Goodfellas cover the Rolling Stones' "Jumpin' Jack Flash" at Titanic Brewery & Restaurant in Miami.
This is the Godfellas' description of theirselves on their Facebook page: "GOODFELLAS IS THE GROOVIEST< FUNKIEST<COVER BAND YOU WILL BE EVER SEE. BAND MEMBERS ARE: (CRAZY)EDDIE on VOCALS, WALTER(THE littleEDGE) on LEAD GUITAR, ZEUS on BASS & CESAR on DRUMS."
Titanic continues its tradition of showcasing live, local music. Log on to titanicbrewery.com for more info.
​What makes a party America's Best Party? We're not entirely sure, but if you have a strong desire to give show some hometown love, Miami's own Poplife is nominated for the title in Paper Magazine'sFifth Annual Nightlife Awards. The uber-hipster publication has pitted the party against other hipster nights across the United States including Mr. Black at Bardot Hollywood, San Francisco's Honey Soundsystem at Paradise Lounge, and Chicago's Rehab at Debonair Social Club.
The other categories, including Best Club, Best Bar, and Best DJ, focus entirely on New York's nightlife scene, which, let's face it, is as relevant as South Beach's nightlife culture is these days.
Anyway, don't waste any time and vote now if only to inflate the city's pride for a meaningless title.
Miami hip hop group Flow Official has just released a new album, the Architects LP, which features Itagui from Locos Por Juana, Malverde, !Mayday!, and L.M.S. What Up Kid is a song off the new album. The members of Flow Official are Omniscient, Emo, A Priest Classik, and Sic Vic, but you can see a whole bunch of local music faces in this video.
The video is directed by Vid Arroyo. Click here to view Flow Official's CD Baby page, where you can purchase tracks or the album.
You can also download their album Free Speech for free by clicking here.
Here's video of Pitbull's recent performance in Istanbul, Turkey, where he's famous, and where he claims he had the album of the year for 2009, "Not 305. Not Miami. Not Dade County. Not none of that shit. Turkey. Pa que sepa. Internacional."
​As usual, there's plenty of music to hear in Broward and Palm Beach this weekend. If you're in the mood for some indie rock AND comedy, you should head out to Propaganda to hear John Ralston, Sweet Bronco, and the Beards of Comedy. If you want your comedy more hard-edged, head out to see Doug Stanhope at Culture Room. Solid Sound Studios hosts their usual ultra-passionate local acts with clever names featuring The Perfect Defect. Finally, you can hear a little celtic rock with Uproot Hootenanny at Tim Finnegan's in Delray.
​Mark this as a must: Annie, who is best known for her tracks "Chewing Gum" and "I Know Ur Girlfriend Hates Me," will be making a quick stop at LIV in Miami Beach November 25 for a DJ set alongside Ross One and Contra. We'd really like for this to have been a live performance, but let's hope she graces South Florida with her presence some time in 2010 (looking at you Ultra organizers).
The Norwegian singer has just released her wonderfully superb electropop sophomore effort Don't Stop. It picks up where 2004's Anniemal left off, except not as retro-sounding. The album was delayed several times due to label disputes and what not, and despite having released two wonderful singles for the album -- the aforemention "Girlfriend" and the italo-disco track "Anthonio" -- neither was include in the final tracklisting.
But don't fret, the album is still packed with wonderful tracks. Some of our favorites include "Don't Stop," "I Don't Like Your Band," and the lead single "Songs Remind Me of You."
Check out the video for "Songs Remind Me of You" after the jump.
​Can you hear that faint thump? It's the heads of turntable purists smacking their heads against their desks. Still, like it or not, what constitutes "DJing" has forever changed with technology -- it's only a matter of time before somebody figures out how to use the DJ Hero controller in the club. Still, people have been using iPods to DJ since the devices came out, so why not the iPhone and iPod Touch?
Three local DJs -- Chris Domingo, Speechless, and Scratch-D from Dynamix II -- will do just that at Voodoo Lounge tomorrow for the iPDJ Mobile Groove DJ battle. The event is sponsored by IK Multimedia, the club, and Sonoma Wire Works, and is meant to showcase IK's new apps, Groovemaker and FourTrack. Each DJ will face off using the software, before playing their own full sets for the rest of the evening.
Okay, so Groovemaker's tagline might make some purists cringe -- "Everyone's an iPhone DJ with GrooveMaker!" The app comes themed to various genres -- house, hip-hop, techno, drum'n'bass, electro, and "club," whatever that means exactly. Each is loaded with loops and beats you can rearrange, speed up and slow down to create tracks in real time. There are up to eight tracks, and you can change elements as the music plays without a break.
