Guitarist Russ Rogers is shifting his focus away from electro-thrash group Kill Miss Pretty and is reviving his alternative rock project A New Way to Live Forever. Receiving rave reviews from this very publication back in 2008 ANWTLF auspicious debut EP, Avalanches, raised many eyebrows. Our former music editor Jonathan…
No one could accuse Deftones of resting on their laurels, even though the band certainly deserves a little R&R. It’s been a whopping 23 years since the sextet first formed in Sacramento. And nearly all of those since the band’s debut album, 1995’s Adrenaline, have been spent doggedly on the…
Johnny Cash’s “I Still Miss Someone” has traveled plenty since it was first recorded as the b-side for the almost equally forlorn “Don’t Take Your Guns to Town” back in the late ’50s. The song about never getting over someone with blue eyes will forever be linked to Cash’s legacy,…
Cibo Matto’s brief, but charming run filled the world with the finest Japanese lounge pop about delightful edible creations. With only two full-length albums, 1996’s Viva! La Woman and 1999’s Stereo * Type A, Yuka Honda and Miho Hatori still managed to corner the enticing market before breaking up in…
Read our review of My Chemical Romance’s performance at Revolution.If there’s one common thread running through the career of My Chemical Romance, it’s that the New Jersey-bred foursome has always zigged when doubters have expected it to zag. When the band started out playing tristate-area basement shows ten years ago,…
For die-hard Joy Division fans, hardly enough can be said about Ian Curtis. Though he died 31 years ago this week (on May 18, 1980), his memory, music, and (let’s face it) moves live on. Bands have mimicked the English band’s deep bass lines, Curtis’ trademark voice, and frontmen everywhere…
Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman shares stories of memorable rock ‘n’ roll encounters that took place in our local environs. This week: a retro return in present tense.Last weekend, my past and present collided, and the divide between them was blurred entirely. As a function of my…
South Florida had some of the funkiest and baddest mothers the planet has seen! And it is high time we pay respect (or rather, pay our dues) to all the dudes and gals who paved the way for our current multicultural leanings! Ladies and germs, enjoy the funky disco sounds…
Cherished local promoter and drummer Jimmy Pagano’s life will receive a long, heartfelt look during a memorial tribute event held at America’s Backyard on Sunday, June 5. Pagano, who died in mid-April in the aftermath of a violent altercation allegedly involving this man at Fishtales Bar & Grill in Fort…
Jonathan Michael Richman — we like to call him “JoJo” — is 60 years young today. He has spent 40 of these making the kind of music to make you fall in love. Some was created with the Modern Lovers and some without. Whether the songs are in English or Spanish…
Finally, a more-than-two-year thirst for official, new Bon Iver material can be quenched. “Calgary” is among many geography-related songs on his upcoming Bon Iver, Bon Iver record arriving June 21. (Here’s betting that “Minnesota, WI” — not an actual place — is even more wintry, winsome, and anthemic.)Calgary is the…
Nick Eberhardt started playing live at the tender age of 16, long before he settled in Florida — and just before he started training under master finger-picker Tim Sparks. With stints playing in blues bars, being on the road, and sleeping on couches, Eberhardt has had enough rugged grooming to…
Crocodiles’ transition from a posthardcore past is complete. The San Diego duo of Brandon Welchez and Charles Rowell still had a bit of the brute force of their old outfits, The Plot to Blow Up the Eiffel Tower and Some Girls, bottled up their first record, 2009’s Summer of Hate…
Wild Olives by Todd English5050 Town Center Circle, Ste. 245, Boca Raton. Call 561-544-8000, or visit here. Wild Olives by Todd English: The best of Boca’s booze-slogging crowd comes out to sip wine, sample flatbread, and shoot the shit. Possibly, they also come to peek at the epic cleavage that…
Fox News and other right-wing news pundits are certainly making a big deal out of Common visiting the White House for Michelle Obama’s poetry event this week — but for all the wrong reasons.Sean Hannity and Sarah Palin are fake-mortified because the rapper/actor, born Lonnie Rashid Lynn, once performed a…
Axe and the Oak epitomize an aesthetic all their own: twangy in sound, dapper in dress, pure in pursuit. Their debut EP was long-awaited and toiled over till perfection. Then two picks from its six-song track list — “Vampire” and “Dancing on the Grave” — were released on a limited-edition…
Lead by Bryan Wohlust, Doorway 27 was one of Palm Beach County’s biggest alternative-rock hopes in the mid part of the last decade. Coming with a postgrunge style that wasn’t overly aggro, a pop sensibility delivered with just enough rock edge, and an appreciation for the Red Hot Chili Peppers’…
What the hell is frat rap, you ask? Congratulations — this means you are (1) likely of legal drinking age, and (2) spend your spare time doing things other than wiping away spittle as you click through yet another Tumblr page. (Um, when we do it, it counts as research,…
Not that it wasn’t deserved, but who on Earth thought Durbin would be the one packing his bags? Holy shit!I’m still proud of my predictions yesterday. Everybody, but everybody thought Haley was a goner. But I knew she wasn’t. Every week, her fan base has grown in both size and…
Absinthe Lounge5150 Town Center Circle, Boca Raton.Call 561-392-4600, or visit here.”People come in here all the time asking questions about absinthe,” said Mike, the dark-haired, black-clad bartender. “They want to know — ‘Is it legal?’ ‘Does it really make you go crazy?’ ” “Wait, it makes you go crazy?” I asked…
We found a hilarious video this morning that’s meant to seem like the legendary Bob Dylan has updated his image yet again to entertain YouTube-ers with a rendition of Rebecca Black’s atrocious song “Friday.” We’re going to take a stab and guess that this isn’t actually Dylan doing a very…
The massively anticipated Killing Joke original lineup reunion tour has been scrapped, according to reports from venues around the country gathered by Slicing Up Eyeballs.Last night, both San Diego’s the Casbah and the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco announced that the dates booked for late May are canceled…
