Feeling old? Well, Cardiothief could be the first band to list West Palm indie gems Surfer Blood as an influence on its Facebook page. The four-piece from Plantation also digs another County Grind fave in NYC twee rockers the Pains of Being Pure at Heart. Listening to the handful of…
Not going to make it to Coachella this year? Can’t swing Bonnaroo, Pitchfork and Lollapalooza? No need to despair, the good folks over at Florida Atlantic University’s student-run radio station Owl Radio — broadcasting live each and every day straight from room 207 D in the Student Union — have…
Frantik’s been bombarding South Florida now for some time with some righteous lyrics that are equal parts thought-provoking, tongue-in-cheek, positive and tough. And what makes the seemingly disparate amalgam is predicated by the fact that the toughness is not macho posing, it is inflection and execution that toughens the joint…
Invisible Music is the latest project of local musician John Ralston, and it’s an eight-piece orchestral band that plays Americana and alt-country with a majestic sound. On new single “Let Me Be,” Ralston and co. sing with a softness elevated by glockenspiel, lap steel, violin, bass, drums, guitars and keys. A bit like…
Wow. We are stunned, speechless and excited as hell, boyeeee! In anticipation for their next album The Hot Sauce Committee Part 2, the Beastie Boys just unleashed a trailer for what appears to be the most enjoyable music video in ages. Or most hilarious short movie based on a music…
Which is more jarring? Pairing a song like Rachel Goodrich’s sweet ukulele number “Light Bulb” with a bunch of gun-toting gangstas for a video, or subtracting the ukulele altogether? Well, the second scenario happens when the ex-Miami songstress gets the remix treatment from South Florida electro-pop specialists ANR.The track loses…
After a five-month long hiatus, Lake Worth swampy Americana troupe Black Weather Shaman reunites at Propaganda tonight. It’s not like the group’s bushy and tattooed frontman Cecil Lunsford has been kicking back all that time, though. Dude’s been busy night in and night out keeping things thriving at the indie dive…
Amazingly, this date at Bill’s Filling Station still shows up on Lady Gaga’s website, which keeps a little part of her pre-Fame past alive. Back in 2008, the pop singer was just as hungry for domination as she is today, but she was still working her way up.With her South…
Cavity Crawling/Perseverance seven inch (Bacteria Sour) bacteriasour.com While the two songs on this delicious seven-inch can be found on the incredibly awesome full-length CD release Drowning, there is something special about this little record that commands its own entry to these Blast From the Past columns. There are two versions,…
Furthur Mizner Park Amphitheater April 6, 2011 Mizner Amphitheater could not handle the volume of Deadheads down to rock out with Furthur on Wednesday night, so a lively ring of dancing hippie types surrounded the venue, partying in the street. Though they were deprived of the nice view of Bob…
The Radiators have survived — and thrived — longer than most bands. This New Orleans-based outfit, known for an eclectic blend of rock and blues, features all of its original members — guitarist Dave Malone, vocalist/keyboardist Ed Volker, guitarist/vocalist Camile Baudoin, bassist Reggie Scanlon, and drummer Frank Bua Jr. —…
YouTube is awash with all kinds of bizarre videos, but if the site ever hands out an award for Weirdest Musical Performance on an Old Talk Show, a clip from Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks’ 1972 appearance on The Flip Wilson Show deserves the prize. The rakish singer/guitarist and…
Pulling off a cover song is a fragile art. Stick too close to the original and it’s boring, but deviating too far from the template is committing creative blasphemy. It’s to Easy Star All-Stars’ credit that they reggaefy big-name albums like OK Computer, Dark Side of the Moon, and Sgt…
Glammy ’80s U.K. goth-rock group Gene Loves Jezebel’s backstory is even more dramatic than its moody catalog. Contrary to its affectionate handle, there is no love lost between the twin brothers, Michael and Jay Aston, who fronted the influential group during its heyday. Michael, the more morose-leaning of the two,…
German metal trooper Accept has been around for a long-ass time — 2011 makes it an astonishing 35 years — but the music is still unashamedly juvenile and mostly ridiculous. On the band’s 12th LP, last year’s Blood of the Nations, new vocalist Mark Tornillo rattles off one broadly painted…
When rock ‘n’ roll legend Jerry Garcia passed in 1995, he left behind a biblical constellation of musical offspring. Of course, he’s best-known as frontman of the Grateful Dead, a position he held for the band’s entire 30-year existence, starting in 1965. Rightfully, the band ended with his death. Meanwhile,…
The week before Memorial Day 2008, a girl with feathered blond hair, flesh-colored lipstick, and movie-star sunglasses sat at a table at Georgie’s Alibi, the venerable Wilton Manors gay bar. She asked to speak with a manager. “I’m Stefani,” she told Mark Negrete, one of Georgie’s owners. “I’m a singer,…
Florida just hit paydirt — at least for those among us who are Will Oldham enthusiasts. No longer will watching Old Joy and this hilarious Kanye West video have to suffice. See the man who took the album cover photo for Slint’s Spiderland in the flesh, and in the beard.The…
Perhaps you’ve heard of Lady Gaga. And it shouldn’t be surprising that she’s coming to South Florida for a pair of shows (one in Sunrise, one in Miami) likely to draw a cross-section of big and little monsters.But what is less known is her history down here prior to the…
Britney Spears has premiered a video for “Till the World Ends,” featuring the pop singer and several of her sweaty friends at an underground end of the world party on December 21, 2012. As the buildings come crumbling down around them and meteors falls from the sky, Spears and her…
Fifty years on and former Grateful Dead band mates Bob Weir and Phil Lesh just keep truckin’. They bring their improvisational collection of timeless Dead tunes and spirited covers to Boca Raton’s Mizner Park Amphitheater this evening. Just down Federal Highway, like-minded groovesters will be looking to keep the positive…
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: My hometown heroes. This week, I’m taking time to give a shoutout to some local artists I’ve gotten to know here in these environs. Rich…
