When a friend asked Owen Ashworth for a collection of gloomy original tunes, the fledgling composer responded with a mixtape he christened Casiotone for the Painfully Alone. The name stuck when he began playing solo gigs, accompanied by gently pulsing electronic beats and tinny melodies from chintzy synthesizers. Ashworth’s vocals…
New Orleans has its own force of gravity — it’s stronger and more targeted than the scientific law governing the rest of nature. Call it voodoo if you like, or an imposing piece of dark matter disguised as real estate — but Quintron and Miss Pussycat might correct you, referring…
The seemingly out-of-nowhere appearance of the young Kendall duo I Set My Friends on Fire has been recounted in these pages several times in recent months. But just to recap: Teenagers Matt Mihana and Nabil Moo, formerly of a more by-the-numbers post-hardcore band, wanted to form a new project. They…
While seemingly the whole highbrow world descends on Miami Beach for the official opening of Art Basel, across the causeway The Vagabond kicks off the artsy extravaganza with a locals-centric fiesta. Okay, so Miami New Times is an official sponsor of the event, but it’s never a bad time to…
La Lupe, the patron saint of Cuba’s Latin soul movement is being immortalized in film.La Mala is a Spanish drama based on the life of Guadalupe Yoli Raymond and named after one of La Lupe’s most famous songs. In it, Miami’s own Lena Burke puts on a hell of a…
Tommie SunshineThe Vagabond continues its Friday party tradition of live music on the patio, with scorching elecro on the inside. This edition, in a big ASICS-sponsored fiesta of free giveaways and a giant Lite Brite-style installation, features locals Modernage onstage. The quartet recently released its latest EP, Sirhan Sirhan, featuring…
Static Interference, the occasional locals-only extravaganza thrown by the band Astari Nite at PS14, continues during Art Basel with a night dedicated to a band everyone likes: the Smiths. The party’s called, unsurprisingly, Louder than Bombs, and it’s billed as a sort-of-tribute night. Besides Astari Nite, a ton of other…
FusikTuesday, November 25Mix Ultra Lounge, HollywoodConsidering that there aren’t many places for hip-hop culture to truly thrive in South Florida, it’s no surprise that folks are starting to cross county lines to check out Mix Ultra Lounge on Tuesday nights.The semi-upscale martini bar seems like it’s the last place you’d…
Do you have plans for New Years yet? If you’re a hip-hop fan, then you do now. The Roots have announced that they’ll be performing in Miami–at the Florida Room inside of the Delano Hotel of all places–on New Years Eve. It’s definitely going to be one of the hottest…
Reigning Sound The party continues at the Kill Your Idols space on Friday, December 5, first with Hex Dispensers, an Austin quartet who overdosed on the Ramones, but not so much the Beach Boys (it’s a good thing ). Brutal Knights hail from the much colder climes of Toronto, and…
This isn’t a live performance by the Gossip per se. But the band will most certainly be in the house at O.H.W.O.W. tonight, for a party following the opening of Portland Now, a group show at the Bas Fisher Invitational space. (It’s curated by the band’s guitarist, Brace Pain, a.k.a…
Matt and KimSome of the best music presented this week comes courtesy of the ongoing Converse-sponsored Kill Your Idols event in the Design District. An ode to current movers and shakers keeping the original punk spirit alive (albeit in mutated, advanced forms), the space features a photo exhibit by Eileen…
Longtime legends of the lower-lower Manhattan underground, the quartet A.R.E. Weapons have been steadily chugging along since 1999, blasting out something along the lines of electro-rock as imagined by former punk rock types. The band’s noisy assault of party-in-your-face found some near-mainstream success in the U.K., where it scored a…
Broken Social Scene with Land of TalkSaturday, November 22, 2008Club Cinema, Pompano BeachCanadian experimental/indie-rock supergroup Broken Social Scene descended on South Florida last night like a swarm of indie bees, and buzzed up a two-hour storm for jubilant fans at a packed Club Cinema in Pompano, on the last night…
I just got off the phone with the folks at the Dive Bar in Fort Lauderdale and learned about an upcoming show that sounds enticing. Popular Puerto Rican rock band, Black Guayaba is going to be performing next Friday night here in South Florida, and they’ve got the eclectic Teri…
Tonight there’s a going to be a good set of music going on over at Atmosphere Lounge in Fort Lauderdale. Coral Springs-based folks singer Andrew Bayuk will be on hand singing songs of love, of protest, of peace, and of passion. He’s been grinding away in South Florida’s indie music…
Hyphy as a “movement,” per se, may have disappeared as quickly as the driver of a ghost-ridden whip. But in the fallout after the thiz high finally wore off, the Yay Area’s most talented bona fide MCs have survived. And the man to come out closest to the top so…
John Hood Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band Tuesday, November 18, 2008 Culture Room, Fort Lauderdale Better Than: The Eagles after they slept with Leonard Cohen. This should really be called The Night Before Last Night seeing that ol’ Bright Eyes’ boy wonder played on Tuesday rather than Wednesday,…
You might have heard that Stones Throw Records biggest artist, Madlib, is headed to Miami to play a show in conjunction with Art Basel. A selective email blast went out about it last week, but eerily left out most of the details about when the show would be, where it…
Rachel Goodrich While seemingly the whole highbrow world descends on Miami Beach tonight for the official opening of Art Basel, across the causeway, the Vagabond kicks off the artsy extravaganza with a locals-centric fiesta. Okay, so Miami New Times is an official sponsor of the event, but it’s never a…
Like so many postgrunge outfits in the mid-Nineties, the Toadies were plucked prematurely from the garage by opportunist label scouts. The Texas-bred alt-rockers were soon shown the stars above with their monster debut, Rubberneck, and then quickly thrown to hell below. Though the bandmates were primed and hyped to no…
In a city where mainstream hip-hop culture rules the airways, the guys in Dangerflow are striving to create a different type of vibe. This new local six-piece specializes in fashioning soulful, dance-oriented hip-hop grooves mixed with a dash of old-school Seventies free funk. Think of them as the Roots meet…
