Punk-pop group Every Avenue, a promising five-piece from Michigan, is headlining the inaugural Motel 6 “Rock Yourself to Sleep Tour.” The group’s spunky brand of emo is ideal for any MTV reality show out there, and songs have made it into The Real World: Hollywood and The Island. Along for…
Ear-searing crunk-rock duo Sleigh Bells reps New York today, but the Sunshine State can take plenty of credit for its formation. In the early ’00s, guitarist Derek Miller played ragged post-hardcore in South Florida as part of Poison the Well. Meanwhile, vocalist Alexis Krauss’ mother is from Thonotosassa, a small…
“I always wanted to work with a female vocalist; I generally prefer them.” — Sleigh Bells guitarist Derek Miller. Indeed, Alexis Krauss’ tough-as-spikes vocals are preferrable — be it for amplifying bracing shoulder workouts, or turning an ordinary automobile into a mobile nightclub rivaling Flaunt Thursdays. Rest assured, this punk-edged…
Night Watch is a regular feature about bars and clubs by nightlife columnist Tara Nieuwesteeg. Taste Gastropub169 Northeast 2nd Ave., Delray BeachCall 561-274-444, or visit here.Taste Gastropub is snooty Delray Beach drinking and dining at its finest. Complete with immaculate counters, chef’s hats, and roaring fires, the kitchen is visible…
Janka Nabay, who is from Sierra Leone and now lives in Philadelphia, recently hooked up with Carlos Charlie Perez, a music video director with South Florida roots (more on him here). The results of their collaboration is the “Ah Mufan” video, a follow-up single to Nabay’s Bubu King EP, which…
Evan Rowe is a local songwriter and performer best-known as Catalonia, a professor of political science and history at Broward College, and a small-d democratic strategist with no party affiliation. Each week, we surrender our space for his thoughts on the music industry and how they relate to our region…
From his longtime Hollywood hideout, Mr. Entertainment (Steve Toth) makes this announcement: He’s coming out to play. And you know what that means, kids. He’s got the Pookiesmackers with him, that gleeful glop of glee-mongers. The band isn’t promoting a new record; in fact, it’s out helping Tongues of the…
Dubstep triggers either immediate body-jostling or a dismissive smirk. Either way, it’s impossible not to react to Philadelphia producer Starkey’s approach to the genre, which is more akin to skirting it. Making bass-heavy music is the easy part, but adding enough pop twists to keep it compelling is something else…
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 ex-Miami’s Nerve City.Nerve City is reverberating, lo-fi, almost-folk sung through a drainpipe and punctuated by cackling (“Bars”) and moments…
New Times Broward-Palm Beach Calendar Editor Mickie Centrone attends and details some of the finest — and occasionally subpar — events from a given week. On Wednesday, she donated 10 buckaroos to a good cause when she went to the Oil.Spill.Benefit at Propaganda in Lake Worth.Just as the music world…
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.Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers are up to a dozen studio albums now, so it’s not a bad time to branch out…
Tonight begins a two-night onslaught of blood-boiling emotions at Hard Rock Live in Hollywood, courtesy of Bronx bachata quartet Aventura. The double dose make perfect sense based upon what is already well-circulated about Anthony “Romeo” Santos and his Latin boy band: They are popular and they know it.However, writer and…
Call it a perfect alignment of the stars, because there has been an awful lot of mid- to late-’90s love upon us lately, like the recessionary return to lumberjack plaid fashions and the overcorrection of Courtney Love’s meds, leading to the recent triumphant reunion of Hole. While the grunge revival…
The New Times is only so big. As much as we’d like to temporarily convert it into the Smashing Pumpkins New Times in honor of their sold out show at Revolution on July 20, we can’t (hey, believe me, I tried!). Instead, here’s a preview of some of the stuff…
Port St. Lucie-based Sweet Chariots are releasing their CD on Wednesday, and giving copies away at Propaganda for a party that will double as a time warp. “Rock and roll 60 years ago” is the band’s self-described genre, and the other two acts, Futurebirds and Bananafish, are practically living homages…
More poster detail here.Lightning Bolt is a two-piece band from Providence, Rhode Island. In the past 12 years, Brian Chippendale (drums) and Brian Gibson (guitar) have released four chaotic, spazzy art-metal albums that are metal only in the loosest way. Lightning Bolt songs are like crazy, wounded wildcats: dangerous and…
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: Lee hops across the pond and invites himself to breakfast at Rod Stewart’s.During the summer of 1971, I traveled overseas on my own, landing in…
For a while there, you couldn’t read anything about South Florida music without getting doused with a big-ass bucket o’ Surfer Blood. Put it this way — I was living out of the country and still couldn’t avoid hearing how great the West Palm Beach junior-superstars were. Pitchfork seemed to drop…
Guess Where I’m Peeing is toilet humor, plain and simple, set in the scenic restrooms of South Florida. We post ’em, you name ’em.For the premiere of our newest, most tasteless feature, we bring you to a bathroom stall in a popular Fort Lauderdale haunt. If you happen to see…
Pine Island Park will bring in the Fourth with a family-filled pool, bounce houses, a climbing wall, country band Shadow Creek, and free birthday cake. Here in Davie, America’s independence will be symbolized with a World War I and II military tank, jeep, and equipment show. Shadow Creek will perform…
Sure, Black Kids frontman Reggie Youngblood (read Christine Borges’ Q&A with him for Crossfade here) sings like an overly earnest Robert Smith impersonator, and sure, the band sounds like a thick patois of nearly every ’80s musical dialect ever put on acetate, but that’s exactly what makes them fantastic. It’s…
On the eve of Independence Day, while some Americans prep grilling stations and gather fireworks, another contingent will celebrate its right to rave. Yes, rave! Showing that there are no hard feelings two centuries and change after our nation severed itself from England, two British masters of dark drum ‘n’…
