Concert Review: Wilco at the Fillmore Miami Beach, March 22

WilcoThe Fillmore Miami BeachMonday, March 22, 2010Better Than: Having to travel all the Way to Chicago’s Vic Theater.Call me a fogy if you want — a lightweight, a wimp. Yes, Wilco staged at The Fillmore Gleason last night, and yes, I left at intermission. And I know damn well that…

Concert Review: Raffa & Rainer Sweetly Serenade the Bubble on March 20

Raffa & RainerWith Bridget + Luke and Sweet BroncoThe Bubble, Fort LauderdaleSaturday, March 20, 2010Raffa & Rainer, the sweeter-than-honey folk duo from Miami, have turned into an army with their latest effort No Mercy. The follow-up to the stripped-down, understated Stolen Coal traverses new, more intricate ground for the group,…

WMC 2010: Palenke Soultribe, Live at Bardot This Thursday

If the term “folkloric deconstruction” leaves you scratching your head or, worse yet, picturing a foreign knock-off of late-model Woody Allen featuring loincloth and headdress, you probably haven’t had the opportunity to catch LA-based electro outfit Palenke Soultribe. Comprised of producers Juan D. Borda (AKA Insectosound) and Andres Erazo (AKA…

Tonight! Alesana Leads Post-Hardcore Bill at Culture Room

To prevent confusion in our readership, Alesana is not some drop-dead gorgeous model hailing out of Milan. Nope. In actuality, Alesana is six somewhat-OK-looking guys from North Carolina who do the post-hardcore thing with some gusto and panache. Take the usual experimental leanings of the genre and view them through…

Let Us H.E.L.P. You H.E.L.P. Haiti on Friday at Revolution

This one’s a no-brainer. Those hungry to donate some cash to the less-fortunate folks in Haiti, and starving for some funky tunes on Friday should make haste to this Friday’s H.E.L.P. Event at Revolution. With DJ Spam and the All-Stars, Clambake and Hashbrown, it’s a bill ripe for some edible…

Song Spotlight: Jigg – “Over (Freestyle)”

In what’s seeming to be the instrumental of the moment, you couldn’t log online or download a mixtape for a week or so without hearing yet another “Over” freestyle. “Over” being the first single from Drake’s official debut album, Thank Me Later. With months of hype surrounding the ominous first…

Tonight: Wilco Making Melodies at Fillmore Miami Beach

Wilco doesn’t demand that much from its listeners. The band’s name stands for “will comply,” and listening to music this melodic, depressing, sleepy, and disarming can feel like popping a Valium. Much like the drug, the band has loads of fans. One such devotee recently named a sandwich shop after…

Video: John Legend at Jazz In The Gardens Festival in Miami Gardens

Over the last 5 years, Miami Gardens’ annual Jazz In The Gardens festival has become a premier concert event and tourist attraction for South Florida and is helping to build a positive national reputation for the largest majority-black city in all of Florida.The two-day event featured performances by Mary J…

Sin Animo de Lucro at La Covacha Tonight

Colombia is a country known for solid exports. And we’re not talking nose candy here. Nor are we talking super hottie hip shaker Shakira. At least not in that capacity. Colombia consistently exports quality music. The aforementioned chanteuse among them. Carlos Vives is another who comes to mind. From Joe…

Concert Review: Deicide Brings Devilish Delights to Revolution, March 14

DeicideWith Kalakai, At Odds With God, Paris Is Burning, and First Born5Revolution, Fort LauderdaleSunday, March 14, 2010Schlepping to Broward from Miami-Dade isn’t too much of a task when the end product is something like metal muthas Deicide. They carry a real Floridian pedigree along the lines of say, a Hunter…

Tonight! RX Bandits Leads Evening at Culture Room

Southern California’s RX Bandits have come a long way from their ska-revivalist roots in the mid-’90s — so long a way, in fact, that it’s hard to discern the roots of their eight full-lengths. One second, there’s a full-fledged horn section; the next, there’s a knock on Yes’ psychedelic-prog door…

Rodrigo y Gabriela

First things first: Mexican guitar duo Rodrigo y Gabriela doesn’t play flamenco. Its mostly acoustic music features a bit of flamenco, but it’s more correct to say the pair mixes jazz, metal, and global influences. However, Rodrigo y Gabriela’s sound is expansive enough to include guest appearances: Its latest album,…

Wilco

Spin’s August 2009 Wilco cover showed a damaged bandleader — Jeff Tweedy — grown healthily and fruitfully boring. That might be a warning sign for fair-weather fans. Still, a good life equals good music on Wilco (The Album), with Tweedy making as bright, lush, and (sometimes) catchy use of happiness…

Boy Crisis

In the wake of MGMT and Amazing Baby, a whole NYC-via-Wesleyan clique has emerged, including the dance-pop parody band Boy Crisis, whose founding member, Tal Rozen, as a prospective student, slept on MGMT frontman/mastermind Andrew VanWyngarden’s dorm-room floor. “I remember he had all these Phish posters on the wall,” Rozen…