​If you're still reading, author/actress (Seriously. She's on IMDB.) and Elvis's cousin Edie Hand will be at Borders Saturday to sign copies of her latest novellas A Christmas Ride: The Miracle of Lights and The Soldier's Ride. Although those don't have anything to do with Elvis, she has paid homage to the Hillbilly Cat through works like Elvis: Precious Memories, All Cooked Up: Recipes, Memories from Elvis' Friends and Family, and The Genuine Elvis: Photos and Untold Stories About the King, the last of which she described in an interview with the Memphis Flyer:
"Twelve years ago, I worked with the Elvis fan clubs, helping them collaborate on a Presley family and friends cookbook. Then one day, Ronnie and Joe and I were talking about making something new for the fans, and I said, well, I'll check into it. We found a lot of real stories that hadn't been told. Louise Smith hadn't shared her stories with anyone else."
Louise Smith was married to Elvis's other cousin, Gene Smith. While it may seem like Hand's just another relative milking her genetic connection till the bitter end, she actually donates a lot of her profits to various organizations like St. Jude's, Camp Smile-A-Mile, and the Country Music Hall of Fame. She'll be signing books from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday at Borders, located at 2240 E. Sunrise Blvd., Fort Lauderdale.
In other South Florida Elvis news: There will be an Alfred Wertheimer photo exhibit in April at the Boca Raton Museum of Art. Read more here.
According to the YouTube description for the above video, "The Techno Vikings themselves return to our local stomping ground after a well deserved break. Hailed as one of the original and founding artists of Electro Bass / Electro funk in Florida, the United States and World Wide, Dynamix II comes correct with an all new performance featuring all the classics we love as well as new future anthems."
DJ's for the event are Johnny Dangerously & DJ Storm. Duncan Beatz, Kriya, and DJ Cheezy will perform as well.
Dance performances and visual entertainment by Christa Knox and Hypnotic Gurlz.
Wednesday, November 25. Respectable Street Cafe, 518 Clematis St., West Palm Beach. Doors open at 8 p.m., admission is $10. Ages 18+ with ID. 561-832-9999; respectablestreet.com
If time between shows is any indication, you may have to wait another 76 years to catch Cuba's legendary Septeto Nacional on yanqui shores again.
​ The
band made its last U.S. appearance at the 1933 World's Fair
in Chicago, where it won a Gold Medal by spreading the Afro-Cuban music
made popular in the 1930s called "son." That was long before the Buena
Vista Social Club, which Ry Cooder made famous.
Fans of Cuban roots music have what could be a once-in-a-lifetime chance to catch the
legendary group -- composed of the fourth generation of musicians
who've kept the music of its prolific founder and composer Ignacio
Piñeiro alive.
The band will play two shows at Hoy Como Ayer, a cafe night
club on SW 8th Street and 22nd Ave., Saturday, November 21.
"They've never received the recognition they deserve," said Fabio Diaz, one of the nightclub's owners.
​On its MySpace page Sunday, English punk band Gallows unfortunately announced it would be canceling the rest of its tour with AFI, explaining:
"We're sorry to announce that we have had to cancel our remaining dates
on the AFI tour due to illness. We're sorry to disappoint anyone who
bought tickets to see us but make sure you go to the show as AFI are an
amazing band and we're so lucky to have spent the last few weeks
touring with them."
Dave Hause replaced the band in Myrtle Beach and Atlanta Sunday and Monday. But it looks like Jonny Craig, formerly the vocalist for Dance Gavin Dance, will fill in for the rest of the tour starting Wednesday at Revolution, which is a good thing. Dave Hause's acoustic set may have proved a bit of a downer as an opener for energetic gothsters AFI. Craig can sometimes seem like a cross between Mars Volta and A Perfect Circle, just with the occasional funky synth, just waaay softer/poppier, and way more emo with songs like "IStillFeelHer Part 111" and "Children of Divorce." Expect lots of those "To Write Love on Her Arms" T-shirts. Fun (but potentially offensive) fact: Craig has shirts that read "To Write Jonny On Her Arms."
​We're just going to come out and say it: The only reason OK Go has enjoyed any kind of popularity is because of that darn "quirky" music video. Their songs are okay at best, so we're a little shocked that they've been tapped by forward-thinking fair Design Miami/ for a special Design Performance.
The indie-pop band will be come together with tech designer Moritz Waldemeyer for a FENDI-sponsored event at the fair. Waldemeyer has retrofitted Gibson guitars with laser lights and FENDI materials that will interact with a video wall that will leave luminous traces behind when played -- sort of like a musical paintbrush.
