The drive out to Sunsport Gardens, a family naturist resort near Wellington, was an exercise in endurance. Finally off the Turnpike, one thunderstorm later, and somewhere near the Everglades, I passed a sign for a gun show, drove by a Starbucks and Jamba Juice. You know, swamp necessities. Not long…
Brothers Stephen and Lee Tiger grew up making music on what is now the Miccosukee reservation. When the two were boys, a pile of toys was delivered from Orlando to distribute to the kids in their village. “We found two plastic guitars that were actually tunable,” Lee Tiger says. “So…
It wasn’t easy dodging the throngs of young girls in pairs — all dressed like Rihanna, compulsively documenting their every step with selfies — at the Diamonds World Tour show at BB&T Center on this Day of Stoners, 2013. Meanwhile, Instagram indicated Rihanna was toking away, 4/20-style, backstage, peacefully enjoying…
“When I die, it’s not going to be in some old rocking chair, going back and forth. It’s going to be onstage in one big explosion of body parts,” Dick Dale, the legendary guitarist, admitted to New Times with the conviction of a psychic. The man who created the surf-rock…
Though Ex Norwegian’s last release was called House Music, the Miami Beach band definitely doesn’t make the kind of house music that induces you to pop a molly and sweat. Though you might jump around a bit to their indie pop, their sound is better suited for the live stage…
By now, you’ve all read or heard about the launch of the Block x Blog music festival, likely a seminal moment in the history of South Florida music. With 30 local acts and DFA’s Holy Ghost! in from New York, this event is blowing the ears off of your 4/20…
What in the hell does a cowgirl wear to the beach? What about a salty dog out to impress the sandy bitches (don’t pretend you’re offended, you know what we mean). These were the main folk populating Tortuga Music Festival this weekend. They chugged beer and sunbathed to a crisp…
No one knew quite what to expect from the crowd at the first ever Tortuga Music Festival. Because of acts like Jake Owen and Eric Church there was no doubt the fans would be countrified. And since it was on the sands of Fort Lauderdale Beach, certainly some would be…
Have you ever been like watching someone’s mouth move and wonder what the words coming out would look like? Like if the sounds affected what you see, sort of like light does? No? Well, then you need to hit that bong harder, ya loser. Now, if your answer was the correct one,…
Did Miami Heat-hater Lil’ Wayne and the 305 Mayor Trick Daddy get into a cigarette-flickin’ brawl at King of Diamonds on Tuesday night? Miami New Times’ Crossfade reported that while an anonymous source close to Trick said he sent Wayne “packing like a little bitch,” Disco Rick of KOD announced that “Lil Wayne…
Metal and comedy — two very disparate forms of entertainment — found a common companion in superfan comedian Jim Breuer. Once and always known as Goat Boy on Saturday Night Live and the hippy stoner Brian who summoned Jerry Garcia’s ghost in Half Baked, Breuer’s obsession with music is part…
If you consider yourself the consummate authority on South Florida music and you’ve never seen Modernage live, let us be the ones to tell you, there is a glaring hole of ignorance in your beautiful body of knowledge. For the past ten years — with their fair share of hiatuses –…
Reggae Fest Lake WorthWith Dirty Heads, the Resolvers, Jahfe, Third World, South Side Dub, and others. 5 p.m. Friday and 12:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, April 12 to 14, at Brant Park, 2 S. Gofview Road, Lake Worth. Tickets cost $10 before 6 p.m., $15 after. Call 561-790-6200, or visit…
Often Overlooked started as artist Cary Polkovitz’s internet “flight of fancy.” His very short stories became a popular online project, and eventually a book. Polkovitz takes photos of “random items, usually something mundane,” he says, “and then I tell a little story about it.” As of tomorrow, his fictional tales — no less…
Hayden Panettiere may play one of the nastiest, most manipulative divas in the history of fake country musicians on Nashville, but from the looks of photos from her Easter trip to Florida, she seems like a smiley gal who just wants a tan. In an attempt to uncover the real…
We were pleasantly surprised when we saw how quickly tickets were selling out for the Tortuga Music Festival. Not just ’cause we want to sing “Free Bird” on the sand to the turtles — for which the fest is named — as they waddle on the shore. But because we…
Nowhere else in the universe will you be able to yell the words “I want you to want me!” along with Cheap Trick’s Robin Zander, while covered in paint, except at this year’s SunFest. The Saturday lineup features both the band that sung “Surrender” and the world’s largest paint party, Life…
Azealia Banks clearly worked the shit out of the second weekend of Ultra 2013 in her newly released video for “No Problems.” Originally a diss track aimed at Angel Haze, the song takes on new meaning sung amidst the empty wide eyes, glowing ensembles, and sweaty pits of UMF partiers…
While the bass shook the pool water at the Raleigh Hotel, booties in short shorts bounced up and down, and so did Steve Aoki, who looked like a little kid at Christmas behind the decks. His Dim Mak label’s 2013 Winter Music Conference day party brought out not only those…
MTV News’ online program RapFix streams live, so when Carol City rapper and guest Denzel Curry dropped an N-bomb, host Sway Calloway seemed like he was going to pee-pee in his pants. But who can blame Curry for being casual and slipping up? He’s still in high school and already…
The entire of South Florida — we’re talking the people, the streets, the ocean — heaved a sigh of relief after two weekends of EDM intensity came to an end when Ultra Music Festival finally closed the gates to their entirely-too-long rave. For those who didn’t attend, there isn’t much…
Boca native Ariana Grande’s seriously high notes boosted the young singer to the top of the iTunes charts today. Just released, her second single, “The Way,” features college rapper dude Mac Miller and some heart-warming, wholesome lyrics, well, at least for an R&B song.Grande sings emotionally, like a teenaged Mariah…
