Sébastien Léger Saturday, January 10, 2009Mansion, Miami BeachBetter than: Anything else going on in the MIA electronic music scene that night.Club Mansion was considerably empty for what was probably the most stellar international DJ set they’ve hosted in recent times. While he has yet to attain the ubiquitous presence and…
The Holy TerrorsSaturday, January 10, 2009 Churchill’s Pub, MiamiBetter Than: Any other band playing last night in South Florida Sometime back in the early 90’s the Holy Terrors were playing at CBGB’s when an earnestly keyed-up Dee Dee Ramone stuck around and told the guys he loved their music. Dee…
DWNTWN Concert Series with Rachel Goodrich and Jacob Jeffries BandFriday, January 9, 2008Tina Hills Pavilion at Bayfront Park, MiamiBetter Than: Before.The Miami Downtown Development Authority (DDA), in partnership with the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and produced by the Rhythm Foundation, kicked off its 2009 concert series at…
Now in its fifth consecutive year, Miami’s Groove Cruise has provided terminally-chic partiers with their own floating dance club and a spring-break-for-adults type of hedonistic experience. Past cruises have showcased alot of dime a dozen unknown DJs, but this year patrons are in for quite a treat. The infinitely in-demand…
Racing Exit 13 is, technically, a hardcore-influenced Staten Island band. But calling Racing Exit 13 “New York hardcore” makes you think of a bunch of beefy Biohazard-type dudes running around. This quintet has a much subtler vibe than that, name-checking plenty of those heavy, but, errr, thoughtful acts of the…
Like a pissed-off, mistreated dog, Travis Reilly yelps, This is how downward spirals start. Then he growls, This is a convoluted attempt to find some source of hope. Later, he barks, This is the best and worst things will ever get. Reilly’s Long Island-based hardcore outfit, This Is Hell, seems…
I know, I know, WMC talk already — yikes, we just celebrated the new year. But if you’ve got any interest in WMC then you know that the Shelborne always grabs absolutely stellar lineups who play legendary parties. If you like big-room house music, you’ve already been to some of…
(Photo via www.donnathebuffalo.com)Donna the Buffalo, a band who hails from Trumansburg, New York, sounds inseparable from the Great Outdoors. These are the kind of old Deadheads who probably chose to cover John Anderson’s Everglades ode “Seminole Wind” because it’s got otters and gars in it. Their originals suggest holistic hippies…
Ultra Music Festival released the second phase of its lineup, and while the biggest names in the list offer no big surprises, a number of other, smaller acts added to the bill demonstrate more of the festival’s forward-thinking approach this year. So here are the titans who will play (again):…
Miami New Times recently ran a feature on the still-alive Holy Terrors, legends of the Miami rock scene. Click here to read that story, which in help sparked the band to get together another reunion show. Rob Elba, William Trev, Dan Hosker, and Sam Fogarino form the classic Holy Terrors…
On Combichrist’s fourth and latest album, Today We Are All Demons, the band’s mastermind, Andy LaPlegua, effectively ups the ante on the tried-and-true answering-machine intro. It begins with a message from an unfortunate soul on his way to jail on a concealed-weapons charge. His girlfriend, meanwhile, is in the hospital…
If a band exists solely to keep the party going — as California’s Smash Mouth clearly does — it makes perfect sense to catch that band in a tailgate party setting before a huge football game. For this appearance, Smash Mouth takes a detour from its usual casino engagements to…
Stonefox is a garage band in the purest sense of the word — except, perhaps, for the fact that it did most of its recording in living rooms. But they did accomplish the entire recording for their first full-length LP, Dead in the Sun on “barely professional” equipment. After what…
Pat yourself on the back for attending Saturday’s early evening, all-ages extravaganza at Revolution. It’s sponsored by Music Saves Lives, a California-based group on its way to nonprofit status that aims to “create opportunities for people to save lives with simple contributions, and to teach the facts about the effects…
This Friday’s excursion into sonic brutality at Churchill’s Pub is not just another exercise in aggression. This time, it’s to support a nascent all-ages venue in the inner city, tentatively called GOO. The project is being spearheaded by a local music fan, Kenneth Fee. The graduate of Hialeah High has…
Scottish indie rock act Bis’ overtures were expressed rather neatly in its 1997 single “Tell It to the Kids”: “And now, coming through the airwaves into your home/Introducing the new transistor heroes.” San Francisco’s hey willpower lacks a similar expressive salutation, but it shares Bis’ affinity for trash culture, “kandy…
Little, it seems, can stop the improbable Tampa-based female party – rap juggernaut that is Yo Majesty. Not even the occasional almost-implosion of the group itself. Early last summer, some undefined internal meltdown sent home half of the group, the gospel – trained vocalist – turned – rapper Jewel B…
from the band’s myspace Treesoundz is a band that could make millions of dollars. I found them on the Internet while I was lurking around for a blog post. I’m a freelancer; I get paid by the piece, like selling crack rock on commission. They need to quit editing…
Last time I saw The Juan MacLean, it was at Poplife when it still called The District home. I actually didn’t know who he was and had just sort of stumbled into the party. But soon after that, I was hooked. The Juan MacLean sound is so smooth and cool,…
The peeps from PL0T were pretty busy in 2008 providing Fridays at the White Room with a classy selection of hot international techno acts. There were intimate performances by Lee Curtiss, Seth Troxler, and Bill Patrick, among others. And there was that sleek visual ambiance courtesy of the multimedia collective…
Credit it, partially at least, to the rise of smooth – jam – loving new indie-ish bands like Tigercity, the Yacht Rock series on YouTube, and the unexpected, fanatical boosterism from people like Travis McCoy of the Gym Class Heroes. The blue-eyed soul duo of Hall & Oates is experiencing…
A family-led operation, the Machito Orchestra was established in 1939 and continues to attract some of the best-known musicians in Latin jazz. The New York-based group comes to town on Thursday, January 15 in a celebratory mood. The show pays homage to three departed legends of the genre: the Machito…
