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…
Miami’s Ex-Norwegian channels power-pop of the past.Starting Sunday, the local-music haven Propaganda will officially celebrate its grand opening with the best recent lineup of South Florida acts I’ve seen since the opening of the IWAN concept facility theBUBBLE. Sure that wasn’t too long ago, but cheers to keeping the momentum.Sunday:…
Sex, Cameras and Hip Hop talks dirty with models, strippers, rappers, and people on the street and captures their responses to sex questions. Young Jeezy tells a story about a stripper breaking into his house. It looks like some of it is filmed in Miami. Gloria Velez, who Uncle Luke…
Cage the Elephant could be on the cusp of something huge. Over the last couple years, they’ve gone from a relatively unknown alternative/punk/blues band from Kentucky to signing with EMI records, playing at South by Southwest, and last month they appeared on The Late Show with David Letterman. They’ve got…
Marques Wyatt gets deep at Electric PickleFriday, August 7*Soulful house great Marques Wyatt spins at Electric Pickle in Miami, with support from local favorites Djinji Brown and Tomas Ceddia. Admission is just $10 before midnight. Click here for full details. *Orlando indie rock favorites XOXO play Propaganda in Lake Worth…
Altruism and philanthropy are rare things in the hedonistic world of electronic dance music and club culture, where we’re all too busy dancing away and self-indulging to care for any real world causes. That is why Musical Missionary’s first installment for new “Dance for a Cause” charity fundraiser at the…
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…
New Orleans based swamp rockers The Radiators are coming back to South Florida on November 6 and 7 to play at Culture Room. It’s rare that a band originally formed in 1978 would still be playing shows at all, but The Radiators take that one step further. They’re still playing…
Soulful, sultry and 100 percent heartfelt, Lizette Santana’s music is as much a product of her upbringing as her very personality, and it seems almost as though the two are one and the same. Her recently released debut album Aun Sueño En Ti (I Still Dream of You) is a…
To read past installments of South Florida According to Brooklyn, click here. I attended the local stop of the Warped Tour, on Saturday, July 25 at the Cruzan Amphitheatre in West Palm Beach, and was disappointed that no one really watched Bad Religion. I don’t get it! These guys are…
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…
Post hardcore band Thursday will be bringing their sing-scream-sing combination to Revolution Live on October 22. Thursday’s latest album Common Existence is a concept album of sorts. They didn’t exactly try to evolve their sound, but instead wrote songs that reflected some of the band’s favorite poets and authors like…
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…
Are you ready for another punk rock show? Of course you are! Strung Out, The Flatliners, and Pour Habit are making their way to Culture Room on October 8. Strung Out released their second B-Sides and rarities album, Prototypes and Painkillers, earlier this year and are working on a new…
Alexander Tsotsos a.k.a. Gummihz is a Greek-born and Berlin-based DJ/producer who has garnered much praise from the international dance community in recent years. Drawing inspiration from a variety of musical styles– including disco, jazz, and the whimsical sounds of chanson — his floor-friendly techno productions have been critically-acclaimed for their…
via myspace.com/dmxIt’s been three years since the last studio offering from the famously volatile DMX. That seeming artistic dry spell starting in 2006 saw just a couple of greatest-hits type releases and a few film appearances. The last we really heard of DMX locally was this past December, when he…
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…
When a state’s revenue shrinks, usually funding for the arts takes the biggest lance from the budget blade. That’s why groups like Delray Beach’s Square One are so critically important for the survival of places like Delray’s Old School Square Cultural Arts Center. The organization, composed of young urban professionals…
Arsonist In Constant Motion Self-released arsonistmusic.com This 11-track disc by local band Arsonist rocks with proper inflections of shoegaze, post-punk, Hialeah rock, and solid indie know-how. And Miami’s Rimsky lends vocals to two tracks. Awesome. Jorge Ubieta (bass/keys) and Alejandro Tuesta (drums) put down an almost whimsical rhythm foundation for…
