Another second Saturday, another Wynwood Art Walk. Now that it’s October, this edition marks the first boozy gallery crawl of the proper “season” in Miami. Expect big crowds — and things are only going to pick up steam from here. After you hit the strip around Northwest Second Avenue, though, you’ll probably want to keep [...]
The big cities in Sweden are nearly the diametric opposite of those in South Florida: They’re kind of cold all year, but they’re quiet, clean, and full of people who wait calmly in line and speak grammatically correct English. Don’t get us wrong, though, we love our bizarro corner of the universe and its loud, [...]
Cult bandleader King Khan is exactly the kind of abject weirdo we love around these parts. When he last appeared in Miami, as part of a kick-off show the night before the Bruise Cruise, he showed up in fine form: bare-chested save for a shell necklace, rocking a feathered headdress. No real reason why — [...]
Anyone who’s borne witness to a Jacuzzi Boys show knows that the band’s sun burnt, indie-dusted, pseudo-surf-rock has a tendency to morph into a much more punk-rock creature in a live setting than what you might expect after listening to its albums. But what happens when you couple this volatile live show with a much-anticipated [...]
This weekend around Miami offers an especially brisk selection of live music, from performances by staple favorites to the lesser known. Here’s a grab-bag of five cheap shows worth checking out, all for $10 or less. Friday: Jane Jane Pollock and the Growlers at Bardot Georgia/Tallahassee-based quintet Jane Jane Pollock is a vaguely psychedelic, experimental [...]
Saturday’s crowd at Churchill’s bid adieu to its hometown garage-rock heroes the Jacuzzi Boys, off to tour Europe next week, with the typical rowdiness local audiences ritually lavish on the trio. The pit never quit, and women took turns dancing on the stage. A few guys even got up there. Couples made out without the [...]
Saturday’s show at Revolution was meant to be the first of two South Florida tour dates on producer/DJ/label head Diplo’s extensive “Paradise Lost” tour of our state. For whatever reason, the headliner himself dropped off Fort Lauderdale’s date — though he’ll dutifully appear Tuesday night at Grand Central, in Miami. With a reduced ticket price [...]
Around 11:30 p.m. last night, it became highly improbable, in a rain of ice cubes, that the the Stage would ever again host anything akin to the Bruise Cruise kick-off party. The Design District venue, with its slightly upscale, living-room-like vibe, most often hosts jam fusion acts and New Orleans-type brass bands. Sure, these shows [...]
By now, trailing jangly noise-pop darlings Sleigh Bells and dance DJ Diplo, one of Brooklyn’s most beloved and most despised bands is heading South toward Tallahassee. “Transcendental black metal” act Liturgy is one of the most polarizing bands to hit the blogosphere in years, and have become both an indie success and a half-starved whipping [...]
You already know this: while earning your college degree was informative and pleasant enough, plenty of us head in a different direction. Or maybe the experience wasn’t so awesome or helpful, but we’re sticking, steadfast and stubborn, to what we set out for in the first place. Joshua Miller, the executive director and founder of [...]
Venezuela has been in the media lately: following the death of Hugo Chávez, his chosen successor, Nicolas Maduro, beat challenger Henrique Capriles in the current election for presidency. It was a miniscule margin of a win—about 50.7%–and as of this write-up, a contested verdict. But if you’re the average United Statesian, you are less aware [...]
