That green blur is the lone dancer at Nocturnal last night.Yesterday, Jose Duran weighed in on the Eatskeet . com / Hipsterrunoff . com “Party Worth Blogging About” at the Gansevoort plunge pool, which we both attended. He was mostly on the money, but I should add that the party…
As Tall as Lions’ self-titled, 2006 sophomore album was one of that year’s most overlooked. That’s a shame, because the Long Island, New York,-based band’s disc was a surprisingly bittersweet, wistful work, full of soulful lullabies about the fleeting nature of life and love. Ghosts and faded lovers populated its…
The international dance-floor domination of the German electro-house duo Booka Shade as well as that of the record label they cofounded, Get Physical, came serendipitously. “The plan was not to have a plan,” Arno Kammermeier, half of the twosome, says of Get Physical’s heady early days. It was around the…
Close watchers of the local electro scene may remember producer/DJ Jason Tyler’s splashdown here from Chicago a couple years ago. (Read a past New Times article on him here). While last year he went back to the Windy City for a while to work on some new music, he’s returned,…
OrganicArmaOrganicArma’s ambitious, multipurpose venue, dubbed “the Awarehouse,” opened with a packed debut extravaganza a couple Saturdays ago — check out our photo slideshow of the event. Building on that party momentum, the folks behind the space are going for a bigger splash during WMC. The Awarehouse will host all of…
This year marks the eighth edition of Steve Lawler’s annual Lights Out WMC party, one of conference’s most popular and bullshit-free parties. This year, the event was originally set to take place at Kore, on Washington Avenue — but it’s now been moved to Nocturnal. The warehouse-like downtown space is…
via www.myspace.com/digableplanetsDigable Planets, those purveyors of feel-good, wordy Nineties-era hip-hop, were scheduled to play several dates around South Florida in April. The first gig was set for April 15 at City Limits, followed by one at the Vagabond the day after, and another at Crobar that Friday.We’ve just gotten word…
Good news for people who are big Matt & Kim fans, but didn’t want to forfeit a night of WMC stuff to check them out…. But bad news for people who are running on standard Miami time.Sweat Records wants you to know this show is early — it starts at…
Photo by Justin Namon, www.thepopnessparty.comTo read past installments of Miami According to Brooklyn, click here. This week is addressed to my haters. First off, I’d like to thank you for taking the time to read my column. Second, the things that I write and talk about are just one man’s…
The international dance floor domination of the German electro-house duo Booka Shade, as well as that of the record label they co-founded, Get Physical, came serendipitously. “The plan was not to have a plan,” says Arno Kammermeier, half of the twosome, of Get Physical’s heady early days. It was around…
With Bob Marley at the helm in the late 1970s, the Wailers reengineered the reggae blueprint on Exodus by embracing pop, funk, and R&B and by teasing out multiple layers of riffs, melodies, and harmonies on each song. But even following Marley’s death, the band continued in various forms over…
The Weston-based indie up-and-comers Old Wives’ Tale are nothing if not professional — the band’s entire existence argues further for the end of record labels. Its website and debut disc are snappily designed and art-directed by the band itself, with a high-gloss, new wave style much like the band’s music…
Andy Butler, the cunning mind behind Hercules and Love Affair, is a champion of saucy, sweaty disco and house, and his DJ sets reflect this focused style. The group’s self-titled record was easily one of the biggest exclamation points in dance music’s lexicon last year. Alongside singers Nomi and Kim…
The English quartet Late of the Pier are among their homeland’s best, brightest young hopes, with all the high cheekbones and music press praise that usually entails. But don’t mistake them for one of the dour, fedora-ed Brit indie groups of recent years. This band makes fun music for the…
The Weston-based indie up-and-comers Old Wives’ Tale are nothing if not professional — the band’s entire existence argues further for the end of record labels. Its web site and debut disc are snappily designed and art-directed by the band itself, with a high-gloss, New Wave style much like the band’s…
Photo by Justin Namon, thepopnessparty.comTo read past installments of South Florida According to Brooklyn, click here. Spring break is here, and the streets of South Beach are filled with jackasses. I’ve noticed more and more as I get older and wiser, that the people who come here from out of…
Rendering of the AwarehouseWhen we last checked in with Dharma, the single-monikered head of the local live electronic band OrganicArma, his biggest project was still more or less a dream. He and the rest of his band had purchased a sprawling warehouse space in Wynwood, planning to turn it into a…
As frontman of the New Jersey band Thursday, Geoff Rickly helped pioneer many of the main motifs of today’s landscape of contemporary punk-inspired rock. From the group sprang a distinctive sing/scream vocal technique, wordy song titles and lyrics, and, well, even the use of the calendar as a source for…
Dirty Hairy, the latest South Beach party promoted by a cohort of downtown kids, prides itself in being over-the-top. Its setting, LIV, is an almost ridiculously glam club in the revamped Fontainebleau, with one of the trippiest light shows around and a seemingly endless font of money to throw at…
With the exception of the always-awesome power poppers the Pretty Faces from Boca, Saturday’s show at Respectable Street is billed as an “indie invasion from Miami.” Among the highlights is Astari Nite, helmed by the enigmatic Michael Ghost. The group has crafted a cohesive, melancholic sound, dark without sliding into…
Although based in sunny Fort Lauderdale, the foursome of the Mad Rockets channel the grit of Motor City in their dirt-under-the-fingernails brand of rock ‘n’ roll. It’s easy to tell where the band’s musical heart lies just by the players’ pseudonyms: frontman Jinx, guitarist/vocalist Sonic Jim, bassist Todd Damour, and…
The PoguesWith Kiss KissPompano Beach AmphitheaterSunday, March 7, 2009Better Than: Having to hear about it after the factThe Review: Saturday night’s concert by the Pogues at the Pompano Beach Amphitheatre marked the first-ever South Florida appearance by the band, since its inception in 1982. Judging by the audience’s gently boozy,…
