As mentioned, South Florida electronic act Millionyoung had a busy time at the CMJ Music Marathon in New York last week. Evidence of his recent transformation from a one-man act into a full band is on full display in this clip of “Sundreamm,” filmed at the intimate basement venue Cake…
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, the King of Queens claims his crown, and the Fonz becomes a friend. After segueing from the music biz, working behind the scenes at CBS4…
Friday, November 19, is fixing to be a goth holiday of the highest order with a visit by David J scheduled. The bassist, best-known for his tenures with moody, art-punk bands Bauhaus and Love & Rockets, also worked with Perry Farrell in Porno for Pyros and Jane’s Addiction. His scheduled…
That’s a lot of Twix bars. Although Kanye West’s suite of music and visuals from his upcoming My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is entirely safe for work (unlike his supposed “banned” album artwork for the project) — as long as your boss is cool with you streaming video for over…
7 WalkersWith Bobby Lee Rogers TrioRevolution, Fort LauderdaleFriday, October 22, 2010Long before any band took the stage at Revolution Friday night, a full moon rose over the city, evoking pre-show howls from peeps eager to celebrate the lunar occasion with one of the most beloved deep space drummers of all…
flickr.comCeline Dion’s rep confirms that she gave birth to twins Saturday at 11:11 and 11:12 a.m. Now we’re confident that during the Canadian superstar’s stay at St. Mary’s Medical Center in West Palm Beach, she pored over hundreds of possible baby names.But we also know that the delicate 42-year-old diva…
Last week we brought a recap of the premiere of Wellington resident Vanilla Ice’s new home improvement reality show, The Vanilla Ice Project. In the show, Vanilla Ice (real name Rob Van Winkle) and his buddies are renovating a 7,000-square-foot mansion “rock star-style,” which includes basically pimping out the entire…
The Psycho Daisies It’s No Fun To Be Paranoid (Suspicious Hallucinations) www.psychodaisies.com Not only are The Psycho Daisies one of South Florida’s most criminally underrated outfits but Mr. Johnny Salton is no longer with us. The bastard cancer ate him like it has eaten many. I can only hope his…
Kawabungaliztikz is hard to spell and looks like a mouthful to say, but we’re under good authority that the South Florida hip-hop fusion act pronounces it like what you’d yell if you’re about to swing on a vine, and then you wanted to turn that into an academic discipline. In…
According to a little bird in our ear called Blond Fuzz’s Facebook page, the Boca band is “still working on the album” that we reported would be released this weekend and it has been postponed to an unknown future date. That’s getting the bad news out of the way first.Onto…
No one should be surprised that the Black Eyed Peas have yet another hit on their hands. If “I Gotta Feeling” taught us anything (aside from that tonight’s gonna be a good night), it’s that BEP isn’t satisfied to just rock your prom, AKA the place where Taylor Swift and…
Based upon Travis Newbill’s lead feature about Grateful Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann’s new band, 7 Walkers, in this week’s music section, the Swamp Thing might be at tonight’s show at Revolution. In addition to the process and personnel behind the band’s boggy, marshy jams, learn here that Kreutzmann is cultivating…
The Crumbs Gator Kicks(Livid Records) www.lividrecords.com Livid Records has been doing a bang-up job recently with local and national acts while at the same time endearing themselves to a lot of people as one of the nicest indie record labels in the business right now and I’d feel remiss if…
Tonight, Miami hip-hop duo Ghost Arm comes out of the shadows for only its second official performance as part of Flaunt Thursday at Respectable Street.With rhyming schemes this varied, absurdist, and somnambulant, it’s hard not to get a full-on Definitive Jux flashback churning. FIU students and roommates Robert “Rolodex” Hodgkins…
South Florida native Carlos Charlie Perez has just unveiled his latest music video creation, a collaboration with synth-pop singer Glasser for her song “Mirrorage.” As the camera rotates around the cylindrical space, she fades in and out like a transmission from afar.County Grind previously mentioned Perez’s continuing work for the…
This actual sonogram photo comes from Jeff and Susan Snow, both members of the Lake Worth Americana act Invisible Music and subjects of Courtney Hambright’s story about three simultaneously pregnant women associated with the band in this week’s print edition of New Times Broward Palm Beach…
Andrew W.K. and the Most Interesting Show In The World Revolution Live, Fort Lauderdale October 20, 2010 Better Than: Eating a bunch of bananas. After waiting in the longest, scariest line — re: mimes on stilts — hundreds poured into Revolution to experience Andrew W.K. & Dos Equis’ Most Interesting…
Imagine if you will a musical jam party sometime between 1973 and 1985 hosted by the Residents but somehow, don’t ask me, they’ve managed to travel along the delicate tendrils of time and space into the future and managed to acquire modern (i.e. 2010) technology and are able to bring…
Talk about time management: along with putting in bassist duties for lovably quirky West Palm Beach indie-folk group the Dewars while canvassing the nation with Surfer Blood, Lake Worth singer/songwriter Evan Mui somehow found enough time to post a two song EP titled Nighttime on his personal website.The talented multi-intrumentalist…
Miami hip-hop duo Ghost Arm comes out of the shadows for only its second official performance as part of Flaunt Thursday at Respectable Street. With rhyming schemes this varied, absurdist, and somnambulant, it’s hard not to get a full-on Definitive Jux flashback churning. FIU students Robert “Rolodex” Hodgkins and David…
These Pennsylvania emo-prog dudes recently completed a stint as Coheed and Cambria’s opening act and hooked up with Deftones for a run. But Circa Survive definitely deserves its own look: On Blue Sky Noise, the band’s major-label debut (which came out in April), frontman Anthony Green layers his yearning little-boy…
Massive Attack is one of the first “trip-hop” acts and so much more than that tag implies. Coming from a diverse background in the working-class city of Bristol, England, Robert “3D” Del Naja, Grant “Daddy G” Marshall, and former member Andy “Mushroom” Vowles grew up listening to reggae, dub, ska,…