This isn't the first time Waldemeyer has worked with the band, he's designed LED jackets for OK Go's stage show. "It's such a pleasure to be working with Moritz again. He's one of those rare and wonderful artists who's equally inventive in the domain of minute technological details and broad, open-ended creative ideas," says OK Go's Damian Kulash. "Our brand of performance -- super-saturated, super visual, super fun -- is precisely the right arena for his design. We knew right away that we needed to make instruments with him, and ever since we've been looking for the opportunity to realize our dream of playing guitars that are their own light show."
OK Go will be on site to perform, for the first time, with the customized guitars for the duration of the fair from December 1 through 4 from 6:30 to 7 p.m. Admission to the fair is $20. For more information, visit designmiami.com.
Local funnyman Dave Barry usually introduces him as "The only guy I know who's been a minister and a coke dealer." That's according to Sam Barry, his brother, a guy who used to ruin lives, save souls, and is now working for book publisher HarperOne and sidegigging as an author.
Sam Barry's new book is called How to Play the Harmonica: And Other Life Lessons (Gibbs Smith) and he was at the Miami International Bookfair promoting it as a speaker on a Saturday morning panel that included Tom Wilson, the guy who does the Ziggy cartoon and was well attended by gray hairs, bald heads, and wrapper crinklers.
Sam Barry is a funny dude, check out our video of him playing the harmonica and check out his own videos on his Sam Barry TV channel on YouTube.
She calls herself Ms. Jones, Broward County First Lady and according to her Myspace page "A fake bitch will take you were you need to go - A real bitch throws you her keys and says it needs gas!"
She has a song called "Ice Cream" that follows the South Florida tradition of sexplicit fuck music. "Damn boy see that ass look nice, you know you wanna hit that ass for the right price. Ima slaughter your cock, and make my pussy pop. Hot girl drop drop it like it's hot."
She also has a song called "Steve," a pussy eating anthem, a remix of and challenge to Plies' "Becky."
​Yes, you read it correctly. Just in time for Art Basel Miami Beach, Mansion is bringing French electrohouse duo Justice to Miami Friday, December 4.
The pair haven't really played a proper club set since Winter Music Conference 2007 when they spun at the Fixed/Ed Banger party at Studio A. They've made subsequent Ultra appearances, but this will be the first "intimate" South Florida setting in almost four years.
They of course rose to mainstream consciousness after the release of their album †and scoring a MTV VMA nomination for their breakthrough video for "D.A.N.C.E." However, 2009 has been a quiet year for Justice, with no new material being release--except for a remix here and there. It's safe to presume though that 2010 might be a little busier.
Tickets are already on sale via Wantickets.com for $30. Sorry kids, 21 and over only. Doors open at 11.
After the jump, the clip for Justice's track "Stress," which was perhaps one of the more underrated tracks off their debut LP.
We also interviewed his former boss, Howard Roberts, CEO and founder of Firmlife Entertainment, who claims to have fired Purfiya over disputes on money and loyalty.
We got an email from Purfiya saying he wanted to respond to those allegations. Here's what DJ Purfiya had to say.
​Bad news for huge fans of Living Single. The star of the criminally underrated '90s sitcom has canceled her plans to show up at The Fillmore on November 17 (and the rest of her tour for that matter). No official reason was given, but here's to hoping that LS reunion is in the works and this isn't just the product of poor ticket sales.
Another "for reasons unknown" cancellation is Finnish metallers Ensiferum's show scheduled for tonight at Culture Room. This one is a little easier to guess: They don't have an awesome sitcom in their past and they sent out a note to their fan club stating the show "has been canceled due to circumstances beyond Ensiferum's control." I'm thinking metal fans need to buy more tickets to awesome shows like this one.
Mr. Entertainment and the Pookiesmackers' Socialismo Americano
​Hollywood band Mr. Entertainment and the Pookiesmackers have remained a recognizable presence on South Florida's music scene for over a decade. They've released three records, and have a fourth on the way called ¡Socialismo Americano!, due out Thanksgiving week.
For a peek into the upcoming release, Mr. Entertainment (a.k.a. Steve Toth) sent us a couple MP3s including "Center of the Universe" and "The Looker." "Center of the Universe" sounds almost like a slowed-down "Back in the U.S.S.R." (which makes sense considering their album cover is an obvious homage to Sgt. Pepper's) infused with Pink Floyd psychedelia. It's epic yet palatable and poppy. Gritty at times, but with synths floating above, softening the rock. The song will stick in your head for days.
