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Top 10 Songs That Warned Us About the Recession

Fri Oct 10, 3:47 PM

Daft Punk tried to warn us. With the U.S. economy tanking, we can't help but to feel a little pessimistic about our future. We reverted to our inner 15-year-old, which happened to grow up in the go-go '90s of... More >>

Last Night: Danzig's Blackest of the Black Tour... and Danzig Aftershow

Fri Oct 10, 3:15 PM

Blackest of the Black Tour With Winds of Plague, Moonspell, Dimmu Borgir, and Danzig Thursday, October 9, 2008 The Fillmore Miami Beach Better Than: Those faux Misfits, headed by Jerry Only, who seem to come through South Florida at least... More >>

Erykah Badu Announces Her Third Pregnancy

Fri Oct 10, 9:05 AM

So it's now official that R&B singer Erykah Badu is carrying her third child. During a recent concert in Texas, the Dallas-born chanteuse announced that she is in fact pregnant again...and it looks like the father is Jay Electronica... More >>

This Just In: Tami Chynn is Performing Tonight at Pangaea

Thu Oct 9, 3:25 PM

I just got a press release stating that reggae artist Tami Chynn will be in South Florida tonight performing at Pangaea at the Seminole Hard Rock and Casino. There's a surprise guest slated to perform as well and rumor has... More >>

Features

  • Carnival Weekend Roundup
    A guide to all the biggest Caribbean fetes
    Thursday, October 09
    “Roll It Gal” by Alison Hinds: For lovers of Caribbean music, Carnival Weekend 2008 is easily the best four-day weekend of the year.... More >>
  • Natural Mystics
    Bajofondo dredges wide and deep
    Thursday, October 09
    World-renowned Argentine electro-fusion outfit Bajofondo has always dug deep into its cultural roots to create a modern mystical ambiance.... More >>
  • Beyond the Hood
    DJ Khaled drops We Global
    Thursday, October 09
    "Turn your TVs on/Bet ya all you see is me!" DJ Khaled raps/sings on "Standing on the Mountain Top," his only tangible musical contribution to... More >>
  • Cash Is King
    At Folsom Prison revisited
    Thursday, October 09
    The Beatles had the album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Miles Davis had Bitches Brew, the Band had Music From Big Pink, on so on —... More >>
  • JD's Bar & Lounge
    Thursday, October 09
    In the sleepy and slightly depressing streets of Coral Springs – even on a Saturday night – relief is hard to come by for insomniacs... More >>
  • A New Way to Live Forever
    Thursday, October 09
    When local musicians Russ Rogers of Kill Miss Pretty and his partner Todd Evans put together their latest band, A New Way to Live Forever, the... More >>
  • Jayme Stone & Mansa Sissoko
    Thursday, October 09
    Africa to Appalachia is one of those recordings that demonstrates — and celebrates — the fact that music from disparate cultures has... More >>
  • Kasai Allstars
    Thursday, October 09
    The third installment in Crammed Discs' awesome series of "Congotronics" releases continues in the praiseworthy path of its predecessors,... More >>
  • Robin Thicke
    Thursday, October 09
    Robin Thicke is working hard to move out of his father's shadow. As the son of Canadian actor Alan Thicke from the hit '80s sitcom Growing Pains,... More >>
  • Blitzen Trapper
    Thursday, October 09
    For a buzz band, Blitzen Trapper is extremely modest. Instead of trying to overwhelm listeners with their awesomeness, singer/songwriter Eric... More >>
  • Phantom Planet
    Thursday, October 09
    If you were just judging a book by its cover, you would have every reason to think Phantom Planet was a pretty-boy vehicle spewed out of the... More >>
  • Round Black Ghosts
    Thursday, October 09
    In ten distinctive but complementary entries, Berlin's ~scape label explores an increasingly obvious link between dub techno and the U.K.-born... More >>
  • Nikka Costa
    Thursday, October 09
    Thirty-somethings who remember Nikka Costa as the child singer of tunes like "First Love" and "Candy Man" back in the early '80s probably... More >>
  • Pickett's Recharge
    A new Bloodshot Records anthology resurrects one of South Florida's most revered rockers
    Thursday, October 02
    The case of Charlie Pickett is one of rock 'n' roll's classic stories of almost-was. The Dania Beach homeboy spent much of the '80s working the... More >>
  • The Balding and the Beautiful
    Atmosphere's emo king, Slug, talks hip-hop, groupies, and how hair loss saved his life
    Thursday, October 02
    So I'm on the phone with Sean Daley — better-known as the rapper Slug — who alongside his producer/beat-making partner, Anthony "Ant"... More >>
  • A Blues Hound Walks Straight
    Thursday, October 02
    It's possible that there's never been another singer who defined the genre of rhythm and blues the way Bobby "Blue" Bland does. With a homegrown... More >>
  • Glam Supreme
    A new book captures the New York Dolls
    Thursday, October 02
    "I really didn't care if they were gay or not," Debbie Harry says in just one of the many quotes collected for this photo retrospective on glam... More >>
  • Subterranean Finds
    Digging below the surface to discover stellar new sounds
    Thursday, October 02
    Jeff Finlin Ballad of a Plain Man With a voice that's as fluid as molasses, Finlin sings from a weary but resilient point of view. Sounding... More >>
  • Head Spins: DJ Le Spam
    A true-blue vinyl maniac
    Thursday, October 02
    If there were a DJ equivalent to late, great Cuban bandleader Mario Bauzá, it would have to be Miami's DJ Le Spam. Like Bauzá, Le... More >>
  • Don't Google Screech
    Football on the Quarterdeck is more than a game
    Thursday, October 02
    I've always hated football. Maybe it's because I personally suck at organized sports. Maybe it's because I just never saw the appeal of watching... More >>

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National

Music from Coast to Coast

Dallas

The Magnetic Fields Turn Down the Volume

Stephin Merritt uses Distortion to protect the Magnetic Fields from mothers everywhere
Concocting outré underground pop for more than a decade doesn't necessarily shield you... More >>

Denver

Meet two central figures in Denver's burgeoning underground scene

Travis Egedy, who performs under the name Pictureplane, is becoming one of the more well-known... More >>

Houston

Smells Like Teen Spirit

Rocking the school day away with Pin Oak Middle School's Stage Band class
The Gloryhounds are onstage right now at a Surfside bar and, truth be told, they're not great.... More >>

Kansas City

After losing a manager and label prospect, the Abracadabras held their glitter and released a free album.

The Abracadabras have had some severely swollen nuts lately. Problem is, they keep getting... More >>

Miami

French Electro-Pop Act Yelle Hits the Polish American Club

How international!
In the video for "Ce Jeu," a recent song by the French trio Yelle, singer Julie Budet shifts... More >>

Phoenix

Opeth Continues Its Quest to Fuse Metal and Mellowness

By the ripe old age of 7, Opeth leader Mikael Åkerfeldt already considered himself a... More >>

San Francisco

Brightblack Morning Light's slow-rock movement

As the financial apocalypse looms and pundits panic about abstracted value, it makes sense to... More >>

St. Louis

On tour for Narrow Stairs, Chris Walla and Death Cab for Cutie bring musical gems and political smarts to the Fabulous Fox

In May, Death Cab for Cutie released its sixth album, Narrow Stairs, which debuted at No. 1 on... More >>

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