Tag Archives: Radio-Active Records

Get Filthy With John Waters at the Parker Playhouse on July 28

In the world of the iconic mustachioed director John Waters, both nothing and everything are fabulous. Grandmas lovingly but delusionally converse with religious status, and a jail for delinquent youth is a perfectly fine place for a song and dance. None of the protagonists in his movies is wealthy or conventionally beautiful, yet they happily [...]

Sew What: The Sociopolitical Vision of Public Image Vintage

Andrew Vincent’s boutique, Public Image Vintage, is named after the English post-punk group Public Image Ltd – so it’s fitting that the shop’s headquartered a few doors down from Radio-Active Records in Fort Lauderdale. The neighborhood is all hemmed together nicely: local businesses drawing inspiration from each other and working together. In fact, Vincent premiered his [...]

Popcorn Soul Revue: For Those Who Like Dancing, Cool Giveaways

The best thing about the parties Mikey Ramirez, Jasper Delaini, and Nick Dewey threw at the Mai Kai was — besides the fake tropical landscape — the music. One wouldn’t expect less from the likes of these guys; the novelty of the Mai Kai was always a factor in making everything feel so awesome, but [...]

Radio-Active Records’ Mikey Ramirez Talks Shop

Until recently, Radio-Active Records sat in a nook of the Gateway Shopping Plaza on Sunrise Blvd. in Fort Lauderdale, a hideaway between stores selling sandwiches and soap and vintage dresses. Like the archetypal record store of the imagination, Radio-Active was born when, creatively speaking, its surroundings were in the midst of a dearth — Blue [...]

Record Store Day Is Bigger Than Christmas, But Is This Vinyl Bubble Ready to Pop?

Record Store Day has gotten so big so quickly, it’s spawning subplots: Will the hardened eBay sellers who try to buy up all the limited album pressings spoil the fun for everyone else? Will the resurgent vinyl LP — the centerpiece of Record Store Day’s expanding product line — continue its retail revival? Or have [...]

Suede Dudes Amounts to More Than the Sum of Its Prolific Parts

Although Suede Dudes opened for Andrew W.K. on April 7 — just a week and a half ago as of this write-up — you need not worry if you missed it. Their upcoming performance at Record Store Day is likely to be more seminal. “We didn’t technically open for Andrew W.K.,” vocalist/guitarist Bryan Adams admits. [...]

Garage Band Beach Day Channels ’60s Pop, Plays Radio-Active Records Saturday for Record Store Day

The phrase “beach day” denotes not so much an event, as in a way to spend the afternoon, as it does a warm, fuzzy feeling. There are words in other languages to describe that blissful sleepiness you get after a day at the shore (or so I’ve been told). The rosy-cheeked, languid haze that tends [...]

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C&I Studios: The Art of Production and Altruism in Fort Lauderdale

by Monica Uszerowicz

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 [...]

Tonight: Littman Theater Makes Tribute to Venezuelan Composer, Aldemaro Romero