Depending upon which content provider is your favorite, a leak of a highly relevant song in the past 24 hours likely gave your eyebrows a workout. Perez Hilton crowed about Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way.” All the while, Gorilla vs Bear was busy trumpeting Los Angeles hip-hop group of the…
Riddle me this: What do the five Grammy nominees for Album of the Year have in common with Full Sail University in Winter Park, Florida? Answer: All five albums were mixed or engineered by a Full Sail graduate, as Time magazine pointed out in today’s article…
Daytrotter is not based in South Florida, but some of the area’s most gifted artists have made the trip to Rock Island, Illinois, to get a nifty drawing done and record. Earlier this week it was Millionyoung, and now West Palm Beach’s twin escapaders of folk the Dewars get some…
West Palm’s balls-out rock champs Lavola, subject of a lengthy treatise in this week’s print edition by Alex Rendon, will demolish Propaganda’s stage this very evening. The cause for celebration is a new EP, titled Leaving Paris, released tonight.For those needing additional magnetism to draw to the event, Rendon argues:…
Miami rapper J Nics and Broward beatsmith Numonics waste no time dropping their eight-song EP Champion Rizla hot on the heels of their debut video, “Road to Riches,” released just weeks ago. The chemistry in J’s molasses-like baritone vocals and Numonics’ feel-good electronic soul stylings is apparent from the get-go…
Boston-bred Stephen Kellogg & the Sixers attract affection and attention via the Everyman ambitions of Springsteen, Mellencamp, and Petty. Chock-full of populist appeal, the quartet melds affirmative anthems with the travails of awkward boy/girl encounters and adolescent uncertainty. Passionate delivery, a playful attitude, and a battery of propulsive melodies all…
This weekend in Delray, lots of people with stank breath will be enjoying fun in the sun at the 12th Annual Delray Beach Garlic Fest. The family friendly event will feature the kind of stuff we would expect from a festival celebrating this lovable and pungent member of the onion…
Bonus is a rapper from the school of Del the Funkyhomosapien, and from what we gather, both rhymers are into superhero garb too. With the fullest disclosure in mind, this caped crusader residing on the mean streets of Coral Springs is closely associated with New Times photographer Ian Witlen, who…
Weezer just makes it so easy for us to resent them. What started as a clever pop-rock band has turned into one of the sickest jokes ever played on music fans. An initial perfect marriage of wit, hooks and super-fuzzed guitars turned out to be built on false pretenses, and…
Chicago rapper/actor Common gave a talk at Florida International University’s Biscayne Bay campus in North Miami Wednesday night. The visit was part of FIU’s “The Effects of Hip-Hop on American Society” lecture series. As pointed out at The 305, the nattily dressed Lonnie Rashied Lynn laced together a local-bent freestyle…
Mary Cleere Haran, one of New York’s best-known cabaret singers, died Saturday in Deerfield Beach. She was living locally during a break from an accomplished pop-jazz career performing standards from the Great American Songbook with grace and humor. According to the New York Times, she was in a cycling accident…
Whether it was remarked at the time or not, it was extremely disappointing that Erykah Badu didn’t perform “Gone Baby, Don’t Be Long” during her Miami performance last year. The track is by far the finest on New Amerykah Part II: Return of the Ankh, and Flying Lotus, who directed…
West Palm Beach trio Lavola and its sonically charged rock ‘n’ roll are perhaps too brazen and piercing to fit alongside the quirky indie pop that reigns supreme in Palm Beach County. But even without piercings, tattoos, circulation-clogging skinny jeans, or other accouterments, the trio’s music speaks volumes for itself…
It’s ironic that the Dropkick Murphys have become practically synonymous with the words Irish and insurgency, especially since that particular outfit hails from Boston, a city that’s separated by several thousand miles from the Emerald Isle. And although Los Angeles outfit Flogging Molly purveys a similar sound, the band actually…
The Pink Floyd Experience is exactly what the name implies. For well over a decade, these musically gifted superfans have performed dead-on renditions of popular and rare material spanning the Floyd’s entire catalog with a stage setup that puts planetarium laser shows to shame. For the 2011 tour, the Experience…
Boston-bred Stephen Kellogg & the Sixers attract affection and attention via the Everyman ambitions of Springsteen, Mellencamp, and Petty. Chock-full of populist appeal, the quartet melds affirmative anthems with the travails of awkward boy/girl encounters and adolescent uncertainty. Passionate delivery, a playful attitude, and a battery of propulsive melodies all…
For about a decade, few musicians — gender be damned — could match the smarts or wit of Salt-N-Pepa. Formed in 1985, the trio busted out of Queens with the scratchin’ street-funk of “Tramp” and its flipside, the sultry schoolyard-rap chant “Push It.” Later came the consciousness-raising “Let’s Talk About…
In the late ’80s, Indigo Girls Amy Ray and Emily Saliers achieved college radio fame for their intricate harmonies and passionate folk anthems. At the turn of the decade, they followed fellow female songwriting acts like Tracy Chapman and 10,000 Maniacs into the mainstream. Though Ray and Saliers are perhaps…
The annual Rib Round Up features today’s top country stars and, you guessed it, lots and lots of ribs. Headliners Rodney Atkins, Joe Nichols, and Craig Morgan boast a slew of chart-toppers and a devoted legion of fans and followers. This, then, is Nashville’s newest generation of certified superstars. Nichols…
Though its name conjures up thoughts of isolation, the reality of Canadian indie-rock juggernaut Broken Social Scene is anything but. Instead, the Scene is more of a loose umbrella moniker for members who come, go, return, and couple on the side in a Tolstoy-worthy web. The band’s earliest incarnation began…
Manor Lanes Bowling & Sports Den Pub 1517 NE 26th St, Fort Lauderdale Call 954-566-7457, or visit manorlanesfl.com Weekend after weekend, night after night, it’s all the same: Go to bar. Consume many beverages. Go home and pass out. Why not shake things up a little bit? Obviously, I’m not…
Now that Foo Fighters, Eminem, and Muse have been announced as three of the headliners for this year’s Lollapalooza, let’s take a minute to reflect upon the festival’s rise, decline, and rebirth. In the mid-’90s, Lollapalooza was a glorious place where like-minded people could gather and see all the bands…
