Popularized by Lionel Hampton, the vibraphone is from the same family as the marimba and xylophone. Over the past couple of decades, the instrument has found its place among both the Latin and jazz music scenes thanks to the likes of Tito Puente, Gary Burton (who introduced the four-mallet technique),…
Times are tough in Detroit. The auto industry is a popcorn-movie train wreck again, thus the city’s legs are wobblier than Lindsay Lohan’s after an all-nighter. But the Motor City music scene is something that simply can’t be squashed, what with its rich history as a — perhaps the —…
Let’s be frank: During Candlebox’s original run in the Nineties, the Seattle quartet was absolutely hammered by critics and some music fans for being grunge lite. The main accusation: The group had co-opted the riffs, moods, and flannel — yet excised most of the nihilism and self-hatred — of that…
Hey, Scott Weiland: Look, I’m gonna be honest with you — I really don’t care whether Slash took his stinky leather boot, planted it on your scrawny behind, and gave you the heave-ho from Velvet Revolver, or you went all “You can’t fire me cuz I quit!” on ’em. You…
Oh wow. It looks like hip-hop fans are going to be broke after the first ten days of October. Common and N.E.R.D. are already scheduled to perform at the Fillmore Miami Beach on October 10th which definitely sounds like a show that shouldn’t be missed. And as of yesterday, it…
3 One G Friday, August 8, 2008 The Vagabond, Miami Last Friday’s performance at the Vagabond by 3 One G, the Winter Haven-based Joy Division tribute band, was jammed to the rafters. Surprisingly high-energy and weirdly thrilling, it also raised a number of philosophical questions, among them: 1) If someone…
Bad Company Friday, August 8, 2008 Seminole Hard Rock Live, Hollywood Unless you’re a devoted fan – or you listened to a lot of radio during the ‘70s and early ‘80s — the prospect of a Bad Company reunion wouldn’t necessarily inspire the same kind of crazed anticipation that accompanied,…
Friday, August 8: *Florida’s only working Joy Division tribute act, 3 One G, plays at the Vagabond. You sort of have to be a superfan to care, but JD superfans are legion, so you should click here to read more about these guys from Winter Haven. *Further north, more tribute…
Consular is one of the latest in a line of sludgy, grindy, messy, loud bands arising in Miami with one-word names (Capsule, Shitstorm, and so on). Think music by, and largely for, burly, tattooed dudes with beards — in an epically heavy way. The quintet subscribes to the slow-and-stoney school…
If it looks like Ian Curtis, sings like Ian Curtis, and dances like Ian Curtis … and it’s onstage and it’s 2008 and you’re in Florida, well, it’s not Ian Curtis. It’s Aaron Branch, the frontman of 3 One G, the state’s (and maybe the whole Southeast’s) only working Joy…
In the world of rock, few artists can claim even one enduring ensemble to provide for their pension. Gruff-voiced singer Paul Rodgers can bank on three. His current liaison with Queen seems an unlikely pairing, but it’s a reliable paycheck nonetheless. His first band of note, Free, was a formidable…
Deadmau5 is doubtless one of dance music’s golden boys. The 27-year-old Ontario-based producer dominated the last edition of Winter Music Conference, rules the download-sales roost over at Beatport.com, and recently snagged two nominations for Juno Awards (sort of like Canada’s Grammys). His dark take on shimmering four-to-the-floor is chameleonic, lending…
Miami trio Clocks Are Devils has been playing together since 2006, according to the band’s website bio. But it now joins the ranks of other local acts calling it quits before really making a mark (see also the recently defunct Call It Radar). That’s too bad, because this was an…
Local turnable deity Craze will be stopping by The Vagabond (30 NE 14th Street, Miami) for its weekly Thursday night Money Shot party on August 14. Freshly off of Kanye West’s Glow In The Dark tour (or How I Completely Ripped Off Daft Punk’s Live Show and Called It My…
I just got word late yesterday that rapper/actor Common is booking shows in support of his upcoming album, Invincible Summer, and will be in Miami on Friday, September 5 at the Fillmore Miami Beach. That’s good news as the Fillmore is an intimate enough venue that true Common fans should…
Today, a former prison guard (who won’t admit it) gives back to his old ‘hood in Miami, spacey nu-prog rockers touch down in Ft. Lauderdale, and two top-notch weekly events keep on keeping on. — Arielle Castillo *This is really more of a free daytime charity event, but if you…
Tonight looks good for those who like, well, beats. Beyond a regular open mike, tonight’s picks involve hip-hop, reggae, and the blues. — Arielle Castillo *Up-and-coming Broward County MC Swazy Styles travels south across the county line to hit Flavour, in Coconut Grove. Nice to know this underused performance space…
Justin Namon Nas performs at Rock the Bells at Bayfront Park in Downtown Miami. Click here to view the full slide show. Last Night: Rock the Bells 2008 featuring A Tribe Called Quest, Nas, Method Man & Redman, Mos Def, etc. Saturday, August 2, 2008 Bayfront Park, Downtown Miami Better…
Sayre Berman Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington performs with the band during the Projekt Revolution tour stop at the Cruzan Amphitheater in West Palm Beach. Click here to view the full slide show. Projekt Revolution with Linkin Park, Chris Cornell, The Bravery and more Friday, August 1, 2008 Cruzan Ampitheatre,…
Metro Station, the Maine, Boys Like Girls, and Good Charlotte Thursday, June 31 Mizner Park Amphitheatre Better than: partying like a preteen Music events at Boca Raton’s Mizner Park are always surreal, with all those MILFs and Lolitas milling about. But last night, Tempe, Arizona rockers the Maine actually gave…
When you hear the phrase guitar god, you most likely think of a young, long-haired, tight-trousered fellow playing shrieking guitar leads at a thousand notes per minute. You probably don’t think of a quiet, balding, middle-age man holding thousands of people enraptured with a few sparse, bent notes. Yet Marc…
Venezuelan-born composer and guitarist Aquiles Báez has been known for confusing audiences. “For jazz fans, I am too folkloric, while for those into folk, I am too academic,” he writes in the liner notes of La Patilla, his latest release on Cacao Música. “I believe that my music is as…
