Earlier this month, Miami residents and BroCo folks who dabble in Magic City socializing were hit with the equivalent of a cultural 16-ton safe. The SEO-unoptimized BAR, AKA Black Bar, located at 28 NE 14th St., just a few doorways down from the Vagabond, announced that it would be shuttering…
Free stuff is just falling out of the sky today. Hollywood megabar — and winner of the 2011 Readers’ Poll for Best Bar — Whiskey Tango and Big 105.9 are hosting the last qualifying edition of Reno’s Rockstar Karaoke tonight in preparation for next week’s finals. The winner gets a…
A weekend of celebrating what is great about our country is nearly upon us, and figuring heavily into that is the Rock N’ Roll Beer-B-Que event on Sunday. If the prospect of an endless supply of ribs and pulled pork and beer isn’t enough to march you right to the…
Ever since the Psychedelic Furs played Revolution with Happy Mondays back in 2009, the English postpunk favorites have seemingly made South Florida a regular tour stop. This Friday marks the band’s second show at Culture Room in the past two years, and it’s welcome indeed. The London-birthed band, led by…
The annual “Flashback Night” has revived classic Caribbean sounds in South Florida for the past five years. After a packed edition last year at Cafe Iguana Pines, the event returns this year even bigger and better, at Revolution in downtown Fort Lauderdale. The guest performer of honor, as well, is…
Sundays are fun days. Nobody cares if you get up in the p.m. hours, you probably have been absolved of all other responsibility, and we heard calories don’t count either. So luckily, this Sunday you can check out an event that graciously accommodates late risers and serious eaters: the New…
Nikki Sixx is someone you might imagine not having his shit in perspective and under control, yet he totally does. Maybe you just know him as cofounder and bassist of Mötley Crüe, a metal god, a man of magically spiky hair, as someone who once frequented “Dr. Feelgood.” But Sixx…
Last week, Bruce Springsteen and many others paid their respects to departed E Street Band saxophonist Clarence Clemons at a funeral service held at Royal Poinciana Chapel in Palm Beach. The Big Man passed away at age 69 a few days prior at his Singer Island home following complications from…
Billy Corgan cements his foot into the grave as yet another music legend succumbs to the growing number of aging musicians who make mockeries of their careers. Brace yourself, because your palm is about to smash into your face.A new video has surfaced featuring Billy “Leader of the Smashing Pumpkins”…
If you have a 9 to 5 job, you know Tumblr is where you go to get the most for your time-wasting buck. You just sit there and scroll down until you see a photo of cats with lasers or an animated .gif of Bill Cosby, just Cozzin’ around. We…
In case the 2011 BET Awards was not on your Sunday viewing schedule, Mad Decent honcho Diplo deserves some shine off the Best Collaboration trophy for his part in writing/producing Chris Brown’s megahit “Look at Me Now” featuring Busta Rhymes and Lil Wayne. The antigravity beat brought out career performances…
Witch house band Symbols has recently added a spooky presence to the local scene and unveiled its first recording back in May.Things are heating up on the production front again with a recently released remix of Adele’s “Rolling in the Deep” and a new original song titled “Rifle in the…
Miami/Hollywood alternative rockers Addax have just unleashed an MTV Class of ’99-worthy music video. Let me be redundant by saying, since MTV barely plays videos anymore and I don’t have cable, I wouldn’t know what an MTV Class of ’09-11 video looks like. I guess the videos MTV plays are…
We can’t all be tall, blond, former models from Australia. But twin-sister DJ duo Nervo has proven itself to be much more than that. The two aren’t cheesy pop stars — they’re electronic DJs signed to EMI’s Astralwerks with collaborations with Steve Aoki and Deadmau5 under their admittedly small designer belts…
Three of the cross-dressingest rock ‘n’ roll bands to have walked the Earth are storming the Hard Rock in their thigh-high platforms Tuesday. It’s not strange, but it is a shame, that the New York Dolls have the play the role of opener. Yeah, Mötley Crüe and Poison were household…
Surfer Blood pays homage to one of the raddest cult TV shows of the mid-’90s with a giddy cover of Polaris’ “Hey Sandy.” The song, and much of Polaris’ material, is best-known through the portal of Nickelodeon’s 1993-1996 comedy series The Adventures of Pete & Pete, which hosted tons of…
Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman offers his insights, opinions, and observations about the local scene. This week: Majic 102.7 morning DJ and Beatle Brunch host Joe Johnson shares his listening pile. The Beatles broke up more than 40 years ago; it’s been 30 years since John Lennon was…
Foursome the Rx Bandits first appeared on the national scene in the mid-/late ’90s as part of a particularly promising class of Southern California ska revivalists — literally. Band founder Matt Embree went to the same Orange County high school as members of at least two other bands that would…
Reigning pop princess Rihanna will no doubt be able to carry her upcoming South Florida show on July 14 at BankAtlantic Center. But while her headlining set will go off with all the flash and panache for which her live performances are renowned, the supporting roster has just gotten a…
The True Blood season premiere and its assorted cast of supernatural creatures drew plenty of TV viewers last night. But hip-hop, R&B, and pop fans with less of a taste for blood and magical fairies were, instead, glued to the BET Awards 2011. Unsurprisingly, South Florida’s biggest industry stars loomed…
For a while there, it seemed impossible to track Young Circles’ movements through the band’s quick-succession name and lineup changes. As Stonefox, we drooled over the sometimes-trio, sometimes-quartet’s pared-down, fuzzed-out take on psychedelic garage-rock. They blew speakers and eventually broke hearts as they broke up, with half the band dispersing…
Against All Authority S/T (Far Out) myspace.com/againstallauthority Back in the mid-’90s, as the third wave of ska was cresting, local yokels Against All Authority, or just AAA, shot up quickly through the local scene. The band’s spin on the genre was one of improvised tropical anarchy, fueled by skate culture,…
