On Friday, August 21, Col. Bruce Hampton will bring his inspired, improvisation rock to Revolution in Fort Lauderdale. He’s a jam band hero who helped form the highly influential ’90s H.O.R.D.E. tours. With H.O.R.D.E., he employed future jam band all-stars Oteil Burbridge (Allman Brothers Band), Jimmy Herring (Widespread Panic) as…
Mexico City, by Daniel Araujo from their MyspaceDamn Son! Vivian Girls are playing Propaganda up in Lake Worth in October. I don’t know if Steve is doing these shows or what, but this place is really coming into its own with this booking. This band is pretty damn good and…
A few months ago I wrote about the new anti-tether law that Joe Sanchez got approved in Miami-Dade County this past March. That was a step in the right direction to protect who can’t speak for themselves. That was real progress. Which is why I’m even more pissed off, in…
via shwayze.comThose who frequent too many Internet gossip sites might forever (in Internet years, anyways) associate Cisco Adler with a certain waist-down photo that circulated a couple years back. That’s okay though. Here in South Florida, land of a thousand chances, the one thing blog notoriety guarantees is the opportunity…
Me teleporting to shows everywhereSo after weeks of very little excitement as far things that I would like to do, all of a sudden this weekend is chock full of some of my favorite things.First off Lucas Leyva and a few names I associate with the Borscht Film Festival, as…
The OP Presents tour is making a stop at Revolution Live on November 5. That means those of you who missed Boys Like Girls (who are slated to release their next album, Love Drunk, on September 8), Cobra Starship, or The Maine last time they came have a second shot…
Marjorie Migliaccio, a.k.a. Bloody Mary, is Berlin techno’s newest femme fatale. The French-born DJ/producer first signed to Sender Records in 2006, and after three years of hard work, staking her place in the European underground dance scene, she is now touring the globe in support of her 2009 release of…
PitbullThat’s right Mr. Egg Whites, a.k.a. Mr. 305 a.k.a. Pitbull, got the keys to this wonderful city yesterday. I just saw this in the Miami Herald and you know it’s true if it’s in the Herald. They are master fact checkers and all that. All I know is that LMFAO…
Sometimes you want to go where everyone knows your name, and sometimes you’d rather disappear into a crowd of new and unfamiliar people. Tequila Ranch is the latter. Maybe it’s because the enormous restaurant and bar is located in the heart of the sprawling Hard Rock Hotel and Casino property…
You can take the name of Sweat Records, Miami’s against-all-odds bastion of independent culture, in different ways. You might sweat that Beat Happening/Screaming Trees split 12-inch the place just got in stock; you might sweat on the car ride over to get it. But it was never co-proprietor Lauren “Lolo”…
Yes, we’ve been dropping some serious ink on Lake Worth’s on-the-money music joint Propaganda for some time now. So, you might ask, what’s all this hullaballoo about a grand-opening week at this already established venue? According to the place’s booking and promoting sensei, Steve Rullman, they were awaiting final approval…
Change in all its forms is fascinating, and particularly so in music. Bands (hopefully) change from tour to tour and album to album, even if it’s just with a revamped, retooled stage performance. This is precisely why I was curious to see how the guys of Incubus had rewired their…
Why try to originally opine on the sounds of the heavy Miami trio Vultures are Wolves when the band’s MySpace page is so darn descriptive? There, you will find that they tag themselves as being appropriate for fans of “repulsive uncontrolled chaos,” and sounding like “blasts of bloated diarrhea spit.”…
Today, South Florida’s best indie-pop exports, the Postmarks, play international-caliber festivals and receive glowing reviews from everyone who matters. Their trajectory of success has been impressively swift: Only three years ago, the band was just a tiny music project inside Christopher Moll’s Coral Springs home studio. But then came the…
Mondays suck. And arbitrarily, I have decided that the best cure for a shitty Monday is something tall and green. Of course, if the Incredible Hulk, Statue of Liberty, and Kermit the Frog (on significant steroids) are not readily available, you might have to make do with a strong, savory,…
Pompano Beach-based threesome Band Number 12 is largely an under-the-radar local act for now, but the band’s appeal lies in its overall mood, a sort of wistful, drink-dampened nostalgia for relationships that, in retrospect, were probably actually not that good. It’s no surprise, then, that the band was born, more…
When it comes to roots-rock-reggae music, few old-school legends who are still touring have the pedigree for great songwriting that Don Carlos possesses. Although he’s often overshadowed by more popular Jamaican reggae singers like Burning Spear and Toots Hibbert, Carlos started out in the same era (early ’70s) and arguably…
Surfacing in 2006 as part of the genius Snakes on a Plane marketing barrage, bandleader Gabe Saporta (formerly of emo outfit Midtown) won the hearts of cult-film buffs and asymmetrically coifed teenyboppers with the flamboyant, deliberately hammy anthem “Bring It (Snakes on a Plane).” Since then, Cobra Starship has enjoyed…
The IWAN concept facility The Bubble in downtown Fort Lauderdale will be hosting another event Saturday starting at 7 p.m. Except this show will break somewhat from the indie rock/punk that usually fills the space and show some love for the metal heads of South Florida. Opener Lazer Beast describes…
Can I Say II Mark Pollack, who is my former partner in crime in punk rock and HC shows, as well as a mainstay in the music scene, is putting on another excellent and free event for those in the Broward County area. It’s happening again at Cinema Paradiso on…
Even after 33 years together, The Dirty Dozen Brass Band simply doesn’t stop touring. Between playing around 30 festivals a year, DDBB also headlines their own shows and has recorded 16 albums since 1984. Although their sounds hasn’t changed much since they started, it’s far from being stagnant. They’ve added…
The final, frenzied countdown to party time has begun. In exactly three days, the Magic City’s most discerning club rats — and fanatical apparel collectors — will swarm the Awarehouse for Saturday’s Sweat X Iggy Pop T-Shirt Release. (If you haven’t yet RSVP-ed, get on the list right now. Note:…
