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If there's one thing music journalists have learned over time, it's that whenever a breakthrough, buzz-laden artist from across the pond shows up in your town for a debut...
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From rockers like the MC5, Alice Cooper, and the White Stripes, to hip-hop artists like Eminem and Slum Village, to electronic gurus such as Juan Atkins and DJ Godfather,...
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In the early 1980s, black music was undergoing a serious metamorphosis. There was less home for the funky sounds of the '70s and a new style of popular music needed to be...
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When it comes to making sacred steel music, folks here in Florida take the genre seriously. If you're not familiar with sacred steel, its main instruments are pedal and lap...
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Los Angeles is a city known for its musical potpourris. There are over a hundred ethnicities represented in the city, so it makes sense that Ozomatli's latest effort, Don't...
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Reggae music is rarely considered a genre in which artists are afraid to speak truth to power. The music has a storied tradition of rebellious singers, from Bob Marley to...
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When the latest 7-inch release from Howitzer showed up at the New Times office a month or so ago, it was an odd surprise. For starters, most bands don't have enough cojones to...
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Navigating your way through the music industry as an independent artist isn't easy. The road is typically filled with more negative experiences than positive ones and...
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There's always been something a little wacky about Jamaican dancehall legend Ninjaman. He emerged in the late 1980s as one of the hardest and rudest dancehall acts on the...
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It's a great time for music in South Florida just now, with more events than most audiophiles can absorb. Following close on the heels of the Winter Music Conference two weeks...
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There's no shortage of reggae music in South Florida. This place is probably the capital of reggae in the U.S., not just for its popularity but for the number of celebs who...
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It's not often that someone claims to be a scientist, an inventor, and a musician, but jazz percussionist Roy "Futureman" Wooten says he's all of this and more. The four-time...
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A hot, beautiful spring Saturday shouldn't be spent indoors. There's too many beautiful women, waves, and other distractions awaiting you.
But that's exactly where I found...
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The year was 2005. Popular television show American Idol was still respectable (come on, you know it's hard to watch now), and the country was in a tizzy over who the next...
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When you first pop in Cat Shell's debut disc, Cat's Outta the Bag, you can't help but notice the retro sound of the lead-off track, "I'm Torn." It's full of simple and subtle...
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Taking their cues from dub pioneers like King Tubby and Lee "Scratch" Perry, Austin-based quartet Grimy Styles is ushering in a new wave of exploratory dub. The group's latest...
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On a recent Tuesday evening, local talk radio couldn't seem to talk about anything except the American Idol viewing parties going on around South Florida. Folks had gathered...
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Like most tales of triumph and tragedy, the life, career, and untimely passing of reggae pioneer Mikey Dread at age 53 will live on long beyond his time on earth. There aren't...
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It's turning into a week full of klezmer at the New Times office. The folks at Rough Guide sent over their latest disc, The Rough Guide to Klezmer Revival, for review, with 18...
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Listening to the music of local singer Jacob Jeffries has a way of putting life in perspective. Whether you're catching him live or listening to his newest EP, Life as an...
