Oh, Dolly! There’s no tinier, bustier, more magnificent country singer than she. You can Shania Twain and Taylor Swift all night long. But nothing compares to those big Parton pearlies glowing between smiling red lips. Of course, Parton isn’t just a bubbly personality with giant blond hair and huge breasts…
You might be wondering: Just what the hell have the Beatles got to do with Willy Chirino? Admittedly, “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da” is a far cry from “Oxigeno” and “Sexy Sadie” is worlds removed from “Soy Guajiro.” But make no mistake, whether or not you recognize the Fab Four’s fingerprint on the…
Back in May, we caught up with Israeli EDM sensation Guy Gerber ahead of his North American tour date at the Electric Pickle, and got the scoop on his new mystery album with Sean “P. Diddy” Combs.Gerber first hooked up with Diddy when the latter commissioned remixes for his Last…
See the full 30-photo Jacuzzi Boys’ Glazin’ Record Release slideshow. Jacuzzi Boys Glazin’ Release Party With Loose Stools, Snakehole, and The Jameses Churchill’s Pub Saturday, August 27, 2011 Better Than: Pricey perspiration therapy at a hippie health retreat. Getting drunk. Eating cheap. Forgetting to take our vitamins. We’re pretty much…
Pablo MilanesAmerican Airlines ArenaAugust 28, 2011(Definitely) Better than: the tiny protest outside.There’d been so much raging hysteria and controversy swirling through Spanish-language talk radio and TV news in the days before Cuban cantautor Pablo Milanés’s concert, that I was genuinely freaked out. At first I was all like, ugh, whatever,…
Matisyahu With Trevor Hall Fillmore Miami Beach Thursday, August 25, 2011 Better Than: Eating animals (Matisyahu is vegan. Yay!) Even before he took the stage, Matisyahu’s presence at the Fillmore was electric. The crowd — made up of people ranging from teens to 40-somethings – buzzed and smiled as they…
Felix da Housecat LIV at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach Wednesday, August 24, 2011 Last night, when Felix da Housecat came out at LIV, he lit the place up with big beats. His set was the one of two pros among many cons at the Fontainebleau’s posh nightclub. The other was…
Matisyahu at the Fillmore Miami Beach August 25
Hot Natured at the Electric Pickle August 26
Lucenzo at Grand Central August 27
Tim Sweeney at the Electric Pickle August 27
Pablo Milanes at the American Airlines Arena August 27
Unlike certain other electronic music festivities (i.e. Identity Festival) that were supposed to take place this Thursday, Panic Bomber (AKA Richard Haig) will not be canceling his release party for new album Domestic Violins because of an impending hurricane. Now, the album’s already been out for a bit. But Haig’s…
It is officially time to Check Yo’ Ponytail. Yesterday, the L.A. party collective — Iheartcomix’s Franki Chan, Media Contender’s Danny Johnson, and Zane Landreth — announced that it’ll be dragging its monthly Echoplex open-genre explosion across the country on a 10-city road trip up the West Coast, over to Chi-Town…
If you’re a drum ‘n’ bass head, then we probably don’t need to tell you about Andy C. But in all fairness, this is South Florida and not the working-class boroughs of London, so here’s the lowdown.Andrew “The Executioner” Clarke is basically one of the demigods of international D&B. Schooled…
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark — or more simply, O.M.D. — is Exhibit A in New Wave’s final evolutionary leap toward synth-pop. While many people had only just heard the Sex Pistols two years before O.M.D. released its first single, “Electricity,” the song — and the band, really — were…
See the full 24-photo Summer of Weirds II slideshow. Summer of Weirds II Churchill’s Pub Friday, August 19, 2011 Every single piece of press about Summer of Weirds II at Churchill’s Pub, including the feature story published by New Times, opened with a mention of the festival’s incredibly rabid Facebook…
Seriously, Grand Central. We get it. You are bringing everyone and their mother to your downtown venue this fall and winter.Latest addition: Aussie indie pop outfit Architecture in Helsinki. Yeah, despite the geographically specific name, these guys couldn’t be any farther from Finland. Misnomers aside, though, the band has been…
Cam’ron and his assorted homies (including Jim Jones and Juelz Santana) have been a major presence on the rap scene for over a decade. And if he keeps up his grind, he’ll be one of the few who stay relevant for two.Cam (real name Cameron Giles) has been averaging an…
Shredding hard and stalking America’s highways since 1978, SoCal punk crew Social Distortion has survived several lifetimes of hard living. Lesser punks than SxDx frontman and founder Mike Ness would’ve fallen down, folded, and rolled over into the gutter by now. But 33 years later, the man’s still going strong…
Wet Nurse at Churchill’s Pub August 18
Sasha Grey at Mokai August 19
