Jay-Z and special guests Young Jeezy and Trey Songz kicked off The BP3 Tour with a performance at the BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise, Fla. You can read my full review and see photos from the show at the Miami Herald. Read the rest of this entry »
Setlist: Jay-Z at BankAtlantic Center
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Tags: Bank Atlantic Center, BankAtlantic Center, Blueprint 3, BP3, BP3 Tour, Jay-Z, Trey Songz, Young Jeezy
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Concert review: Nas and Goodie Mob at the Adrienne Arsht Center
6 02 2010
From The Miami Herald’s blog, Miami Music Matters
Hip-hop veterans Nas and Goodie Mob stormed the stage of the Knight Concert Hall at the Adrienne Arsht Center in downtown Miami late Friday with a performance that was light on production value, but heavy on crowd-pleasing rap classics.
The show, put on by the folks who brought the Rock The Bells tour to Miami in 2007 and 2008, was a one-time-only truncated version of the traveling hip-hop festival, which skipped the Magic City in 2009.
The Knight Hall, a classical music venue which has recently been home to concerts by hip-hop and R&B acts like Mos Def and Ne-Yo, was a less than ideal venue for this kind of show: Opening act ¡Mayday!, with its four-piece band and two vocalists, sounded sharp and clear, while both Nas and Goodie Mob, who had no live musicians and only DJs, suffered through muddled bass and inconsistent sound. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Adrienne Arsht Center, Arsht, ¡Mayday!, Cee-Lo, Crazy, Damian Marley, Distant Relatives, Gnarls Barkley, Goodie Mob, Guerilla Union, Jr. Gong, Mayday, Nas, Rock The Bells, Stephen Marley
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Concert review: John Mayer at BankAtlantic Center
5 02 2010
On the first date of his Battle Studies World Tour at the BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise, Fla., John Mayer debuted a new concert configuration that relied more heavily on theatrical presentation than ever before. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Bank Atlantic, BankAtlantic, Battle Studies, Battle Studies Tour, Battle Studies World Tour, Florida, John Mayer
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Best Hip-Hop Albums of 2009
30 12 2009
“… Wale proves on his debut that he is a multifaceted songwriter and performer who can make seemingly unrelated musical styles coexist through the often narrow lens of hip-hop.”
“… Troubadour is an eclectic batch of musical influences: Rock guitar riffs, African percussion, reggae horns and chanting all coexist in a fluid bedrock that supports a foundation of great hip-hop.”
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Tags: 2009, Attention: Deficit, Best hip-hop albums, Blueprint 3, Jay-Z, K'naan, Kid Cudi, Man On The Moon: The End of Day, Mos Def, The Ecstatic, Troubadour, Wale
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John Mayer “Battle Studies” (2009)
17 11 2009
On his fourth studio album, singer-songwriter-guitarist John Mayer likens relationships to war. Ironically, Battle Studies might be his quietest, most stripped-away and bare release yet. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Battle Studies, Heartbreak Warfare, John Mayer, Who Says
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