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​We like the promotional match-up behind a show at the Funky Buddha in Boca on Saturday, February 18. The evening dubbed the "Boca Shindig" is a group collaboration between South Florida Music Obsessed, Jolt Radio, and Brotherly Love Productions. If you don't know, they are, respectively: a new, high-energy blog devoted to all musical happenings in the area; a streaming online radio station covering the same; and a promotion group specializing in shows by underground live acts across genres. In other words, all folks devoted to making cool things happen in the tri-county area, for the love of music rather than any other BS.  More >>

​Not long ago, Sea Things, AKA Michael Floering, put out a beautiful mix called In Rare Form, which we'll post below for your listening pleasure. More >>

via Izzy and the Catastrophics' Facebook page

​No matter what group of able players is backing him, Izzy Zaidman -- known just as Izzy on swingin' circuits -- is a one-man powerhouse of retro guitar fun. As the longtime axman for Wayne "The Train" Hancock, he perfected a rollicking style of guitar-picking that sounded like it was swiped straight from the Sun Records vaults.  More >>

​Mega-huge names like Skrillex might get a lot of the mainstream dubstep shine, but right on their tails is buddy 12th Planet. And without him, there might be no American dubstep scene as we currently know it. As cofounder of the early L.A. dubstep weekly Pure Filth and the label Smog, 12th Planet, born John Dadzie, was one of the earliest proponents of the sound on our continent. (Click here to read an interview with 12th Planet in Miami New Times last year.) More >>

Download everything they made when they still looked like babies.

Jose Fores said it perfectly when he wrote that The Dewars' "Toys Boise The Noise" makes us miss those two weirdos so much. St. Augustine is but a road trip away, but that's still about 272 miles from being able to watch their next move.More >>

​MAYDAY! may have something of a rep around South Florida for being a party band. This is true -- the hip-hop group's live shows are generally boisterous affairs. But careful listeners will have long ago noted a deeper, more cerebral and hard-edged side to the group.
 
What's long set them apart, in fact, is that there are clearly brains behind the operation. MCs Bernbiz and Wrekonize opt for creative wordplay over repetitive chants, and the rest of the group, helmed by producer and co-founder Plex Luthor, add some serious thinking-person's musical textures to the backbeats.
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​When New Times caught up with (sort of) Fort Lauderdale-based rapper Bleubird, the animal-loving road dog was getting ready to release his U.S. debut album, Cannonball!!!

We say "sort of" Fort Lauderdale-based, because, as Betsey Denberg's feature story recounted, Bleubird, born Jacques Bruna, may not actually be here at any given moment. He's more likely to be criss-crossing the country in his RV, dubbed the Freeebird, or, now, overseas.  More >>

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​Somewhere between country, folk, blues, punk, and even metal exists Texas bad boy Scott H. Biram. A cult figure for years, perhaps Biram may start benefiting from mainstream America's revived interest in Americana via far less salty acts like Mumford and Sons and the like. Where rock radio's new rootsy bands still largely go down easily digestible, though, Biram unapologetically sings, screams, and stomps about the uglier sides of life.  More >>

​As the frontman of Saosin and then Circa Survive, Anthony Green stood out immediately in sound and sensibility. His two bands came up from a certain mid-'00s post-hardcore scene that welcomed Green but in which he was essentially still a misfit. With an unabashed love for proggy, experimental musical tinkering and a high, adenoidal wail, Green never bothered with the scene's requisite loud-soft, loud-soft dynamics. More >>

​The annual winter time dance music event known as Candyland may officially be the South Florida rave that wouldn't die. This year's edition marks its stunning 16th, with the party surviving some very lean years in the underground electronic dance music scene.

As it's traveled to different locations across Miami-Dade, this installment marks a homecoming of sorts. Some of the best Candylands of the past were thrown at Revolution (and its different-name incarnations), and the resurgence of the rave scene in general means a likely upswing in general mood and energy at this year's event.  More >>