Concert Review: Ebony Bones! at Art Loves Music, December 2

Click here to view more photos from this event.Ebony Bones!At the annual Art Loves Music concert at Collins Park, Miami BeachWednesday, December 2, 2009Better Than: Yelle’s performance at the same event last year.The Review: The Art Positions sub-shot of the official Art Basel Miami Beach, with its avant garde galleries set…

Art Basel Music: Cucu Diamantes at Nikki Beach This Weekend

With the countless musical offerings served up alongside delectable little slices of art around the city for Basel this weekend, it’s hard picking exactly where to dive in and gorge. Luckily for you, chanteuse Cucu Diamantes, of Yerba Buena fame, is giving fans and art show goers three different opportunities…

King Chango

In the mid-’90s, many considered the multimember New York City act King Chango to be part of the larger constellation of ska revival acts flourishing in the Big Apple. But the band’s musical roots ran deeper than those of many of its peers. Yes, the “Chango” in its name is…

Taking Back Sunday

For a couple of years in the mid-’00s, it was good to be Adam Lazzara. The Taking Back Sunday frontman ruled the burgeoning third-wave emo scene while being embroiled in a feud with scene-mates Brand New, former bandmates Shaun Cooper and John Nolan, and pretty much every ex-girlfriend he ever…

Perpetual Groove

South Florida lately seems to be a haven for jam bands. Hot new acts such as the Heavy Pets are making their mark, the Jam Cruise has announced its biggest lineup yet, and Langerado folded when it dropped the jam. The Perpetual Groove people are coming to cash in on…

Concert Announcements: Gaelic Storm and Henry Rollins

Remember the movie Titanic? You know, the one which countless millions of people flocked to the theaters over and over again to see people who never let go? Aside from catapulting a few actors into superstardom and making millions of soccer moms secretly resent their loveless lives, Titanic also helped…

Roofless Records Presents Freeform Friday and Megacunt Will Be There

Roofless Records has got a cunt for Miami. A Megacunt.Friday, December 19 at the American Legion/Harvey’s By The Bay (6445 NE Seventh Avenue, Miami) at 9 p.m., for free, five groups you’ve never heard of will destroy, annihilate, poundfuck your eardrums into submission and then pee on your shoes and…

Art Basel Music: Bluetech at the Moksha Art Fair, December 5

​The Hawaii-based producer Bluetech can be considered part of the extended constellation of the jam band scene, playing and collaborating with other hippies-gone-electronic like EOTO and Flying Lotus. Still, Bluetech is fiercely experimental, citing the likes of Brian Eno, the Orb, and even Erik Satie as influences. He performs in…

Art Basel Music: A Sex Pistol in South Beach, December 4

Art Basel week is the time of surreal collaborations and appearances, so when New York mag reported a supposed “Sex Pistols concert on the beach,” it seemed plausible. Still, they only got it 25 percent right. One Pistol will, indeed, be performing, at the very swish new Opium Group poolside…

Did John Tesh Have Rock Band MOG Stunt Team Murdered?

Is it a documentary? A mockumentary? Or propaganda sent out by John Tesh? (He’s an alien, you know.) Buzz has been swirling around “I’m Gonna Do It Until the Day I Die,” (made by West Palm Beach’s Majic Robot Films), which details the tragic disappearance of the Detroit band MOG…

Art Basel Music: Chairlift at Fountain Art Fair, December 5

More often than not, Apple catches lightning in a bottle with the songs and they become fantastic vehicles for Apple’s newest technology. Brooklyn-by-way-of-Boulder electronic pop trio Chairlift is the outright epitome of iPod fame. The band’s song “Bruises” landed in the aforementioned commercials, and the rest was history. Tonight, they…

Nightlife Review: Little Louie Vega at the Vagabond, November 28

Little Louie VegaThe Vagabond, MiamiNovember 28, 2009 Better Than: Any other house music night in South Florida.  The Review:  By now we all know the story: Louie Vega was born into a world of music. His uncle was the great salsa singer Héctor Lavoe, and his father was an in-demand jazz…

Buzz Bake Sale Preview: The Used

Emo, screamo, post-punk, pop punk, alt-rock, post-hardcore, call it whatever the hell you want–attempting to keep track of the subgenrefication of moody rock bands in eyeliner is practically impossible. But we can all still agree on good music versus bad music, and The Used most definitely falls under the former…

Concert Review: Roger Daltrey at Hard Rock Live, November 29

Roger DaltreyHard Rock Live, HollywoodSunday, November 29, 2009The Review:First the good news. Take half of the Who, after being ravaged by the demise of its mighty rhythm section, Keith Moon and John Entwitsle. Then divide the remaining Who two in half, leaving only singer Roger Daltrey, concluding his first solo…

Art Basel Music: He Say She Say at Cinema, December 3

Million Dollar Mano was already a favorite on Chicago’s free-spirited house/hip-hop crossover scene. His new project, though, might get even wider attention, thanks to the addition of a little female energy in the form of frontwoman Drea Smith. Together they are He Say She Say, and over squelching electro-pop, Smith…