The Columbus, Ohio-based MC Copywrite (sometimes Copywrite 78) is best known, perhaps, to underground hip-hop diehards as a former member of the Weathermen, alongside Cage and the late Camu Tao (RIP). But in the five years since he left that group over personal disagreements, he’s continued his steady solo grind,…
Virginia quintet Parachute has been on the rise since it landed the song “She’s Love” in a Nivea commercial. Suddenly, thousands of women with smooth legs wanted more of those smooth pop-rock sounds. In the resulting buzz storm on iTunes and the like, the song eventually also landed on the…
The idea behind Miami Summerfest is pretty straightforward: a bunch of up-and-coming local acts playing in the sweltering heat of a mostly-outdoors venue on a Sunday (that’s the “summer part”). But seriously, the event doesn’t start until after the sun goes down, and the acts selected so far are pretty…
Austin quartet Goldcure plays a straightforward blend of indie-ish pop-rock, but the Texas still comes through. Guitars are bright, rollicking, and purely American, and frontman Adam Buhman’s rough-edged croon can veer close to twang. But the band’s real talent is in reducing its roots and rock influences to their essences,…
via standbyrecords.netThe Maryland pop-punk quintet Count Your Blessings headlines the Talent Farm this Sunday night as part of its “Hip Shakers and Trouble Makers Tour.” Click here to read what Brett Gillin had to say about it in this week’s issue of the Broward-Palm Beach New Times.The band’s debut full-length,…
While Respectable Street has booked a number of darkwave and, um, “old wave” groups of late, this is probably its most impressive coup to date in recent months. Peter Murphy, onetime Bauhaus leader and pretty much the granddaddy of all that is goth, plays the club on June 24. Last…
When the mainstream media and trendies of yore decided, in the late 1970s, that punk version 1.0 was over, the Vibrators never got the memo. Perhaps, in true spiky Brit fashion, they just ripped it up and spit on it. Either way, the London-based band boasts the distinction of existing…
photo by Jacqueline CariniDharma, leader of organicArmaLocal live electronic act organicArma are doubtless celebrating a wish come true. Band leader Dharma has long been an outspoken admirer of the New York art-electro-pop outfit Fischerspooner, hinting to me last winter that he wanted to book them to play at his expansive…
The fivesome Clock Hands Strangle are based a little further north, in Melbourne, but have increasingly ventured outside their hometown, recently playing in Miami for an in-store at Sweat. We should be seeing more of this band after the release of its forthcoming full-length, Distaccati. And to whet your appetite,…
photo by Karla Garcia, via grammy.comThe annual Florida Music Festival kicks off its eighth year tonight, and while it’s up in Orlando, more and more South Florida bands are turning towards the multi-day music crawl as a sort of SXSW lite. Billed as featuring 250 performances across 15 stages and…
via xxlmag.comRick Ross’ cover story for the May issue of XXL was meant to be his hip-hop media comeback, an attempt to quash the corrections officer thing and clear the air on his beef with 50. The thrust of the article is made clear by Ross’ cover line quote: “I’ve…
A couple weeks ago I got a mailed copy of Elizabeth Goodman’s new Cat Power book, Cat Power: A Good Woman. Although it’s deeply reported, it’s unauthorized; Chan Marshall refused to speak with Goodman for the project, and thus all her quotes therein are indirect. It’s a fast-paced read, but…
NKOTB – so close, yet so farOh, this brings back memories of 1990, when New Kids tickets were impossible to get and the meanest girls in elementary school bragged when they could snag ’em. Tickets for NKOTB’s 2009 comeback tour were easier to buy, and lawn tickets for their Cruzan…
When the mainstream media and trendies of yore decided, in the late 1970s, that punk version 1.0 was over, the Vibrators never got the memo. Perhaps, in true spiky Brit fashion, they just ripped it up and spit on it. Either way, the London-based band boasts the unique distinction of…
Saves the DaySaves the Day and Alkaline TrioWith Nightmare of YouSunday, May 10, 2009Revolution, Ft. LauderdaleBetter Than: Any of the crap under the misapplied “emo” rubric these daysThe Review:Any number of swoop-haired bands of the current Warped Tour generation may, perhaps, boast more Internet “friends,” but few can even hope…
Once upon a time, you couldn’t walk down certain lower Manhattan blocks without tripping over sidewalk vendors’ card tables loaded down with cassettes. Sometimes, they’d be bootleg concert tapes, but a lot of the time, they’d be the latest hip-hop mixtapes. And in the golden age of the form, no…
Tomorrow night’s show continues Respectable Street’s recent trend of catering to the darker set. As such, headlining the bill tomorrow is the singularly pseudonymous Voltaire, flying down from his cave in New York as part of a brief national tour in support of his recent musical endeavors. Voltaire calls himself…
Chris Conley, the creative force behind long-running New Jersey quartet Saves the Day, is a man who knows disappointment and loss. In fact, these feelings have been his stock in trade, at least for the first large chunk of his almost-15-year musical career. Conley is barely 29 years old but…
If you missed out on scoring tickets to her recent sold-out show at Revolution or you somehow just can’t get enough of Katy Perry, you’re in luck. The shape-shifting popstress returns to South Florida on May 7, playing a free gig at the Fillmore Miami Beach as part of the…
Obsessive followers of Maynard James Keenan — the elusive brains behind Tool, A Perfect Circle, and Puscifer — know that beyond Bill Hicks and artsy heavy music, his other passion is wine. Indeed, recent magazine profiles on Keenan have usually found him in rural Arizona, where he lives on a…
Miami’s hardest-working MC, Garcia, has never made any bones about the fact that he loves porn. His promo photos are often full of booty-licious, scantily clad women (just look at the background on his MySpace page), and his last album, Life Unscripted, featured a track whose refrain went, “I wanna…
People From Venus may be one of the most aptly named bands on the local circuit — it can seem, at certain musical moments, as though the band was beamed in from another planet. Take those weird, eerie beeps and bloops at the beginning of “Lipstick,” the band’s should-be-a-hit song…
