Since the economy of South Florida is in the toilet, here’s a discounted ticket deal for two upcoming concerts that’s definitely worth taking note of. For today only, you can purchase lawn tickets for the 3 Doors Down concert coming up on September 25, and the Maroon 5/Counting Crows show…
Remember Nonpoint, the local groove-based hard rock act? They had that hit single, “Bullet With a Name,” a couple years back? Well, they may be forgetting their lil’ ol’ fans in South Florida at the moment. The band boasts real mainstream success, having landed on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock chart some…
Finch Finch Sunday, September 14, 2008 Culture Room, Fort Lauderdale Better Than: having the biggest kid in the club stage dive into your face. They say all good things must come to an end. Well, that may be so, but perhaps good things can start up again, too. Take, for…
Jason Hammel and Kori Gardner, the husband-and-wife duo better known as Mates of State. Mates of State Friday, September 12, 2008 Culture Room, Fort Lauderdale Better Than: Handsome Furs and Matt & Kim, I think. One of music’s greatest enigmas has to be the husband-wife duo. Sometimes an audience’s –…
In this week’s issue of the Miami New Times, I talk to DJ I-Dee about his debut full-length original album, Solitude. It’s a solid album, but one of its best tracks didn’t make it onto the CD, thanks to sample clearance issues. It’s called “The Right,” and features one of…
With a sound that’s heavily rooted in New Orleans jazz, the Stanton Moore Trio could be fine on its own just sticking to that style of music. Instead, the three opt to pepper their music with well-placed traces of funk and jam-band rifts. That makes sense since Moore, who plays…
After a nearly two-year hiatus, experimental progressive-rock act Finch has reunited. The group began touring and released a four-song EP earlier this year. Known for explosive, hardcore melodic music, which the band describes as the sound of “a dump truck falling off of the Empire State Building,” this California-based quintet…
The DJ/producer duo known as L.A. Riots are definitely products of 2k8, an amped-up redux of French house and new electro mashed through the hyperspeed of the blogosphere. Making music together for just under two years, the twosome of Daniel LeDisko and Jo B quickly garnered massive downloads of their…
Boston’s punk quintet Street Dogs makes music that’s fit for throwing back pints, raising sturdy fists into the air, and singing along to working-class battle-cry pub anthems. Founded by vocalist Mike McColgan (an ex-firefighter, former lead singer of Dropkick Murphys, and Gulf War vet), the band carries a stomp-and-mosh ska-punk…
Justin Namon Michael Vincent Patrick, one half of Designer Drugs. Click here to view the full slideshow. Designer Drugs Monday, September 8, 2008 White Room, Miami Better than: A mouthful of actual designer drugs. Electro, blog house, nu rave — whatever, you call it, has been on the rise since…
Sayre Berman Chris Isaak Sunday, September 7, 2008 Pompano Beach Amphitheatre Better Than: Catching cool. When I first caught Chris Isaak, it was on the fourth floor of a legendary New York nightclub called Danceteria and the cat was still relatively unknown. But by the time he and his Silvertones…
Ryan Russell Jinchuu, Mehkago N.T., and Torche Saturday, September 6 Churchill’s Pub, Miami Better Than: The great majority of the corporate metal shows to hit the area in recent months. The Review: Here’s one thing about underground rock audiences in Miami. They may be smaller than in other cities, but…
Friday, September 5: *That retro-fried garage rock stuff that’s going strong in the rest of the country doesn’t often seep down here, so catch a little of while you can tonight, when the Seattle foursome the Boss Martians hit Churchill’s. Click here for the scoop. *The Microdots play the weekly…
Time to have bizarre celebrations, because Athens, Georgia, band Of Montreal is returning to South Florida December 6. The psychedelic indie rock outfit will be gracing the stage at Revolution (200 W Broward Boulevard, Fort Lauderdale) as part of thier tour in support of their ninth album Skeletal Lamping, which…
Anthony Green Wednesday, September 3, 2008 Culture Room, Fort Lauderdale Better Than: Those love poems you wrote in eighth grade about Julie, er, or was it Sarah? One thing is clear: Anthony Green has found love. Well, that’s not just because he really did recently marry his longtime on-again, off-again…
Buika (pronounced BWEE-kah) was born María Concepción Balboa Buika on the Spanish island of Mallorca. If that’s not spicy enough for you, her parents were political exiles from Equatorial Guinea. Like many a young lass, her early musical allegiances were to Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston. Inundated with many kinds…
Preparing for a bout of sexiness, the original “King of the Dancehall” — Yellowman — returns to South Florida’s shores with his slack lyrics and wry sense of humor. Known as Jamaica’s first dancehall superstar, Yellowman helped turn the artform of toasting (like American rap) into a trademark of his…
The mixed response that Nuyorican actor, singer, and songwriter Marc Anthony received for his role in last year’s El Cantante (the much-hyped biopic of tragic salsa pioneer Héctor Lavoe) does not do justice to Anthony’s real star power. As he reaches his 40th birthday, Anthony is still successfully crossing among…
The Bendy Pastorius Group isn’t playing straight-ahead bop by any means, but its funk-tinged electric jazz still swings, and it’s lively enough to make folks want to get up and dance. The group has local roots (natch) as drummer Julius Pastorius was born and raised here along with his twin…
At last night’s show at Revolution, my first thought on seeing local metal sensations Black Tide take the stage was, “WTF? Where is Alex Nuñez?” In the curly-maned second guitarist’s place was some other dude, with no less curly, but significantly shorter hair, and slightly less nice equipment than the…
Last week I wrote a little run-down of the acts who would be playing the Museum of Contemporary Art’s last summer battle of the bands, which took place last Thursday night. Well, a winner’s been announced: Congratulations, Electric Bunnies! I have to admit I’m a little surprised, not because the…
Sheila Witkin Memorial Reunion Concert August 29 & 30, 2008 Club Cinema, Pompano Beach Better Than: Recreating the soundtrack to 21 Jump Street. The second annual Sheila Witkin Memorial Reunion Concert (a mouthful, right?) rocked through Club Cinema this past Friday and Saturday nights, gathering some of the best bands…