"The Looker" spins psychedelic with touches of classic rock, alternative, hints of Latin rhythms, and vocals that breeze more like an endearing wise guy than growl with angst or soar with ostentation. The song is fun and memorable. Think a more danceable, mainstream Ween or a much cooler, more appealing, eerier, (dare I say smoother?) Rob Thomas during his Santana-collaboration era.
Random details: If you can't deduce from the album cover who the Pookiesmackers are, Toth is dead center with the commie-starred hat. To his right (our left) is Brandon. Next to Brandon is Mahoney (in a red shirt). Above Mahoney is Richard Vergez (wearing sunglasses). Next to Vergez with the long blond hair is Mark Zolezzi. And finally Mike Vullo in the banana suit.
Boynton Beach country girl Amber Leigh rocked the stage at Homestead's Ribfest yesterday from 2 to 3 p.m. The video above is her rendition of the Charlie Daniels Band classic "The Devil Went Down to Georgia." Amber Leigh throws in a Led Zeppelin fiddle breakdown.
Amber Leigh's web site describes her as "a 23-year-old vivacious red-head specializing in crossover country music with a Celtic twist." She is an independent recording artist with a 200 show a year touring schedule. Visit amberleigh.com for more info.
​The Art Basel Miami Beach music news just keeps coming. This time we've received word that the Vivian Girls, Exene Cervenka and the Blow will be performing at Pulse Miami Art Fair, which moves to Ice Palace Studios this year. Their performances are part of the fair's Pulse Miami Performance Series.
This will mark the Vivian Girls second South Florida performance in the span of a two months. The Brooklyn trio performed at Propaganda in Lake Worth in October. The girls take the stage at Ice Palace December 3.
Cervenka, who is best known as the co-founder of punk rock band X, will be performing December 4. She's released her first solo album since 1991 this year titled Somewhere Gone, so this should be a rare treat.
Finally, Portland musician the Blow will hit the stage December 5. Perhaps the least known of the acts, the Blow creates sweet and hooky-laden indie-pop music.
All the performances are technically free. Once you've paid the admission price to the fair -- $15 for general admission, $10 for students -- you can enjoy the performances at no additional cost. For information, visit pulse-art.com.
​Boynton Beach's raunch-punksters Kill Miss Pretty announced Sunday via Twitter that they are giving away their two albums, Permission for Strange and 2006 EP Bite Your Tongue, for free. The trio, which consists of vocalist Alicia, guitarist Russ, and bassist Martin, blend indie rock and electro for a sideshow that is one part carnival, one part sex (mainly on Alicia's part), and one part glam. They were part of the huge Halloween party, Moonfest, and are scheduled to play Saturday at New Times' fashion/art/music soiree Artopia.
​Tonight: The new jam capital of the world, Broward County, welcomes The Radiators to Culture Room. Peaches, who is probably the polar opposite of every jam band ever, is playing Revolution Live. Surf rockers Cutback are playing a rum fueled show at Mai Kai tonight, and reggae masterminds 4th Dimension are at the Dive Bar.
Sunday, check out Hit The Lights at Culture Room if you need to end the weekend on a bang or Bernard Allison at Back Room Blues Bar if you're looking to wind it down.
​Last time Santigold (a.k.a., Santi White, formerly Santogold) was in Miami, she played at Ultra Music Festival back in March. Unfortunately, she was relegated to an early slot on the first day of the festival, so she played to a sparse crowd. We missed her set all together because it never crossed our minds that the festival organizers would waste her talent by putting her on so early. As we were picking up our press passes, we could hear Santi singing "Creator" from a distance. By the time we arrived to the main stage, Perry Farrell had taken the stage.
But thanks to Diesel, the semi-Euro trashy clothing brand, we'll have another chance to see her perform live. The eclectic artist will hit the Paris Theatre (550 Washington Avenue, Miami Beach) alongside "Day 'n' Nite" singer Kid Cudi November 17. Best part of it all, it's free! The catch? You've got to snatch tickets at one of its stores starting Saturday, November 14 through Tuesday, November 17:
Diesel Lincoln Road (933 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach)
According to the press release, there are a few more (bigger) acts that will be announced soon. Cudi and Santi seem good reason enough to go as is, so we wonder who else will be added on the bill. The event is part of the Diesel U:Music tour that has already made stops in Berlin, New York, London, Paris and Tokyo. The tour wraps November 25 in Sydney.
​The Lilith Fair has officially announced 18 dates for 2010, none of which include South Florida. But for the last three years, we've had our own all-women's music fest. FemmeFest has hosted xx-staples like Zombies! Organize!!, Astari Nite, and The State Of in the past. This year the two-day fest will include over 25 bands. The event starts this Friday, November 6 at Tobacco Road, and Murphy's in Boca will play host on Saturday, November 7. Each show is $10.
