Killswitch Engage are pretty high on my list of bands I’d like to party with. The Massachusetts-based quintet are infamous for drinking lots of cheep bear, causing fun trouble, and reveling in the sort of sarcastic humor that earns their home state’s natives the label of “Masshole.” At the initial…
By Andy Vihstadt Separated at Birth Greg Dulli and Mark Lanegan premiered the first material from their Gutter Twins project on MySpace last week. The duo, dubbed as the “Satanic Everly Brothers,” will be releasing Saturnalia on Sub Pop on March 4. Get on their space to stream a couple…
Andy Williams, guitarist for the Buffalo, New York-based quartet Every Time I Die, is an imposing physical presence for sure. With a close-cropped head, arms covered with a patchwork of tattoos, and a bushy beard, he’s described by tourmate Greg Puciato of Dillinger Escape Plan as “a beast” “When you…
Dillinger Escape Plan are sort of like a band of vikings, blazing through a town in a maelstrom of chaos that leave the feeble shivering in a puddle of their own secretions. Think noise, destruction, flames — literally, frontman Greg Puciato has been known to shoot fireballs from the stage…
Taj Mahal Let’s put aside the tried clichés that dictate steel drums, congas, and clanky Caribbean rhythms for this one. Oh yeah, let’s get down and dirty. Let’s run amok on a cruise with all the inflection and goodness only a rhythm and blues revue can bring. And don’t get…
I have to admit, a few times while sort of fuzzy-headed, possibly with a pounding headache, I’ve driven down Biscayne a few times on a Saturday afternoon and groggily wondered, “Hmmm, what’s all the fuss in front of the Carnival Center?” Well, my dumb ass completely forgot that, hello, the…
Hoodstock 2008 Saturday, January 3, 2008 James L. Knight Center Better Than: Watching Senator Clinton trying desperately to be funny during ABC’s Democratic Debate. While the Nation transfixed their eyes on their television screens, enraptured by both the Republican and Democrat Debates in New Hampshire over the weekend, it was…
The West Virginia-born saxophonist Marion Meadows first appeared locally at Arturo Sandoval’s Jazz Club last fall. For this time around, he plans to stick with what worked last time. “It will be the same formula, the same kind of thing that worked last time,” he says by phone. “Not many…
With In Rainbows the talk of the music industry, and the album’s official debut Tuesday at #1 on the charts, Thom Yorke and co. are ridin’ high. So, it’s time for another tour. And, lucky Miami, they’re gracing us with their presence. Of course, leave it to Radiohead to keep…
Ever since Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, and other Jamaican performers began spreading reggae beyond their Caribbean island, the music’s influence has been felt around the globe. Legends like Gilberto Gil, Paul McCartney, and Mick Jagger famously dabbled in the genre, but its impact is perhaps most compelling around Latin musicians,…
It may be more than a month before Mardi Gras, but South Florida-based Monkeykrewe has no problem scratching its New Orleans itch a little early. Centered around performances by the krewe’s favorite band — the Radiators — this three-day series of shows also brings the Wild Magnolias and an introductory…
“I wrote that song in about an hour on some good kush,” Miami-born hip-hop superstar Rick Ross says as we sit in the entertainment room of his new mansion in Davie on a recent Saturday night. He’s talking about his 2006 breakaway hit “Hustlin’,” which catapulted Ross into the hip-hop…
Dewey Cox? Yes, we remember him. But not without hesitation. There may be renewed interest in Cox in the wake of the new film Walk Hard, and he may be strutting about the Roxy all reenergized, playing the hits, trying to act like the ’80s never happened. But he doesn’t…
When you’re in a world-famous rock band, having your frontman meet an unexpected demise can really turn into a major annoyance. At the very least, it makes you rethink your future. Take what happened when Jim Morrison OD’d in that Paris bathtub — the remaining Doors gamely put out two…
It’s Thursday afternoon in Athens, Georgia, and the four members of the highly energetic jam band Perpetual Groove are loading the van and heading down to South Florida. It’s 20 degrees there, 40 degrees here, and the thought of sailing off to Honduras and Mexico is the only thing that’s…
In his spare time, when he’s not dodging jail sentences or fighting with his supermodel girlfriends, habitual drug abuser Pete Doherty makes music. But he really hasn’t recorded anything worth listening to since the Libertines completed their second album three years ago — right around the time Doherty’s life fell…
Remember when you’d buy a really good seven-inch record and you played the shit out of it for a couple of months before you began to wonder if your crappy needle was gonna do a number on the wax? I don’t (cuz I have a good needle), but I do…
Before assuming his frayed, pony-tailed persona and long before the superstardom he snared in the ’70s, Willie Nelson was just another strait-laced, short-haired Nashville tunesmith cranking out hits for others. His songs — “Crazy,” “Funny How Time Slips Away,” “Hello Walls,” and “Night Life” among them — went on to…
Detroit DJ legend Kevin Saunderson knows how to keep a dance floor packed from the wee hours of the night until early morning. He’s been DJing all over the globe and pioneering various styles of techno for the past 25 years, and he specializes in producing a hard-edged form of…
Like his reportedly shady past, Los Angeles glam-rap sensation Mickey Avalon’s live shows are fast becoming legendary among jaded clubgoers. Live, he’s smashed a bottle over his head and engaged in not-so-simulated sex with a sultry backup dancer. At gigs on his home turf, there have been fights, a new…
Last Thursday night, a soul-music extravaganza took place inside the Culture Room in Fort Lauderdale. Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings played to a sold-out crowd and let music lovers know that real soul doesn’t have to be retro. The Dap-Kings, a tight group from Brooklyn, have been gaining a heap…
Say what you will about his hair-metal pedigree. Talk dismissively about his being firmly ensconced in the reality-TV wasteland (Supergroup, Celebrity Rap Superstar, I Married Sebastian Bach, etc.). The truth is, ex-Skid Row frontman Sebastian Bach has a great fucking voice, a powerful, distinctive wail that’s typically the best aspect…
