Email Author Audra Schroeder

2004 Stories by Audra Schroeder

• Earache

  published October 28, 2004

  Are you angry yet, folks? Are you good and hopped up after the presidential debates? What the trio of confrontations between George and John... More >>

• Earache

  published October 21, 2004

  It was the fall or winter of 1995, and I was standing in front of the stage at the Edge in Fort Lauderdale, being throttled by a throng of sweaty,... More >>

• Girls' Night Out

  published October 21, 2004

  Teedra Moses grew up studying her mother, a successful gospel singer on the church revival circuit. She grew up listening to gospel on the... More >>

• A Beautiful Rhyme

  published October 14, 2004

  Talib Kweli has been called a revolutionary, a philosopher, a teacher, a social critic who waxes poetic on the black community's travails.... More >>

• Attack of the 125-legged freaks

  published September 23, 2004

  Go ahead and say heavy metal musicians are arrogant assholes, dirty longhairs, and social outcasts who live with their parents and worship Satan,... More >>

• Further Seems Forever

  published September 9, 2004

  Pompano Beach¹s Further Seems Forever began its career in 2000 with heartthrob extraordinaire Chris Carrabba on the mic. He left to form... More >>

• Cribs of the 954

  published September 9, 2004

  MTV's "reality" show Cribs may show you what spoiled rock stars and actors can do with assloads of money (i.e., five SUVs in different... More >>

• Earache

  published September 2, 2004

  The sidewalk in front of the Poor House (110 SW Third Ave., Fort Lauderdale), a meeting place as old as a Georgia sunset for the local rock 'n'... More >>

• Earache

  published August 26, 2004

  Check out Bleubird, the Secondhand Outfit, DJ Immortal, the LeftOvaz, All Good, and Anonymous Syntax at 8 p.m. Friday, August 27, at the hip-hop... More >>

• Earache

  published August 19, 2004

  Hey, kids! You wanna look cool at the club, with a style that just screams "Look at me!"? Well, nothing will get you there quicker than downing... More >>

• Earache

  published August 12, 2004

  At a dance party at the Fox and Hound in Fort Lauderdale last year, just as the DJ put on Dre and Snoop's "Gin and Juice," a young man casually... More >>

• Body Rock

  published August 12, 2004

  In a sweltering, cavernous gym in Miami-Dade County, a crowd of about 50 young men and women, a few small, squealing children, and one really... More >>

• Earache

  published July 29, 2004

  You come to realize many things while waiting in line for the bathroom at a big summer rock festival: You forgot to balance your checkbook. You... More >>

• Fire Starter

  published July 22, 2004

  Melissa Auf der Maur is a woman of duality. The lithe, flame-haired bassist can stretch her voice from a velvety whisper to a demonic metal... More >>

• Earache

  published July 15, 2004

  Remember how fun it was to sneak out of your room after bedtime and watch MTV -- at least for us 20- and 30-somethings labeled as the "MTV... More >>

• Earache

  published July 8, 2004

  Last Friday night at Ohm nightclub in West Palm Beach, I learned a few things: (1) Hardly anyone drinks beer at a hip-hop show. It's all about... More >>

• Earache

  published July 1, 2004

  Check out Gravy Train!!!!, the Vanishing, and Quintron and Miss Pussycat at 10 p.m. Saturday, July 3, at I/O Lounge, 30 NE 14th St., Miami. Call... More >>

• Earache

  published June 24, 2004

  In the span of a weekend, the old bled into the new. Last Friday's gig at the Poor House was touted in various e-mails and on websites as the... More >>

• Earache

  published June 17, 2004

  Face it: Whether you love or loathe the Darkness, the group's songs are catchy. It's been scientifically proven that once you hear "I Believe in a... More >>

• Earache

  published June 3, 2004

  In the smoke-filled confines of Morning Drinker Studios in Fort Lauderdale, there was a rap-off a-brewin'. Weed aficionado Afroman and Florida's... More >>

• Let's Get Weird

  published June 3, 2004

  In the intimate practice space of the Seventh Circuit in North Miami, six guys with varying amounts of facial hair tune their instruments. A fog... More >>

• Earache

  published May 27, 2004

  So, I can't stop listening to American Idol reject William Hung's CD. And I can only chalk it up to its overwhelming guilty-pleasure... More >>

• Soul Glow

  published May 20, 2004

  Remember the '80s? If you lived in South Florida during that magical decade, you steered your new Celica through a sea of spring breakers. You... More >>

• Zero 7

  published May 13, 2004

  So everyone's talking about how the French duo Air's latest disc, Talkie Walkie, is a total "makeout album" filled with softcore-porn... More >>

• Brian Tappert

  published May 13, 2004

  Brian Tappert is co-owner of the Fort Lauderdale-based house label Soulfuric Recordings and one-half of the remix team Jazz-N-Groove Productions... More >>