It has been two-and-a-half years since Blink-182 announced its re-formation, not long after drummer Travis Barker’s brush with death in a plane crash. Since then, the band has toured the world, headlined huge European festivals, and embarked on solo albums (and, in the case of Barker, toured with Lil Wayne)…
We’ve long believed that celebrities like to capitalize on their fame in every way possible. It’s the American dream.For some reason, singers think they can be actresses, actresses think they can sing, and they all think they’re capable of creating fragrances.Taylor Swift can now join those ranks of fragrance-extraordinaires. Yahoo!…
The king of lo-fi, the Godfather of Chimp Rock, the man who can’t even be bothered to spell the word e-f-f-o-r-t — Stephen Malkmus — has issued a call to arms. He’s about to officially release a new single off of his latest effort with the Jicks (and Beck!), Mirror…
We are now at the finish line. DJ Khaled’s Cash Money debut, We the Best Forever, is out next Tuesday. After many, many, many months of buildup since “Welcome to My Hood” entered our consciousness back in January, the rollout has been steady.Most will hold every Khaled track to come…
Tom Cruise’s Rock of Ages filming has moved away from Fort Lauderdale, and into Miami-Dade. Before the big event next Monday at Sun Life Stadium (find out how to be in the movie here), Crossfade’s Marta Xochilt Perez has an excellent set of photographs up showing Miami doing its best…
Back in December, the excitement was ramping up for Poison frontman Bret Michaels’ Super Cruise. County Grind’s Travis Newbill even coined the phrase “Rock of Love… Boat” for the four-day party heading from Miami to Cozumel set for this November. However, further proof that every rose has its prickly thorn,…
J. Cole, Roc Nation’s first signee, is all raw potential at this stage. He has spoken to the streets via high-profile mixtapes that include his own beat production, and his clean-cut playboy rhymes, exhibited in “In the Morning” and “Work Out,” are ready for a pop audience. In anticipation of…
Local band Viva le Vox has been touring the country and spreading its music and antics to anyone who will listen. Granted, the band is damned good at putting on a show that in the past has been part lascivious, part backwoods rockabilly, and part crazy-eyed. The crowd that comes…
The time has come to thread together every single local art discipline under one roof. ArtServe’s annual “Red Eye” event, now in its sixth year, fuses the loftiest gallery art, gritty street creations, short film, poetry, installations, and live music into an invigorating onslaught that will surprise, shock, and inspire.The…
PlainsPlains (10K Islands) Although South Florida may have a lot of indie (as in independent) bands, until recently it’s been light on “indie rock” in its classicist form. We mean straightforward, meat-and-potatoes jangle rock with plenty of intellectual wit but not a lot of cross-genre trickery. That’s especially true in…
Last night, resident Flaunt DJs Sean Murphy, JJ Richters, and Oz del Castillo performed in drag at The Lounge, the 500 block of Clematis Street’s favorite gay bar in West Palm Beach. The events, reminiscent of a scene from To Wong Foo, were…colorful, to say the least. The entire scheme…
Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman offers his insights, opinions, and observations about the local scene. This week: The Chris Alvy Band covers the competition.It’s rare that a local band will extend a shoutout to other local bands… at least when it comes to covering their songs. Yet…
That’s right, the “Rock the Bells” 2011 tour will be making a stop at the Fillmore Theater in Miami on September 13. With confirmed headliners Ghostface, Raekwon, and the infamous Mobb Deep, it would be insane not to attend on principle alone. We like you, though, and so we’ll reinforce…
Everyone loves a rap supergroup. From newer crews like Slaughterhouse and EMC to older classics like the Firm and Crooklyn Dodgers; rarely is the whole greater than the sum of its parts but they’re still pretty damn entertaining. Now introducing, for the first time ever, Bonus, Dirty Dem, GAPS, Jabrjaw…
In a post-Drake world, respected hip-hop superstars can be pulled from almost any sort of background. Consider Jermaine Cole, who raps as J. Cole and was the first signee to Roc Nation, Jay-Z’s partnership with concert giant Live Nation. He’s a well-spoken guy from North Carolina who studied communications at…
As Stonefox, and then Blond Fuzz, Boca-based Young Circles were probably the tricounty area’s finest purveyors of no-nonsense, hard-charging garage rock. Eventually, though, the bandmates found they had painted themselves into a musical corner. The same guitar riffs got to feeling stale, so the guys looked back to their earlier,…
If Kid Cudi were the first lonely stoner to get major radio airplay, Wiz Khalifa is the next rising star of the kush-loving class of new pop-leaning rappers. His major-label debut — though his third album proper — is called, uh, Rolling Papers, and giddily celebrates blunted half-recollections of the…
Statuesque, blond Natasha Bedingfield got an early start on her career in her native England as a teenager, when she was a member of a Christian dance group with brother Daniel. While he went on to further mine the dance/pop vein and achieve massive chart success, Natasha went for a…
Look, people. The burden of creativity has to be occasionally usurped by the sheer joy of reporting something truly breathtaking and wonderful. Elvis (the living one) is coming to South Florida in our lifetime. So take your vitamins and observe that Declan Patrick MacManus will be in the local area…
Chuck Taylors have been the unofficial-official shoes of punk rock and indie rock ever since the Ramones grew out of their Keds. It is an indisputable fact that no matter what you’re doing, what you’re wearing, or who you are, a pair of (Nike-owned) Converse All Stars always looks good…
Miami’s Awesome New Republic — these days seeming to prefer the more compact version of that name, ANR — has been churning out its unique take on Prince-influenced dance-pop for more than a half-decade. Throughout the band’s existence, the duo of Michael-John Hancock and Brian Robertson has often been the…
TMZ just reported that police were called to the home of ex-Queens of the Stone Age bass player Nick Oliveri after neighbors reported a “disturbance.”It turns out Oliveri had gotten into a fight with his girlfriend the day before and had struck her. She was returning to the home they…
