Issac Delgado June 23, 2007 Knight Center An energetic and from-the-heart Cuban rumbón broke out Saturday night as a delirious and receptive crowd welcomed one of the island’s grandest and most innovative musicians ever at the James L. Knight Center. As a result the man responsible for keeping close to…
Whole Wheat Bread June 22, 2007 Churchill’s Pub Better Than: Being hit in the face with brass knuckles. Barely. With too few good punk bands to cleave to, I hoped this show would provide a miracle. Beginning with Ft. Lauderdale natives Skuff’d Shoes, a ska-reggae-punk hybrid, the night opened to…
Issac Delgado isn’t letting anybody in on what to expect tomorrow night when he performs in Miami for the first time since leaving Cuba late last year. About the only thing the multi-talented Cuban bandleader/sonero/songwriter is promising is ‘tremendo rumbon Cubano’ (‘one hell of a Cuban fest’) while adding that…
Elf Power, Man Man, and Summer Birds in the Cellar
perform at 8:00 p.m. Wednesday, June 27, at Studio A,
60 NE 11 St, Miami. Call 305-358-7625, or visit www.studioamiami.com.
Sure, the drummer sets the pace in most bands, but if you’ve got two wild stallions on guitars, let them run. Vocalist/guitarist Steve Shiltz and guitarist Shannon Ferguson, of Longwave, have been playing together since the 1999 release of the group’s first album, Endsongs. That album’s success got them signed…
Miami’s Tiempo Libre won a small victory at this year’s Grammys just by grabbing a nomination for Best Tropical Latin Album. The group’s indie album Lo Que Esperabas (What You’ve Been Waiting For) was pitted against discs by bands armed with Sony and Univision contracts. Tiempo Libre didn’t win, but…
Like Hank Williams III, Willie Heath Neal isn’t quite the cow-punk he used to be, at least in the studio. Nowadays it’s an unplugged guitar powering his eighteen-wheeler-load of ‘tude. Today he’s of a mood to talk — about anything. It’s like playing word association with a human Webster’s dictionary…
The South Bronx neighborhood known as Hunts Point has come a long, hard way since the white man swindled it outta the Wekkguasegeeck tribe back in the mid-Seventeenth Century. But nothing has affected the strip of land between the East and Bronx rivers as much as the bang-bang that accompanied…
Photo by Jeffrey Delannoy Battles June 18, 2007 Studio A Better Than: Sitting inside, listening to the evening’s torrential rain, and pulling bong hits by yourself. Openers Dance, Jenny have long been championed by Lolo Reskin, the fiery-maned proprietor of Sweat Records who also organized the show. Their earlier material…
Abuelitas, chongitas y mujeres muy ricas will all be in a state of seduction as soon as baby-faced Latin pop star Chayanne takes the stage Wednesday night at the Hard Rock Live in Hollywood. Teeny-boppers will squeal, middle-aged hotties will squeal some more – maybe even hurl a thong or…
Better than: Sitting in front of your computer screen and hoping that your roommate doesn’t walk in and find you masturbating. The Review: Wickedness and depravity have never been so hot. Florida breakbeat artists Ghosts in the Machine are known for being sick and twisted, not only because they have…
Joss Stone June 16, 2007 Revolution Better Than: Her CDs, by far. No Opener: Just Raw Stone Joss Stone at Revolution Photo by Jamie Puntumkhul For a girl that hails from the white cliffs of Dover, England, Joss Stone is way into color – which made her magenta hair and…
Photo by Santiago Felipe Fall Out Boy June 16, 2006 Sound Advice Amphitheatre The first time I saw Fall Out Boy they were opening up for Mest at the Culture Room in Fort Lauderdale. Since then, they have sold millions of albums worldwide, been on the cover of Rolling Stone,…
Dead Prez June 15, 2007 Studio A I caught a crazy Dead Prez show last night at Studio A before a lackluster crowd that almost seemed scared to sing along with the songs. Anyone that knows Dead Prez should be ready for a quasi-Black Panther experience whenever they come through…
Only a city like London could produce a pop artist like Mika, and only in England could he become a bona fide chart star. Bless our onetime colonizers for that: Thanks to the buzz in his native land for his debut album, Life in Cartoon Motion, the Beirut-born singer is…
Albumless since The Great Soundclash Swindle in 2004, the Hawaii-raised Keoki needs only his turntable and some candy-chomping dance kids to turn a nice, innocent club into a scene from some Caligula-flavored 28 Days Later. It didn’t always used to be this way for America’s (self-proclaimed) superstar DJ. Okay, that’s…
Okay, so lead singer Adrian Barrera might not dress in leather, slit the throats of two geese, and have himself stripped and whipped while staging the murder of a rabbi and having a honey-dipped nudie throw turtles into the audience. (That was Alejandro Jodorowsky, leader of the Sixties’ and Seventies’…
Local psychobilly hero George Van Orsdel won’t go on the record as to what exactly “A Van Orsdel Apparition Occurrence” will consist of at Churchill’s this Saturday. It’ll be either George playing a DJ role, or the entire Van Orsdels band, reformed after a seven-month hiatus, doing a set. “I…
Four of urban music’s brightest young stars of the moment — Lil Scrappy, T-Pain, Lloyd, and Rich Boy — could easily tour arenas and ampitheaters together and bring down the house. For now, though, they will converge on DUB Magazine’s Custom Auto Show and Concert for an exciting and high-value…
Battles performs at 8:00 p.m. Monday, June 18, at Studio A,
60 NE 11th St, Miami. Tickets cost $10 in advance, $12 at
the door. Call 305-358-7625, or visit www.studioamiami.com.
On Friday night, Club Nocturnal in Miami, celebrated its two year anniversary with an exclusive MySpace.com party hosted by Dub Magazine’s poster girl, Vida Guerra. The lovely Miss Guerra must have been the cause of many sticky magazine pages throughout her career because the club was flooded with men who…
Oh the joy of Disco. Over the weekend, myself and Arielle Castillo stumbled in to Dolphin Staudium, literally, half-cocked on wine and tequila and caught one of the most hilarious disco shows that you could imagine. Picture the scene: standing next to second base right after a Florida Marlins game…
