Though South Florida guitarist/singer/songwriter Diego Jinkus’s debut full-length is self-released, it sounds professional, capturing a jam-heavy but song-oriented slice of the local world beat scene. The ten tunes rest on a laid-back pop-rock vibe spiced up with Latin percussion and a heavy dose of contemporary jazz. The driving force is…
Today’s hip-hop royalty knows Chuck Brown quite well, even if the fans don’t. Nelly, for instance, sampled Brown’s 1978 smash “Bustin’ Loose” in his own number one, “Hot in Herre.” Brown is the founder and undisputed champion of go-go, an exuberant blend of funk and soul that hails from his…
Joan Jett 6/30/07 When we got to Dolphin Stadium and realized it was silly foam hat day; I knew it would take an awful lot of domestic, stadium-sized beers to survive until Joan Jett played. Turns out, I was right. So we roamed through the mini-mall labyrinth in search of…
Tonight’s stop of Jesse Malin’s “Death and Taxes” tour, at Studio A, promises a bonus: openers Acute are hometown boys. Well, at least singer Isaac Lekach, 26, is. (Remember the basically one-man act, Poulain? That was him). Lekach went on a sort of vacation to Los Angeles a few years…
René ”Residente” Pérez Better than: Trading in your new Daddy Yankee CD for a slightly used paddleball. Calle 13 is from Puerto Rico, but on Friday, Residente and Visitante were running on Cuban time. La Covacha’s patio/concert area was bloated with eager audience members by 1 a.m., which also happened…
DJ Goodroid Better Than: Listening to Y100’s techno hour and calling it a party. The Review: Drumwerks is back at Soho Lounge every Thursday night, only this time they’ve included a new resident DJ, Goodroid, who claims to have the only dubstep set in Miami. Either way, it’s always fun…
On his debut solo album, Raised by the People, Notch is a sonero. A songsmith. He’s confident, even boisterous. But the person sitting across from me during a recent lunch interview is humble. He might attribute his humility to his nomadic journey in music; from his days in the reggae…
Somewhere Hector Lavoe and Celia Celia – to name a few – are smiling and probably jamming as well. And Oscar Hernandez should no doubt feel a sense of accomplishment. Hernandez, the founder and pianist for salsa ensemble Spanish Harlem Orchestra, set out to maintain the charged fusions of Afro-Caribbean…
Tony Orlando June 27, 2007 Hard Rock Live at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Better Than: An Elvis impersonator When you’re a singer whose career is based on hit songs you can count on one hand and your 15 minutes of fame lasted five years, it’s probably best…
“You need input to get output,” Jesse Malin insists during a scarce private moment on the pool deck of a Salt Lake City hotel. Over a cracking cell phone connection, he holds forth on his main songwriting influences. “I’m always reading novels, reading plays, going to see movies, listening to…
When Argentine artist Marcelo Lupis says his music is experimental, he means that in all senses of the term. Pop his first solo CD, Shhhh, into the player and out sprays a hyperactive but skillfully concocted array of jazz, classic, rock, and blues, all overlaid with Lupis’s operatic scatting. Even…
If not for the apathy and mishandling from his former major record label, Atlanta’s Pastor Troy (n’ Micah Levar Troy) might have emerged five years ago as one of crunk’s major mainstream stars. At the time, he had all the elements that seem to work today: guest spots on Lil…
KRS-One likes to pick fights. Anyone who remembers anything about the Bridge Wars — the feud between KRS-One’s Boogie Down Productions and DJ Marley Marl’s Juice Crew featuring MC Shan that spawned a number of classic hip-hop songs in the early Eighties — knows KRS started it. The Juice Crew’s…
If you’ve dipped your toes in the waters of the Florida rave scene during the past, oh, fifteen years, you’ve probably collected some warm, fuzzy half-memories of Rabbit in the Moon. Remember the time at Ultra when that space man landed onstage and showered the crowd with sparks from his…
Calle 13 crashed its way into the reggaeton party in 2005, coming seemingly out of nowhere with its hard-hitting eponymous debut. Booty-shaking though it was, the Puerto Rico-based duo’s album offered a much-needed respite from reggaeton’s seemingly nonstop party antics. So it really wasn’t a great shock when Calle 13…
Miami and Los Angeles, they’re not so different. On the obvious tip, there’s all the bling and the pneumatic bodies on balmy beaches. On the not-so-obvious tip, there are the chin-scratching musical movements bubbling under those shiny surfaces. Still, there’s no question that we party harder, later, and dirtier than…
It’s a straight-up L.A. invasion of Miami this weekend. The attack on Friday’s edition of the weekly Revolver party comes from the the tag team duo with the gentle moniker Guns ‘n’ Bombs. While New York and Paris get all the techno/electro revival attention, Flip Turbotito and Johnny Love come…
Eldar performs Friday and Saturday, June 29 and 30, at
the Arturo Sandoval Jazz Club, 6701 Collins Ave, Miami
Beach. Set times both days are 9:00 and 11:00 p.m.
Tickets cost $35. Call 305-403-7565, or visit
www.arturosandovaljazzclub.com.
New York’s Roger Sanchez has been an insanely popular house DJ since releasing records on the classic dance record label Strictly Rhythm in the early Nineties. Apparently he’s a big draw on at least a few continents. To wit: Last month some dodgy club promoters in South Africa falsely advertised…
Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza, Pitchfork. Sasquatch, Coachella, Summerfest. Aside from the hundreds of rocking performances and the crowds of thousands, the one thing all of these festivals have in common is that they won’t be in your back yard this summer. Sucks. Miami is a hot spot, sure, but not for massive…
Sitting inside a mostly empty Churchill’s Pub before he is set to perform, Kent Hernandez considers a dilemma facing most artists in the capricious local music scene. How do you get fair-weather Miamians to show more support for our homebrewed acts? “I think that we have just as much, if…
Coming off his highly acclaimed 40 Acres and a Moog, local producer Supersoul offers this cleverly titled opus about the commercialization of today’s hip-hop. There are no preset drum machines or played-out 808 rhythms here; instead there are the purest, high-grade beats that would make any current button-pusher turn away…
