For several years now I’ve been proud to sit on the Florida Chapter Board of the Recording Academy. One of the RA’s most amazing efforts is definitely MusiCares: MusiCares provides a safety net of critical assistance for music people in times of need. MusiCares’ services and resources cover a wide range of financial, medical and …
Read moreFree Dental Care for South Florida Musicians Courtesy of MusiCares!
Members of the Global Justice Ecology Project & Campaign to STOP GE Trees will be at Sweat tonight for a teach-in and campaign building workshop. Their goal is to work with forest dependent communities, activists and organizations to protect native forests from the uncontrollable and irreversible threats posed by the release of genetically engineered trees …
Read moreCampaign to Stop Genetically Engineered Trees at Sweat Tonight
The other day a random walk-in customer asked me to recommend new music to him. He said it didn’t matter what it was, as long as I thought it was good and was something I actually listened to. I picked out a handful of things and began to describe them. A lot of what I …
Much respect to everyone dedicated enough to wait at Sweat for Reflektors tickets last week! We have more tickets on sale at Sweat, and we can promise less chaos this time. Rock fans can’t miss Friday’s all-ages show at Grand Central with an awesome lineup featuring KURT VILE & THE VIOLATORS, BEACH FOSSILS, THE BAND …
Read moreWe’re Selling Tickets to Friday’s All-Ages Kurt Vile + Beach Fossils Show and FONFEST
On November 1st and 2nd, The Miami Light Project presents “The Criminal Castrati’s anarchic brechtian blues trio, The Tiger Lillies, an extraordinary three piece band creating music that is a startling mixture of opera, gypsy song and left bank Paris. Fronted by singer Martyn Jacques who trained himself as an opera singer with a castrati …
Ah, yes… the moment international record geeks have been waiting for. Finally, the first three Boards Of Canada full-lengths (Music Has The Right To Children, Geogaddi and The Campfire Headphase) are available for purchase and you don’t have to sell a kidney or do something else illegal to afford them. Sure, they’re not first pressings, …
The absolute last batch of Reflektors tickets for Thursday’s show at the Little Haiti Cultural Center will be on sale here tomorrow (Tuesday) at 5:30pm. Same deal as the previous two batches: one per person, cash ONLY. Last time the Churchill’s ATM ran out of cash so come prepared! Also, we’re having a pre-party! Will …
Read moreLast Reflektors Tickets On Sale Tuesday, Pre-Party Here Before The Show Thursday
More tickets have been released for the 10/24 “Reflektors” show at the Little Haiti Cultural Center and we’ll be selling more when we open tomorrow (Sunday) at noon! Because we love you we rushed the sale to tomorrow to accommodate those with weekday school/work commitments. Same deal as the sale last Wednesday: $35 cash, one …
Read moreNewsflash: More Reflektors Tickets on Sale at Sweat SUNDAY
YOU, yes you, can help give $20,000 to a local arts organization with the second annual Knight Arts Challenge “People’s Choice Award”. Just text one of the keywords below to 22333 to vote for your favorite, and the organization with the most votes by November 15th wins a 20K grant. More info about the nominees …
In the next couple Thursdays Bardot is bringing some extremely talented artists I’ve been hoping to see for awhile! Starting tonight Los Angeles producer BATHS makes his Miami debut with additional sets by GROUNDISLAVA, TIME WHARP, GOODDROID and JBZ. Anyone who’s been to an event at Sweat in the last couple years has probably heard …
Read moreBaths and Ryan Hemsworth Coming to Bardot Consecutive Thursdays