Shopping for instruments at Guitar Center back in the mid-’90s was often an ear-splitting experience. Aside from the endless number of goofballs — my friends included — who would just sit and play the riff from Smashing Pumpkins’ “Today” ad nauseum, the staffers were generally a unique blend of snob…
Yellowcard has come a long way from its Jacksonville roots and has the musical success to prove it. New Times spoke with lead vocalist/guitarist Ryan Key to find out what the band has been up to since taking some time off and what to expect from the band’s latest album…
It’s been over a decade since Hole’s original lineup has appeared together at a public event — let alone in the same room. But for one night at MoMA’s New Directors/New Films Festival, Courtney Love, Eric Erlandson, Patty Schemel, and Melissa Auf der Maur will come together in honor of…
Peter Murphy With LIVANCulture Room, Fort Lauderdale Sunday, March 27, 2011Better than: If Peter Murphy was really a Twilight vampire — not even that would beat the man living in the flesh.Besides a near-perfect performance, Peter Murphy was horny as shit last night at the Culture Room. No other reviews…
Probably no one knows just how prolific Sweet Bronco frontman (and New Times pal) Chris Horgan is — and that likely includes Horgan himself. With so many projects of the Fort Lauderdale songcrafter’s own, and a constant stream of assists for other musicians in the bi-county area, how can one…
DJ Jelo, Pendulum, and Sts9Ultra Music FestivalBicentennial Park, MiamiFriday, March 25, 2011Friday at the Ultra Music Festival was a mix of tent action, dubstep and gas masks…
The Crumbs Shakespeare 7″ (Lookout! Records) myspace.com/thecrumbs Now that I’ve had time to think about it, it seems like last year’s Gator Kicks album was one big put-on concerning this band’s demise. Nah, I’m looking at it as a hiatus from South Florida and with six full-lengths, two 7″ers, one…
Torche With Thunderbeast, Ether and Post Teens Propaganda, Lake Worth Saturday, March 26, 2011 Better than: What most ear plugs can handle. There is something special about seeing an internationally successful, once local band play their old stomping grounds, and catching the sonic colonic that is Torche anywhere in the…
Ultra Music Festival Day 2Bicentennial Park, MiamiMarch 26, 2011It takes mind-body trickery to keep yourself from giving up a prime spot in the crowd for a trip to the toilet-paperless port-o-potties with stink so fresh it’s literally sobering. But if the bladder gods were with you last night and you…
Duran Duran and ErasureUltra Music FestivalBicentennial Park, MiamiFriday, March 25, 2011Better than: ’80s night at an Irish pub.In another time and place, seeing Duran Duran and Erasure grace the same stage back to back would be magical. On this evening, which comes following nearly six combined decades between the two…
New Fort Lauderdale warehouse venue the Collide Factory is opening up its space this evening for the Art = Aid benefit, which kicks off a weekly beer garden event at the space. This time, it’s in conjuction with the Miami and Tokyo Beer Tour events.The event, which continues Saturday, is…
If messages on its Twitter page are to be believed, Blast by Colt 45, will “take over” the Ultra Music Festival this weekend. Although it’s hard to imagine that these new 23.5 oz cans of sugary booze (12 percent!) will dominate much more than some stories of hungover regret people…
Bonnie RiotGreen Room, Fort LauderdaleThursday, March 24, 2011Better Than: A night without some digital love.The Review: Amidst people sipping sophisticated drinks and relaxing on white couches, the Green Room becomes a magical place. Hanging from the ceiling are three-dimensional star lamps and a chandelier creating A Midsummer Night’s Dream ambiance…
West Palm Beach guitarist/lyricist Nick Eberhardt (Noble Rocket, the Darklights) has decided to give solo recording a try. The ten songs on Can You Feel It were composed at his home studio this past February. With mixing help from Young Circles’ Jordy Asher, the record Eberhardt describes as “folkie with…
Abundantly clear that our Miami sibling Crossfade is behind the bulletproof glass where every decision regarding Ultra Music Festival actually happens. Two nuggets of useful information just popped up regarding Ultra 2011 and Ultra 2012.Most helpful at this very moment is the schedule of acts for tonight, Saturday, and Sunday,…
Hey, is that a Best Of app in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?Ok, that was lame.As you may know we do an issue every summer called our “Best Of” issue where we work with you (the readers) to decide what the best places around town…
After Ben Weasel’s immature and negative attention-seeking blow up at SXSW last Friday, everyone has quit his band. For those of you who haven’t been listening to Screeching Weasel nonstop since 1993, here’s what happened: after 25 years of influencing bands that would become chart toppers (Green Day, Blink-182, All-American…
Boom Chick Laser Wolf, Fort LauderdaleWednesday, March 23, 2011Better Than: Skipping out on seeing The Kills for free at a local bar, only to find out a year later you’d be paying $30 for a ticket. Maraca in one hand, drumstick in the other, Boom Chick’s Moselle Spiller was armed…
The joy felt in any tUnE-yArDs track cannot be fenced in, and “Bizness” should be the intensity any person should bring to their own business. Pitchfork has posted the accompanying visual for the song, a single off April 19’s Whokill, which features a bunch of kids in school uniforms taking…
West Palm Beach’s Bonnie Riot pulls you deep into a swirling, shape-shifting psychedelic mass. The song “She” exemplifies this perfectly and sends your brain into overdrive. Between its androgynous vocals and thudding drums, the song just seeps into you and gets your adrenaline pumping. Each of their songs seems to be…
Leading lights of the new Lake Worth crop of rootsy acts, Black Finger is a rock band, and that’s it. And that’s a good thing. Instead of relying on subgenre flair, the quartet plays straight-ahead, slightly shuffling, twangy tunes meant straight for the heart of the Great American Songbook. The…
Peter Murphy’s career fronting Bauhaus in the late ’70s and early ’80s jump-started a movement toward darkness and beautiful pain in rock music. Bauhaus’ hit single “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” is the template for much modern goth, while the band’s cameo in the 1983 vampire film The Hunger cemented the subculture’s…
