Earlier this year, West Palm’s representative on this weekend’s Bruise Cruise (and tonight’s pre-party) Surfer Blood played a pair of concerts in South Florida to unveil some material not featured on the band’s debut, Astro Coast. The first, a hastily announced gig at Respectable Street, featured a trio of songs…
The Santa Cruz, California-based quartet the Expendables lives in a musical and mood world we would very much like to inhabit in real life, all the time. It’s one in which you never have to rush, nothing depressing ever happens, and the next laid-back, beer-soaked house party full of potential…
It’s nice to see a celebrity endorsing a product he or she uses on a daily basis. With Lil Wayne as the official face of Bogey Blunts, we get a feeling that this is product he stands behind. It’s a brilliant pairing of style and controlled substances.At the same time,…
No point in holding off from the obligatory “TV on the Radio is still impressive” posting. “Will Do” premiered yesterday via Seattle’s 107.7 The End (!). It’s the first song to emerge from Nine Types of Light, the art-rock band’s fifth album, due April 12. Tunde Adebimpe takes the lead…
Click here to see more photos from Artopia! The 2011 running of Artopia was an eye-stroking spectacle. Aside from the distinguished locals in all matters of semi-formal wear sipping cucumber-enhanced Hendrick’s Gin, the crowd was pleasantly dotted with some of the area’s most creative minds — and we’re not just talking…
Bad news, lazy hipsters: The inaugural Bruise Cruise is sold out. You literally missed the boat. Departing this Friday from the Port of Miami and stopping over for some nefarious Saturday action on the former pirate paradise of Nassau, Bahamas, this floating music festival will take place aboard the Carnival…
At the beginning of yet another headlining tour, the guys of Underoath unwittingly find themselves elder statesmen of the particular branch of post-hardcore they helped create. Playing in support of the band’s seventh studio album, last year’s Ø (Disambiguation), the six-piece enjoys the unlikely honor of having musical predecessors Thursday…
Based on the massive local crowds at Slightly Stoopid and Iration shows in the past year, it’s safe to say that there is a surfer-stoner party just waiting to break out at all times. Invite one of the fine descendants of Sublime, and let’s rage. Although the Expendables hail from…
Led by frontman Cameron Stiles’ Southern rock guitar strokes, Jupiter-based duo (and veritable Black Keys understudies) Filthy Animals can fill a room with down-home Dixie vibe. Even as a scrawny, suburban, 20-something, Stiles possesses the pipes of a husky veteran bluesman from the Mississippi Delta. Here’s a guy who hoots…
Keller Williams is the darling troubadour of the jam-band world. A fixture of ’90s Grateful Dead tours and Bonnaroo, he’s grown famous for his über-fun one-man-band performances. With multiple instruments and loop pedals at his disposal, his multilayered, improvised sets include funky originals, Dead and Phish songs, and less obvious…
Lake Worth quartet Luna Rex tears a page from Frank Zappa’s spoof-rock manual on its highly satirical and conceptually humorous debut EP, Glass Wave. With the record’s tales of rip-roaring road trips in a VW van, interstellar time machine romances, and odes to “happy little trees” painter Bob Ross, virtually…
As far as Puerto Rican boy bands with American crossover appeal go, Davila 666 easily beats out Menudo with its balls-out ability to rock, though there’s definitely some overlap in the wearing of leather jackets, chaps, and accessories. Offering both clean garage pop and raw rock ‘n’ roll, Davila 666’s…
While Miami’s been snagging many of the big dubstep bookings of late, here’s something to make the southernmost bass crews green. It’s Respectable Street that’s hosting the next South Florida appearance by producer/DJ titan Noah D. The Portland-based artist started sniffing around the low end in the early ’00s; first,…
Conor Oberst is no aging Luddite. Like most Americans, he relies heavily on the conveniences of modern “coffeemakers, telephones, television, computers; seems like everything has a little computer in it these days.” But the 31-year-old ex-wünkerkind and cornerstone of the Saddle Creek record label tells New Times via an old-fashioned…
Quintron and Miss Pussycat could be the sleeper act of this weekend’s Bruise Cruise Festival and its corresponding pre-party being held Thursday evening at Grand Central. Inevitably, soul-inspired tunes fueled by the mighty Hammond B-3 organ, the self-patented, light-activated Drum Buddy synth, and Miss Pussycat’s noted skills as a puppeteer…
Pittsburgh DJ Gregg Gillis AKA Girl Talk reclaimed public relevance earlier this year with the release of All Day. Sure, Gillis had been releasing EPs since 2002, but when servers crashed under the weight of people trying to stream the 12-track LP, people really started to take notice.It’s easy to…
Conor Oberst has so many capsules of his transition into adulthood captured via his Bright Eyes albums of the past decade. When future generations unearth 2005’s Digital Ash in a Digital Urn, they’ll get to experience his dark party days in New York, but taking a listen to his brand-new…
Looks like Donald Trump wasn’t covered by Rihanna’s “Umbrella” this past Saturday for a benefit show at his club on Palm Beach Island. Mere hours before she was set to perform at Trump’s Mar-A-Lago Club for the Dana-Faber Cancer Institute’s 20th Annual Discovery Celebration event, she called in sick. Reported in…
Mr. Jonathan “New York Night Train” Toubin’s DJ skills are world-renowned. Just ask the Wall Street Journal. And prior to his Soul Clap and Dance-Off set during this weekend’s Bruise Cruise proper, he’s spinning a mix of early ’60s soul for the mainlanders tonight at the Vagabond.For those who don’t…
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: Every picture tells a story… In last week’s column, I betrayed the fact that I am indeed quite the obsessive collector, owing to the fact that…
Before the infamous Bruise Cruise Festival launches from South Florida’s shores on Friday, there’s going to be a killer kickoff party at Miami’s Grand Central on Thursday evening. Limited tickets are still available here. Garage rockers and notorious meat-beating partiers the Black Lips should stoke the mood plenty with a…
If Simon Cowell is biting off more than he can chew, he is willing to eat $5 million worth. The former American Idol judge, best-known for his blunt but honest criticism, has been busy promoting the widely anticipated American version of the X Factor show, set to debut in September,…
