Scorpions

It might surprise those who haven’t kept up with the hard-rock legends of yesteryear, but Scorpions never actually went away. In fact, with their current world tour, Get Your Sting and Blackout, they’re just now getting around to retiring. And they’re doing so in appropriately bombastic fashion, with worldwide dates…

Aeroplane

After a few years of eardrum-hammering from the relentless-banger-addicted sect of the indie/dance crossover scene, acts such as Aeroplane come as a welcome shot of sweetness and light. Hailing originally from the somewhat unlikely region of Wallonia — French-speaking Southern Belgium — the duo of Stephan Fasano and Vito Deluca…

Nekromantix

Melding the skronk of the Cramps with the grim stylings of Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Denmark’s Nekromantix have been swaying suggestible American kids into the dark and decadent waters of psychobilly since 2002’s debut, Night of the Loving Dead, on Hellcat Records. Prior to that, the bandmates had…

Smashing Pumpkins

Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan has a thousand stories to tell. The group’s only remaining original member helped found the Pumpkins in 1988 after relocating to his native Chicago from none other than St. Petersburg, Florida. He had moved to the Sunshine State briefly in ’85 after graduating from high…

Free Music: DJ Mix and MP3 From Aeroplane; Vagabond Gig This Friday

​After a couple years of eardrum-hammering from the relentless-banger-addicted sect of the indie/dance crossover scene, acts like Aeroplane come as a welcome shot of sweetness and light. Hailing originally from the somewhat unlikely region of Wallonia — that’s French-speaking Southern Belgium — the duo of Stephan Fasano and Vito Deluca…

Trent Cantrelle

New Orleans-born, L.A.-based DJ/producer Trent Cantrelle is a bit of a chameleon. His work generally leans toward the big, peak-hour style of progressive, as heard on tracks such as his recent release, “Siren Says,” but he’s also fully capable of going deep and dirty for a late-night set. Cantrelle’s mixes…

Nil Lara

Longtime Miami music fans approaching an impending “certain age” might forever speak wistfully about the early-’90s South Beach scene around the Stephen Talkhouse and the local star it birthed: Nil Lara. Yes, it was a hallowed time, and Lara, the scene’s perceived savior, almost broke it huge with his multiculti…

Chris Liebing

While Miami’s techno scene becomes increasingly robust, most of the major out-of-towners rolling through ply similarly minimal, relatively low-bpm styles. Still, an entire internationally growing subgenre has been largely ignored in the city, even during Winter Music Conference. So-called Schranz or hard techno hails from the same country — Germany…

Azalia Snail

What do you get when the equally weirdness-loving Roofless Records and Laundry Room Squelchers team up? This Thursday marks the first such promotional collaboration, but apparently it yields an awesome night of lo-fi, scuzzy, and experimental sounds that marry old-school with new. Representing the old-school is L.A. underground legend Azalia…

Miami Legend Nil Lara Plays Tobacco Road This Saturday

​Longtime Miami music fans approaching an impending “certain age” may forever speak wistfully about the early ’90s South Beach scene around the Stephen Talkhouse, and the local star it birthed: Nil Lara.Yes, it was a hallowed time, and Lara, the scene’s perceived saviour, almost broke it huge with his multiculti…

Get Totally Guitarded at Bar Tonight, Q&A with DJ G Or Die

“Totally Guitarded is a punk rock night at a cool Bar with cheap drinks. It’s the only punk night with all DJ’s, no bands.” That’s according to DJ G Or Die who later got so mad at us writing down everything he was saying that he called us stupid, accused…