music in miami

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.

i hit up blue note records yesterday and they are moving!

new address:
Ravenswood Warehouse
4931 Anglers Ave
Building A #11
Dania, FL 33312

dude at the store said they should be open by next saturday.

where is dania?

north of the old location, near the coast. another 30 minutes driving, i guess.

That's really far (from downtown Miami or south of it). It's getting harder and harder to find good music stores, here.

Sweat Records changed its hours, too, which is also frustrating. Now it opens at 6 p.m., making it very hard for me to ever get there. It's also become a bit harder to place orders for delivery (for me it has, at least).

a record store that opens at 6 pm? jeezus, no wonder the lfam orders most of his stuff from forced exposure. that's some weird ass shit.

also btw, it's no great shakes up here in philly, either. we have more record stores, but other than one new/used and one all-used, the quality is horrific.

i think sweat changed their hours to get more of the bar crowd

Yeah, I think that's right. But it's not even a reliable 6 p.m. I once sat around for 20 minutes waiting for them to open, with only a "Back in 5 Minutes" sign on the locked front door. I don't mean to dump on Sweat Records; I've shopped there a lot and it's the best record shop I've ever seen in Miami (in my musically sheltered life, mind you). But that opening time is just very difficult to accommodate.

I had a good friend who worked there about a year ago; he'd get to Churchill's and see three or four people queued up outside.

It's rather embarrassing that a city this size has only one independent record store.

Haha. I might have been one of those people.

Normally I'd never wait 20 minutes for any store to open. I only did so because I want to patron them (I like locally-owned businesses), I was there and I knew I wouldn't be back anytime soon.

Now it will be mail-orders only from Sweat, for me. I just can't afford the time to get there during their hours.

also, yesterday & today records has a big sale this week. like 50% off on most items.

wait, 50% off vinyl except for "new LP's and certain collectibles"

10% off everything else (cds? i don't know what else)

Amazingly, in case you're in that neck-of-the-woods, I was in a Borders bookstore in Aventura that had a not-so-terrible music section, for a bookstore. It had a healty reggae section (including the new Trojan Lee Perry disc, The Upsetter Selection), lots of old-time blues, and a lot of decent new rock stuff.

Uhh . . . I meant "healthy" reggae selection.

i checked out the new blue note location yesterday. it's a lot easier to get to than i expected, mostly because it's right off I-95. it took me about 25 minutes to get there from coral gables. that place is is awesome. they keep the kraftwerk in the soul/funk section. lots of stuff on sale, too. i picked up a horace andy digital dancehall single.

i had a hard time finding their phone number. here it is: 954-961-3928

also, i had their address wrong.

corrected:

Ravenswood Warehouse
5931 Anglers Ave
Dania, FL 33312

it's in the warehouses behind the wachovia bank.

I forgot that you guys (elan and Daniel) are local. It's partly my fault that we haven't tried to hang out.

We should. Elan, you're in the Gables? I live basically across the street from the University of Miami.

SW Miami in the house.

i live near calle ocho and 57 ave

my parents live in palmetto bay. i'm there sometimes.

Cool! I'm in Westchester. We should plan a FAP then.

Sounds good. Suggestions for a convenient spot?

What's a FAP?

I had to look it up on the FAQ page. It means "Fancy A Pint, used "to ask fellow posters whether they would like to go out for a drink."

What about the Gables? Thursday night?

That works for me. I was going to suggest either Titanic (the UM hangout) or John Martins (the Miracle Mile landmark.

I feel like a long-toothed lech whenever I walk into Titanic. John Martins is fine. We'll finalize the details as the day approaches.

did I ever send you an email, Daniel? If not, keep an eye on your inbox.

I hadn't received one yet. I'll be on the lookout for it in the inbox.

I'll await the invite, too. I'll even buy an Interpol shirt.

Maybe I'll stay home. I may have underwear to wash.