The Glitch MobWith Com Truise and PhantogramRevolution, Fort LauderdaleTuesday, July 12, 2011Better Than: Waiting until Langerado to see the headlinersIf you could bottle up and sell a drug-free psychedelic experience, a Glitch Mob show dose would be pricey and worth every penny. The electronic act’s headlining show at Revolution last…
Joan Jett & the BlackheartsHard Rock Live, HollywoodTuesday, July 12, 2011Better than: Watching The Runaways movie. No frills was the name of the game at last night’s Joan Jett & the Blackhearts concert. Slithering onto the stage in a pair of sparkly leggings, the punk-rock goddess looked out into the…
If there was any hesitation about attending the Identity Festival at Miami’s Bayfront Park in August, it had better not be about the ticket price. The traveling electronic music fest has just launched a 20-hour fire sale on admission lasting until 5 a.m. Thursday that slashes it down to just…
Perhaps Lil Wayne has softened a bit in his late 20s. A couple of years back, he was telling Katie Couric, “I am a gangsta, Miss Katie. I don’t take nothing from no one. I do what I wanna do.” But today he dropped a mixtape apologizing (!) for the…
Although they’re not donning any magical robes or silvery floor-length beards, Wizard Sleeve still got the props in “OK So I’m Cool.” From the signature dookie gold Zelda chain and size 40 Puma shoe to a creepy ventriloquist dummy and a bad-ass New Kids on the Block shower curtain, it’s…
In a post-Bruise Cruise world, virtually no musician is above hitting the high seas for an indie-rock adventure. Look no further than the Weezer Cruise, which sets sail January 19-23, 2012, from Miami to Cozumel, Mexico. “Island in the Sun” is so on repeat!Although County Grind has expressed some concerns…
As South Florida dashboards become blister centers of heat and doom, it’s apparent that the Jacuzzi Boys’ “Cool Vapors” couldn’t have come soon enough. The first MP3 to emerge from the trio’s Hardly Art debut, Glazin’, is a riotous bit of fun. This song is keyed in perfectly to the…
Miami’s Psychic Mirrors are onto something. After listening to their debut seven-inch, you’ll feel like you’re lounging with Shaft, Tony Montana, and Daft Punk in a treetop discotheque in the Amazon. Live, they are more like a party than a band — the ten members of the Psychic tribe are…
R&B genre bender Lloyd is back with his finest album yet, King of Hearts, and last week he showed off one of the finest skull tattoos ever inked. Now before you get it twisted, this is not a tattoo of a skull, but it’s wrapping around the back of the…
These days, most mediaphiles can look forward to a clever new Tumblr page only every so often to fulfill their reading appetite, so the debut issue of No Tofu magazine is quite a contrast. We stumbled across the daring publication over the weekend at the Snooze Theatre. Since it was…
Somehow between resident gigs at Vagabond, Playwright, and the Ritz-Carlton plus being head instructor at Miami’s Scratch DJ Academy, longtime FTLien turntablist Rob Riggs finds time to compile mixes of music he can’t play at any of his gigs. True to its name, Don’t Disturb This Smooth serves up 80…
Last Friday, County Grind jumped all over a particularly charged note posted by Forward Motion Records scion Fernando Perdomo. The gist: There’s too much crappy noise rock being created locally, and the music press is drooling all over it (definitely scroll down and read the comments too). Since then, my…
Last month, we reported the initial release of Psychopathic Records’ Gathering of the Juggalos 2011 infomercial. It was a long, wonderful success filled with space-aged characters and Vanilla Ice.It is with a great deal of enthusiasm to announce that a second infomercial had been posted! While prosaic in its delivery,…
Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman offers his insights, opinions, and observations about the local scene. This week: PR pro Woody Graber reveals the music that gets him in his groove. In naming him Miami’s Best Flack, Miami New Times described Woody Graber thusly: “A cantankerous old-school publicist who…
Next… damn, what comes after a week from now? Christmas? Wait, wait… we got it: another Monday! Next Monday we are going to hear her new single. The song is written by Brandon “Blue” Hamilton. Blue produced Justin Bieber’s “Born to Be Somebody.” We don’t know what the term “producer”…
Children of BodomWith Septic Flesh, Obscura, and Devin Townsend ProjectRevolution Live, Fort LauderdaleSunday, July 10, 2011Better than: Listening to it on an ipod… kinda. Finnish melodic death-metal band Children of Bodom made its first South Florida appearance Sunday headlining the “Ugly World Tour.” Virtuosic guitarist and singer Alexi Laiho and his horde…
Well, if there’s any doubt as to why Opa-Locka rapper Brisco is running from the cops, just check out his Facebook page. Late last week, it was reported that the past DJ Khaled and Lil Wayne collaborator was sought in connection with the beating of an 18-year-old man.Updated 4:55 p.m.:…
The Rock of Ages movie adaptation filming has reached stadium size. After filming Tom Cruise’s flowing locks during June inside Revolution in downtown Fort Lauderdale and turning a nearby landfill into the Hollywood Hills, the cast and crew are setting up next week for the most grandiose shots yet, at…
Coheed and Cambria bassist Michael Todd was arrested prior to the prog-punk band’s scheduled performance opening for Soundgarden in Mansfield, Massachusetts, on Sunday. Todd was collared for allegedly threatening a pharmacist at a nearby Walgreens with a bomb and making off with six bottles of OxyContin.After fleeing via taxi, Todd…
According to a post made on Lemmy’s bass tech Tim Butcher’s Facebook, ex-Motörhead güitarist Michael “Würzel” Burston has passed away, apparently of heart disease. He was 61 years old and played with the band for nine albums, between 1984 and 1995, holding the position of co-guitarist with current axman Phil…
All Hell Breaks LooseWith Homestretch, Harbinger, Deathbed, Eucharist, and AxisThe Talent Farm, Pembroke PinesSaturday, July 9, 2011South Florida has always had a strong hardcore punk scene responsible for putting out some world-class bands in the past. However, recent years have found a lack of inspired bands and, more important, have…
Cassadee Pope, frontwoman for the West Palm Beach pop-punk act Hey Monday, is the target of a $50 million civil lawsuit filed by Plantation-based Driven Entertainment Group. Driven CEO Dominick Centi and his wife, Tammy, filed the breach-of-contract suit in Broward Circuit Court on Friday, claiming that the 21-year-old singer…
