With Ultra now an already-blurry memory, the hordes of electronic music tourists have pretty much cleared out. That leaves us locals to business as usual, and that doesn’t meant the music stops. It just gets a little more pop over the next week, with the arrival of a couple of…
A week-long cruise in the Caribbean and a seven-day music festival featuring top-notch performers may seem hard to combine. But, like our current cover story on the Bruise Cruise proves, setting music afloat on the high seas isn’t so strange any more.Before the Bruise Cruise, though, for the past four…
Late last year we featured Hear Hums, an experimentally inclined duo from Gainesville by way of West Palm Beach, in our Glimpses of the South Florida Scene blog column. Now, the twosome hopes to launch a lengthy tour from Florida up to the northeast and into Canada in May. Like…
RushBankAtlantic Center, SunriseWednesday, March 30, 2011Better Than: Joy-riding in your uncle’s vintage FerrariThink you’re a good air-drummer? Does your steering wheel beg for mercy on your morning commute? Mine does, and I was under the impression that I was truly at the top of my game. That is, I thought…
The “furthur” mentality was brought into this world by a group of young California freaks back in the mid-’60s called the Merry Pranksters. The idea was to always go further: further into the deep mystery of their own consciousness, further into each other’s lives, and further down the roads of…
On the “Dirty Work Tour” with All Time Low, Yellowcard, Hey Monday, and the Summer Set, pop-punk is the flavor of choice. All Time Low’s 2011 album, Dirty Work, is where the tour title comes from, and all of the bands involved have done plenty of “dirty work” lately. That…
The People Upstairs have gained momentum as a band since they formed almost ten years ago at Atlantic High School in Delray. The members were all part of the drum line and decided to take their rhythmic activity from the football field to the garage just for fun. Since then,…
South Florida is a healthy place for reggae, both in that it produces lots of quality homegrown music and that it attracts big-name acts from across the globe. The upcoming Lake Worth Reggae Festival offers a nice slice of both aspects of the scene. Leading the global acts are the…
These days, a jam band “scene” and sound are givens, but that wasn’t always so. Though so-called “classic rock” was a big flavor, moe. and ’90s peers like Phish and Widespread Panic created a new hybrid that spanned genres and time periods — which was partially a result of the…
Staind’s frontman/lyrical mastermind Aaron Lewis has veered away from his post-grunge past with new single “Country Boy” — sort of. On his new EP crafted in Nashville, Town Line, expect to hear “country” songs that really sound like a clash of Bon Jovi and Alice in Chains, sung in that…
In 2003, rapper Lil Twist was riding high in his hometown of Dallas. His debut single, “Texas Twist,” was a massive ground-level hit, thanks to its rolling, piano-driven commands to hit the floor. (The twist in question is a longstanding urban line dance.) Based on club and street heat, the…
Back in 1978, this sort of story would be no big deal. According to (possibly heavily revisionist) history, the music business used to be a sea of indulgence, hot tubs and all-you-can eat soft serve. Today, rock journalists can only experience such debauchery (and water slides) alongside retirees and young…
It has happened! West Palm Beach’s pride and joy Surfer Blood has released its first MP3 as part of a multinational conglomerate, and it’s a live recording of “I’m Not Ready.”Culled from a concert in Washington, D.C. last fall, this song has been a fixture of live shows for a…
Kind readers, we know each other through these digital planes and you usually trust that I am not too thick in the drink, or deep in the debt, or fat in the grizzle to make these little blogs worth your while. So after thinking about it long and hard, here’s…
Well that was quick. TMZ.com dropped a bombshell this morning that Enrique Iglesias’ monster-sized ego is too enormous to handle second-billing to even Britney Spears. And, the joint tour announced yesterday — including July 22 in Miami — will not feature Iglesias anymore.To many Americans, this is probably a little…
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: An indelible influence. When somebody appears especially down in the dumps, an old adage finds others asking, “What’s wrong? You look like you just lost your…
Starting last year, South Florida emo legends Further Seems Forever slowly let details of the original lineup’s reunion slip out. Frontman Chris Carrabba and drummer Steve Kleisath spoke to New Times about the pending unification, but now things are officially taking shape.As announced and promoted by TheHoneycomb.com, on Thursday, April…
New Times Broward-Palm Beach’s celebration of suds and rock hits downtown Fort Lauderdale has been moved to Saturday, November 12. And Sister Hazel is the headliner! Read our Q&A here. Get all of the details at the Beerfest site.As we have said before, now in its 14th year, the festival…
However this isn’t the popstar’s only magazine cover this month. Photographed by Annie Leibovitz, RiRi appears on the cover of Vogue’s April issue in a sheer floral look from Chanel’s Pre-Fall 2011 Collection. But we have to wonder…what will Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour have to say about the risque cover? In 2009,…
Buffalo Brown’s been a fixture of South Florida’s music scene for some years now and his quiet demeanor has been a grounding factor in two of the scene’s better acts. From the Afro-groove electronically-tinged Latin pop of Elastic Bond to the trip-hop, improvisational acid-jazz of Out of the Anonymous (OOTA),…
After breaking the news last week that Chris Brown is still a maniac, Good Morning America has another scoop: Britney Spears will tour in support of new album Femme Fatale this summer with Enrique Iglesias as her opening act. The tour opens in Sacramento June 17, and wraps around the…
Team Beyonce made the official announcement on Monday that the R&B superstar has decided to cut management ties with her father Mathew Knowles (and not just because he spells his name with only one T). She’s not the only Destiny’s Child member to go independent woman on Mathew Knowles, in 2009 Kelly Rowland…
