The exuberant men of Dr. Dog have a decade’s worth of boisterous shows, belt-busting sing-alongs, and retro psychedelia in their breast pockets. With the band’s first album via Anti-, Shame, Shame, this lovely music is reaching its largest audience yet.As the Dog visits Fort Lauderdale’s Culture Room this evening, it’s…
Whaddayaknow. Maybe the American people know what they’re doing.On last night’s Idol elimination episode, Haley Reinhart, Stefano Langone, and Paul McDonald found themselves in the bottom three. I wrote yesterday that Paul deserved to go, because he’s never used his little wisp of a voice with sufficient intelligence or verve…
Further Seems ForeverWith Legends of RodeoPropaganda, Lake WorthThursday, April 14, 2011View a slide show from the concert here.Better than: The recent-ish Dashboard Confessional nostalgia show at Revolution. Happily, there were no rowdy, wasted girls in sorority baseball hats or bros in Rainbow flip-flops disturbing audience members last night at Propaganda. The…
Top Five Records isn’t your destination for new Twin Shadow seven-inches, but John O’Keefe’s meticulously organized Lake Worth outpost is taking part in Record Store Day with his own brand of “exclusives.” Since it’s a vintage store, the laid-back proprietor is marking down a bunch of sealed overstock jazz and…
Sad news for Fort Lauderdale creatives began circulating yesterday: The Collide Factory warehouse space has closed its location in FAT Village digs and is looking for a new spot. The Juice’s Stefan Kamph reports that the venture founded by Travis Webster is closing its doors “due to overwhelming complications,” according…
Leave it to Miami’s Lil Daggers to provide one more reason to get off your behind for Saturday’s celebration of recorded and live music, Record Store Day. For the Miami-Dade enthusiasts, the Daggers have a new seven-inch, “Slave Exchange”/”Sweetwater,” and it comes available during the Sweatstock madness hosted at Sweat…
Robert Plant and the Band of Joy Hard Rock Live, Hollywood Thursday, April 14, 2011 While some ’70s rockers are on the county fair circuit doing their best impersonations of their ’70s selves (who were then doing impersonations of Robert Plant), Robert Plant is still evolving. As the gold fades…
Max “Finkenbeans” Finkelstein, bass player for swampy-surf rock outfit Brain Chips, lost his infant son, Benjamin “Spider” Reeves, last August due to complications arising from his premature birth. Although it was an enormous loss for the musician and his girlfriend, Holly Reeves, the couple is extremely grateful for the services…
Last night’s Idol theme was “songs from the movies.” Apparently, the definition of a “song from a movie” in the Idol universe is “a song that was once listened to by someone on the set of a film.” None of the obvious choices made it. “Mrs. Robinson”? Nope. “I Don’t…
I am often guilty of sticking to punk rock and hardcore acts in my Blast From the Past column, so this is a refreshing change. Today, this isn’t a full BFTP but a warmup with a couple of YouTube tracks from one of South Florida’s most criminally unknown disco/Latin/funk acts…
Record Store Day has turned into Black Friday of the record store industry. Tons of albums get marked down, and there are plenty of giveaways and an abundance of exclusive releases. One of our local independent record stores, Radio-Active Records, is celebrating the day with a special exclusive release of…
Capsule is an important part of a fairly forward, vibrant hardcore community in Miami that emerged during the early parts of the last decade and that doesn’t always get its due in a scene dominated by dance and Latin music. The quartet’s loaded sound is a sort of ordered chaos…
Decked in a work shirt rolled up to the elbows, suspenders, and a stocking cap, Toby Leaman often looks like he’s just as ready to build a birdhouse as he is to play bass and sing for Philadelphia-bred sunny psychedelic act Dr. Dog. Appropriately, in between tours, he does fix…
Iron Maiden’s a little fixated on death, but that’s part of what gives this British heavy-metal band its grim-reaper-peeking-in-your-window-about-to-chop-you-into-pieces-with-a-very-sharp-object appeal. The albums have titles like Killers (1981), No Prayer for the Dying (1990), Dance of Death (2003), and A Matter of Life and Death (2006). The band’s mascot, Eddie, is…
This Sunday-night postpostposthardcore extravaganza is not only a brutal dude’s nightmare but also a grammatical wonder. Excepting the headliner, nearly every band’s name forms a technically complete sentence! Their English teachers may be proud, but all four bands have enough to be proud of already. Each act proudly sits atop…
Robert Plant raised a lot more than sand on that 2007 album with Alison Krauss, one of the very few Americana albums to go platinum since O Brother, Where Art Thou? He also raised five Grammys in February 2009 — Raising Sand was released too late to make the ’08…
Being familiar with the Button South tends to mean that you had to be around during a certain period. The Hallandale Beach venue was founded in the early ’80s by the late “Crazy” Greg Newell and gained a hedonistic rep until its late-’90s closing. A few events have reminisced over…
As part of Propaganda’s revitalized booking efforts, the venue’s now going multimedia and more equal-opportunity in its celebration of local arts. Friday’s Radio Triptych Art Show marries visual works with local sounds and opens it all up to all ages for a change. Come for the art, which comprises works…
Dierks Bentley’s mop of curls is his career barometer. Untamed and devoid of style in 2003, they gamely accompanied his enjoyable but superficial debut. By 2005’s Modern Day Drifter, the weave was tempered with Merle-loving grit and a handful of bona fide country radio hits. 2006? Backlit dramatics. He was…
The March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan was an unfathomable tragedy, and it’s time to help. For those who don’t necessarily have a venue to channel these philanthropic ambitions, hit Respectable Street’s Benefit Show this Sunday. For only $5 each, attendees can feel the Good Samaritan buzz overtake them…
Mike Sniper is ready to dispense with his reputation as a dark, enigmatic figure. Up to this point, his persona — complete with his face shrouded deep within a hoodie like a Sith Lord during performances — has been as muddled as his lyrics buried unintelligibly into five years’ worth…
Almost exactly a decade ago, heralded Pompano Beach emocore act Further Seems Forever released its debut album, The Moon Is Down. The wildly influential set packed with wry commentary about South Florida tourism (“Snowbirds and Townies”) and love’s lingering pain (“Monachetti”) remains the only full-length document of songs featuring vocalist…
