for a style called Rumba Catalana, the Kings have been wowing audiences for 17 years, ever since the release of their debut album, Allegria. Rumba Catalana is essentially a spin on traditional flamenco made more…

Real Jazz Jam with Renee Fiallos at Tobacco Road Tonight

Renee Fiallos via MyspaceQuick, what’s the difference between “Real Jazz” and that impostor shit John Tesh and his cronies try to pass off? If you can’t answer that question, you owe it to yourself to get down to Tobacco Road tonight at 10 pm.  Here’s a hint: Real Jazz has…

Spam Allstars Share the Love at Transit Lounge This Saturday

If you’re onto Corporate America’s scheme to fleece consumers out of their hard-earned dollars with the whole Valentine’s Day scheme, good for you! Restaurants consistently have the worst service of the year on February 14, and the fact that it falls on a Saturday this year will only add to…