Saturday: Saturday Is The Day That Parties the Hardest

SATURDAY

RAFFA & RAINER SHOW IS POSTPONED, BUT THE BUBBLE WILL STILL HAVE AN EVENT THIS SATURDAY. CHEAPER DOOR PRICE. DETAILS YET TO BE DETERMINED. I’LL POST THEM AS SOON AS I KNOW MORE, K? TENTATIVE RESCHEDULE DATE FOR RAFFA AND RAINER IS MARCH 20. POOR HOUSE WILL BE KICKING LATE NIGHT. SEE DETAILS OF POOR HOUSE SHOW BELOW.

Saturday at 8:30 p.m. Raffa & Rainer CD release party at The Bubble Miami trio Raffa & Rainer releases its newest album No Mercy to the Fort Lauderdale crowd this Saturday night. Opening for the group is fellow Miami act, Bridget & Luke, which produces remarkable female-fronted pop, and the boy-girl fronted Sweet Bronco. I am very excited that my schedule permits me to attend. It’s been months since I’ve been to The Bubble, which I love so well. This is a particularly righteous night for live music in Fort Lauderdale. Hopefully this event will leave time for me to scoot over to Poor House, where the Freakin’ Hott/TIMB/Zombies Organize hybrid band known as D*ck Knuckle will be playing. The show’s promo materials didn’t go up until just a couple of days ago, so you might not know that it’s happening. A little D-Knuckle is going to be a perfect follow-up to the Raffa & Rainer show — a fun, snarky, rocking contrast to the sincere content we’ll see at The Bubble — so make sure to check out the information about it below.

Saturday at 9 p.m. Three Imaginary Girls at Propaganda in Lake Worth

In fact, the show will feature three actual girls. I don’t know anything about them, but maybe you do. There’s also a show at Radioactive Records on Saturday night, two other bands that I don’t know anything about, but they do, as Mikey Ramirez commented, have a really cute show flyer.

D*ck Knuckle, Poor House, 11 p.m. D*ckknuckle will reunite for a Fort Lauderdale show this Saturday night at Poor House. That’s all of the members of The Freakin’ Hott, TIMB, and Zombies Organize playing together as one unit. Festivities are likely to begin around 11 p.m. First they will play individual sets, and then merge for the megaband that spits foul-language riddled witticisms that will make you laugh so hard your beer will shoot out through your nose. Plus, they rock. It’s a good time, really good. Saw them at Propaganda in December. You don’t have to take my suggestion that you see this show. Check out Maggie’s blog about why she dislikes Radiohead and Dancer in the Dark followed by the usual non sequitur show announcement. Why do I use an asterisk in the band’s name? No particular reason other than that I just don’t feel like writing curse words on my blog right now.

Friday: Friday’s Nickname Should Be “Blow Dry Your Hair Cause There’s Lots To Do”

FRIDAY

Fort Lauderdale. Dialect at Brew Urban Cafe in Himmarshee.
The DJ/Gallery party Dialect has moved to Fridays, and the next installation goes down this Friday the 5th at 7:30. Deejays Utopia Syndrome, Esoteric, Kristof and Adam Foster will spin.  Featured visual artists include Betty Dominguez, Vionette, Zizi Barhouma, Ilian Velasco, Nick Lopez, Eric Small, N! Satterfield, Jeff Dekal and Jennifer Toboada. Good times? Probably. These parties generally get a pretty good draw and they are chill affairs. Though it conflicts with a show that I’m going to this Friday night, I think the move to the weekend will make attending doable for most folks.  I think you could deem a Friday night complete with a little hang out at Dialect followed by a stopoff at Poor House.

Fort Lauderdale. For a second night in a row, The Monterey Club is moving way beyond blues/rockabilly/roots rock this Friday night with a line-up that includes Miami indie pop bands Ex-Norwegian, Dreaming in Stereo and Jim Camacho.

Lake Worth. On Friday night at 9 p.m. Sweet Bronco, The Dewars, Bonnie Riot and Radio Boxer at Propaganda, Sweet Bronco, as you may know, is trucking along, playing lots of shows and recording an as-of-yet unspecified number of its songs at a studio up in Lake Worth. The Dewars I’ve never heard of before. From their bio and all photographic appearances, it appears that the band is fronted by twin brothers. The band’s songs, I like a lot — especially “High on You”, a cute, lyrically charming acoustic song in which their voices meld wonderfully. I guess it helps that they have the same gene structure. Friday will also be the first time that I get see Palm Beach band Bonnie Riot. I’m going to play it safe and wear sensible shoes because their electronic rock songs are highly danceable. Is it just me, or does the singer kind of sound like Geddy Lee from Rush? Rawk.