Hardcore is a truly North American phenomenon. Sure, Scandinavia, Japan, and Latin America have all left serious imprints on the genre. But guess where the punk rock subgenre was invented? California. And straight edge? Washington D.C. And then there’s Boston, arguably the United States’ capital for old-school tough-guy HC. Yeah,…
Crazy glue that uhntz-uhntz-ing ass to your computer chair, beat freaks! ‘Cause in exactly an hour, Ultra Music Festival plans to “announce something so big, so crazy, so intense that it will knock you off your seats and leave you thinking ‘WTF.'” UPDATE Ultra Music Festival 2013 is expanding to…
Punk rock is a big tent. What other genre manages to link seemingly disparate entities like British rude boy skinheads with screamo-haircuit mall goth in Nebraska? And the best part: All these highly segregated factions bicker, sometimes to the point of physical violence, over whose interpretation of punk ethos is…
Matt & Kim work so hard … They got too sick to play Miami. Last night, the perpetually psyched indie duo canceled their show at the Fillmore Miami Beach because Matt lost his voice. But opening act Oberhofer’s still ready to rock, playing a last minute booking at The Stage…
Sorry, Admiral Ackbar. It’s too late for your warnings. The kids cannot escape. America’s youth is addicted to the drug-dealing music. And they ain’t fina stop twerkin’ till they dead. Or in jail. OK, it’s not that serious. But Friday’s performance by Flosstradamus at Grand Central proved that trappin’ is…
French producer Wax Tailor (AKA Jean-Christophe Le Saoût) usually gets pigeonholed into the the trip-hop and downtempo music categories. But the epic proportions of his work more often than not put him in a category all his own. This is a guy who writes lofty concept albums and music for…
Cat Power Grand Central, Miami Thursday, October 11, 2012 Better Than: Manhattan after a nuclear war. For Chan Marshall, better known as Cat Power, the weight of her gifts has proven a heavy burden to shoulder over the years. And as such, most fans understand that purchasing a ticket to…
When Band of Horses tapped legendary British music producer Glyn Johns (The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who) to engineer, mix, and produce Mirage Rock, frontman Ben Bridwell knew full well that he needed to go into the studio less prepared than he’d been on previous albums. “[Johns] really wanted…
Iconoclast, philosopher, auteur — these are words that come to mind to describe Francis Harris. Iconoclast because he came into the electronic dance music game through the back door as a former hardcore punk rocker hell-bent on defying EDM’s musical conventions. Philosopher because he was literally a university philosophy student,…
Cat Power at Grand Central October 11
Flosstradamus at Grand Central October 12
Borgore at Revolution Live October 12
Journey at Cruzan Amphitheatre October 13
Matt and Kim at Fillmore Miami Beach October 14
When it comes to metal (be it heavy, hair, stoner, black, gluten-free), there is only one color … Extra-dark black. We can already hear the posers whining, “But black is a pigment!” Do you think grindcore savages Pig Destroyer gives a hot fuck about the absorption of all color in…
You keep running up that hill. And if you get to the end early enough, you might get to some free beer. But you’re definitely going to get an earful of sweet art-pop sounds and enough chill, lo-fi grooves to settle your rambling soul. Join Sweat Records during Art Basel…
Peaches is the professor of freaks. For the last 12 years, she’s been leading a master class in how to have the most insanely ass-blasting, titty-shaking, cock-rocking time while giving gender norms the stiff middle finger. In 2000, she introduced her musical instructional, Teaches of Peaches, and let the freaky…
Are you club rats sick of the ’90s house revival yet? We didn’t think so. After all, nothing gets those fist-pumps and footwork going like some classic jacking house — it’s not even a guilty pleasure anymore. Just ask Belfast DJ-production duo Bicep. The pair got started spreading the love…
Temper Trap has such a “Sweet Disposition.” Casual music listeners probably only know snippets of that song from television ads for Chrysler and Diet Coke. Or TV dramas like One Tree Hill and 90210. Or the soundtrack to their spinning class. But an appearance in quirky 2009 rom-com (500) Days…
Andrew BirdWith Here We Go MagicFillmore Miami BeachMonday, October 8, 2012Better Than: Combing NPR’s All Songs Considered archives. Last night, the Fillmore Miami Beach was temporarily transformed back into the old Jackie Gleason Theater as incredibly skilled multi-instrumentalist Andrew Bird brought his talents to South Beach…
EDM has America by the throat. But how did it get to be this way? Well, we can’t say definitively. Although, it kinda started with blogging hipsters in 2006. Hell, some of the DJs making waves on the scene today started out as bloggers, like Italian electro badass Congorock. He…
Real men love Jesus. Or so said the faded bumper sticker on the back of an F-150 that recently cut us off in traffic. We also learned that day that red, white, and blue “don’t run” and the United States can’t afford another four years with a “Liar-in-Chief” making all…
