via myspace.com/whitesnakePoor David Coverdale. Here he was, on a triumphant return to the road under the Whitesnake moniker, including a gig this past June at the gigantic O2 Arena in Dublin. With his current band, he was playing a string of well-received gigs with Judas Priest, which was slated to…
Photo by JipsyJose El Rey takes a moment to be lone before his performance.To read past installments of Diary of a Flasher, click here. This week was a rock fest here in South Florida. First Slayer, then Def Leoppard? Besides going to the show to hear the music with fans,…
We’re all guilty of romanticizing the Sixties. We forget that the era defined by political struggle wasn’t always a big, naked party. Civil rights struggles, women’s rights, gay rights, and various Chicano movements battled deep-seated ignorance and hate. But the shifting social mores and revolutionary tone laid the foundation for…
The always awesome Respectable Street Café hosted a classic Southern California trifecta Saturday, August 8, featuring: Agent Orange, D.I., and Fear. Younger punk acts Bloodhook and Total Chaos also played. The end result: Bloodhook good; Total Chaos not so much. D.I. took the stage early, tearing up their set with…
The music business is one arena where absence definitely does not make the heart grow fonder. So although the Orange County act Sugar Ray dominated the charts in the ’90s — hits like “Fly,” “Every Morning,” “Someday,” “Falls Apart,” and “When It’s Over” — still have serious brain-sticking power. Still,…
Once the waiters start clearing the tables away from the front entrance of Delray hotspot Dada, it’s clear that it’s no longer tuna tartare time. (Well, the kitchen does stay open pretty darn late.) Local psychobilly trio Viva Le Vox has been maintaining a semi-regular first Friday residency at the…
Let’s go back, for a minute, to the year 1991. America seems like a much different place — except it really isn’t. The nation finds itself entrenched in war in the Middle East, with oil prices spiking and consumers scrambling. Everyone teeters on the brink of a vast and ominous…
The days of block parties characterized by rancid potato salad and screaming children have come to a timely end. The Sunset Blue Block Party is putting a new twist on the old-fashioned neighborhood soiree —one that involves cool blues and chilled booze. Sunday night, I sojourned deep into the humid…
Just got this link in my Facebook inbox regarding a track for free download from Blu Jemz and Induce. The track is definitely a little off the beaten path. It features a plodding, eight-bit-style bass line and some funny and ridiculous spoken entreaties to a lost love. The chorus is…
South Florida artists — with the exception of Rick Ross — continue to get high marks on the notoriously difficult-to-please music site Pitchfork. This time it is The Postmarks who manage to snag a 7.6 rating from reviewer Matthew Solarski. In the review for their latest album, Memoirs at the…
Clockwise, L-R: Producer Cyrus of NFG, engineer Ryan of Capsule, Oren of Jacobs Ladder (mostly hidden), Sammy of Jacobs LadderI stopped by the old standby Dungeon recording studio in North Miami Beach last week to visit local trio Jacobs Ladder, who were working steadily and meticulously on a new five-song…
via Molly Matalon’s FlickrSolid Sound Studios is a rehearsal studio in Broward off Powerline and Sample that hosts shows in the bottom floor rehearsal space. These consist of kid bookers basically just renting out the space (as it would usually be rented out), and finding local bands to play for…
A Sunday afternoon barbecue on South Beach is probably not the best place to interview a DJ, especially if the spinner’s been knocking back mojitos for a couple hours before you pose your questions. Then again, this is the Magic City, and a large part of its allure comes from…
Last week Head Spins brought you into the studio of WDNA, site of Gene de Souza’s long-running Café Brasil. As we said in the article, any Brazilian worth his or her weight in music pays a visit to the show when they hit town, and that included Adriana Calcanhotto, who…
photo by Jipsy, nefariousgirl.comTo read past installments of Diary of a Flasher, click here. Let’s be honest here for a second: I can’t be as honest as I would like to be when it comes to what really happens when I am out and about shooting away the nightlife. As…
It was 1979 and punk was being born again in the glitter-flecked primordial muck of Los Angeles. Late-blooming skinheads and bands like Black Flag, the Circle Jerks, and the Germs were bashing the West Coast hardcore scene into shape, using little more than blunt force. For most fans of aggro…
courtesy of Rephlektor InkBroward-based MC Dynas is one of the local hip-hop underground’s stealth forces. He may not perform every weekend at the usual suspect venues, but when he surfaces, it’s always with something worth stopping to listen to. Raised in New York City, his style is stamped with his…
To read past installments of Notes from the Soundboard, click here. One constant theme of this column is a fixation on bands and artists that somehow fell through the cracks that occur within pop music’s lengthy trajectory. That’s one hazard of rock’s rich repertoire — so many artists, but so…
via myspace.com/brisco305This is a little late, but we just got word from the City of Miami police that Brisco got got last Wednesday, in the middle of the afternoon, while trying to get a haircut at a barbershop at NW Sixth Avenue and NW 63rd Street. Four men invaded the…
As long as we’re talkin’ bout Maggotron, we might as well do the right thing and put some of his sounds in your earholes. Get ready for robot voices, vocoder effects, screw type vocals, movie quotes, scratch noises, more cowbell, and the drum patterns that now define old school…
The last time we checked in with the Weston-by-way-of-Bogota, brother-heavy indie act Old Wives’ Tale was this past June. Then, the band had just released its debut album, and was set to embark on a mini European tour. What we forgot to explain, though, is that the reason for the…
There was something bittersweet about catching Black Moth Super Rainbow at White Room on August 1. On the one hand, it was among the absolute best nights Poplife has ever put together. On the other hand, it was Poplife’s last Saturday-night stand at the venue. But boy, did the crew…
