Sweatstock 2012 is your chance to meet Ambassador Iggy.
We were already pumped to be co-curating the music lineup at Sweatstock 2012. Now that Iggy Pop is the official ambassador of Record Store Day 2012, which happens to fall on his 65th birthday, and will be visiting Sweat Records to mosh with the rest of us, WE ARE ALL-CAPS PUMPED!
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It’s Friday the 13th and Borscht Corp, the team behind the Borscht Film Festival, is celebrating the demonic date by hosting a FREE midnight screening of the German horror film “The Burning Moon” at O Cinema. Directed by Olaf Ittenbach and banned in many countries after its 1997 release, “The Burning Moon” is infamous for the gruesome imagery of its two central stories, one featuring a blind date with a serial rapist/killer and the other stars a murderous holy man.
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The bastard himself: Frank Falestra, aka Rat Bastard, founder of Scraping Teeth. -- photo by Teajay Smith Piersall
In 1993, Scraping Teeth earned the title of “Worst Band in America” from Spin Magazine. It wasn’t an insult but a triumph for Frank “Rat Bastard” Falestra, Scraping Teeth’s founder and a Miami icon whose accomplishments include recording Marilyn Manson’s original releases and founding the famous Sync Studios on Biscayne Boulevard.
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John Maclean -- aka The Juan MacLean -- spun a subdued but fun set at Bardot Saturday night.
In attendance at Bardot last night were all the staples of the bottle service scene — you know, short Persian guys in untucked button-downs, likely some level of rich; Anglo babes of every description, yet all looking vaguely like California swingers; tall former athletes rocking backwards caps, drinking 1664 — but with half of Pitchfork darlings The Juan Maclean in the house, there was also some heavy cross-pollination going on. Pale foxes with pixie cuts squeezing nervously through the throngs, bros with broad-striped polo shirts and five o’clock shadows breaking in their first pair of skinny jeans. To this outsider, it seemed like the Miami Dream realized. And the soundtrack was spot the fuck on.
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Raekwon was both celebrant and celebration of rap itself at Revolution Friday night. -- photo by Kefira Baron
By his own admission, the Chef is “getting up there” in years but he definitely hasn’t forgotten how to push a crowd’s buttons in the best Wu-Tang-weird fashion.
As I approached Revolution, in downtown Ft. Lauderdale, Freddie Gibbs was leading an audience of 200 or so in a rousing call-and-response rendition of “Fuck the Police” and two of Broward’s Finest were trying out a golf club in the parking lot. Not all of last night’s Raekwon + Gibbs was nearly so synchronous, but it was as satisfying to behold.
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As expected, Paco de Lucia’s performance at the Fillmore Miami Beach Thursday night, organized by the Rhythm Foundation, was the epitome of passion, intensity, and musicality. Paco’s tour-de-force guitar playing set the stage for an incredible flamenco dance and vocal performance, complete with syncopated clapping, that brought the packed house to its feet for a standing ovation. Here are our photos from the concert.
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Sketchy Miami, the sibling site of Beached Miami, is bringing together Miami/SoFla musicians and Miami artists to celebrate both communities. If you are familiar with Sketchy Miami, you know the goal of the project is to create a portrait of every person in Miami. For its part, the goal of Sketchy Bands is to create a portrait of the bands (or solo performers) that make our hometown musical, and all of ‘em are welcome to participate.
Since launching Sketchy Bands on Monday, 40+ bands have submitted photos and a handful of artists have submitted portraits, including one of Ketchy Shuby frontman Jason Joshua Hernandez-Rodriguez by Samantha Thrall (below) that we’ve lovingly dubbed the Ketchy Sketchy. To view the Sketchy Bands series in full and learn how you can submit your band’s photo for artful immortalization, visit sketchymiami.com/bands.
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An illustration of the Jacuzzi Boys playing a gig in London, by David Z. Greene.
Miami garage rockers Jacuzzi Boys are currently having the time of their young lives (presumably) on their 28-gig tour of Western Europe behind the trio’s latest LP, Glazin’. The tour’s first gig, at London’s Shacklewell Arms, drew a tepid review but a pretty cool drawing from The Stool Pigeon’s David Z. Greene, whose illustration of the atmosphere at the Boys’ performance lines up pretty darn closely with the frenzy of their Churchill’s sweatfests, from the frenzied crowd to singer Gabriel Alcala’s silly ad-libs (“Boys and giiiirls. Rats and squirreeeels … thank you so much.”). Judging by this peek into the band’s Europe stomping, it seems like they’re doing Miami proud. You can see Greene’s full drawing after the jump.
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The final digital single in the beko 100, “Water Shadows” is yet another transporting aural experience crafted by Sumsun, the stage name of West Palm Beach-based electronica artist Judson Rodgers. As mentioned in the Miami Music Guide, Sumsun will be performing live with Millionyoung (aka Mike Diaz) at the Vagabond on Friday, April 13 (full details). Until then, close your eyes and wade into “Water Shadows”.
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Making 'em shout since '91's All Souled Out, Pete Rock will perform at Bardot on Thursday night. -- photo via myspace.com/petestrumentals
Living legend Peter Phillips, aka Pete Rock, was instrumental in pioneering and popularizing the infusion of jazz into hip hop during the early ’90s. It all started when Phillips prominently featured jazz and soul samples along with more traditional beats and scratches on Pete Rock & CL Smooth’s 1991 debut EP, All Souled Out, which featured samples from Freddie Hubbard, Lou Donaldson, James Brown, The Meters, and more. Since then, Pete Rock has released four solo albums, including 2001’s notable PeteStrumentals, and amassed a production catalogue boasting collaborations with Tupac, Talib Kweli, A Tribe Called Quest, Nas, Kayne West, and Jay-Z.
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