Citizen Cope

Clarence Greenwood is everywhere and nowhere. Turn on the television or go to a movie theater and you’re certain to hear his driving choruses or melodic refrains leit-motifing all kinds of popular culture (see Entourage, Teton Gravity Research, Acura commercials, and others). Greenwood, who records under the name Citizen Cope,…

Sister Hazel

We thought we’d left Sister Hazel and that song “All for You” way back in high school. Turns out we were wrong, because the band’s still roaming the nation, putting out CDs and performing the songs from the 1997 album …Somewhere More Familiar and all the albums they’ve put out…

Women Who Shred coming to City Limits on May 16

via jenniferbatten.comQuestion: what’s hotter than female rock stars? The answer is obviously nothing. City Limits in Delray clearly knows this as they’ve just announced the Women Who Shred show on Saturday May 16th starring Jennifer Batten, who’s toured with the King of Pop and Jeff Beck, Vickie Genfan, Guitar Player…

Q&A With Gustavo Matamoros on the Subtropics Festival

This year Subtropics marks its 21 year anniversary and 20th edition (more on that later) of bringing together sound minds in South Florida. The conference features performances, lectures, networking opportunities and exhibits for audiophiles and the uninitiated alike. Artistic Director of the festival Gustavo Matamoros, a sound educator at the…

Afrobeta Brings Its Space Funk to Transit Lounge This Friday

Cosmic.  Karmic.  Ghettotech house.  These are a few of the words used by local duo Afrobeta to describe their sound.  An ambient blend of disco, funk and house with underpinnings of various other electro styles ranging from breaks to trance and even bit of gabba, Tony “Smurphio” Laurencio and Cristina…

Wednesday: Soultech Presents Marcin Czubala

This week’s installment of Soultech at Skybar presents Berlin-based Polish techno producer/DJ Martin Czubala. Not your run-of-the-mill minimal techy, Czubala comes from an extensive background in classical music, having performed in over 300 European concerts in the early ’90s before delving into EDM production. While grounded in minimal house and…

Steve Angello Plays Mansion’s Five-Year Anniversary Party This Saturday

Naming his label Size Records, DJ/producer Steve Angello set himself up for criticism if he couldn’t lay down the magnitude of tracks necessary to command a room like Mansion, where he will help commemorate the club’s fifth birthday on Saturday. Luckily, Angello’s brand of breezy, big room progressive house  perfectly…

DJ Boris Returns to Space for a Marathon Set This Friday/Saturday

In a world where divas are bionically enhanced, the bloom of marquees and floodlights can be seen from space, and the energy crisis has been averted by harnessing the kinetic motion of dancefloors, power house is the genre of choice. And those who choose power house choose DJ Boris, who…

Things Get Hairy Wednesdays at LIV

Image via MySpaceThings will get hairy with Kid Sister Febrauary 25 at LIV.Call us nightlife anthropologists, because our assessment of downtown’s nightlife set being courted by glitzy South Beach continues to be reinforced. We wonder if we can present this as a thesis for our doctoral research?The ever-expanding Poplife, plus…

Album Review – GU36: Bogota by Darren Emerson, DJing at Shine this Friday

via www.windishagency.comDJ and producer Darren Emerson was once in dub-strewn acid house collective Underworld. And lest you forget, he opens and closes his new mix compilation, GU36: Bogotá with the then-progressive trio’s 1993 epic “MMM Skyscraper I Love You.” The two CDs this bookends are Emerson’s third entry for Global…

Citizen Cope to Hit Culture Room For a Two-Night Stand, Starting This Sunday

via www.citizencope.comClarence Greenwood is everywhere and nowhere. Turn on the television or go to the movie theater, and you’re certain to hear his driving choruses or melodic refrains leit motifing all kinds of popular culture (see Entourage, Teton Gravity Research, Acura commercials, and others). Greenwood, who records under the name…

Q&A With Satyricon, Playing at Club Cinema This Sunday

It’s hard to overstate the influence of the long-running Norwegian band Satyricon on the world’s extreme heavy metal scene. Its tenacity alone is amazing — the core of the band, frontman/songwriter Satyr and drummer Frost, has been playing together continuously since 1992. On albums and tours, an all-star cast of…

Iron Maiden Adds Ft. Lauderdale Date as Last Stop of Tour

via www.ironmaiden.comMaiden fans, despair not: The band’s added, last-minute, a South Florida gig as the very last one of its current Somewhere Back in Time tour. And yes, fans will know that this is Iron Maiden’s first show in Florida in 13 years! The tour was initially set to end…

Multi-Grammy Nominee Ximena Sariñana Announces U.S. Tour

Ximena Sariñana is nothing if not precocious. The Mexican actress/singer-songwriter claims her love affair with music began at the age of 2, when she attended an Ella Fitzgerald concert and at 7 she was enrolled in singing lessons with famed vocal coach, Ricardo Sanchez at the urging of her neighbor,…

Saturday Night: Konrad Black at Glass

Konrad BlackSaturday, February 14, 2009Glass, Miami BeachBetter than: Certainly anything else going on in the Beach that night. The turnout for Konrad Black’s show on Saturday night could have been much greater given the hype. But it was Valentine’s, after all, and most people were probably either at home making…

Friday Night: Chana and Afrobeta at Bayfront Park

Ben ThackerChana performing at the Tina Hills Pavilion at Bayfront Park Friday night. Click here to view the full slideshow.DWNTWN Concert Series with Afrobeta and ChanaFriday, February 13, 2009Tina Hills Pavilion at Bayfront Park, MiamiBetter than: Ever.Psst…things are happening in Downtown Miami. Especially at Bayfront Park: Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays…

The Lee Boys Play City Limits Tonight with Sosos

via myspace.com/leeboysThe Lee Boys are not a bluegrass band, although just reading the name may evoke that thought. No, the Lee Boys are South Florida’s finest sacred steel ensemble. The brothers Lee (Alvin, Derrick, and Keith) along with their nephews Roosevelt Collier, Alvin Cody Jr., and Earl Walker play a…