Check out this killer guitar solo from Radio Galaxy's performance at the Wednesday night blues jam at Titanic Brewery by the University of Miami in Coral Gables.
Like blues music? Check out the jam tonight from 9 p.m. to midnight with an open blues jam hosted by Chris Cosner.
The bar is running specials with $2 Triple Screws, and it's also Mug Club night. So, check it out, kick back some microbrews, bring your guitar, harmonica, voice, or whatever, and bang out your wang dang doodle.
Titanic Brewery and Restaurant, 5813 Ponce De Leon Blvd., Coral Gables. 305-668-1742
​It's kinda difficult to take seriously a soundtrack that features components entitled "Jedi Prayer" and "LSD in the Water." Well, British composer Rolfe Kent most likely wouldn't have kept those crazy headings had he expected anybody to stay truly serious while listening. But be assured that Kent, who counts to his credit scores for such astute fare as Sideways and About Schmidt, is indeed serious about his work. At least as serious as the government was when it launched the program that begat The Men Who Stare at Goats.
Unless you've been orbiting some other planet for the past few months you've undoubtedly seen the trailer for Grant Heslov's promising paranormal comedy. Since the flick happens to star George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Kevin Spacey, and Jeff Bridges, you've probably already made a note to see the movie. And since Heslov happens to be one half of the writing team behind the much-regarded Good Night, and Good Luck (Clooney is the other half), you've probably checked that note twice.
​Mark your calendars and set your alarms. Next Monday, beginning at 10 a.m. sharp, tickets for the July 9, 2010, U2 show at Land Shark Stadium go on sale.
If you're quick on your feet, you won't have to spend hundreds of dollars to get a good seat either. U2 announced previously that 85 percent of their tickets for this tour will be available for under $100. General admission runs $55 and there will be at least 10,000 tickets for just $30. However, knowing U2's popularity and the proliferation of ticket scalpers, you'll probably have about two minutes to grab these tickets before they sell out and you're forced to find other ways to get tickets.
Be sure to log on to Live Nation's website early Monday morning or get on the phone and call 877-598-8698 or 800-745-3000 if you're planning on attending what will probably be the most epic concert of 2010.
​Lady Gaga's New Year's Eve show at the Knight Center is going to be one hell of a 2009 send-off. So, while tickets are available, all the good ones are long gone (what remains, basically is a bunch of side-view seats). South Florida is full of the pop diva's biggest supporters -- gays, glamazons, club kids, and so forth -- and she clearly wants to spread the love back. So she's added a second show, on Saturday, June 2, at the same downtown Miami place.
Tickets aren't any cheaper, but for a big pop star's show, they're still reasonably priced. Regular-people tickets range from $23 to $63, although at the lowest tier, at this point all that's left is, again, that dreaded side-view. For the truly obsessed, there are still plenty of "Hot Seat" ticket packages for $240 -- premium reserved seats and some other goodies -- but the "Meet and Greet" tickets are already all gone, sorry.
And to think, just a few months ago, she was playing Revolution. (Click here to check out our slideshow from that gig.)
The other piece of local-interest news related to this show is Gaga's choice of opener, Jason DeRulo, who she's upgraded to the opening slot for the entire tour.
Every last tiny speck of brain matter splatted against the Columbus, Ohio stage he was riffing on when he was killed by a crazed gunman may have already been sold on Ebay, but the legend of Dimebag lives on through recorded documentation of his music.
The video above features Dimebag Darrel shredding with Pantera in West Palm Beach in 1997. According to the upload description "rex, vince and phil kick ass too!"
​The upcoming national outing headlined by New Found Glory and Dashboard Confessional was going to be a showcase of '90s Broward and Palm Beach County heroes made good. But this past Friday, Dashboard had to suddenly drop off the tour, which was scheduled to land locally at Pompano Beach Amphitheater on November 27. And with Dashboard off, the whole tour -- which was also to feature much younger acts like Never Shout Never, Meg & Dia, and Single File -- is also off. Here's a statement from the band:
"Due to a family situation that is beyond our control, we have to cancel our upcoming tour with New Found Glory, Never Shout Never, Meg & Dia and Single File. We don't take this lightly but family has to come first. As this is a last minute development, we are still figuring out what we will do- as soon as we know, you will know. We apologize to everyone who planned on coming to the shows. We will find a way to make it up to you." Chris, John, Scott, Mike / Dashboard Confessional.
The band does plan, right now, to reschedule the tour for some time in 2010. Refunds are available at point of purchase.
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