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Miami Music Matters

• RIP: Miami Music Matters 2009-2011

  

  The Rapture didn't go down Saturday, but the axe fell on this blog today.

  Thanks to those of you who read Miami Music Matters over the last two years. It's been fun having the chance to report on the Magic City's live music culture in this [...]

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• ¡Fuácata! Anniversary Party Commemorates 10 Years Of Spam Allstars Funking Up Little Havana

  

  It's been a decade since local promoter/actor/bon vivant Ralph De La Portilla and his trusty sidekick Erik Fabregat went for a coffee at the former Cafe Nostalgia in Little Havana and saw opportunity where most would see a little dump in a neighborhood way past its [...]

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• Hipster Duo Crocodiles Play Friday At The Vagabond, Continue San Diego Music Scene Traditions

  If there's one thing the gorgeous city Of San Diego is good at, it's producing local rock stars. Thanks to a music scene rich in both all-ages and 21+ venues, bands in San Diego are allowed enough time  to get better, enter different musical phases, get notoriety and implode [...]

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• Hipster Duo Crocodiles Play Friday At The Vagabond, Continue San Diego Music Scene Traditions

  

  If there's one thing the gorgeous city Of San Diego is good at, it's producing local rock stars. Thanks to a music scene rich in both all-ages and 21+ venues, bands in San Diego are allowed enough time  to get better, enter different musical phases, get [...]

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• RIP Miami Chum Bucket version 1.0: 3/26/2011 - 5/15/2011

  

  
  
  

  I wish I could say I didn't see this coming - but the age old conflict between punk rockers and the men in blue flared up and shut down DIY punk venue Miami Chum Bucket this weekend. Sudden permit trouble forced a day-of-show [...]

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• Americana Lovebirds Hymn For Her Have Airstream (and 4 year Old Daughter), Will travel.

  

  These are trying times for touring musicians. Between the death of the music industry, high gas prices and the "seen it all before" malaise sweeping hipsters away from clubs and in front of their Imacs -it's no wonder musicians are shedding bassists, vans and drummers and [...]

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• Oakland Rap God Del The Funky Homosapien Throws Down His Lyrical Mastery Tonight At Churchill's

  

  Oakland rapper Del The Funky Homosapien might not be the most famous Oaktown rapper - that would be Too $hort - but he may very well be the most skilled Oaktown MC to ever spit into a microphone.

  Del first burst on the scene after a period [...]

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• Phillip Roebuck Takes His One Man Band Stylings To The Stage

  

  About a year ago, I was hanging out at in a South Miami bungalow with a few wild peacocks and fellow musical miscreants when Juke singer Eric Garcia whipped out his laptop and introduced me to the oddball one man band know to the world as [...]

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• Unity Crew? Fort Lauderdale & Miami Offer Up Dueling Hardcore Festivals This Weekend

  

  Back in the Regan era, there was a music scene revolving around hardcore punk. It manifested itself locally around joints like The Cameo Theater, Flynn's, The New Wave Lounge and 27 birds. Like most things made in the 1980s, hardcore just won't die.

  It doesn't matter how [...]

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• Local Nu Metal Heroes Nonpoint Headline "SW 3rd Ave Music Festival" Tonight At Revolution

  

  It's been 14 years since drummer Robb Rivera slowly fired each member of his ex-pat Puerto Rican thrash band Nonpoint Factor, dropped the "Factor" from the name and replaced the players with nu metal musicians more conducive to breaking out of South Florida's metal scene.

  To put [...]

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