Tag Archives: Grand Central

Concert Review, Gallery: Best Coast at Grand Central Was Pleasant But Predictable

Much like the band’s latest album, The Only Place, Best Coast’s performance last night at Grand Central was slick, poppy, and likable, but not earth-shattering or mind-blowing. It’s about what you’d expect from the L.A. band. Its frontwoman, Bethany Cosentino, has always traded in a similar persona — a sort of cheerful, slacker-ish everywoman who [...]

Best Coast Goes Less Cat Lady, More Pop at Grand Central Tonight

Best Coast is kind of like the 2012 version of Blondie — yes, it’s a proper band, but its frontwoman serves as a kind of synechdoche. Just like people used “Blondie” to refer to that band’s singer, Debbie Harry, half the time people say “Best Coast” they just mean the band’s beating heart, Bethany Cosentino. [...]

Mr. Pauer Brings His “Electropico” Fusion to His Opening Gig for La Mala Rodriguez on Friday

Toto “Mr. Pauer” Gonzalez is the face of Miami’s forward-thinking, Latin alternative scene. As the founder of Fabrika, a weekly newsletter and frequently updated web site, he’s something of a curator, charting the cultural landscape of next-gen Latin-Americans in Miami. His audience has little use for language or scene boundaries, and you’re as likely to [...]

Review: Explosions in the Sky Brought a Cinematic Sweep to Grand Central Last Night

Last night’s Explosions in the Sky show at Grand Central was almost shockingly crowded for a mid-week rock show at the venue. You could chalk it up in part, perhaps, to the gig’s all-ages entry, a rarity for the place, or the fact that school’s out for the summer. Most of the elbow-to-elbow audience, though, [...]

Don’t Call Explosions in the Sky “Post-Rock” When They Play at Grand Central on Wednesday

Yes, the long-running Austin, Texas-based quartet Explosions in the Sky eschews vocals. Yes, the group often favors feeling over the strictures of pop-song form. Yes, the feeling of choice is often expansive, unfurling slowly from its source to the rafters. But to call the group, as so many do, merely “post-rock” is sort of missing [...]

Review: Obituary at Grand Central Shows Everything Right in World of Fla. Metal

On Friday, Tampa Bay-based death metal forefathers, Obituary, played their first South Florida date in over five years. Droves of the black-shirted and unshorn-hair set convened at Miami’s Grand Central to bring the “redneck stomp” and turn the place “inside out” with one of the genre’s first – and finest – bands. Obituary brought some [...]

Q&A: Donald Tardy of Obituary Talks Swamps, Cats, and “Cobweb Shows,” Plays Grand Central Friday

Florida’s death metal legacy is untouchable. We’ve waxed romantic upon its impact before, and are now delighted to take you deeper into the belly of the beast, with one of the genre’s greatest practitioners at the helm. Obituary as we know them have been holding it down since 1988, when they shed previous monikers Executioner/Xecutioner [...]

Gallery: Corrosion of Conformity Monday at Grand Central

Last night’s Corrosion of Conformity show at Grand Central may not have been packed, but it brought out some of the best Miami metal has to offer. Local favorites Shroud Eater, Consular, and Holly Hunt warmed up the crowd for CoC, who blasted the audience with some loud guitar and heavy-punk muscle when they took [...]

Review: Corrosion of Conformity Show Was Small, Intimate

Last night’s Corrosion of Conformity show at Grand Central in downtown Miami wasn’t exactly packed. Blame it on the fact that it was a Monday night, or more likely, on the band’s extended absence from the area (and, recently, the Billboard charts). The group’s last show in Miami was in 1997, and if you’re an [...]

Black Lips Show at Grand Central Sunday Should Get Rowdy

It seems the indie universe has grown up a bit; critics and fans no longer chastise, as a matter of principle, bands for choosing greater production value. They’ve finally realized the theorem lo-fi = authenticity is limited, if not entirely false. The Black Lips, playing Grand Central Sunday, represent one example why — their 2011 [...]

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