At about 10:40 p.m. Thursday night, Surfer Blood made this announcement via Twitter: “Respectables…West Palm Beach…we are playing an impromptu gig tonight. We are playing new songs.” As it turns out, the guys did exactly that about three hours later after a set by Lake Worth post-punk specialists Guy Harvey,…
Linkin ParkWith Pendulum and Does It Offend You, Yeah?BankAtlantic Center, SunriseThursday, January 20, 2011View a slideshow from the concert here.Expectations ran high leading into Linkin Park’s first date of its A Thousand Suns North American tour. With so many comparisons batted around equating the band’s acclaimed, nuclear-themed album to serious…
Voodoo Idols We Dig Nixon Seven-Inch (Vee Dee Records) The Voodoo Idols were a Cramps-inspired band that toiled in the greater Tampa Bay area between the end of the ’70s and sometime in the mid-’80s. While the verdict’s out on the fans’ appreciation of their two full-length albums, one thing…
A quick scan of Funcrusher’s self-penned bio shows that this new Lake Worth quartet has a serious taste for the obscure. There’s the fact that each band member has given himself a nonsensical nickname, for instance, or the fact that each lists his role not by instrument but by element…
Ever flipped around the radio until you come to a song like “With Arms Wide Open” and found yourself frantically trying to change the channel? That same fear of Creed is apparently shared by wolves. Thirteen-year-old Walter Eikrem tells TV2 in Norway that he was on his way home from…
The second installment of Sumsun’s monthly Lush∆Haus residency at Propaganda had the added allure of a birthday celebration. Turning 22 is not considered as exciting a milestone as some other ages that come before it — like the one when you can finally buy porn, and then the one where…
Linkin Park surprised its fans with the release of its fifth studio album, A Thousand Suns, last year. Its introductory single, “The Catalyst,” was just a hint of the band’s radical shift in direction. Chester Bennington’s (New Times’ interview with him is here) trademark nasal croon and existential lyrics stayed…
The Drive-By Truckers aren’t exactly known for bright and cheery songs about rainbows and butterflies and happy shit like that. The alt-country/southern rock/swamp stomp band that co-frontmen Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley founded in Athens, Georgia some 15 years back like their tunes raw and real and rough around the…
After 40 years in television, Regis Philbin announced that he’ll be stepping down from his co-host position at Live! with Regis and Kelly. A replacement hasn’t been named yet, but some names being kicked around are appalling — “Project Runway’s Tim Gunn, comedian Kathy Griffin and walking-dead Larry King are…
Enabler War Begins With You EP (Volatile Recordings) www.myspace.com/volatilerecordings Enabler hails out of the winter wonderland that is Milwaukee, Wisconsin and I had a chance to catch their set last week at Churchill’s after Steven Blush’s presentation on his book, American Hardcore: A Tribal History at Sweat Records. And while…
Drive-By Truckers’ 1998 debut could have easily been called Country Crack, Meth and Moonshine, Ballads of Blue Collar Woe, or Shit-Kicking Swamp Stomp. Instead, this alt-country, Southern-rock masterpiece was christened Gangstabilly, which adds up to much more than just a great title or a spot-on description of the poignant tales…
The incongruous-sounding Motel 6 Rock Yourself to Sleep tour slides into town for the second time in six months on Tuesday. Instead of pop-punk groups, this tour brings with it a litany of Christian metalcore acts. For those unfamiliar with the genre, it is hard to conceive that these acts,…
Update: This show has been canceled. Now in his mid-40s, British-born rapper Slick Rick has spent nearly half of his life battling MCs, prison cells, monocular vision, and deportation. Like a fortuneteller, the rapper titled his 1988 masterpiece The Great Adventures of Slick Rick two years before his real troubles…
Making Faces is a band concerned with “feeling good, having fun, and rocking your socks off” — at least according to social networking sites. Although the wording is blasé, the description seems accurate. The West Palm Beach four-piece delivers clean, lively, reggae-tinted alt-rock sprinkled with covers of Sublime, Jimi Hendrix,…
Chillwave’s dead, but there are still a few great artists who have come out of the musical movement, including Ariel Pink, Panda Bear, and Toro y Moi. Not to be outdone, Georgia’s Washed Out (AKA Ernest Greene) manages to immerse listeners in complex soundscapes without resorting to cliché or heavy-handed…
A band with a big following in New Orleans is sure to bring something solid to any town it visits on tour, and Galactic is no exception. For nearly two decades, the NOLA-bred funk outfit, which incorporates hip-hop, rock, and electronic flavors into its signature sound, has been blowing roofs…
There’s always a chance that Tyvek’s Nothing Fits was a painstakingly assembled second record. In any case, the Motor City band spits its lo-fi garage/punk rock out so urgently that it sounds like one member really needs that bathroom break, and it rarely gives a damn about coming off anywhere…
The enigmatic, dreamy rockers Joan of Arc used to be a punk band that fellow Chicagoan Ben Weasel of gutter pop-punk outfit Screeching Weasel called “the cruddiest and most pretentious band in Chicago.” Ten years later, the foursome, centering on Tim Kinsella, shows off a penchant for hipster-defined irony. The…
Riding shotgun in Chester Bennington’s car right now has to be unquestionably pleasant. He has the means to purchase any vehicle on the planet, he’s got a credible collection of relevant tunes (which we’ll get to later), and he’s way past feeling like he’s crawling in his own skin. “We’re…
If Linkin Park’s first album had been 2010’s experimental, Rick Rubin-produced suite A Thousand Suns, perhaps the world would see the nü-metal vets differently today. Then again, there’s a good chance that the band wouldn’t be embarking upon a huge headlining tour Thursday evening at BankAtlantic Center.In my candid conversation…
Nectar & The Wrecking Ball, inside Coconut Creek Casino 5550 NW 40th Street, Coconut Creek. Call 954-977-6700, or visit here.The Coconut Creek Seminole Casino gets a little (OK, a lot) overshadowed by the Hard Rock. But with its recent construction-themed addition (approximately 16,000 new square feet of gaming, dining and…
Since scoring a deal with DJ Khaled’s We the Best/Def Jam imprint, Deerfield Beach native Ace Hood has spent the last couple years creeping in and out of the spotlight’s edge. He scored a minor urban video/radio hit with the poppy, female-friendly “Ride or Die” — but that was largely…
