James Bratton and Tom Gorrio are a force to be reckoned with. They’ve only been a Miami band since February, and they’ve already scheduled an 18-city tour for the summer. But first the former Call it Radar and Boy and the Wolf bandmates want to get their feet wet in…
These four shows in the Broward-Palm Beach area slated for Friday evening appeal to four drastically different demographics, and none would be characterized as casual.Erica K. Landau on drum and bass legend Roni Size:”Mirroring the dark, smoky, sweaty underbelly of ravers’ paradise, Size’s music contains what sounds like a lot…
It feels like only yesterday when Jacksonville locals Black Kids released their first single “I’m not going to teach your boyfriend how to dance with you” in April of ’08. Since then, their debut album, Partie Traumatic, has reached worldwide acclaim, landing them the #5 spot of UK Album charts…
Local jam outfit the Heavy Pets have a CD release party set for Saturday evening at the Culture Room. The gig celebrates the band’s second full-length album, a self-titled affair. Download the album at their site, and get out and groove with them tomorrow. Keyboardist Jim Wuest is understandably pumped…
Miami indie darlings ANR and MillionYoung are leaving town. They’re both going on an East Coast tour with big cities like New York and Chicago on the slate. MillionYoung even has shows planned for Canada, France, Berlin, Denmark, and London all the way through July. Who knows when they’re coming…
Puerto Rico is known for a lot of things–salsa, rum, mofongo and a perhaps a slightly overblown pride in their flag (c’mon people, on the back of the car, hanging from the rearview and on your hat, all at once?) chief among them. Perhaps a little less, reggae. Of course,…
We’ve all been to some kind of jam session–whether it be in a garage band’s garage, an intimate club or a full-on jam at a music festival. But bands usually only cover one or two songs. Not freestylin’, rhyme spittin’ ArtOfficial.Their new 12-track album “The Payback” (released April 23) covers…
Van MorrisonHard Rock Live, Hollywood Wednesday, May 5, 2010 Preceded by a reputation as one of contemporary music’s most distinctive voices – as well as one of its most curmudgeonly characters — Van Morrison’s first visit to South Florida in recent memory promised to be an auspicious event. After all,…
Pulling off the whole big-room commercial house music thing without falling into the lowest common denominator is no easy feat. (We’re looking at you, David Guetta.) Nevertheless, the Shapeshifters have succeeded in finding that difficult balance between mainstream appeal and true musical quality. The West London DJ/production duo of Simon…
There is little that’s revolutionary, either politically or musically, about Buena Fe, the Cuban duo of Rojas Fiel and Yoel Martínez Rodríguez. Perhaps that’s because the two are truly products of the studiously apolitical pop music scene in late Castro Cuba; they formed as a musical act in 1999 and…
The last three Tuesdays of May see Jazid hosting performers of the type of music that gave the venue its name. Local promoter KCC Productions has brought back jazz to Washington Avenue with a series of weekly shows that, let’s hope, will provide a regular gig for local fans and…
Roni Size was the champion of drum ‘n’ bass through the late ’90s and early ’00s, one of the closest figures the scene had to a mainstream star. His watershed album was 1997’s New Forms, which he recorded with Reprezent, a drum ‘n’ bass collective he founded. After the album’s…
Electric Bunnies have been disappointingly quiet lately, but while the band hibernates, erstwhile member Teepee has taken flight as a solo artist. Born Eric Lopez-Zareno, he’s also sometimes known as That Guy Who Seems to Play in Every Band That Ever Plays at the American Legion. His solo work, however,…
Now, I don’t pretend to understand physics. Writers are inherently bad at math and sciences of all forms. So when I say I get Elastic Bond, you can take it for granted I’m not referring to a complex concept of atomic physics dealing with the distance between particles in a…..
Aha! Those crazy punk rock kids are at it again! The combined forces of Churchill’s Pub and The Firefly join again to serve up another dumpster-dived weekend of sheer musical terror and delight known as 305 Fest. It’s a complete and total celebration of all things punk and D.I.Y. about…
In what can only be explained as a case of the people speaking and the venue listening, it seems that at least, for the month of May, jazz is back in its full smoky glory to South Beach’s Jazid. It kind of makes sense, doesn’t it? KCC Production’s Kimberly Chmura’s…
Four and five star VIP ticket packages equipped with meet-and-greets, photo ops, a pre-show party and “an exclusive NKOTB gift” have officially sold out for next Thursday’s New Kids on the Block show at the Fillmore.I’ve been a New Kids on the Block fan since I was about six. I…
I first witnessed Teepee’s Eric Lopez-Zareno in all his synthy greatness at Cinema Sounds 6. For most of the performance I couldn’t even see him (blame it on my sitting at the upper level, or his sitting down throughout his performance), and wondered how his music could make something so…
There’s old, and then there’s old school. The differentiating factor lies in the degree of coolness to oldness, or the CTO ratio, if you will. Gustavo Cerati is neither. The cat is straight up out of school. Now, we could wax jargon all day to hash out how that works…
Jovi Rockwell is one of the most talented people you’ll meet. Hailing from Jamaica, her island roots are deep and intact to her sound and her presence. She has been in between Miami and Jamaica for a number of years now, but does call Miami her “home…” Well, at least…
Nas and Damian “Jr. Gong” MarleySunFestWest Palm Beach WaterfrontSunday, May 2, 2010View a slideshow of SunFest 2010’s final day here.A hip-hop act’s sets rarely last more than 45 minutes, and perhaps that’s why Nas launched into his blistering tag-team set with reggae superstar Damian Marley with the title track from…
Deep house has been dominating electronic dance music after its recent resurgence in the prolific German scene, from which most of the world takes its stylistic cues in the new millennium. Artists like Henrik Schwarz, however, have been fostering this style for close to a decade, earning a sudden new…
