music in miami

The original location of Y&T Records was in West Miami, just a half-mile from Coral Gables; the selection was truly wondrous.

As Daniel and name means a lot have discovered, Miami is not easily navigated without a car. Distance and traffic makes shopping for more than the essentials an experience of unconscionable brutality. The thought of driving to Sweat Records from West Miami makes my skin crawl these days, and so, alas, I buy most of my stuff online.

I live in Coral Gables, and it's a pain to get to SWEAT Records. But SWEAT will order items and let you pay for them either via PAYPAL or telephone (with your C/C information), and they'll ship them to you. It makes the process painless, and -- as I said upthread -- it's nice to patron good local businesses when possible.

i'm back home, taking some time off from school

i went looking for disco, especially t.k. and its sublabels and i was not disappointed. i looked through almost every record in the disco / dance section and there were several dozen t.k. and marlin records. lots of salsoul. probably lots of other disco classics i'm not familiar with. a few post 1987 looking dance records but no techno or house i was familiar with, although there was a klf 12".

i didn't really look into the rest of the store but there were large sections for "rock/pop," jazz, various regional variations of latin music, blues, 40s and 50s vocalists, and "thousands" of 45s filed in cabinets that i passed on. the ska / reggae / & progeny section was disappointing but maybe the 45s make up for it?

not the place to go for new releases but great for a lot of other things.

I live just two minutes from Y&T. Will check it out this weekend.

The few promoters with a clue do what they can - but this town is a fickle bitch musically. most bands that do great elsewhere, do crap to mediocre here. and when they do have a good show -- the followup usually bombs.

and I say that as someone who booked shows here for a decade and now tours constantly.

FYI, record stores are dying everywhere - it's just the live music thing we're sucking harder at.

thankfully the sst-related bands had a solid work ethic, so i got to see black flag, meat puppets, husker du, minutemen, descendents... a lot of the time, my friends and i used to drive to atlanta to see shows.

used to be a lot of used vinyl places, and some awesome swap meet/ record fairs -- yesterday and today was def. aces back then but i'm sure it's not too bad now -- evan chern owns it right? he's a great guy.

best record store i've ever been to was YARDBIRD in coconut grove, run by michael dean. absolutely amazing, so grateful it was there and sad it's not been around for a long-ass time too.

so, they sells cds and vinyl, plus incense, bowls, candles, stickers, posters, sheets of shiny contact paper, things you hang on your porch that twirl around and look pretty, gimmicky t-shirts and hats, scarface posters, turntables, cigarettes, and candy. although you wouldn't know they actually wanted to sell anything judging by all the printed labels telling you DON'T OPEN THIS RECORD or DON'T TOUCH THE WINDOW or NO BAGS AT ALL or NO SMOKING (even though the place absolutely reeks of incense) or NO REFUNDS EVER every-fucking-where. you'd think they were doing you a favor letting you in their shop. that and you have to give them a driver's license to listen to records on their turntables. and the clerks themselves were pretty unfriendly.

the vinyl is organized into dance classics (just a bunch of records called, literally, DANCE CLASSICS with eg. a madonna track and a michael jackson track, no trax or transmat type stuff like you might expect), imports (aka uk house), domestic (american prog house and dnb, absolutely nothing i had ever heard of besides a moodyman record) and hip-hop/rnb. their "pick of the week" cds (which are usually a pretty good microcosm of the store's taste) were all tiesto-esque trance mixes and tribal/prog stuff DO NOT WANT

i eventually found a melchior 12" to make the trip out there worthwhile, but i didn't see a single other record i would even consider buying.

grade: D+ (being charitable because i love thomas melchior)

Incense
Shirts
DJ Bags
Bags
Hats
Sunglasses
Lunchboxes
Jewelry
Patches
Posters
Bobbleheads
Candles
Fairy Statues
Belts
Belt Buckles
Needles
Candleholders
Collectibles
Dunny dolls
Headphones
Body Cleansers
Wallets
Scarface Stuff
Slip Mats
Guitar Accessories
Bongos
Djimbes
Body Jewelry
Die-Case Toys
Lamps
Gum, Candy & Cigarettes
Energy Drinks
Hooka Accessories

lady sov i couldn't care less about but is that mayday aka derrick may? anybody know?

RASIN FESTIVAL 2006
When Sat Nov 25 9:30pm - Sat Nov 25 10:30pm
20061125T213000/20061125T223000
Where: BAYFRONT PARK, Miami, Florida

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RASIN FESTIVAL 2006

SAT. NOV. 25, 2006
(Thanksgiving Week end)

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Featuring
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GROOVEMAN MUSIC

1543 Washington Ave., Miami Beach, FL 33139; (305) 535-6257; e-mail [email protected]; Web www.groovemanmusic.com, noon to 10 pm

store and label run by george acosta, miami's most famous house producer(?), on the beach. seems to specialize in prog/funky/tribal house. worth a trip i guess.

IMPACTO
flagler and sw 47th ave, mostly latin stuff? i don't think it's my scene but i might check it out.

here is that tech man 1 song i was talking about in my last post. it's called Get Into The Music and it's from this record.

SATURDAY MARCH 22 at RED 737
737 Washington Blvd, South Beach

James Pennington[!!!!!!]
Blake Baxter[!!!]
K Hand
DJ Bone
Derrick Thompson
Mike Clark
DJ Genesis
John Collins
Reggie Dokes
Norm Talley

Him and Charlie the Quaker... who I guess is back on the air in Champaign/Urbana (for those who remember him).

I think that there are almost no good "new" record stores left in the world.

Is Sunrise near Miami, Jamaican jerk chicken lovers?

