Concert Review: OK Go at Design Miami/

​To view a full slideshow of this event, click here. OK GoDesign Miami/December 3, 2009Better Than: Stan Brakhage chewing bubblegum — or just as good, anyway.With all the mad dash that was Art Basel, I sadly only had time enough to catch OK Go perform one song in their five-day Design…

Concert Announcements: Brooks & Dunn and Black Eyed Peas

The most successful musical duo ever, Brooks & Dunn, are calling it quits. After selling about a bazillion records, playing every major city in the world, and winning a couple dozen awards, Kix and Ronnie have decided enough is enough. At least after one last tour… If you’re a fan…

Nightlife Review: Ghostly International 10 Year Anniversary Party, December 5

​Ghostly International 10 Year Anniversary PartyWhite Room, MiamiSaturday, December 5, 2009Better than: Any record label party this side of WMC.Despite the unfavorable weather most of Saturday, things cleared up enough for Miami to enjoy partying al fresco at what was surely the greatest White Room turnout all year. Ghostly International apparently…

Wolfgang Gartner Plays Mansion on Saturday

In the world of short-lived electronic dance music fads, electro house is pretty much dead, extinguished by the very intensity with which it alighted on the international dance music scene in 2006-2008. The same brash and abrasive over-the-top sound that made electro house exciting a couple years ago — when…

Concert Review: Gang Gang Dance at Max Fish Miami, December 4

Gang Gang DanceMax Fish, MiamiFriday, December 4, 2009Better than: Seeing the band play in a hall way closet, yet also better than seeing them play at a spacious festival.The Review:I want to thank the people who continually stepped on my shoes, the guy who unintentionally gave me a vertical lap…

Raffa and Rainer CD Release for No Mercy December 18

Raffa Jo Harris and Rainer Davies aka Raffa and Rainer have finally completed their follow up to 2005’s Stolen Coal. The 11 track long player, No Mercy, was recorded on and off over the past two years at various locations in the Magic City and features over 30 different musicians…

Buzz Bake Sale Preview: Our Lady Peace

Our Lady Peace is probably the most underrated band playing the Buzz Bake Sale tomorrow. Yeah, they’ve sold over five million albums, enjoyed relative success in the late ’90s, and are revered in their homeland (notch another one for Canada). But aside from their flash of mainstream popularity in the…

Buzz Bake Sale Preview: Metric

The first couple times I heard Metric, I couldn’t stand the singer’s voice. Bands with female lead singers who have airy, over processed voices are becoming grating to me, a guy who grew up using Riot Grrl bands as my measuring stick for female vocal performances. Then I heard Metric’s…

Buzz Bake Sale Preview: :30 Seconds to Mars

Let’s hope this blog post doesn’t ruin anything for :30 Seconds to Mars fans. It’s been said that if venues used the fact Hollywood dream-boat Jared Leto heads this band, he’ll flat out refuse to play the show. I guess we’re safe since we’re clearly not the venue promoting, instead…

Buzz Bake Sale Preview: Chevelle

No matter how hard the members of Chevelle try, they won’t be able to run away from certain parts of their past or comparisons to other bands. Face it, when you sign with a Christian Rock label and have your first album distributed through Christian book stores, you’re going to…

Art Basel Music: Radio Slave and Argy Play Grass Lounge Tonight

As if SAFE hadn’t won over enough hearts this weekend by serving up the Ghostly International 10 Year Anniversary Party at White Room on Saturday night, they have a veritable techno extravaganza in store for Miami tonight at Grass Lounge in the Design District, featuring Radio Slave and Argy, along…

Baby Anne Plays Respectable Street Wednesday, December 23

DJ Baby Anne started her career as the Queen of Bass in, where else, Orlando, but that doesn’t mean she hasn’t made a gazillion appearances in South Florida over the last 17 years. A major draw for the underground electronica community, the foxy producer belongs to the break beat generation…

Buzz Bake Sale Preview: Matisyahu

Seeing a Hasidic Jewish man on stage free styling and beat boxing between his hardcore reggae songs might seem off-putting at first but it shouldn’t. All that’s happening lyrically is reggae’s traditional Rastafarian religious views being replaced by Jewish teachings, the dreadlocks are replaced by payot, and there’s not nearly…

Buzz Bake Sale Preview: Panic at the Disco

Panic At the Disco is a very different band from Panic! At the Disco. Back when they had the extra punctuation, they also sported a more dark(ish), electronic, and  keyboard laden sound. Once they dropped the !, they also decided to start sounding much more like the Jonas Brothers of…

Concert Announcements: Phil Lesh, Bob Weir, and David Gray

It’s certainly no secret that jam bands are in love with visiting South Florida. In fact, it seems like every band with a nouveau-hippie following makes it down here at least once a year, so it’s rarely big news. This announcement though, it’ll make some fans go weak in the…