The handsome Canadian transplant Tristan Clopet is something of a musical anomaly on the local scene. With his band, the Juice, he skips both the indie flavors of the week and the super-commercial aspirations of others around town. Instead, his music recalls those heady days of the early ’90s, when…
Paleface is an archetypal musician’s musician, the kind of fiercely talented guy whose friends all go on to surpass him in fame, but never stop singing his praises. Known as one of the originators of so-called “anti-folk,” he got his musical start more than 20 years ago thanks to a…
In the dance music world, Deadmau5 has a Midas touch that works even indirectly. Two years ago, his remix of the L.A. producer Morgan Page’s track “The Longest Road” scored a Grammy nomination, and of course that pointed the spotlight back to the track’s creator. Page was long ready to…
Alukard celebrates its debut full-length release at the Vagabond this Thursday
*It’s been a while since we checked in on REVMiami, Ric Delgado’s webzine that aims to capture the underground music and arts culture of the city — well, mostly along the Biscayne Corridor. It’s been almost a damn year and he’s still at it, for which he deserves major kudos…
Turns out mixtapes aren’t just for rappers. But British critical darling Dan Black, who recently played to a somewhat unappreciative crowd at LIV, doesn’t have much use for genre constraints. A rare pop singer (to try to label him simply) who creates his own compositions, he travels easily between electro,…
Fireworks, hellogoodbye, Saves the Day, and New Found GloryRevolution, Fort LauderdaleTuesday, February 9, 2010Better Than: Being forced to actually eat sardines, while packed like them?The Review:If last night’s New Found Glory show at Revolution — its second at the venue in the past year — proved anything, it’s that it’s…
While most of the city was freaking out over the Super Bowl, some other legends were in town on Friday night: Phil Lesh and Bob Weir, formerly of the Grateful Dead. In a pretty unusual booking for downtown Miami, the two touched down at the recently revamped Bayfront Park Amphitheater…
Out of all the big-name dubstep producers, Rusko is probably the one with the most obvious sense of humor. His tracks are bass-heavy, sure, but they’re also full of quirky, high-end samples, and generally harbor less of that sense of impending doom that permeates the work of people like Skream…
After a seemingly endless heyday, rap-rock eventually became one of the most reviled musical artifacts of the end of the last millennium. But it’s been more than a decade since then. Fred Durst has disappeared from everywhere except Twitter, and critical darlings like Cage are starting to rhyme over guitars…
That Radioboxer and Humbert are playing a Valentine’s-themed show this Friday at the Shack North in Hialeah is not, in itself, huge news. The former has played plenty of warehouse gigs in the City of Progress, and the latter are the town’s patron saints (and owners of the place). What…
Just when those of us in Miami were beginning to despair at the thought of driving to Broward (or even West Palm!) for every decent indie rock show that came through South Florida, this morning opened a serious freaking ray of sunshine. After the still-lamented loss of Studio A a…
MillionYoungThe Vagabond, MiamiFriday, February 7, 2010Better Than: Listening to Animal Collective’s “My Girls” on repeat for an hour (probably)The Review:Alex Diaz, the man behind the rising Coral Springs act MillionYoung, makes exquisite music for earbuds. Or laptop speakers. It’s intimate, multi-textured, bittersweet, and dreamy, tailor-made for an audience of one…
As we wrote here last month, the Shelborne and Shine had gotten on the WMC train early, offering some pretty crazy-cheap early-bird ticket prices for its events. Even though the full line-ups at the time were mostly TBA, DJ Mag is sponsoring all of the WMC parties at the resort…
The Los Angeles-based five-piece Terror formed in 2002, after the ’90s golden years when hardcore was still hard. Still, burly frontman Scott Vogel and company have from the beginning fought the good fight, keeping the music pummeling and punishing, but without any of today’s trendy death-core trappings. Whenever Terror flirts…
New Found Glory’s 2000 self-titled second album catapulted the Coral Springs quartet to national stardom. Released before emo had become a dirty word, the disc boasted a boisterous but sensitive pop-punk mood that was reflected on its cover. A collage of faded photos included images of not only videogames and…
Coral Springs-based act MillionYoung has been hailed as South Florida’s bona fide entry into what is cringe-inducingly called “glo-fi” or “chillwave.” Indeed, impending blog hype looms. The one-man band born Mike Diaz has had a track reviewed positively on Pitchfork, and his MySpace page already lists a manager and a…
Help Flash save the Wallflower Gallery
Music’s push into the digital age has, if strangely, benefited one medium: vinyl! With no more middling-quality CDs to horde, more people are realizing what the hardcore collectors have always known. Records sound warmer, there is more opportunity for interesting art work and packaging, and they’re a hell of a…
For information on the 2011 edition, read Crossfade’s lineup announcement for the Bob Marley Movement Caribbean Festival (now called Nine Mile Music Festival). The 17th Annual Bob Marley Movement Caribbean Festival sure has expanded since its relatively humble beginnings at Bayfront Park. (Remember a seeming million years ago when tickets…
Everyone — meaning, uh, people with too much time on their hands on the Internet — flipped their shit yesterday when word got out that Britney Spears was spotted over the weekend in Miami. She touched down with manager Larry Rudolph and boyfriend Jason Trawick. They all stayed at the…
Zach Baron, at our sister paper the Village Voice, called Surfer Blood’s million-show spate at this past fall’s CMJ a “coronation.” By now, with the glowing reviews for Astro Coast, and rumors it’s entered both the Billboard Heatseekers and Top 200 charts, that seems pretty much sealed. The band’s appearances…
