Annette Turrillo is darn proud of her gender. The Caracas-born, Paris-based artist is all about womanhood and the feminine mystique. Though she began her formal training in urban design, Turrillo branched into fine arts in the early ’90s and began showing seriously around the end of that decade. The linear…

Let’s reflect on all the amazing things Ray Charles gave the world before he succumbed to lung cancer in 2004. He basically helped invent soul music by mixing up R&B and gospel with raw, emotive singing and lyrics. And he accomplished all of that as a native of a remote,…

New Year’s Eve falls on a Saturday this year, and that gives you permission to engage in all kinds of extra ridiculousness. With the night before free to warm up, the whole day of to relax, and the whole day after fully dedicated to hangover recovery, Saturday night is ripe…

About three-and-a-half years ago, the local noise and experimental music community seemed like it was about to lose an institution: the then-monthly Night of Weirds series at Churchill’s. But despite all the fanfare for the supposed last edition of the event in April 2008, the ensuing years have proven that…

Local quartet Ice Cream dubs its style “doom pop” and often plays the same kind of rough-around-the-edges DIY gigs as heavier acts like Slashpine. But despite some of its buddies’ metal-ish leanings, this group is almost as sweet as its namesake frozen dessert. Ignore the fact that the band favors…

Prog rock has always been, by definition, kind of overblown — epic keyboard! Finger-tapping, warp-speed guitar solos! Melodies across more octaves than is humanly possible! So Trans-Siberian Orchestra might have achieved the apex of the style by creating an entirely new offshoot, dubbed “rock theater.” From the beginning, band founder…

For a regular Miami nightcrawler, some things are no big deal. A beautiful woman struggling out of a body stocking, a bedazzled performance artist writhing atop a bar, or a living marionette wobbling across a platform? Sure, that’s just Saturday night circa 3 a.m. An experiment to bridge the seated-tickets…

While other South Florida bands to break out big have drawn endless rains of haterade (ahem, Surfer Blood), the Jacuzzi Boys can pretty much count all of Miami as their personal cheering squad. If Miami scenesters like anything, it’s an underdog, and the Boys didn’t exactly burst out of the…

When Agnostic Front appeared in the early ’80s, the band’s sound helped define what would come to be known as hardcore. If punk was stripped down, Agnostic Front was even more stripped down. There were no artful postpunk leanings here. If punk was aggressive, Agnostic Front was even more aggressive,…

Never mind the fact that the Drums hail from the concrete jungle of Brooklyn. The trio’s best songs are the kind of brisk, breezy indie-pop perfectly suited for Florida’s coastal air. Of course it doesn’t hurt that the band’s breakout hits include obvious odes to waves, such as “Let’s Go…