Rascal Flatts is everywhere. On Hershey’s commercials. On the Today show. On reality shows like the recent Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution. And next year, the most heralded country act of the decade will get its own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. It’s only appropriate that the band’s 2009…
Miss 1992? Godsmack singer Sully Erna sure does, and he wants you to revisit it with him. Not old enough to intentionally listen to music in 1992? That’s all right; Erna doesn’t require studying up on his influences to rock along with him — just have a love for loud,…
Music trends come and go, but Hawaiian trio Pepper keeps on trucking with a time-tested sound that’s mellower than its namesake spice. Whatever you think a band of surfer dudes from Hawaii would sound like, it’s likely right on point. Pepper’s flavor is based on a heavy blend of dub…
With your anemic attention span fed on endless helpings of Adult Swim, Count Chocula, and hot chronic, maybe a night of partying alongside Brooklyn rap punks Ninjasonik doesn’t sound all that exciting. Well, you need to get off that jaded hipster ish because these three cross-genre scientists are the real…
Sierra and Bianca Casady are hard to pin down. The sisters’ output as CocoRosie — the increasingly electro-styled folk project with nods to European television, Native American chants, Victorian operettas, and Hipstamatic photographs — still gets tagged as freak-folk, and it’s all over the map. Unsurprising, then, that New Mexico,…
Things could be a lot worse for Shakira, seeing as she’s a smoking-hot, sweet-natured, crazy-successful, one-woman foreign-exchange program whose international fan base includes fellow Colombian Gabriel García Márquez. It ain’t such a bad gig, even if the veracity of her lower anatomy will always be in question, and like it…
For a couple of unassuming, pixie-ish artsy girls, the sisters Casady have created one of the most divisive acts in indie-ish circles. As CocoRosie, Bianca and (“Coco”) and Sierra (“Rosie) have since 2003 been creating a peculiar — in every sense of the world –and otherworldy mish-mash of folk, downtempo,…
CocoRosie’s gender-bent artistry hits Revolution on Friday.Fort Lauderdale’s Revolution is hosting two shows that might lead to a serious brow-clashing (or a pointy-toed boot contest) if avant-to-the-max Cocorosie fans arrived on the night Creed’s lead belter Scott Stapp and his leather pants hit the stage — or vice versa. Both…
Bobby Lee Rodgers is a well known jammer in the world of twirling hippies, mostly as the guitar whiz in the Codetalkers, a band which also featured the legendary Col. Bruce Hampton. Beginning Thursday, September 23, he will be revisiting his jazz roots with a regular gig at the Green…
The Beltones Lock and Load (Far Out Records) www.beltones.com I don’t remember very well when this little gem of a 7-inch came out. It could’ve been ’95 or not. I know that I bought it at Yesterday & Today Records in 1996 cause Justin was blasting it at the time…
In our Moving Units column, Mike Ramirez at Fort Lauderdale’s Radio-Active Records graciously keeps us up-to-date and comments on the current releases flying out of his store each week. Nick Cave will always pull an impressive number of moody goth children to his ranks, but his Grinderman project has the…
Photo courtesy of Lee ZimmermanDuran Duran and company, Lee’s third from the right in the back.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, Wrestling with radio. People frequently ask me what was involved…
The seven well-trained members of OK Go.The OK Go fellas are back to their viral tricks again with new single “White Knuckles” — and it’s a hit with a demographic that would likely wish frolicking canines were always in their line of vision. Over a shiny synth melody ideal for…
Hangin’ out with Dimebag.Dissever’s been quietly making itself known in South Florida’s metal community for a while now and we here at New Times HQ have admittedly fallen asleep on our laurels when it comes to these guys. Last week we featured an MP3 review of their track “Fling” on…
Photo by Alex RendonJames Culture Room, Fort Lauderdale Monday, September 20, 2010 Better than: vinegar on fish and chips. For any diligent anglophile the announcement that veteran Britpop group James would be kicking off its U.S. tour on our shores — and performing in a quaint venue like Culture Room…
Compared to the Maine’s complete derailment of OutKast’s “Roses,” the South Florida connection of Hey Monday’s punk-oriented pop sound and the songwriting behind Jason Derulo’s “In My Head” is firmly on the tracks. It also helps that the band has been playing this cover on the road for a while…
”Laid” will always be the James song that Americans know best — and it is a clever, catchy moment that has aged better than a lot of things you probably liked in 1993 (excepting the superb Boomerang soundtrack). However, bands tend to have lots of songs other than the one…
Sleigh Bells, who got nasty in July at Respectable Street and hit the Fillmore Miami with LCD Soundsystem October 6, just released a video for the buzz-fire anthem “Infinity Guitars.” No there are not quite an infinite number of guitars in the mix, but a few. There’s a Ferrari, a…
Photo by Sayre BermanAdam Lambert at Hard Rock Live Sunday.After scuffling with a photographer on Miami Beach last week, Adam Lambert fared better during his performance at Hard Rock Live on Sunday night. The fans came prepared, and although we’re not sure who Tommy Ratliff is, Lambert was kiss-friendly with…
Photo by Ian WitlenKings of Leon frontman Caleb Followill at Cruzan Amphitheatre.Kings of Leon with Black Keys Cruzan Ampitheatre, West Palm Beach Friday, September 17, 2010For a slideshow of the concert, click here. LeBron James wasn’t the only Akron icon to ditch Northeast Ohio this past year. The Black Keys…
MySpace.comPublic Enemy With Mayday and Blowfly Revolution, Fort Lauderdale Friday, September 17, 2010 Looking out from behind the stage into a sea of crosshair-adorned chests, I felt a strong sense of pride as a screaming crowd of 600-plus South Floridians reclaimed the classic Public Enemy fist pump that had been…
This will never get old.We already know that Marilyn Manson likes to dress up like a mullet-toting badass to honor his favorite TV show, Eastbound & Down. The rocker was his goth self for the HBO show’s second season premiere last week, but was eager to play into an MTV…
