#miami shows

[altarflame]

It was incredible. Riveting, even. Seductive violinists, erotic aerialists, cast members scattered through the audience at times... lighting, scent, strawberries and chocolate passed out halfway through, ballerinas en pointe (with sparkling pasties). The MC was basically The Queen of Louisiana, from True Blood. It's a Cirque Cabaret, that you walk through a hall of murals to find. You should go.

[porchbeers]

YES! New music by James Blake!

If you dig Mr. Blake, you'll dig this track and another jam called 40455 he played during his BBC Radio 1 residency.

I snagged a couple of tickets to the James Blake show in Miami at YoungArts. Don't snooze on this. It will sell out. Now, I'm off to find a hotel.

~Keyboard

Drinking: George Dickel Whiskey

[crackedatoms]

SkunkApeGang performing @ The Nest August 30th

Catch Skunkapegang performing live at The Nest Miami on August 30th. Tickets available now at use the promocode SKUNKAPEGANG106 for a discount.

@skunkapegang305

http://crackedatoms.com/34938/skunkapegang-performing-the-nest-august-30th/

[dietradio]

Modern English in Miami

80's legends Modern English will be performing at Grand Central, Downtown Miami on Friday, September 28th.  

For info and advance tickets: grandcentralmiami.com

[ariellec-blog]

It's been five years since the Rapture released a new album and six since the band toured. So, yes, you can call the group's new joyously jangly and danceable studio album, In the Grace of Your Love, and its headlining tour a comeback of sorts. But despite all of that, in the long gap after 2006's major-label Pieces of the People We Love, the band was constantly working, says drummer Vito Roccoforte. After touring to support the 2006 disc, frontman-guitarist Luke Jenner quit and returned, bassist-singer Mattie Safer left for good, and the group enjoyed a radio smash in Australia (for the videogame-only release "No Sex for Ben"), all while attempting to write music. It was Safer's departure in 2009, though, that led to a clean break with the past and a recharged surge of writing energy that would become In the Grace of Your Love. In the ensuing years, the musical landscape was reshaped in significant ways. When the Rapture first appeared in the late '90s, dance music and the DIY aesthetic had never met. But these days, club beats crossed with party rock are ubiquitous. Enough time has passed, in fact, that the band is now hailed as a major forerunner of the so-called dance-punk movement, a label from which the group has always shied away.

Read the rest online at the Miami New Times site.