photo by Michael MaryanoffMillionYoung does O-town.This Wednesday marks the kick-off of the annual Florida Music Festival, a mini SXSW-style music industry schmoozefest in Orlando. While it may sound cheesy to Miami people at first glance, a number of local acts head up there every year to play it. Why? Unlike,...
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Motion City Soundtrack isn't exactly a household name beyond its Warped Tour disciples. However, the Minneapolis-grown and road-groomed melodic punks' fourth studio effort, the recently released My Dinosaur Life, is destined to expand that reach, regardless of the band's intentions. The quintet's sound blends fuzzy-guitar-filled pop-punk with other subgenres like...
Disgraced Congressman turned West Palm Beach consignment-shop owner Mark Foley got a mention right in the middle of NBC's Thursday-night prime-time lineup. Though it probably wasn't the kind of shoutout he would appreciate.On last night's season opener, 30 Rock made reference to Foley's scandalous time in conservative politics. It happened...
After last week's Community Relations Board meeting in Lake Worth, where a reading group from the Night Heron Grassroots Activism Center presented a PowerPoint lecture on hate groups operating in Lake Worth, I posted a couple of items on the meeting here and here.I spent a lot of time last...
flickr.comThere was no Satanic altar. There was no blood. There was no animal sacrifice. And as far as I could tell from talking to people at the Pagan Pride Day Celebration Picnic, held this weekend at the at Unitarian Universalist Church in Fort Lauderdale, there was nobody who believed anything...
Ike ReillyHard Luck Stories (Rock Ridge Music)If you took the Pogues and multiplied them by the Clash, then divided by Dylan the result would be Ike Reilly. Over the past decade, he's quietly amassed one of the most raucous and literate catalogues in rock and roll. His peculiar genius is...
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Photo by Mikayla DavisNew City Lions interviewed by TopSpot USA's Frankie "Famous" Nobile (with microphone) and Sean RussellTopSpot USA's Sean Russell, a local music industry player and subject of a recent New Times Broward-Palm Beach profile, tracks down the latest news and adds insight from the front row of local...
"Can you come scoop the dukes?" There was Ynot — all sharp, scrawny joints and ink-soaked skin — and his two boys, Quake and Pucho, and they sat inside Club Eden, a little nudie bar in Davie, commiserating alone. And even amid the distractions of neon and bouncing silicone, they...
John HoodThe story goes like this:A few of the principals behind Miami's New World Symphony were sitting around discussing their dream of building a combination campus/concert hall that would be large enough to handle an ever-increasing crop of talent and bold enough to wow the world.At one point someone mentioned...
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Tim DenAnti-Justice Self-Titled EP (Self-released) Chances are you never heard about Anti-Justice and while I'd love to follow where alcohol leads and promote my coolness over you; I will not - not out of some "professionalism" or because I've been edified and tempered by age. No, I will not laud...
Earlier this year, the American Greyhound Track Owners Association, which is headquartered at the Palm Beach Kennel Club, took on a new member with a questionable, controversial past. At the AGTOA's spring conference, held in Las Vegas, then-President Karen Keelan called MIR/Caliente the group's "newest and most supportive member."MIR/Caliente is...
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Photo by Ari Justin RothenbergTopSpot USA asking Alesana's Shawn Milke the tough questionsThe Broward-Palm Beach Crossfade contingent is definitely the opposite of emo about our feature, "TopSpot USA Showcase Punks Up the Talent Farm" in this week's music section.We caught up with TopSpot USA founders Sean Russell and Frankie "Famous"...
The so-called "Public Ethics Academy" at Florida Atlantic University is supposed to serve as something of a lifeboat of good government in Broward County's sea of wrongdoing public officials. Instead the academy is nothing more than a symbol of the county's ethically bankrupt nature, and it should be disbanded immediately. I say that not just because its...
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Love Taps
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...
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“That’s Commissioner Chaz”
The first time the Miami Caliente played the Chicago Bliss at the Sears Centre Arena in September, the Bliss won 29-19. For last night's rematch in the Eastern Conference championship game, Chicago had to travel to South Florida. The result, however, was the same. The Bliss won 20-7.But the game...
Since 1982, SunFest has grown from a quaint jazz and arts festival to something worthy of Bob Dylan, James Taylor, Sheryl Crow, Black Crowes, and now Weezer. As headliner for Wednesday's New Music Night, the alt-rock superstars help kick off five days of music on Flagler Drive in downtown West...
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