Backdoor Bamby’s Fourth of July PartyFeaturing DJ Shannon and Shameless BurlesqueJuly 4, 2009The Vagabond, MiamiBetter Than: Sitting at home and watching the fireworks on TV The Review: After watching the fireworks in Miami Beach, the perfect place to do some Fourth of July dancing was the always-naughty Backdoor Bamby. That…
Danny TenagliaIndepenDance Pool PartySaturday, July 4, 2009The Surfcomber Hotel, Miami Beach Better Than: Any other Fourth of July pool party in South Florida. If dance music happens to be your thing, then the place to be this last Saturday was the IndepenDance Pool Party at the Surfcomber Hotel. The main…
Try showing up at a Reverend Horton Heat show and not having a good time. It’s physically impossible. The good Reverend has been playing his signature style of rockabilly/psychobilly for about 25 years now, perfecting his over-the-top energetic stage show and the science of wowing audiences. It’s hard to describe…
Kevin RudolfSaturday, July 4, 2009Fourth on Flagler, West Palm BeachOpportunity struck for Kevin Rudolf at this Fourth of July showcase, a chance to deploy an abbreviated set of songs from In The City, his solo debut. Best known for production work with the likes of Lil Wayne and Nelly Furtado,…
It’s easy to look at Collie Buddz (or even just hear his name) and dismiss him as a joke or at least a novelty. He’s a white guy singing reggae, and he’s using the last name of Buddz rather than his given Harper. People who dismiss him out of hand,…
With 30 years under her belt as a singer and an actress, Paloma San Basilio is something of a Spanish icon. She’s starred in such theatrical revivals in Madrid as The Man of La Mancha, My Fair Lady, Victor/Victoria and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Evita and she’s released close to 30…
N.O.R.E.Friday, July 3, 2009The White Room, MiamiBetter Than: What one might expect from a world-class MC in an unfamiliar situation The Review:Whenever a formerly well-known artist dips under the radar for several years you can’t help but wonder what they get up to in their free time. Once a great talent…
War and the Average White BandHard Rock Live, HollywoodTuesday, June 30, 2009 Better Than: Hearing both of these groups play in another 10 years. The Review: With a bill of two of the funkiest multi-cultural groups from the late 1960s still alive and kicking, the Hard Rock promised to be…
It’s no secret Crossfade thinks Stonefox is the bee’s knees. If you want to find out exactly why, you can go through the archive and read the blogs we’ve written about them, or you could wait for the upcoming feature, or better yet, you can just clear your calendar on…
Miami natives Erik Slemon and Matt Gardner first started making music together more than a decade ago, when they were still apple-cheeked students at Coral Gables High and Columbus, respectively. Perhaps those early attempts were humble — “We played, like, Nirvana covers at a couple of house parties,” Gardner recalls…
If you missed Goldcure’s shows at Bull Bar and Propaganda back in May, you missed a hell of a good time. But fear not, young music lover, you’ve got a shot at redemption. On September 5, the Austin-based Indie-poppers are making another trek to Propaganda in Lake Worth. Let me…
I was just listening to 2008’s good luck with twisted space from Swamp Valve, a.k.a. Jorge Rubiera (Down Home Southernaires), and just really enjoying the explosive high octane energy and down-right Marc Bolan-eque coolness of it. The music is sticky good straight ahead rock. You can download it for free…
MSTRKRFTWednesday, July 1, 2009LIV at the Fontainbleau, Miami BeachBetter than: Doing blow off the toilet seat at LIV.My relationship with MSTRKRFT is an old one. Before all the hype, I was a fan of their remixes and after the release of The Looks, I knew I had stumbled on a…
As long as you can stand the smell of clove cigarettes and the sight of fetish-gear on public display, this is a show you won’t want to miss, especially if you’re planning on going to KMFDM on October 30. German Synthrock/Electronica/New Wave group Project Pitchfork is scheduled to play Respectable…
Hard Rock Live in Hollywood is classing it up on July 14 when Paul Potts comes to town. For those of you who don’t regularly watch British television, Potts is the original winner of the Simon Cowell-produced Britain’s Got Talent, where he astonished audiences and judges alike week in and…
The Fort Lauderdale-birthed four-piece Nonpoint came up in the late ’90s, a fertile time for experimental heavy rock in South Florida. At clubs such as Cheers, Fubar, and other one-name venues now long-defunct, they shared the bill with other arty but loud local leading lights such as Endo, Darwin’s Waiting…
Before straw-haired singer-songwriter Jim Camacho was one of South Florida’s acoustic darlings, he fronted one of the most exciting South Florida bands, the Goods, during one of the most exciting eras of South Florida music, the early ’90s. Delivering melody-driven garage rock, the band almost immediately developed a rabid fan…
Danny Tenaglia is the ultimate head spinner, the platonic DJ form of which other DJs are but pale shadows. His roots can be traced all the way back to the legendary Paradise Garage in New York, where he witnessed the pioneering work of Larry Levan. Tenaglia’s style is wide open,…
Dubstep, the London-gestated UK garage mutation, has been dropping the pressure for a decade. Yet it feels equally fresh with each new release. Ever-increasingly, overseas labels are setting the bass-line baseline by drawing the intimate connections between a ten-year gap of genres, from tech-step to tech-house, from inebriated ambient to…
Having booked EDM giants the likes of Laurent Garnier, Darren Emerson, and Dave Seaman in the recent past, the folks at Shine certainly seem keen on presenting Miami clubgoers with the crème de la crème of international dance music. This Friday they continue the trend with a night of sounds…
HA HA Help! is doing a little patriotic party thing over at PS 14 this coming Saturday Thursday. The eccentric, frequently pantsless and often interesting experimental noise outfit from here in the swamp state haven’t been playing out all that much lately. Here is a chance to celebrate as well…
Florida? Yeah! A New Start, Boise Bob and His Backyard Band, Fleez, and The BikesThe PoorhouseSaturday, June 27, 2009 Better Than: Anything going on in any other bar in downtown Fort Lauderdale The Review: For at least 10 years, Garo Gallo has worked zealously to keep the fabric of Fort…
