They’ve been making progressive metal for almost 30 years now, and they simply can’t stop. Dream Theater is hitting the road again, promoting their 10th studio album “Black Clouds & Silver Linings”. DT’s first stop of the two month North American tour is at The Fillmore in Miami. But DT…
Really, the Horrorpops show tonight is going to be more of an event than a concert. Even if you lose your hearing just before walking through Culture Room’s doors, you’re in for a hell of a good time. Horrorpops is an extremely high energy New Wave/punk/goth/metal/rockabilly/any other genre you care…
Sloane Peterson offers the kind of pop-punk that sticks in the back of your head and makes you hum along. At its best, you’ll be singing along by the end of a song — the first time you hear it. This Miami-based act features players from much heavier projects, like…
photo by Tom Falcone, via victoryrecords.comIf you’ve got a hankering for some independent pop music, the Talent Farm has you covered this Friday. Philadelphia natives the Scenic, who recently signed to Victory Records, are currently touring the U.S. promoting their latest album, Find Yourself Here. It’s as straightforward as a…
Jane’s AddictionA Cabinet of Curiositieswww.janesaddiction.comJane’s Addiction is of those bands that, although its members don’t especially like each other anymore, wields an influence simply too great to allow the band to stay broken up. The game-changing L.A. quartet that treated alternative rock like heavy metal (and vice versa) is now…
Obsessive followers of Maynard James Keenan — the elusive brains behind Tool, A Perfect Circle, and Puscifer — know that beyond Bill Hicks and artsy heavy music, his other passion is wine. Indeed, recent magazine profiles on Keenan have usually found him in rural Arizona, where he lives on a…
The Soultech folks will be celebrating their one – year anniversary this Wednesday night at Skybar with a special performance by Argy. Greek-born Argyris Theofilis was born only in 1985, if you can believe it — pretty much around the same time that his precursors were pioneering the first sounds…
Talk about your WTF moments: Miami DJ Danny Daze (Rokbar/Dirty Hairy) will be providing the tunes for Live with Regis & Kelly this week as they air live from the Fontainebleau in Miami Beach. Their temporary relocation starts tomorrow and goes through Thursday.Unfortunately (or fortunately, for some), tickets are long…
Well, it is upon us once again–Cinco de Mayo, that most special of Mexican holidays revered in the states. Mexicans themselves don’t really celebrate it any more than we do Earth Day, but what the hell do they know? So it doesn’t actually commemorate Mexico’s Independence (that’s in September). It…
Miami’s hardest-working MC, Garcia, has never made any bones about the fact that he loves porn. His promo photos are often full of booty-licious, scantily clad women (just look at the background on his MySpace page), and his last album, Life Unscripted, featured a track whose refrain went, “I wanna…
Ian WitlenMoshing was alive and well at SunFest 2009.While it might not have the clout of other local musical festivals like Ultra or the temporarily (we hope) defunct Langerado, SunFest still keeps attracting South Floridians looking for a more family friendly event. That’s not to say SunFest doesn’t have an…
Switchblade BoogalooSo Alain Maximilien, a.k.a. the Haitian Hillbilly, is throwing down what he refers to as “an extended version of a soundtrack to a Quentin Tarantino movie” tonight, and hopefully every Monday forthcoming, at SoBe’s Buck 15. As usual there is no cover at the cozy bar located on top…
Sam & Dave are the legendary soul men behind songs such as, well, “Soul Man,” and “Hold On, I’m Coming.” If you’ve ever watched TV, seen a movie, or listened to the radio, then you’ve heard em. But did you know these guys cut their teeth on the Overtown and…
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…
Legendary New Orleans musician Dr. John and The Lower 911 are bringing a whole new type of funk to the Seminole Casino Coconut Creek. Dr. John mixes jazz, funk, R&B, and psychedelic rock, then cooks it up with some serious voodoo vibes and captivates audiences. Joining Dr. John is Fort…
Today, PG-13, aka Paul Gaeta, releases his second record into the wild: Panther God (click here for a preview). Really it should be his fourth , but between his 2007 debut, the humbly titled Seven Songs for my Friends and the beginning of God’s creation some thieves broke into his…
Can’t take Tuesday and Wednesday off next week to properly celebrate Cinco de Mayo? Shame on you and your responsibility-driven self. Pangaea and Gryphon in the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino knows that you can’t always usurp your responsibilities for hours of getting drunk for no discernible reason, so…
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…
via MySpaceSo I was chillin’ in my friend Eric’s basement with our crew, Donna, Hyde, Kelso, and our wacky foreigner, FES the other day and we were like, “hey Eric, you know what’d be cool? If Red let us bring beer down here! AND if we could bring cool-ass bands…
A coalition of Miami’s local techno talent can be found this Saturday night playing under one roof at the grand opening of the new weekly Techno Loft party at Space. This opening will double as a CD release party for local producer Simon Wish’s new “Road To Berlin” record on…
Logan FazioGym Class Heroes performing at the re-opening of the Clevelander in South Beach. Click here to view the full slide show.The Academy Is… and Gym Class HeroesThursday, April 30, 2009 Clevelander, Miami BeachLife doesn’t get any better than this, really. Thursday night, ground zero for a par-tay was a brand…
JipsyWe’re guessing someone really did become a woman at last night’s quince party at the Vagabond. Click here for the full slide show.What’s going on here? We know your standard quince is about a young girl turning into a woman, but we don’t think it suppose to be this literal…
