This week, join me as I take a trip into the most classic gay bars in Wilton Manors. These are two tried-and-true exemplary specimens of everything a gay club should epitomize. After my laborious journeys from down-and-dirty dives to spasmodic dance clubs, I felt it fair to indulge in a…
Guess Where I’m Peeing is toilet humor, plain and simple, set in the scenic restrooms of South Florida. We post ’em, you name ’em.For this GWIP, we take you to a urinal with scenic beauty. Yes, the air may smell like a foul combination of stale beer, vomit, and stray…
Torche really deserves all the credit it gets. Purveyors of sludge thicker than BP’s footprint, the underground powergroup has consistently turned out its memorable brand of stonerific pop metal since its debut in 2005. The foursome boasted a pedigree with its original lineup that included members from Floor, Cavity, and…
After announcing the first 15 bands set to rock West Palm Beach’s 500 block of Clematis Street a couple weeks ago, Respectable Street has unveiled eight more local artists taking part in its 23rd Anniversary Street Party on Saturday, July 31, with the telling tagline: The Oblivion Continues.The new artists…
Punk-pop group Every Avenue, a promising five-piece from Michigan, is headlining the inaugural Motel 6 “Rock Yourself to Sleep Tour.” The group’s spunky brand of emo is ideal for any MTV reality show out there, and songs have made it into The Real World: Hollywood and The Island.Along for the…
With all due respect to the needy internet, this is merely a brief observation of a local band performing in a local setting. Restaurant reviews typically require multiple visits, and so should artists. This installment features West Palm Beach/Miami guys Weird Wives in what local historians believe is the band’s…
Night Watch is a regular feature about bars and clubs by nightlife columnist Tara Nieuwesteeg.Georgie’s Alibi2266 Wilton Drive, Wilton ManorsCall 954-565-2526, or visit here.This week, join me as a take a trip into the most classic gay bars in Wilton Manors. These are two tried-and-true exemplary specimens of everything a…
Evan Rowe is a local songwriter and performer best-known as Catalonia, a professor of political science and history at Broward College, and a small-d democratic strategist with no party affiliation. Each week, we surrender our space for his thoughts on the music industry and how they relate to our region…
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.From personal record store experience, artists like the Scissor Sisters have amazing luck selling albums once a person enters of the few…
So maybe Crossfade and County Grind are living separately, but our split was completely amicable. Here are a few stories reported recently via Miami’s raddest music blog that we want to make sure our readers see.Bayfront Park might as well dig up all the grass and coat the ground with…
Guess Where I’m Peeing is toilet humor, plain and simple, set in the scenic restrooms of South Florida. We post ’em, you name ’em.In this episode, we bring you to an ultimate locals bar in North Broward. The bathrooms at this place are somewhat legendary, mostly because of the sexy…
FTL Collective, the blog-about-town when your town is Fort Lauderdale, yesterday decried a smear on the local downtown bar scene: America’s Backyard. The wildly popular haunt — located between Live Nation venue Revolution Live and the tippler’s dive Poor House — is impossible to miss, in part because the Black…
Nearly 20 years after the Wu-Tang Clan’s ascent from Staten Island, there’s a hip-hop group hailing from the admittedly less gritty streets of West Palm Beach ready to extend the Wu’s influence southward. Nearly every reference to the Watchmen trumps them as “Wu-Tang Affiliates,” and with the RZA’s cousin John…
Glimpses of the South Florida Scene is a weekly column devoted to the artists thriving within Broward and Palm Beach counties that features interviews with the folks making it happen. This week, West Palm Beach’s Totem Pole.I am waiting impatiently for Totem Pole to play a show — there’s absolutely…
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: Lee takes his cue and ducks when duty calls My entertainment encounters weren’t always limited to the music biz. I briefly tried my hand at…
Charlie Pickett and Bobby Tak come at us again with another cowpunk gem of a song that though subject-matterly is about Miami, the gents reside in the Broward/Palm Beach area and are occasionally known as the Loose Cannons. Regardless of what moniker they stamp themselves with, Pickett and Tak are…
New Times Broward-Palm Beach Calendar Editor Mickie Centrone attends and details some of the finest — and occasionally subpar — events from a given week. On Sunday, she sort of watched the World Cup final at Biddy Early’s in Oakland Park. At the corner of the bar at Biddy Early’s,…
It’s easy to see why an assortment of colorful nicknames would follow pipe-puffing ink superstar Sailor Jerry, who is credited with popularizing a style of body art featuring pinup girls in Hawaii during World War II. Hori Smoku, a Japanese play on “holy smoke,” is another nickname chosen by tattoo…
The guys in Surfer Blood have made the most of their time back in West Palm Beach. In addition to some karaoke (here’s a clip of J.P. Pitts singing “Hooked on a Feeling”), deflecting baseless accusations regarding similarities to Brian Eno that were perhaps summed up by this very publication,…
Legends of RodeoWith Richard Sherfey, Sweet Bronco, Mike Dunn and the Kings of New England, Miracle StripPropaganda, Lake WorthSaturday, July 10, 2010 For most dissolved bands, eight years changes each member too much to allow them to reunite as a forceful unit that does credit to memory. People lose track…
Norm “Sugarbone” Sloan was an outstanding bass player and a true gentleman of our music scene. Transplanted to South Florida in 1969, “Sugarbone” quickly immersed himself into our then-burgeoning music scene. Well-versed in playing blues, country, standards, Top 40, R&B, classic rock, and jazz-rock fusion in the bar scene, Sloan…
As Lake Worth faces ongoing challenges settling on a noise ordinance, another South Florida community is considering revising its policies regarding live music. The Lantana Town Council will meet tonight at 7 to discuss new noise ordinance guidelines that would shut down “live/recorded/video music at 9:00 p.m.”One venue that would…
