We live in a world of technologically enabled hyperreality, where video games like Guitar Hero and Wii Fit can make simulated rock stars and Olympians out of the talentless unskilled sad sacks of the planet. So it should come as no surprise that the DJ experience is also now available…
Beings is the latest project from Miami musical standout Mike Alén (:nobuhjest:, Secret Service, Foreign Bodies, Map of the Universe, etc). The group has Beatriz Monteavaro (Floor, Cavity) on drums and Ivan Marchena (Bling Bling, Map of the Universe, etc.) on guitar and vocals, and is suitably noisy and catchy…
Selfishness is a good thing,” says Jeff Lloyd, guitarist and frontman for the Fort Lauderdale quintet the Heavy Pets. Lloyd, an avid reader, has recently finished Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead. And like all bright-eyed disciples of the objectivist author, he believes selfishness suffers from a bad rep. “It’s especially important…
I was leaning back on a fluffy white Tempur-Pedic mattress, sucking down a vodka tonic, and nibbling on a chocolate-covered strawberry. Past the overhead personal plasma screen TV and beyond the wall of bulletproof glass, I could make out the sexy silhouettes of gyrating partiers and hear the pulsating Daft…
photo by Jacqueline CariniDharma, leader of organicArmaLocal live electronic act organicArma are doubtless celebrating a wish come true. Band leader Dharma has long been an outspoken admirer of the New York art-electro-pop outfit Fischerspooner, hinting to me last winter that he wanted to book them to play at his expansive…
The Beatles’ Let It Be was a sign of the timesNotes from the Soundboard is a new column appearing every Wednesday on Crossfade, focused on pop music’s history and ongoing evolution. Lee Zimmerman shares insights and observations on how music continues to connect with the weirdness of the world. 1969 was,…
The fivesome Clock Hands Strangle are based a little further north, in Melbourne, but have increasingly ventured outside their hometown, recently playing in Miami for an in-store at Sweat. We should be seeing more of this band after the release of its forthcoming full-length, Distaccati. And to whet your appetite,…
NKOTB – so close, yet so farOh, this brings back memories of 1990, when New Kids tickets were impossible to get and the meanest girls in elementary school bragged when they could snag ’em. Tickets for NKOTB’s 2009 comeback tour were easier to buy, and lawn tickets for their Cruzan…
It seems like the world can’t shut up about Twitter lately. The micro-blogging network has exploded to over 25 million users already, what with celebrities like Oprah joining along with their mindless minion hordes. But beyond providing us with the irritating mundanities of our friends’ day to day lives, it…
Chris Conley, the creative force behind long-running New Jersey quartet Saves the Day, is a man who knows disappointment and loss. In fact, these feelings have been his stock in trade, at least for the first large chunk of his almost-15-year musical career. Conley is barely 29 years old but…
Status: Single Age: 25 Nightly injury: Collarbone The Friday night after New Times’ Beerfest was designated for me to meet up with the 21-year-old guy I had made out with in front of my coworkers. The hookup happened late-fest, when I was already blackout drunk from the vodka stand. So…
Are you already headed to the Coldplay show in West Palm Beach? Do you need another reason to make it out as the alt-rockers kick off their tour at Cruzan on May 15? Coldplay has announced that everyone who shows up to one of their shows in 2009 will receive…
Autonomous Bass HeadsMiami-Dade County brought us Bass as a genre. Shade and J-Nasty have not forgotten that bit of information. Collectively known as Autonomous Bass Heads (ABH), the duo has been rocking parties, big and small, mostly on the south side of town for some time now. Sometimes they throw…
Bars are pretty much like hunting grounds — everyone’s looking to trap a tight-tailed, doe-eyed trophy. Personally, I’m not a big fan of hunting in either sense of the word — barbarically gunning down a beautiful animal or relentlessly liquoring up some hottie at a bar. Something I could get…
SunFest Thursday, April 30, through Sunday, May 3, in downtown West Palm Beach along Flagler Drive from Banyan Boulevard to Lake Avenue. Gates open at 5 p.m. Thursday and Friday and at noon Saturday and Sunday. Tickets cost $10 to $65. Visit sunfest.com. Thursday, April 30 Citizen Cope 8:15 p.m…
Local DJ Jason Baez has been a fixture of Miami’s underground techno scene since he first began spinning on SoBe’s The Womb internet radio in 2005. He has since played in support of numerous techno parties around town, including a set at this year’s Saw Recordings & Oslo Records 9th…
Awesome New Republic’s new album is up for free on their website. It is really good. Check out this Miami pop band’s latest emission, Rational Geographic Volume I. They are infectious, often-talked about and very fun live. Of course, you probably already know this, because this rag always writes about…
Before the house turns totally to house music on Saturday nights in that downtown megaclub known as Space, all kinds of other action is kicking throughout the joint. A lot of that action goes down out on the club’s infamous terrace, under the stars and in the shadow of a…
DJ Lopera, part of Miami’s expat Colombian techno mafia, first got exposed to electronic dance music as a student in Germany, which makes it no surprise that he’s a great proponent of the minimal sound. Having gained massive popularity in the early 2000’s as a resident DJ in some of…
It seems as though the quaint little archway at the front of Hibiscus House serves as a magic portal that lands visitors squarely in Key West. It was early evening when I wandered up to the wraparound porch of the yellow Victorian-style house (complete with white picket fence!). I checked…
For the better part of two decades, 311 has been cranking out album after album and trotting almost nonstop around the globe. Of the band’s eight albums, four went gold, one went platinum and one triple platinum. And oh yeah, it had seven singles that hit the Top 10 on…
Café Bustelo’s iconic can is getting a makeover. That’s right, the instantly recognizable red and yellow facade that cafecito drinkers have groped for first thing in the bleary-eyed morning for the past 80 years will look somewhat different as the recently unveiled cans begin to pop up around the country. …
