Conflict-of-interest alert: I know that Manny Mangos is really named Manuel Vazquez because I actually know Manny. I met him about a year ago, and he is a buddy of mine, though I don’t see him around much these days. Beached Miami compared Manny Mangos to Calvin Johnson, and it’s…
Today is Rush singer-bassist Geddy Lee’s 58th birthday! In our attempts to entertain and educate those a bit light on their musical celebrity trivia, we present some interesting factoids you may not know about Canadian rock’s pride and joy, as well as some of our personal favorite Geddy moments.The holy…
“So this year I realized, if I don’t do the stuff I feel like, if I make rules about what I can’t do, someone is going to take my rules and fuck it and do it better than me. Someone like will.i.am will do a record that sounds like something…
Marcos Marchesani hasn’t wasted time in making a name for himself in South Florida’s growing music scene. Having dedicated his talents to local mainstays like Surfer Blood and Weird Wives, he has recently decided to take on a new project headed and crafted by himself. Naturally, we wanted to know…
You may have heard that we are giving away a pair of Langerado Music Festival 2011 tickets. To allow busy local music fans to get their entries together, we’ve extended the deadline until Friday, August 5, at noon. This will allow you an additional week to brainstorm and film a…
Odd Future has unveiled an impressive Golf Wang North American Tour. What began in the wee hours of Thursday as a delightful U.S. map covered with kitten faces is realized. The full tour schedule was tweeted by Tyler, the Creator last night.Aside from it being Wellington resident Vanilla Ice’s birthday,…
Brewzzi 2222 Glades Road, Boca Raton. Call 561-392-2739, or visit here. Brewzzi sounds like the second name of a rapper. You know, about the time his ego has grown to epic proportions and sometime after said rapper has enjoyed moderate success with his first name. Snide remarks aside, I cracked…
The adjoining venues (Green Room, America’s Backyard) in the Revolution complex have been seriously heating up lately with bookings of up-and-coming artists. But just such a gig this Saturday at America’s Backyard serves a higher cause. Headlined by Detroit singer/songwriter Pato, it’s a benefit for the Williams Leukemia Foundation…
New Times Broward Palm Beach’s Best Young Guy Ryan Alexander recently spent some time at Fort Lauderdale-based C&I Studios to record a live, acoustic version of “James Kent.” If the name sounds familiar, it’s because Kent is the focus of the article Courtney Hambright recently penned about Alexander for City…
If we didn’t know any better, we’d assume Afroman was harvested by scientists hunkered down in a secret government bunker trying to cook up the perfect rapper. But their experiment went terribly wrong, you see. Or, depending on your countenance — and proclivity to get lifted — terribly right. Those scientists were…
It’s time once again for the freaks to descend en masse upon movie theaters across the country. This time, though, instead of the good ol’ Grateful Dead, it will be a slew of some of the world’s most famous knob-tweaking, needle-dropping DJs — including David Guetta, Deadmau5, Will.I.Am, and Moby…
The ticket giveaways keep on coming, folks. Just got word that we have a pair of tickets up for grabs for the 2011 Vans Warped Tour stop in West Palm Beach this Saturday. (In related news, we have extended our Langerado ticket giveaway to next Friday.)You already know that we’re…
Miami’s Pool Party — a band that is not from Iceland, but is just fucking huge there — has released two new songs. Fitting to accompany any “cannonball!” cry, they further propagate the group’s odd humor, complete with wildly convincing foreign accents.Aside from frontman Creep Guirdo constantly sending County Grind…
For the many among us who have spent the past couple months at home wearing little or no clothing next to an old, churning air conditioner, relief is in sight! In fact, everything will be in sight during the 3rd annual Naked End of Summer Bash August 12-14, hosted by…
For those already shaking their heads in disapproval at another ironic mainstream rap parody, save your neck muscles for the nod factor on this Lex Luger-produced banger — cuz ain’t shit sweet here. Starring Fort Lauderdale’s own flighty friend Bleubird as Ace Hood, L.A.’s K-the-I-??? as Rick Ross and Anticon…
Rhino Records just announced that it will release a deluxe boxed set of all eight of the Smiths’ full-length albums, reworked and remastered by Johnny Marr. They failed to mention, though, that this new collection comes complete with a 24 oz. can of snake oil…
Although we were bummed to hear the news that West Palm Beach shimmering indie pop troupe the Clementines called it quits back in February, the group’s talented frontman Andrew Marr assured us that he would be putting together a new outfit called Ski Lodge with a similar post-punk leaning frame…
Tech N9ne has always lurked at the fringes of the larger hip-hop industry, and it seems he prefers it that way. Instead, the Kansas City, Missouri, rapper has enjoyed a career older than that of many of his fans — more than two and a half decades — and sold…
The Jonas Brothers have gone solo or more “serious” with their musical careers. Miley Cyrus has been caught on video smoking funny stuff and speaking in tongues. Demi Lovato’s very publicly done a stint in rehab for various unpretty issues. That pretty much leaves Selena Gomez as the latest hope…
Who the hell are 100 Monkeys, and how are they headlining Revolution? Well, the answer to the first part is that the band is an independent Los Angeles-based five-piece with funny-quirky promo photos and pretty-faced members with nicknames like “J. Rad.” The music is party-time pop rock inflected with heavy…
Lloyd Polite Jr. has employed a variety of aliases over his R&B career. Early on, he was Young Lloyd. On the 2009 Young Money single “Bedrock,” he encouraged females to call him Mr. Flintstone, because “I can make your bed rock.” That same year, he released a hyperpersonal collection of…
The state of the Vans Warped Tour is in constant flux. What started as a haven for skateboarders and punk kids to watch bands like No Doubt and Sublime has reinvented itself time and again with fresh genres and revamped stages. Throughout its 17-year history, young music fans have come…
