The upcoming To Hell With Poverty at Respectable Street makes for a good trifecta of tributes: to birthday boy Brian (we’d put his last name here for formality’s sake, but it would be creepy), to Lavola, now picked to play at the Silversun Pickups/Against Me!/The Henry Clay People show next…
Pittsburgh rapper Wiz Khalifa enjoys a great many things in life, and most are featured heavily in his “Mezmorized” video (thanks to Nah Right). Enormous cannabis-smoking equipment, a bright-yellow Dodge Charger, family and friends, and a really huggable dog that hops up on him when he utters the line “one…
Drummer Derek Roddy will be the featured artist in the next in the series of the 2010 drum clinics hosted by Jeff Lee of Resurrection Drums. The event will be held at the Bienes Center for the Arts in Fort Lauderdale on June 16. Roddy, known for his contribution to…
Skafest 2010 begins at 2 p.m. at Rocketown in Pompano Beach. What follows is our preview coverage of the event from the print edition. “Ska is one of the only music scenes in which the community is overwhelmingly positive and everyone is friendly,” declares Matt Turner, organizer of SkaFest 2010…
A trusted barfly source reports that Fort Lauderdale metal act Murderous Rampage, featuring noted Poor House bartender Tom Rampage on lead vocals and guitar carnage, is calling it quits. After several calls to find a permanent drummer went unanswered, the group has decided to play its final show at Churchill’s…
Tonight, for one night only, you have the chance to yell out “Free Bird” without sounding like a moron. That’s because Lynyrd Skynyrd is actually in town tonight, and if someone yells “Free Bird” and they don’t actually play it, the crowd is legally obligated to burn the place down…
Of all the world’s sundry Tiki events, Fort Lauderdale’s Hukilau is one of the holiest. Tiki fanatics flock to it like pilgrims; it’s their biggest gathering on the East Coast.This year’s Hukilau will last for three days jam-packed with events. The gathering starts with a Tiki art show at 5…
Lake Worth’s daylong celebration of music, Lake Worth-It, has been confirmed for August 7 in the city’s lovely Bryant Park, according to the newly updated website. With Of Montreal’s Kevin Barnes, John Ralston & Invisible Music, the Dewars (with an a), and 18 other local acts on the bill, a…
Congratulations to West Palm Beach’s Lavola, the band chosen to join Against Me! and the Henry Clay People as support for the Silversun Pickups’ performance June 16 at the Sunset Cove Amphitheatre in Boca Raton. The West Palm Beach trio’s enormous, bombastic melodies proved to impress the majority of the…
Neil Young initiated one of the most barbed exchanges in rock ‘n’ roll history with “Southern Man” and “Alabama,” two scathing indictments of segregation and Southern sins. Pride rankled, Lynyrd Skynyrd jumped to its homeland’s defense and responded with “Sweet Home Alabama,” etching a classic-rock standard and ripping Young a…
AEG Showcase for Silversun Pickups ConcertWith Goolsby, Lavola, and the ClementinesPropaganda, Lake WorthWednesday, June 9View a slideshow from the concert here.Always a good sign when you and your photographer are arguing the merits of which band was the best at the end of a concert. Wednesday’s showcase of local talent…
We here who grind away in the County Grind like to respect and promote our local efforts. In today’s Local Motion, we look at a pair of releases by Boca Raton’s Livid Records, a fine compendium of local and out-of-state acts that is rapidly becoming one of the “friendliest” independent…
Stow another South Floridian entry in the blogger-darling chillwave file with Sumsun. Back in March, this hypnotic, retro-leaning dance act signed to Los Angeles-based label Leaving Records — a subsidiary of Alpha Pup, which houses Daedelus, Busdriver, Solillaquists of Sound and Nosaj Thing. West Palm Beach native Judson Rogers is…
50 Cent has avoided confrontation exactly never in his 12-year career. His debut full-length, meanwhile, is universally hailed as a hip-hop classic. So he’s been a polarizing force for a long time. You could say that 50 took an artistic stumble with Curtis, perhaps due to an increasing involvement in…
West Palm’s indie-rock lovelies Surfer Blood, who need little introduction in these pages, are back from their European vacation. They’ve packed two fabulous bands in their suitcases that should make showing up early to the Poplife Anniversary party even easier. First, New York’s the Pains of Being Pure at Heart…
While Christian metalcore band Gwen Stacy takes its lyrical work seriously as a means to express its beliefs, the music clearly nods to the more polished version of metal as it conveys elements of hardcore. Posicore? The band named after Peter Parker’s girlfriend hails from Indianapolis and is well-versed on…
Drawing on his most recent chart-topping release, BLACKsummers’night, as well as 1996’s multiplatinum Urban Hang Suite, the Brooklyn-born Maxwell’s silky vocal stylings ponder love and emotional connection in a boldly deep and complex way. His coheadliner, Jill Scott, is more than capable of drawing her own crowd; known for a…
Listening to their incredibly tight, überpolished debut, Manners, one may find it hard to believe that Passion Pit’s been around for such a short time. Less than three years ago, frontman Michael Angelakos launched the project as a solo effort — on his laptop in his Emerson College dorm in…
Ska is one of the only music scenes in which the community is overwhelmingly positive and everyone is friendly,” declares Matt Turner, organizer of SkaFest 2010 and lead singer of Paranoia Dance Party!, one of the festival headliners. That mentality is echoed in the architecture of the festival, which has…
Anyone with any doubt about the broad appeal of country music need look only to Brooks & Dunn for proof of its popularity. Aside from the fact that they’re the biggest selling duo in the genre’s history, they’re also credited with outselling every other musical duo overall, competition that includes…
Neil Young initiated one of the most barbed exchanges in rock ‘n’ roll history with “Southern Man” and “Alabama,” two scathing indictments of segregation and Southern sins. Pride rankled, Lynyrd Skynyrd jumped to its homeland’s defense and responded with “Sweet Home Alabama,” etching a classic-rock standard and ripping Young a…
Nicholas Payton is New Orleans royalty. The son of bassist Walter Payton and a student of jazz patriarch Ellis Marsalis, the trumpet player comes across like a modern-day Satchmo on albums such as Gumbo Nouveau and Dear Louis — his outsized chops and impeccable taste placing him well within the…
