Mike Banger subscribed to our You Tube channel. He’s a talented music dude. Here’s the interview.New Times: How’d you get your nameMike Banger: You may know the slang term “banger” when speaking of a hard track. Well, when I first began producing I made nothing but hard mean heavy colossal…
New Jersey’s Streetlight Manifesto deserves a couple of props. First, for still carrying the torch of third-wave ska as it was largely played at its tail end in the late 1990s: in a group of many, many musicians, and with a heavy punk edge. Second, for remaining pretty much the…
While some local artists lament the lack of live-music venues, Broward’s rockabilly phenomenon, Slip Mahoney, feels this is the right kind of town for him. “In cities like Austin, there are so many bands that artists end up playing for free,” the 50-year-old Mahoney says in a sharp Southern drawl…
No not those designer drugs. We’re talking about Designer Drugs the DJ duo from New York. Half of the team played Miami’s Monday-night Exposure party at White Room this past September. Now the duo is set to return to South Florida this Thursday, where it’ll take over the decks at…
Funplex, released last year, is the B-52s’ first album in 16 years. It pumps up the volume, cranks the guitars, and rocks harder than anything the veteran group has done since its 1979 debut. There’s nothing here as sweet or as catchy as “Roam” or “Love Shack,” both of which…
With a name like Blue Martini, you’d expect it to be the kind of place where you could stare down into a potent concoction and mourn the bad economy, a bad breakup, or just the fact that your father doesn’t love you (and he still doesn’t, sucker). But Blue Martini…
One of the best things about South Florida has to be the wide array of music available to dance to on any given night. Forget “open format,” whatever that really means. Sometimes the best music is true to its roots — a specific genre, done up right by a DJ…
These days, there are few better ways for a band to achieve instant recognition than by having a song featured on a TV commercial. And when said song happens to be hyping a product as ubiquitous as the iPod, well, that recognition is pretty much bound to be bountiful. So…
“Brooklyn,” as the day manager of the Vagabond is known, has done and seen it all around the South Florida music scene since arriving from New York 12 years ago. Catch him occasionally in Outtakes and every Wednesday on CrossFade, New Times’ music blog, at BrowardMusic.com.What I would like to…
New York City hardcore legends Agnostic Front definitely still bring it: The guys are still as loud and confrontational as always, even with their wrinkles, gray hair, and degenerating vision. Well-into-their-50s principals Roger Miret (vocals) and Vinnie Stigma (guitar) — who, inspired by the likes of Black Flag and Bad…
The Miami New Times Groove On Battle Of The Bands would have sent the competition’s winner to the stage of the Langerado Music Festival, but the communist business-hippies behind that event got scared and pulled the plug on the show last minute, so battle winners are flying to and staying…
Locos Por Juana, considered by many to be Miami’s best Latin band, makes their way to La La Land today for a string of performances surrounding the 51st Annual Grammy Awards. Whether their getting the crowd going at one of the city’s many festivals or barring the entrance to Jazid…
The Miami-based grind outfit Maruta is staying busy (as always) with an upcoming split with Fistula on Animosity Records and a tour with Crowpath in May. Also look for them at Maryland Death Fest, the Auditory Assault Fest in Brooklyn, and at the Midwest Fuckfest. If you don’t know what…
via www.epitaph.comNew Found Glory has announced an April 14 date at Revolution in support of the band’s upcoming album, Not Without a Fight. Slated for release on March 10, the disc is NFG’s sixth studio release, and its first on Epitaph records. The South Florida natives have been blasting out…
Jose D. DuranCirca 28’s former home to become the Electric Pickle.The sudden closure of Circa 28 late last year came as a shock to us. However, after the bar parted ways with Sweat Records’ Lolo Reskin, Circa’s Saturday nights were never really the same. By the end, Safe promoter Diego…
via www.myspace.com/bluestravelerYes. Blues Traveler is still around. Long ago frontman John Popper graduated from the more-is-more school of blues-rock jamming, his dissertation a seven-minute harmonica solo tucked into a 23-minute jam about a sweet-talking hippie. Since 1990 he’s led the band in diligent touring and understatement-free recordings, including an album…
Okay, St. Augustine is pretty damn far from here. And half of the bands on the Harvest of Hope festival bill, well, we’ve never heard of them. However, if you overwhelmed with a sense of loss after Langerado’s cancellation, or just feel like a road trip, this one may be…
There was a lot of talk this morning of Langerado 2009 being cancelled, but before we started spreading rumors we wanted to hear it directly from the source. Unfortunately, we found out that the rumors were indeed true. There are many probable factors as to why the festival got the…
Miami is in for a special techno lovers’ treat this Valentine’s — esteemed Berlin-based producer, DJ, and Wagon Repair label owner Konrad Black, will be throwing down at Glass at The Forge on the night of February 14. This exclusive performance comes on the first leg of Black’s debut 2009…
Forgive us Miami. For the past few days, a Rick Ross/50 Cent war of the words has been all over the internets and we’re just getting around to reporting on it. Blame it on the fact that a headline containing “Curtis Jackson” and “beef” made us think that it was…
The South Florida Music Scene blog is a digital archive of as much as you can humanly find of what has gone on down here. There are old flyers, articles, digitized records, videos, shit like that. Here’s how the “About Me” section of the blog reads.”This blog is meant to…
via www.krsone.orgKRS-One’s been no stranger to South Florida, playing a couple of gigs at Miami’s now-defunct Studio A over the past couple of years. He’s coming back, but this time a little further north, to City Limits in Delray Beach. The show presents something of a musical (although perhaps not…
