The perfect place to lure black-metal Miami trio Slashpine into a drunken interview? Well, of course, a midweek happy hour featuring the sounds of a long-haired Latin guitarist strumming away earnestly and loudly to GNR’s “Sweet Child o’ Mine.”Since the band was mildly sarcastic during our first New Times interview,…
Surfer Blood Back from Cali, Discusses Completed AlbumCall us creepy, call us stalkers, but we’ve definitely spotted members of West Palm Beach natives Surfer Blood all out and up on the tri-county area this past week. Though there were SB sightings at the Best Coast show at Grand Central and…
Review from last month’s County Grind LiveNew Times Broward-Palm Beach artners with Green Room to bring you into our family, presenting us in the flesh while also curating fantastically entertaining musical gatherings. After last month’s kick ass (kick ass, because there’s no better word to describe the night) show featuring…
Part one of this article on Kubiat NnamdieMore on Manny MangosKubiat Nnamdie is involved in an experimental music project with Manny Mangos on which the artist plays percussion and sings, called EXU-LSD. Mangos is Puerto Rican and Nnamdie is Nigerian, so they’re culturally familiar with what West Africans call Juju. Their music…
More on SpaceGhostPurrpPart two of this article. It seems Kubiat Nnamdie knows no creative boundaries. It’s like he’s in a persistent state of focused productivity, working in photography or sculpture, performing, writing music, or singing. The 21-year-old began both singing and photographing at age 13. He’s basically self-taught, but his…
See also Beach Day’s Hollywood Hot SpotsBefore shuttling photographer Christina Mendenhall and me around their beloved Hollywood, Florida, for a tour of their personal hideouts, the musical trio called Beach Day let us poke around their brains and living room. Besides the cats and dog running about, Natalie, Kimmy, and…
Our interview with Beach DayFull slideshow of Beach Day’s Day on the Hollywood TownWhile walking on the Hollywood Beach Broadwalk with the band Beach Day, we all suddenly start singing Lonestar’s “Amazed” at the same time that it plays from the speakers of an ice cream shop. This says something…
Interview with Robb Bank$Robb Bank$, Best Hip-Hop Artist, New Times Broward Palm BeachSpaceghostpurrp interview on Miami New TimesRobb Bank$ may be barely out of boyhood, but he has the deep and alluring voice of a man. It sucks the listener in on his new track “Like That,” a collaboration with…
County Grind’s eulogy for Adam Yauch”I quite vividly remember when Licensed to Ill came out,” relates organizer of the Homage to the Beastie Boys at Cinema Paradiso Mark Pollack. “I was nine and got the cassette from Camelot Music in Coral Square Mall. I toted that thing everywhere in my…
The last time Pocket of Lollipops played Dada.Our thoughts on Pocket of Lollipops’ Cute Chaos video.New York’s Painting Soldiers and Miami’s Pocket of Lollipops have a lot in common. They’re both duos. One dude, one lady, and they’re all a bunch of artists with instruments. They’re all bringing their artsy…
Livid Records releases final record.With the death of Boca label Livid Records, South Florida mourns the loss of a significant appendage in our local music scene. If Churchill’s is the heart, then Livid’s like a foot or something, a foot that’s wearing brightly colored Converse lo-top, if you will (see…
Photos: One Direction and fans at BankAtlantic CenterBoy crazed tweens around the world are mourning the end of the 2012 One Direction tour. Thanks to the kiddies, creepies, and the band, we snooped around the web and found a nice bouquet of tweets written by both the superyoung fangirls out…
Our post on the fifth-year anniversary of Livid Records.Boca-based Livid Records has been a staple in the local music scene for just over five years. Now, the label that has released music by such acts as the Getback, Lil Daggers, Pool Party, and the Crumbs is closing up shop. Is…
Adele, the most popular human looking songstress of the past decade (sorry, Gaga, but sometimes you resemble an anime heroine), is doing something really, really human. She’s gestating offspring. That’s right, this British crooner is preggers with bf Simon Konecki’s fetus. She’s rife with child. Bitch is knocked up. And…
For many who grew up in South Florida, your first major concert for someone who’s really famous, like your mom knows who they are famous, was at the place now known as the Cruzan Amphitheatre. This West Palm Beach staple has announced a strong lineup of big name acts this…
Read about Public Image VintageIndie Craft Bazaar ReviewMore about Radio-Active Records”The Night Owl Market is the first of its kind in Broward County,” says founder and CEO of Indie Craft Bazaar Amanda Weiner. She’s also organizing this newest crafty venture, calling it, “a fusion of craft fair, community event, block…
DMX may not be the original bad boy, but he’s certainly high on the list of dudes your mom doesn’t want you to date, even if he’s famous and probably still rich. Regardless of past transgressions, this Ruff Ryder’s songs still get your ass dropping on the dance floor even…
Our full interview with Erix S. Laurent on his project Teepee here.Teepee has been busy, busy, busy since we last spoke with the musician behind the sound and concept Erix S. Laurent. The limited edition seven inch “Time Meant Nothing” is coming out on July 19 (available now for pre-order),…
Matt Beck and Destiny Spang are, together, a musical-production powerhouse. As Boca-based Brotherly Love Productions, this couple takes its talent for business and its sharp ears for quality acts and is building a budding dynasty in the South Florida live music scene. Beck launched the jam-band-centric, full-service, live music production…
For the Miami New Times breakdown of the post-Marc Anthony aspects of the affair, click here.Yesterday, word on the email press release tip was that the gays would be out protesting President Obama’s appearance on South Beach (the actual South Beach, not the South Beach of ESPN). But when I…
The eleventh edition of PureHoney, the guide to all of South Florida’s musical shows and more, has hit stores, cafes, and the internet year you. You can grab it Radio-Active Records, or just about any place that’s actually cool, or, for the recluses, simply click here.Each month, Steve Rullman puts together…
Much like on the day Kennedy was assassinated, people all over the world also remember where they were when the news dropped that Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, had passed away. So, OK, this is a drastic overstatement. But since it only happened three years ago today, you really…
