Last week I wrote a little run-down of the acts who would be playing the Museum of Contemporary Art’s last summer battle of the bands, which took place last Thursday night. Well, a winner’s been announced: Congratulations, Electric Bunnies! I have to admit I’m a little surprised, not because the…
Rebecca Smeyne The Village Voice documents the last party at the infamous McCarren Pool with Yo La Tengo. Houston Press’ Rocks Off blogger Chris Gray loses his Guitar Hero cherry. SF Weekly does its best to capture the odd fashion choices at Outside Lands. Warning: it ain’t pretty. Check out…
Rok Vegas in the New York New York Hotel & Casino. Remember Rokbar LA? No? Don’t worry, neither does anyone else. When Rokbar Miami flourish, owners quickly opened a Los Angeles version in Hollywood, competing with institutions like Viper Room and the Roxy. But the problem was that Rokbar was…
Just got a press release stating that for today only, all of you die-hard Chris Isaak and Lisa Loeb fans can get a sizable discount on tickets for their upcoming performance. All of the details are below. And check out the infamous “Wicked Games” video after the jump–considered by many…
Gotta love the Designer Drugs. No not those designer drugs, we’re talking about Designer Drugs, the DJ duo from New York. The duo will stop by Miami September 8, as part of their mini-tour of Florida, where they will take over the decks of White Room’s Monday night bash Exposure…
Is it WMC already? Nope, but LA Riots is coming to town anyway! Last time the Los Angeles duo were here was in March, playing multiple venues like The Vagabond and Rokbar. They return to The Vagabond (30 NE 11th Street, Miami) Friday, September 12 in what promises to be…
Mark Mauer LA Weekly’s blog Play visits the wall where the late singer/songwriter Elliot Smith posed for his Figure 8 album. Since his death in 2003, it has become an informal memorial to Smith. According to SF Weekly, Miami Beach resident Chan Marshall, better known as Cat Power, is scheduled…
Tonight’s Smashing Pumpkins concert — or Billy Corgan and Jimmy Chamberlin with some other people who aren’t James Iha and Darcy Wretzky — at the Center for the Arts at Mizner Park has been reschedule for Thursday, August 21. Tickets purchased for tonight’s show will be honored Thursday. — Jose…
Alexandra Lipsitz Talk about creepy: Village Voice’s Sound of the City posts up a promo picture for the movie Soul Men, which features the late Isaac Hayes and the late Bernie Mac. Quick, someone get Samuel L. Jackson to a panic room! LA Weekly gives us a glimpse of the…
Courtesy of Laundry Bar Pack up the suds. Laundry Bar has its last wash. South Beach venue Laundry Bar is calling it quits. Well, not exactly. The place we come to know as Laundry Bar will in fact cease to exists, but its owners are still planning to keep it…
Courtesy of Girls Gone Wildlife You love this ass! Debbie Attias takes a cross country bike ride to raise money for the World Wildlife Fund. Does she look like a slut? No, Debbie Attias, half of the now-defunct, Brooklyn-based, MIA born-and-raised Avenue D, looks like a cyclist. She and friend…
Ivon David Rojas With so many good music stories being produce every week, we here at the New Times wanted to clue you in on stories and blog posts done by the other Village Voice Media publications. Check it out what is happening Around the Voice: Village Voice’s article “How…
It’s been a swell few months for Torche, since the release this April of its second full-length (and Hydra Head debut), Meanderthal. The record’s garnered raves from the likes of Spin and the British mag Mojo, and been featured in Alternative Press, to name just a few of the many…
Courtesy of Spiradic Productions Cuban jazz drummer Diego “Mofeta” Iborra passed away last month at 89. You never know who some of Miami Beach’s golden oldies are or might have been in their younger years, unless of course they reach into their wallet from time to time and pull out…
Matthew Dear returns to Miami Saturday, August 16, at Boutique. Avant-garde electropop artist/producer Matthew Dear, also known as Audion, returns to Miami next Saturday, August 16 at Boutique (NE 13th Street & First Court, Miami) — er, you know, Pawn Shop Lounge’s Boutique Room. I know! It’s still open! Who…
Earlier this week, we announced that Common and N.E.R.D. were slated to perform at the Fillmore Miami Beach on September 5th. As of today, that show is officially pushed back to October 10th. I’m sure it was a scheduling issue but there was no reason given for the show being…
Miami Gardens Mayor Shirley Gibson, Rick Ross, and State Representative Oscar Braynon II. To confirm our breaking news report (which we had up before any other news outlet in the country), the 2nd Annual Rick Ross Be Out Day was in fact interrupted and tainted by gunfire yesterday. By now,…
If you’re a lover of reggae music, you’ll be happy to know that local station WDJA-AM 1420 (Based out of Delray Beach, has recently switched it’s format to 95% Caribbean music. The station, which previously existed as a banking and financial talk radio is under new management and they’re giving…
In May, we posited that southern hip-hop and Fox News share much in common. Possessing both an anti-intellectual streak and a populist one, they’re beloved by red-staters and hated on by the coastal elites, be they liberals, hipsters, Ghostface or Nas. The piece concluded: If you’re still not convinced that…
If you’re planning to attend the Rock the Bells concert tomorrow and want to know who’s playing when, we’ve got you covered. The name that’s most noticeably missing from this list is Santogold. Honestly, she was probably the person that I’m most excited to see live. And I’m bummed that…
It’s no secret that Nas and Bill O’Reilly aren’t exactly best friends. O’Reilly has been slamming rappers for as long as I can remember on his overly popular televison show, the O’Reilly Factor and Nas is one of his biggest targets. Of course, Nas has taken a few lyrical jabs…
This just in: The Rock the Bells concert scheduled for this Saturday, August 2, has been moved from Bicentennial Park to Bayfront Park. They’re basically right next to each other so logistically, it doesn’t make much of a difference, but according to Angel Candelaria whose company, Contagious Musiq is one…
