View photos of Shakira at American Airlines Arena here.Shakira American Airlines Arena Monday, September 27, 2009 Better Than: Driving to Palm Beach for a show, or Palm Beach in general. I’d be lying if I told you I’m familiar with the Shakira brand. Sure, I had heard some of her…
Photo by Bob GruenThe Independents circa ’97.We’re a little sick and tired of people sportin’ mall-bought Ramones t-shirts just to be ironic. Most of those kids have no idea who Sheena is, let alone that she was a punk rocker. They weren’t enrolled in rock ‘n’ roll high school, they…
It’s been a big week for local tropi-pop outfit Local 34. Only seven days ago, they were in L.A. to perform as part of the Viva Tu Musica With 5 competition, sponsored by Wrigley’s 5 Gum. The band and four others were selected by fans online and performed before a…
Aside from being an unfunny overplayed joke, the term “no homo,” as used by Lil Wayne, is hip-hop’s admission of homophobia. When Lil Wayne says Tevin Campbell, No Homo, Black Rambo in “Feel Me,” he really needs us to know he is not gay. He mans it up a little…
Come October 6th, music snobs will face a conundrum of epic proportions: See the much-lauded LCD Soundsystem at the Fillmore, or see Bob Dylan, oft-panned of late for his incomprehensible vocals, at Nova Southeastern University. For many, this is a no-brainer: LCD is in their prime while Bob Dylan is,…
Q-Tip and the Roots With D-Nice, Daniel Merriweather, Kat DeLuna, secret guest Eve, and supa secret guest Bobby Brown Saturday, September 25, 2010 Ice Palace Better than: A bottle of Hennessy all to yourself. At exactly 11:26 p.m., the Roots rolled out onto the stage through a smoky purple haze…
via their MySpace pageYou might remember how ecstatic we got when we heard about a private party Hennessy was throwing with the Roots. Then we heard all about how RSVPing was “no guarantee” that we’d actually get accepted to be on the list. Wait, what?We wondered how exactly the good…
With Lil Wayne’s street date — November 5, bitches! — only 41 days away, the world better start preparing for a monsoon deluge of strange and skeezy spitting over spacey creep beats. Now, we’ve already been warned about Mr. Carter’s plans to make it rain with I Am Not a…
Coming off a couple of consecutive East Coast tours, the dudes in Jacobs Ladder — Oren, Sammy, and Brian — were totally tired. After more than a half-thousand shows and countless hours of midnight driving, the road had finally worn them down to cold, hard bone. “We’ve been doing this…
Dâm-Funk The Vagabond Thursday, September 23, 2010 Better Than: Getting the high score on Miss Pac-Man while listening to Purple Rain. In an alternate universe, James Brown is John Lennon, Parliament Funkadelic is Led Zeppelin, Michael Jackson is still making songs like “Rock With You,” and g-funk is grunge. On…
Next Saturday, you’re gonna be bumming around Miami International Mall anyway, right? So between stocking up on day-glo shoelaces, stuffing your face full of Cinnabon, and shoplifting calling cards from the One Stop Shop … Why not check out Mr. Nicole Richie (AKA Joel Madden) and his brother Benji of Good…
It’s almost the end of the week. And $2 PBRs, sloppy babes, dark dudes, and dirty leather jackets sounds like a good time. Well, start counting down the hours — roughly 10 — until 30 NE 14th Street fills with all your favorite Friday shit. For tomorrow night, Fridays at…
We here in Miami treat our homegrown party boys like kings of the club. And local house head Oscar G wears one of Miami’s biggest, shiniest crowns. He’s led a thousand wild warehouse orgies at Space, launched Billboard destroyers (“Fired Up” with Ralph Falcon) and underground booty bombs, and repped…
Shakira at American Airlines Arena September 27
Annie Mac at Electric Pickle September 23
Oscar G at Mansion September 25
Ninjasonik at Grand Central September 25
Los Amigos Invisibles at Grand Central September 24
Wow … Buying a Richie Hawtin release needs an instruction manual. Let’s say you want Arkives, his new retrospective boxset of Plastikman material from those acid-soaked and sleekly minimal years between 1993 and 2010. Well, you can be sure that there will be no less than four different versions from…
Earlier this week we previewed Annie Mac’s upcoming Thursday gig at the Electric Pickle and there is definitely no shortage of buzz and anticipation for this show building up among Miami’s dance music cognoscenti. The Irish-born BBC Radio 1 host specializes in a wildly energetic blend of styles and sounds,…
Photo by Ian WitlenClick here to view photos of the Nylon Show at Sweat Records.With Raffa Jo Harris, Animal Tropical, Lil Daggers, Afrobeta, ANR, Rachel Goodrich, and Deaf PoetsSweat Records, MiamiTuesday, September 21, 2010Better than: A professionally blended cocktail.The Review:Last night we saw the true power of word of mouth…
Been wondering what’s up with Modernage lately? You’re not alone. Fact is, the normally ubiquitous indie crew has been tucked away from the local scene. And it isn’t because the five-piece was off on the Left Coast, slipping south down the seaboard to Mexico again. “We went away on purpose,”…
