Here’s more in immediately useful news over the next few days if you’re into this sort of thing. As we’ve mentioned here, the Vagabond has its own events planned every night of this week, with Phish afterparties starting tonight. If you’re in town for the show and are the traveling-for-music-festivals…
via myspace.com/cityofgodLocal pop-minded six-piece City of God plays the Road on New Year’s Eve.The Vagabond and White Room aren’t the only downtown Miami venues opening their doors to the Phish crowds who will invade starting any minute now. A little further south, Tobacco Road starts its own spate of after…
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…
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…
The Big Day Out Festival is one of those “some-day” trips to daydream about. An annual series of massive one-off fests throughout Australia and New Zealand, it’s like a Reading or Leeds done Down Under, with the world’s biggest festival draws ever. This year’s edition features seven dates from January…
The upcoming three weeks in South Florida are pretty much heaven on earth for “phans” and other chilled-out festival-loving types. Phish’s four-night stand at the American Airlines Arena begins on the 28th, and, of course, kicks off on New Year’s Eve, with a bunch of other livetronica-type afterparties going on…
It’s hard to believe that at the end of the decade, any band once labeled “nu 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 am active touring career and a healthy, loyal…
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…
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…
Alright, I promise this will be the last Miami Music Festival post for a while. But in case you wanted to see what you missed — because you missed it, didn’t you? — check out these YouTube clips of a few choice performances. First, I’ll post a few from Saturday…
Photo by Ian WitlenStonefox bassist Ross FuentesClick here to view a full slideshow of pictures from Saturday night at the Miami Music Festival.If a few artists’ performances really shone at the Miami Music Festival this past weekend, it only served to underscore the amateurish quality of much of the rest…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Visit miamimusicfestival.org for more details. Individual showcase admission is $10, a three-day wristband costs $50 ($35 for students), and a one-day wristband costs $25 ($20 for students). The Big Bounce: With Miami residencies at the Florida Room, the Clevelander, and Blue Martini, quietly hip locals already know the Big Bounce is one…
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…
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…
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…
When rapper Noreaga turned into N.O.R.E. in the middle part of this century, 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 rap. In the…
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…
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…
