Hank III and AssjackCulture Room, Fort Lauderdale Tuesday, August 31, 2010 The review: “Not everybody likes us, but we drive some folks wild.” So sang Hank III Tuesday night at Culture Room. His voice alternated between a drawn-out country twang reminiscent of his granddaddy’s and a fierce punk-rock growl. He…
Tears for Fears The Rene Au Theater at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts Tuesday, August 31, 2010 Judging by Tears for Fears’ performance last night at the Broward Center, Curt Smith and Roland Orzabal continue to mine a collaboration that they remarked has spanned 31 years — with…
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.Michigan soul artist and producer Mayer Hawthorne’s blue-eyed falsetto has been raising eyebrows and pulling at heartstrings since A Strange Arrangement dropped…
In rather large Surfer Blood news, it’s just been announced that our boys from West Palm Beach will be one of the headlining acts for this year’s CMJ Music Marathon in New York from October 19-23. This is pretty big, as last year they were just beginning to build some…
We’ll proudly admit that we enjoy a little Matt & Kim when we’re feeling down. Sure, we’re not from Brooklyn, and we don’t make it a habit of stripping down naked in the middle of the street. But that doesn’t mean we can’t enjoy their pop-infused sugar-high indie anthems that…
Skeleton Warrior/Preaux Breaux Geauxld Split Seven-Inch (Roofless Records/Cephia’s Treat Records) rooflessrex.com cephiastreat.com Matt Preira at first struck me as a nice gent of questionable Portuguese ancestry. I love grilled octopus, vinho verde, and bacalao as much as the next guy who fancies himself an eater, but upon further inspection of…
Who said you can’t go home again? Certainly not Tears for Fears. The band’s trajectory has technically been intact for the past 28 years — although its two principals, Roland Orzabel and Curt Smith, parted after peaking in the early ’90s. While Orzabel carried on with the band’s branding, Smith…
I know Monday mornings better than the next guy with chalk up his nose and a raging sense that he might’ve misplaced his ATM card in the nook and/or cranny of some tranny ho last night! And because I continuously battle my middle-aged demons in the losing battle that is…
GroundationWith The Beautiful Girls and Stampede MovementCulture Room, Fort LauderdaleSunday, August 29, 2010The Review:With a young local group, and a couple of well-established groups from distant lands, Sunday’s encounter with Groundation at the Culture Room was a reminder of the local artists and SoFla community at large of how high reggae can get…
For a hot minute in the late ’90s, three brothers from Oklahoma with long, blond hair and the last name Hanson got momentarily famous for singing about things that didn’t even make sense (“MMMBop”), selling millions of copies of Middle of Nowhere, snagging Grammy nominations, and, most enviably, kicking Carson…
UPDATE: DEADLINE IS BEING EXTENDED UNTIL NOVEMBER 1, 2010!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! New Times Broward-Palm Beach is excited to kick off our second-annual MasterMind awards. We’re giving away $1,000 apiece to four local artists. Fashion designers, filmmakers, visual artists, performance artists, tattoo artists, and more are invited to apply. We’re especially interested in…
In a post last week we reported that Roxy’s would be giving away ten free tickets to their upcoming Labor Day Bash featuring Snoop Dogg (Sunday, September 5) to the person who uploads the best bong hit video to the Facebook event page. Since then our minds have been completely blown!…
It started with the most hilarious news story about an attempted rape ever. Then came the ultra-viral Auto-Tune remix, dubbed simply, “Bed Intruder Song.” (If you haven’t heard it, you need new friends, ones who show you such entertaining viral memes.)This week, the Internet lords brought us the next step…
If the Miami Poetry Collective can get all of its culture behind an all-girls jai-alai operation, why can’t Palm Beach get behind the veritable behinds of a derby girl hijinx? Or I guess it can. There’s nothing better now-a-days than a bunch of broads beating up on each other atop…
The forbidden and enticing confines of the really hard-to-find Fort Lauderdale rock/punk/revelry club 1921 open up for a special benefit event this evening. The hospitality will be checking at the door to ensure that the hot pants shorts for all are at least 6″ above the knee, and enforcing a…
Recently, the Clementines (more on them here) frontman Andrew Marr humored County Grind and tried to get to the bottom of what Battlehooch means. Marr has a personal interest in this outcome because his band and local folk-rocker Jesse Baumann are performing with the “San Francisco Piecechow Rock” act, or…
Jack Johnson with G. Love and ALOCruzan Amphitheatre, West Palm BeachThursday, August 26, 2010The Review: Heading out in rainy West Palm Beach to see tanned singer-songwriter Jack Johnson’s local stop on his To The Sea tour was more trying than staying home and watching the cast of Jersey Shore’s spray-tanned hi-jinks…
Nia Devine’s sultry voice and the entire ensemble of The Methodaires has been missed from the Poor House’s sound system these last two years. Drawing a pretty ska picture that is more akin to original ska, rocksteady, soul and reggae; there’s still enough danceable pull that the ska-punk kids welcome…
Drummer Juan Oña returns to the South Florida music scene with his latest endeavor, Pretty Please. While I am not sure as to who comprises the band currently other than Oña, Didi Aragon performs vocals and guitar, Bavie Grafals does vocals and Ana Farina MacKliff fiddles the bass with added…
West Palm Beach pop-punk act Hey Monday has announced a significant lineup change: bassist Michael “Jersey” Moriarty has left the band. His departure is the second major lineup shakeup in less than a year after drummer Elliot James announced his departure back in October.According to Hey Monday singer Cassadee Pope,…
In the print product this week, we have a music feature on Hank Williams III. In the story, Hank III discusses carrying a musical legacy, battling his label Curb Records, and his newly found desire to “stick it out for the long haul.”What couldn’t fit in that piece though, were…
We’re not sure how many times we have to keep reminding you: We loveee Surfer Blood. We love ’em so much we’d probably surf in blood for them. Well, maybe not that much.As merely innocent, loyal onlookers in the media circus that constantly engulfs the West Palm Beachers, we can’t…