The organizers of the seventh annual Jamaican Jerk Festival, presented by Air Jamaica and Publix, scheduled for this Sunday, November 9th, in Markham Park, Sunrise, Florida, have planned a special tribute to the legendary band leader Byron Lee, who passed away on Tuesday, November 4, in Jamaica. Lee's band, the Dragonaires, will make their first appearance since his passing, at the festival on Sunday.

Julianne Lee, daughter of the famed bandleader, assured listeners on WAVS radio on Thursday that the band will be appearing at the festival on Sunday. "The Jamaican Jerk Festival was very special for my dad and he asked that the show go on, as he had a close relationship with the organizers. This is going to be our first appearance without him and we are planning to celebrate his life in a special way at the Jerk Festival.

Sunrise is, depending on your speed, about 40 minutes north-northeast, in Broward. Take I-75 if you're in western Miami-Dade, the Turnpike to 595 if you're east.

hey, i'm headed to Miami today and was wondering if there was a great place to find calypso records?

Nice! Tinariwen to close Miami Heineken Transatlantic Festival on April 25.

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That's on Saturday October 8th

The list of entertainers lined up for Compas Festival 2012: CaRiMi, Djakout#1, Kreyol La, Harmonik, T-Micky, NuLook, Disip and Mizik Mizik, TPO, Alan Cave, Mikaben, Robert Charlot, Cubano, Belo, Tifane, BIC, Fefe, Jude Jean, Jean Bernard Thomas, Artizz, Larose and many others.

If only you Miami folks were into Haitian music. This May 19 event is at Bayfront Park. I have written about Haitian musicians in the W. DC area and am now getting emails about Miami Haitian shows.

Anything recommended for a Wednesday or Thursday night in Miami? Good soul, latin or funk weeklies? Absurdly broad question, but looking for a nice spot for after dinner late-midweek.

ilxers Jordan S. or Soto might know.

Do not know if this link is accurate but maybe it is. I haven't been to Miami in years.

http://www.miami.com/pass-the-salsa-a-latin-nightclub-guide-article

http://www.miaminewtimes.com/

^^^ not a bad one.

That event sounds great!

Thursday April 19

Arkadia I Fontainebleau Hotel I 4441 Collins Avenue Miami Beach
Miami Heat vs. Chicago Bulls Exclusive Afterparty
Hosted by R&B Legend
R.Kelly

Soto, you should go to this.

I'm spinning.

From Dave Marsh's Rap and Roll Confidential comes this odd item (are many stations anywhere playing Beastie Boys in tribute?):

Dear Miami Radio Stations,

Why have you not played any Beastie Boys songs since MCA died May 4? Is it because Pitbull didn't work with them? It has been six days and I have not heard one song, mention or "4 and 3 and 2 and 1 word up" on the radio. Every important celebrity on the planet has sent their condolences via twitter including Madonna, Justin Timberlake, Cee Lo Green and the freaking Dalai Lama and you can't play one tribute song? When MJ died it was "Rock with You" and "Beat It" all day long. Yeah, he was the King of Pop, but they are Kings of Hip-Hop (or what we used to call rap before it got gentrified.)
Dear Miami Radio Stations, I love you with your tropical beats, creole news station and college kids playing jazz (jazz hands for effect). But when a Hall of Fame hip hop band member dies of cancer, it's time to turn off the bachata "so nasty" beats and pay your respects. A fitting tribute would be the "Paul Revere” lyrics: "It started way back in history, with Adrock, MCA and me, Mike D" or maybe even "Shake Your Rump" lyrics with "I got arrested at Mardi Gras for jumping on a float. My man MCA's got a beard like a billie goat. Squaw squaw is the disco call." But I would even settle…..Yes, I'll say it. I would even settle for "Fight for Your Right to Party." Yes, it was satire and illegally appropriated or nationalized (fraternized?) by Delts and Fijis across the country (a heinous crime, and in Miami we know heinous crimes) but I would take it.

Miami Radio Stations, do you only care about the 18-34 demo? A few advertisers still buy the nearly AARP-ers in the 18-49 demo, no? Is it that the Beastie Boys are Jewish? White? Good standardized test takers and would have crushed the FCATs? Is it because they participated in Langerado, that ill-fated Lollapalooza knock-off music fest in the Everglades?
Miami Radio Stations, did you know there are thousands of us who moved here from the Tri-state area (read Long Island and New Jersey) who have a Beastie Boys poster still hanging proudly in our old room at our parents' house? There are thousands of us who bought Gucci watches because of the Beastie Boys. Ok, maybe a handful. There are hundreds of us who know "White Castle fries only come in one size" because of them. There are even more of us with "trees in our mirror so our car don't smell" (and so our car don't smell). Miami Radio Stations, you play Eminem and Vanilla Ice. They went to the Beastie Boy School of "How to Make It as White Guy in Hip Hop". Eminem even graduated with a PhD from the school (Vanilla was a drop-out).

Or is it really all because Pitbull didn't mix them into "La Gente Esta Muy Loca"?

Dear Mr. Worldwide (Formerly known as Mr. 305), please sample the Beastie Boys. They invented sampling in the 80's when you were five. Thank you.

Joanna Popper
[Joanna Popper is Vice-President of Marketing at NBC Universal/Telemundo]

Via a Yahoo Southern Soul group email:

Movie doc "Deep City: The Birth of the Miami Sound" the Willie Clarke/old-school Miami soul music film will make its debut at South By Southwest in Austin next week (Tuesday, March 11). That will be followed by a showing at the Miami International Film Festival a week from Friday (March 14) at 8:30 PM, at the Olympia (Gusman) Theatre. A showing later this month in Cleveland may also have been been scheduled. I