“Bare Bones Tour” Starring Bryan AdamsKravis Center of the Performing ArtsThursday, August 11, 2011Better than: Any emo.The review: Inside the pristine sit-down “opera house” of Kravis Center, a very-ironed Bryan Adams called his songs babies last night. Back on his 1997 MTV Unplugged performance, Adams had a ten-piece band, a…
This Friday marks the third-annual Naked End of Summer Bash organized by amiable nudist club Florida Young Naturists. In our opinion, the Young Naturists have the right idea — probably no better way to revel an end of summer blowout than going au natural. The group has lined up a…
New Jersey’s Saves the Day was a benchmark of late-’90s, mall-friendly pop-punk emo. Frontman Chris Conley sang the same kinda songs about girls with the same eunuch-nasal vocals as all the band’s nationwide suburban peers. But he also slipped in an extra little darkness. His take on teenage white male…
Not a lot known at this point, but ex-Warrant vocalist Jani Lane was found dead Thursday evening in Los Angeles, according to TMZ. He was 47.Lane’s body was found at a hotel in the Woodland Hills neighborhood. No official cause of death has been reported as this time.Lane (real name:…
Let’s face it, heavy metal is a genre of music that is inherently funny. No other genre is without camp, sure, but there is something about metal and all of its variants that never faces a shortage of ham. Although one may never see the likes of King Diamond cracking…
For photos of Wednesday’s Bitchy Bingo, click here.Last night, I got my cherry popped by a drag queen. Well, sort of. It was my first time at Fort Lauderdale’s premier drag-queen cabaret, Lips. Six nights a week, the venue has a variety of theme nights, and on Wednesday nights, it hosts…
Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman shares stories of memorable rock ‘n’ roll encounters that took place in our local environs. There’s an all-around good vibe that the Canadians exude, and it surely accompanied the Mariposa Folk Festival, which just concluded its 51st year of operation in July. The…
West Palm Beach’s darkness plungers the Band in Heaven has emerged with a new music video to further its twisted rock agenda. From the recently issued Seven Minutes in Heaven tape, “Sleazy Dreams” is the buzzsaw-filled A-side. If you thought that it sounded menacing, just check out the unsettling imagery…
Plantation pop-punk act New City Lions has teamed up with Kickstarter to help produce its next EP, titled Kids. In all, the band is hoping to raise $2,000, which is about half of the estimated cost for the undertaking. “We are big believers in working hard for what you have,…
Fire-breathing folk-punk act Everymen is geared up for the highly anticipated onslaught of record-release parties this Friday at Lake Worth’s Propaganda. Lucky for those in Palm Beach County (or devoted enough to be making the trek), the Lake Worth indie dive is Everymen’s admitted “home turf.” The purveyors of ruffian-style…
Once upon a time, not long ago, rising rap star J. Cole performed locally as Rihanna’s opening act at BankAtlantic Center. Prior to that, we spoke to him, and in addition to his skills on the mic, he’s quite a gentleman.As it turns out, Mr. Jermaine Cole is taking a…
The Mayhem Festival has a rep as a hypercharged day with an energy drink sponsor and core radio-rock acts like Godsmack, Disturbed, and Trivium, but one of the tour’s new additions, Red Fang, is much more like some Pabst Blue Ribbon-guzzling dudes next door. Musically, the Portland band’s recently released…
Bryan Adams has been a part of our senior proms, weddings, funerals, and birthday parties for more than 30 years. Over that time, he’s made us ponder why he wants to run to us, why we should forgive him, and whether we’ve ever really loved a woman. When Adams brings…
Whoever said “Play with fire and you’ll surely get burned” never met Everymen’s Captain Bobo. During the Lake Worth bluegrass-punk troupe’s kinetic sets, the charismatic frontman displays a penchant for carnival-style theatrics — especially of the combustible sort. But Brazilian-born Bobo (real name: Sergio Witis) insists that the blazing balls…
The perfect music of late summer could be freestyle, AKA the Latin-tinged, electro-derived music indigenous to South Florida and New York in the ’80s. With its tinkly synths and often slightly helium-pitched vocals, the genre captures the breezy late-afternoon August sun. But freestyle often boasted a kind of bittersweet undercurrent,…
This show marks a sort of watershed booking for Propaganda. The club’s original manifesto, as posted on its website, stated an aversion to screamo and punk and required everyone through the door to be of legal drinking age. That has apparently changed — because this multiband extravaganza will feature hours…
Wednesday’s epic stop of the “Summer Slaughter Tour” is likely the ultimate show of the year for area deathcore fans — those who are underaged or underemployed, anyhow, as the show kicks off at 2 in the afternoon. Still, that early door time is a must, as the lineup packs…
Perhaps some elephant brains out there remember a band called the Rapture from the first half of the past decade. Unless you’re Metallica or something, a five-year gap in recorded output is a heckuva wait. Now, with a new headlining U.S. tour, the guys are ready to reintroduce themselves. The…
Get ready, Fort Lauderdale: Off! is coming to town. In the years since the advent of Fucked Up, nothing has tickled the indie-rock blogosphere’s punky bone quite like this hardcore supergroup. Since 2009, they’ve been pumping out singles — collected recently by Vice Records as the First Four EPs CD…
Anyone can play guitar, but not just anyone can make a guitar that anyone can play easily. The man who invented almost everyone’s first electric guitar, the late Leo Fender, would have turned 102 today. He didn’t invent the electric guitar, but he did create the first guitar that was…
Gay Skate/IntoxiskateGold Coast Roller Rink, Fort LauderdaleTuesday, August 9, 2011Check out photos of last night’s final Intoxiskate here.When Gay Skate/Intoxiskate promoter David Rohrig first started working at Gold Coast Roller Rink, the place was filled with a dozen gay, white, middle-aged guys. “It’s not a gay guy night anymore.” Rohrig…
It’s not always easy being “the new guy,” but if you do it right, it can be a great experience for all involved. When John Hruby (formerly of Guest) joined Georgia-based jam band Perpetual Groove back in 2008, the band had more than a decade of jamming under its belt,…
