The last time the Kendall-born quartet Black Tide made it back to South Florida was last September, when the foursome played a date at Revolution on its tour with the Welsh metallers of Bullet for My Valentine. It was an extremely short homecoming. And the band’s nonstop touring schedule has…

There are few hispanophone ladies and gents of a certain age who at some point have not been reduced to misty eyes by the ballad stylings of suave Spaniard Julio Iglesias. Although Iglesias’s true crossover peak came mainly in the 1980s, he has hardly receded from the international spotlight, cranking…

The last time the Miami-born quartet Black Tide made it back to South Florida was last September, when the foursome played a date at Revolution on their tour with Welsh metallers Bullet for My Valentine. It was an extremely short homecoming to be sure. And the band’s nonstop touring schedule…

There are few hispanophone ladies and gents of a certain age who have not been reduced, at some point, to misty eyes by the ballad stylings of the suave Spaniard Julio Iglesias. While Iglesia’s true crossover peak came mainly in the 1980s, he has hardly receded from the international spotlight,…

Bad news for fans: Yonder Mountain String Band just announced that it was postponing all of its shows from February 11 to 15, with the vague explanation, “due to circumstances surrounding the band.” That includes this Friday’s previously scheduled gig at Revolution. The okay news is that rather than an…

City Limits, besides snagging Bad Brains, has also grabbed blog darlings Tokyo Police Club to play the same weekend the band would have played Langerado. Unfortunately, the show goes up against two others that night that attract similar fans: Girl Talk and Deerhunter at Culture Room, and Modest Mouse at…

The February 13 show at Respectable Street Café features two of the finest local acts to break out of Broward and Palm Beach counties: John Ralston and the Postmarks. Of the two, the Postmarks are perhaps the better known, garnering a degree of international critical acclaim by largely refusing to…

…No, not together. Tricky takes the stage for a super-rare South Florida appearance on Friday, Mar. 6 at the venue (200 W. Broward Blvd., Ft. Lauderdale). The all-ages show starts at 7 p.m., and tickets cost $22.Modest Mouse was part of that last, strange announcement of Langerado acts, mere days…

Pompano Beach Amphitheatre has claimed what would have been Langerado weekend as a sort of early St. Patrick’s Day celebration. Crossfade just announced that the Pogues will play the venue on Mar. 7 (amazing!), but on Mar 6. the venue will also see some Irish-influenced punk.That day, Flogging Molly, the…

Now that Langerado’s cancelled, expect many of the bands to announce smaller shows throughout South Florida. Word is, booking agents started calling local promoters a few days before the official cancellation announcement. While we’ll sadly still miss out, say, on the Pogues and other headliners, keep your fingers crossed for…

South Florida’s Nonpoint plays the Buzz’s LocofestIf you loooove the kinds of bands that are played during “active rock” radio formats, you will loooove Locofest, a weekend shebang sponsored by the Buzz 103.1 on March 14. Held at the Palm Beach International Raceway, the bill sponsors a number of hard-rock…

New Jersey’s Streetlight Manifesto deserves a couple of props. First, for still carrying the torch of third-wave ska as it was largely played at its tail end in the late Nineties: in a group of many, many musicians, and with a heavy punk edge. Second, for remaining pretty much the…

Okay, St. Augustine is pretty damn far from here. And half of the bands on the Harvest of Hope festival bill, well, we’ve never heard of them. However, if you overwhelmed with a sense of loss after Langerado’s cancellation, or just feel like a road trip, this one may be…

KRS-One’s been no stranger to South Florida, playing a couple of gigs at Miami’s now-defunct Studio A over the past couple of years. He’s coming back, but this time a little further north, to City Limits in Delray Beach. The show presents something of a musical (although perhaps not ideological)…

SunFest, in West Palm Beach, has always impressed me, 1) for the expensive, marquee names it has attracted, but also 2) for the really strange ways it has often combined them. The festival, in its latter-day incarnation, now spans several days, with packed bills each night, including one “new music…

Last year marked the inauguration of the Rockstar Mayhem Festival tour, a summer package from the creators of Warped Tour that featured heavier acts. There were some pretty surprising bands on the bill: besides Miami’s Black Tide, performers included Mastodon, Underoath, and Of course, if you’re a Slipknot fan, that…

…Um, the DJs. Or at least, we think that should be plural — South Florida has been receiving a spate of solo spinners in place of advertised teams. At the recent (fun!) Scion House Party at the Vagabond, instead of both members of the DFA’s Still Going, we got one…

Bad Manners and the English BeatWednesday, January 28, 2009Culture Room, Ft. LauderdaleBetter Than: Feeling sorry for yourself, anywhereThe Review:When a portly, fiftysomething man in a floppy, sweaty, leopard print suit rubs his protruding belly and asks, in an impenetrable, working-class Brit accent, if there are any fat people in the…

The Leeds-born house DJ Dave Seaman is by now a worldwide household name in electronic music, with countless mix albums and original releases, a record label (Audio Therapy), and a constant international touring schedule calibrated with military precision. But in the mid- to late ’90s, he was still relatively unknown…