FTL Collective, a Fort Lauderdale blog that hit the web last week with a mix of local culture and editorial, is celebrating its onslaught on the world wide Interweb with a party dubbed Under the Hood. The shindig is at Fort Lauderdale club 1921, which is most easily found with…
Glimpses of the South Florida Scene is a weekly column devoted to the artists thriving within Broward and Palm Beach counties featuring interviews with the folks making it happen. This week, Boca Raton’s Goolsby.Goolsby’s music creates the best sort of soundtrack for youthful escapades like making out and riding your…
On the heels of some middling news about the future of live music in Lake Worth comes some of the best flippin’ news about the future of live music in Lake Worth: ex-native son Kevin Barnes, who has gone on to indie-rock stardom with Of Montreal, is coming back to…
If you couldn’t afford the $100 price tag for floor seats the last time Bruce Springsteen came around back in September, you can catch about 163 minutes of him on the big screen at Cinema Paradiso on Saturday, June 12; Friday, June 18; and Saturday, June 19, when the indie…
James Taylor and Carole King BankAtlantic Center, Sunrise Saturday, June 5, 2010 There’s no song with a title that mentions “Memories” anywhere within the combined repertoire of James Taylor and Carole King, even though they share so more sentimental songs in common. In fact, it’s hard to find even a…
Wednesday night’s Noise Ordinance Taskforce meeting at the Compass Community Center Lake Worth was the latest milestone in a 20-year dispute between residents who live near downtown Lake Worth and venues hosting live music nearby. According to the flier circulating, the meeting was intended to discuss upcoming recommendations to the…
The free, quarterly indie mag WeMerge thrives when it comes to promoting local artists. Case in point: It held a cover-art contest for its eighth issue, which will be released June 1. The winner was Japanda, and now not only will her art don the cover but WeMerge plans to…
Trusted scribe Alex Rendon puts out a rock-solid music email newsletter for New Times Broward-Palm Beach every week that you can sign up for right here. Here’s one stimulating entry from this week’s edition:Pantera-loving thrash quartet Fall of Olympus’ self-titled debut album is now available in physical form. To celebrate…
Hannibal Buress is probably the least likely funnyman to appear on your television. For starters, his name isn’t slipping off of tongues like mainstreamers Robin Williams, Chris Rock, Bill Cosby, Jerry Seinfeld, and the like… yet. Buress has been dubbed a “comedian’s comedian,” probably due in part to his minimalist…
Perhaps the spookiest thing ever to crawl out of the swamp and onto a local stage, Black Weather Shaman has been excreting its weird, folky voodoo into dim-lit corners of South Florida since last July. In the short time that has passed, the rugged bunch has earned itself a devoted…
The next time you’re browsing for guitars on eBay, look for a 1981 Gibson SG with a Paper and Plastick skull sticker on the back, or a Sparrow Les Paul, also donning a Paper and Plastick skull sticker. They may belong to Boca punk band Protagonist, who have become the latest South Florida group in…
Evan Rowe is an opinionated and articulate young man with some good insights into the nuances of the music business as business. That’s what it is. Though an argument can be made as to the artistry behind music; in the end, when it becomes available, it falls into some type…
After more than four decades, numerous personnel changes, and a musical trajectory integrating blues, rock, prog, folk, classical, and practically every other genre either straddling or circumventing pop’s progress over the past 40 years, Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson has remained the band’s leader and musical mainstay. His iconic image as…
Not only was Michael Bolton a key to the comic genius of Mike Judge’s film Office Space (see below), but he’s one of the most popular and successful musical figures in the world. Sure, the height of his pop success in the U.S. was a while ago, but his pipes,…
Crunkcore pop lovers 3OH!3, playing the Pompano Beach Amphitheatre with Cobra Starship on June 8, have just premiered their music video for their first single “My First Kiss,” featuring gold-lipped hot mess Ke$ha. It’s off of their new album Streets of Gold, set to be released June 29. We expected…
The Dewars are a magical set of twins who make hazy songs that are so dreamy and good and sometimes tucked in between Leonard Cohen covers when played live. Anthony Dewar was awesome enough to email me “Pedophile Pete,” off their EP Songs from the Neverglades. It’s told from the…
As mentioned on the band’s Twitter, A Loss For Words will not play at Talent Farm this evening for personal reasons. The band was expected to headline the bill with their punk takes on Motown originals, but all Florida appearances have been canceled.According to the Talent Farm’s site, the remaining…
After explaining his position once via his website, David Byrne is taking his legal battle with Florida Governor Charlie Crist to the pages of Rolling Stone. To review, the former head of the Talking Heads was incensed when “Road to Nowhere” was used in a political ad by Crist. We…
Local act Sumsun — a mostly one-man project — is all beautiful synth and glowing chimes in a nebula, anchored by old-school R&B grooves and vocals. Given that bassy nostalgia, it’s as close to the 1980s as glo-fi has been trying to get, but certainly not in production: this stuff…
Die-hard Smashing Pumpkins fans have had a rough go during the past few years. We’ve had to resort to watching Billy Corgan in all his shiny, cue ball-ed glory in huge arenas and stadiums around the world. After the pivotal triumph of Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, SP has…
After more than four decades, numerous personnel changes, and a musical trajectory integrating blues, rock, prog, folk, classical, and practically every other genre either straddling or circumventing pop’s progress over the past 40 years, Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson has remained the band’s leader and musical mainstay. His iconic image as…
Although Fall Out Boy clearly has soul-music influences and even covered Michael Jackson’s “Beat It,” the punk link to the genre was never quite so pronounced prior to A Loss for Words’ album Motown Classics. Released earlier this year, the album is primed for soundtrack placement on a teen drama…
