Candyland 14

Above all else, Candyland deserves an award for being South Florida’s longest-running annual electronic music festival. Yeah, uh, festival — that’s what they’re called now, to avoid that pesky rave word. Make no mistake, though. In its late-’90s heyday, Candyland was indeed one of the highest-budget, complete-fantasy “parties” ever. (We…

Nonpoint

It’s hard to believe that at the end of the decade, any band once labeled “nü metal” is still going strong. So leave it to a band from South Florida, land of anomalies. In late 2009, Fort Lauderdale natives Nonpoint still enjoy an active touring career and a healthy, loyal…

Candyland Returns, Again — But This Year at White Room

​Above all else, Candyland deserves an award for being South Florida’s longest-running annual electronic music festival. Yeah, uh, “festival” – that’s what they’re called now, to avoid that pesky “rave” word. Make no mistake, though. In its late-’90s heyday, Candyland was indeed one of the highest-budget, complete-fantasy “parties” ever. (We…

The Inaugural Miami Music Festival Fails

If Boca Raton band Stonefox’s performance really shone at the Miami Music Festival this past weekend, it only served to underscore the amateurish quality of much of the rest of the event. Planned as a three-day set of simultaneous showcases, à la SXSW, the inaugural edition of MMF was poorly…

Pulp Live in Fort Lauderdale Closes, Everyone Shrugs

​Pulp Live announced last week, via its various social networking pages, that it had closed until the venue “finds a new location.” Well, that’s always the way closing establishments try to put a nice face on it. The club’s web site, as I post this, is totally offline.We say, good…

Q&A With Cage, Playing at Revolution on Saturday

No one would ever accuse Chris Palko, the New York rapper who goes by Cage, of coming across as warm and cuddly. From the beginning of his career on the circuit, he’s mined his own set of personal traumas for musical gold. He’s long discussed his fucked up childhood to…

Miami Music Festival Preview: People From Venus, Playing Tonight

Here are a few randomly selected recommendations among the many acts playing the Miami Music Festival. Visit MiamiMusicFestival.org for individual venue details. Many of these places you’ve never heard of are subdivisions of real venues, with made-up names just for festival purposes. Others venues are tents; Transit Lounge alone will host a…

Miami Music Festival Preview: Empress Raw, Playing Tonight

Here are a few randomly selected recommendations among the many acts playing the Miami Music Festival. Visit MiamiMusicFestival.org for individual venue details. Many of these places you’ve never heard of are subdivisions of real venues, with made-up names just for festival purposes. Others venues are tents; Transit Lounge alone will host a…

Miami Music Festival Previews: Blank Tape and Ghost of Gloria, Playing Tonight

Here are a few randomly selected recommendations among the many acts playing the Miami Music Festival. Visit MiamiMusicFestival.org for individual venue details. Many of these funky-named places you’ve never heard of are subdivisions of real venues, with made-up names just for festival purposes. Others venues are tents; Transit Lounge alone will host…

Miami Music Festival Preview: Q&A With Mindwalk Blvd.

You’ve probably never heard of of the Massachusetts trio Mindwalk Blvd. But, if like the rest of the world, you spend way too much of your cubicle time over at YouTube, you may have already seen one third of the band. Three years ago, the mother of drummer Tyler Hudson…

A Guide to This Weekend’s Inaugural Miami Music Festival

In either an extremely clever or perhaps just a brave bit of scheduling, the inaugural Miami Music Festival launches Thursday, less than a week after Art Basel Miami Beach. Despite the lack of recuperation time, though, this event is worth checking out if you truly want to support South Florida’s…

N.O.R.E.

When rapper Noreaga turned into N.O.R.E. in the middle part of this decade, at first it was, honestly, worrisome. Longtime fans adored him as half of the killer Queens duo Capone-N-Noreaga, who in the mid- to late ’90s helped take back New York’s crown as the seat of real street…