Interview: John Ralston Born and bred in Lake Worth, John Ralston first hit the national music scene as the leader of Legends of Rodeo, a quartet that tended towards a sort of whiskey-soaked, on-the-road wistfulness. After recording for both Vagrant and MCA, the band, as all bands do, started to…
Miami fans of intelligent, funky grooves and beats: This edition of the weekly Switch dance party at PS14 is for you. The star of the evening? The DJ/producer born Adam Dorn, a.k.a. Mocean Worker, known by the downbeat cognoscenti for his funk-inflected, organic take on jazzy drum ‘n’ bass, breaks,…
It’s a battle of the club music heavyweights in downtown Miami this Saturday. While Sander van Doorn is at Space, the producer born Brian Transeau — better known as BT — takes over the Pawn Shop Lounge a couple of blocks away. Growing up in Washington, D.C., in the Eighties,…
The Las Vegas-based quintet Escape the Fate is a refreshing anomaly on the post-hardcore scene. Sure the bandmates have enough morbidity in their often-screamed lyrics for an entire Warped Tour, which they just played this summer. (Their release titles to date are There’s No Sympathy for the Dead and Dying…
Due to the success of Soulja Boy’s hit single “Crank That (Soulja Boy)” and it’s accompanying dance — which hit #1 of the Billboard Hot 100 Chart this September — everyone from the whitest of uncoordinated white boys: to Maury Povich guests: have been caught on YouTube with their personal…
Yesterday we gave you fresh techno, today we give you some funky deep house sounds. This mix comes courtesy of Miami DJ Rhouse, who originally hails from Pittsburgh, PA. Says Rhouse: “I am the grandfather of DJs having done my first gig in 1969. Unfortunately as my real world career…
Here’s another mix from Nova, “Summertime Sessions.” Click here to take a listen to a set of minimal techno sounds! Nova spins with Swedish techno legend Samuel L. Session at Blue on Saturday, September 29. Read about Samuel L. in next week’s issue of New Times. As always, local DJs,…
In the beginning, California artist/musician Chris Deckker imagined a world united through music, dancing away to pulsing beats but with a purpose of a greater good. And in 1997, he realized his creation, and it was good. The first Earthdance, as he dubbed his event, was a logical outgrowth of…
Icey’s appearance Saturday at Studio A, fresh on the heels of a show there by his onetime protégé, Baby Anne, gives further proof that funky breaks are alive and well. The breakbeat haven of Orlando saw Icey (born Eddie Pappa) grow up, but South Florida can really claim responsibility for…
The inevitable appendix on show listings for People Noise are the words, in parentheses, ex-VHS or Beta. Well that’s little surprise, considering those masters of dancey New Romanticism are pretty much the longest-running and most successful band out of Louisville, Kentucky, from which People Noise also hails. The latter’s songwriter…
If you know anything about SXSW, the annual new music showcase in Austin, TX, you know that SPIN magazine’s parties/shows there are epic. Here’s your chance to play next year’s edition. Enter the Hot Pursuit, an online competition powered by Music Nation. Upload your songs, videos, and photos on the…
The four guys of Tigercity must be totally smooth dudes. There’s the cover of their latest self-released EP, Pretend Not to Love — a photo of four graceful stallions galloping down a crystalline beach. Smooth. Then there’s the opening of “Are You Sensation” — grooving percussion picked up by funky…
Some of the brightest rising stars on the Christian rock scene arrive Tuesday for the local stop of their Pages Tour, so named for the journal in which headliners Shane & Shane penned many of their lyrics. The Shanes — last names Barnard and Everett — perform in support of…
A few years back, The Used’s Bert McCracken and My Chemical Romance’s Gerard Way were the enfants terribles of the ’00s post-emo/post-whatever world. The duo shared a serious dark streak and a fuck-it-all attitude, seemingly inhaling substances by the gallon and sharing a kind of symbiotic man-bond that defied definition…
It came from down under: Modular Records, that is, the Sydney, Australia-based label and one of the leaders of the post-rave, post-rock, all-fun Zeitgeist. Thank the label for introducing the world to the warped dance beats of Aussies like the Presets and Van She, or on the guitar side, Wolfmother…
If you attend Ozzfest at the Sound Advice Ampitheathre in West Palm Beach on Thursday, check the second stage for the L.A.-based Ankla. And if the band’s crushing, hypnotic grooves move you, good news: The group takes the stage Friday at Studio A for a full headlining set. The band’s…
Rumors of Shine’s demise have been greatly exaggerated. DJ Jonathan Cowan’s club opened to much fanfare in the Shelborne Hotel in spring 2006, immediately garnering kudos for its intimate size and ambience, as well as a jaw-dropping Steve Dash sound system. (It’s one of only a few by the guy…
Tahita Bulmer, the effervescent frontwoman for New Young Pony Club, has got little love for the sort of po-faced, pseudo-earnest bloke rock that’s held her London home in its tatty-trousered chokehold. “It’s been very white, and male, and middle class, or upper-middle class. Women and their histories and their perspective…
Juan Luis Guerra Juan Luis Guerra isn’t much of a morning person. “It took me a while to gather all my senses,” said Guerra. “I’m not used to getting up so early.” But getting up early Wednesday morning proved to be beneficial as the Dominican singer/songwriter led the way with…
New York media is reporting the death yesterday of Hilly Kristal, founder of legendary downtown rock club CBGB, which finally closed last October after a 33-year run. Kristal, 75, had been battling lung cancer. Although Kristal talked of opening a new branch of his club in Las Vegas, the forced…
To read an old diary is to painfully confront your former utter, abject dorkiness. Not only did New York-based writer Lesley Arfin save just about every diary she wrote, ever, but also she systematically — ouch — shared them with the worldwide cool-kid diaspora. Once a month, in her “Dear…
Give Orlando-based DJ/producer Baby Anne a gold star on two counts. One, for still carrying a torch for Florida breaks, our state’s woozy, psyched-out spin on electro that reached its heyday in the late Nineties. Two, for being one of the few females to do so in a scene ruled…
