Ex NorwegianSketch www.exnorwegian.com Only two albums in, the band that evolved out of the unlikely named Father Bloopy has struck the mother lode with an effort that ranks as a genuinely substantial early accomplishment. In fact, let’s be so bold as to suggest it brings to mind another disc produced…
Fort Lauderdale’s Black Sun Alchemy takes its cues from Werner Herzog films and delivers desperate screams of neo-power-violence over straight vocal cadence. Plus, the requisite juxtapositions of Bush administration follies as detailed in the video for “Into the Storm.” It’s easy to get a strong feel for Satan’s Pimp Records-era…
Local hip-hop label Footwork4Self has amassed an impressive lineup of underground rappers for Saturday night’s State Re-Session show at Propaganda. In a few short months, this West Palm Beach indie label has pounded the pavement for its two signature artists, DJ/MC duo DJ Dee Dubs and Jabrjaw, and ruffian lyricist…
Fusik (pronounced “few-sick”) has its roots in the South Florida break-dancing scene, and the band isn’t shy about bringing hip-hop fundamentals to the masses. Without MCs or Froot Loop-y beats, Fusik digs below the surface of hip-hop.Formed in 2005, the five-piece band’s Latin-tinged, instrumental funk brings to mind Medeski, Martin…
Paul McCartney, Stanley Clarke and Jack Bruce aside, bass players rarely get respect. So it’s no surprise that Pete Quaife, who died June 24 from kidney failure, was never consider a front line player in the Kinks, the band he helped anchor from 1963-1969. Quaife didn’t sing lead and he…
Since its formation in 1969, Earth, Wind and Fire has been a gleaming bastion of positivity and artistry. Enduring through major changes of musical tastes du jour, political landscapes and a fan base that has evolved with them, Earth, Wind and Fire continue on a four-decade path in which they…
Texas Hippie Coalition’s moniker shortened to an acronym is THC, which is cute and makes sense with hippies. However, these fellas are darlings of major “biker” events and cruise with brute-leather know-how and a rather unhippie musical mentality. The only real tie with the hippie tag: the massive amounts of…
The Juan MacLean’s new self-titled mix CD, an installment in !K7 Records’ venerable DJ-Kicks series, is like listening to this dessert. It is an undeniably uplifting, indulgent monologue on soulful deep house, a selection of songs partially intended to counter the indie/hipster world’s aversion to pure house pleasures. But it…
A true nomad and storyteller with a big bushy beard, one-man-band Smokestack and the Foothill Fury’s Jarod Yerkes is an anomaly in these modern times. While the dutiful members of the work-a-day world find it wiser to stay put, place their heads in the sand and make minimum credit card…
File Under “The News Cycle and the Damage Done”: Canadian rocker Neil Young, who taught most of us in the U.S. what Americana should really sound like and owns enough flannel to outfit the entire borough of Brooklyn, will likely play a show at Hard Rock Live in Hollywood this…
Night Watch is a regular feature about bars and clubs by nightlife columnist Tara Nieuwesteeg. Duffy’s Sports Grill 1804 Cordova Road, Fort Lauderdale Call 954-713-6363, or visit here.Duffy’s, a mega-monster sports bar, is just the opposite of Tim Finnegan’s. It’s a corporate bar that has spread like wildfire across the…
A glance at the event’s flyer can afford you a hint about the night’s steez — some cloudy, spacey, picturesque goodness, at least as far as half the night’s acts can provide. Hear Hums’ name makes us think of the actual hum, the phenomena that occurs when a low-frequency humming…
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.Fillmore Miami Beach welcomes prog-metal ruffians Deftones and sludgy Baroness for a wimp-free evening August…
For our second band interview in our “Countdown to Warped Tour” compilation, we spoke with unclean/clean vocalist, synths, keyboards, programming and bassist of Breathe Carolina, Kyle Even. The 25-year-old pretty much does it all in the band, along with vocalist, guitarist, synths, keyboards, programming, and drums man David Schmitt. The…
The monthly jam at the Jib Room (2104 E. Oakland Park Boulevard, Fort Lauderdale) has come a long way from its humble beginnings about a year ago, when it was a weekly Sunday open mike called Cut of Your Jib. Back then it was a gathering among a few friends…
Yellowman has been in the reggae world for almost three decades. Having been credited as the creator of “toasting” — a style of singing-rapping that is now modern-day dancehall delivery — as well as being the first to introduce “slackness,” in which the topic of conversation is less about “One…
West Palm Beachers Hey Monday have been on the scene for less than three years. And in this short time, the pop punk five-piece has managed to go on 12 tours, traveling the world over and making a good name for Florida musicians. Their next stop in South Florida will…
Truth be told, I came upon this heavy trio on a chance encounter at Churchill’s one night. Ms. Valentine was an engaging young lady who represented in one quick conversation everything that I happen to like about heavy music. She also runs her own photography studio (Terribly Girly) which I…
Coral Springs alt-country outfit Harvey and the Buckets will play a free show Friday at Radio-Active Records in Fort Lauderdale. Local garage-rock-extraordinaire act Dooms de Pop is also scheduled, bringing some added fuzz to the evening.From Radio-Active’s announcement:”Show runs 8-10 p.m., so don’t show up drunk at 10:05 wondering ‘when…
FleesDrink MeIt’s hard to think of another local band that packs the punch that hardcore punk outfit Flees does. From the opening bass line in “You Can’t Break Me” (the first track on the band’s debut Drink Me) to frontwoman Elyse Perez’s grrrly growl to the thrashy chords that dominate…
Ted Nugent’s bad-boy persona is stamped with a sneer and a swagger that defines the distance between him and other rockers from the late ’60s and early ’70s. The difference is clear not only in his unapologetic disdain for drugs and his unabashed enthusiasm for guns but also his conservative…
The music of the Juan MacLean, AKA the sometimes brooding, sometimes blissed-out alter ego of onetime tone-mangling spazz rocker John MacLean, has always been a venue for both euphoria and paranoia in a synth-pop sizzle, exploring relationships submerged in disenchantment and analog modulation. “I think [my music] is analogous to…
