Shooting the breeze with 28-year-old Fort Lauderdale native Travis Newbill will lead to whimsical conversations about artistic stimuli, meditational transformations, and botched relationships. Delivered with a starry glaze through larger-than-life spectacles and with an eccentric-yet-welcoming style, one can’t help be but wonder: Is he serious? Truth be told, Trav is…..
It would be too simple — cliché even — to put up yet another Halloween blog list replete with death-metal videos and their rampant devil horns or any goth ones with their ghostly pallor abounding. What really tickles our pickle is the unintentional spook — the spine-tingling affright that comes…
Little more than a homemade demo, Memoryhouse’s The Years has snowballed, and its sweeping cinematic soundscapes have rolled with increasing heft and purpose ever since. Barely out of their teens, the Canadian duo of vocalist Denise Nouvion and classically trained producer Evan Abeele’s lo-fi amorphous-yet-resilient recordings got them inked to…
Johnny Jewel can’t do it any way other than DIY. As a result, the producer and icy-cool synth-wielder for disco-noir duo Glass Candy has carved his own niche in the underground dance world entirely on his own terms. During the past five years, Jewel has been a key component in…
Local darkwave vixen Miss FD has shown impeccable timing by releasing her newest ghoulish concoction, “Love Magick,” just in time for Fort Lauderdale’s ghastly zombie walk this evening. Keeping her tradition of releasing frighteningly frisky tracks during the eve of goblins and ghouls, our latex-loving vamp delivers with her newest…
In the next couple of days, not many spaces in the 60 some-odd mile span of Broward and Palm Beach counties will be spared from the angular postpunk charge of Miami quartet Space Between Words. The upstart band from the 305 seems to have both counties in its sights this…
Portland, Oregon, Italo-disco purveyors Glass Candy are set to headline 2011’s edition of Moonfest. The duo’s icy-cold synth lines, provided by producer and keyboardist Johnny Jewel, and haunting ethereal vocals, diffused by singer Ida No, are the ideal choice to wind down the ghoulish revelry on Clematis Street — now…
Is Eternal Jackpot some broken-down slot machine at the Isle Casino that pays out all the time? Close, but not quite. Discerning literati will remember the line from Ernest Hemingway’s 1937 Depression-era novel To Have and Have Not. Local music devotes will take interest in knowing that it’s also the…
Last we heard from Coral Springs MC Dan Duarte (known as Dirty Dem in battle-rap circles), the skilled rhymer had just released an uproarious video for “Office Music” — his crafty rework of the theme song to NBC’s hit office comedy The Office. Now, the local rapper is set to…
Even though disco gets a bad rap for its index-finger-pointing moves and white polyester three-piece-suit fashion sense, the world of ever-trendy dubstep, techno, and house would be nowhere without its four-on-the-floor beat devotion and decadent party-till-sunrise excess. Disco was actually a hip underground scene, prevalent in gay and black nightclubs,…
Lake Worth’s hard-to-classify swampy-punk, crusty-folk movement’s female-fronted the Darling Sweets is set to unveil its recorded debut at Propaganda tonight. Sounding like something out of a dusty Mississippi Delta roadhouse dive, this quintet’s self-titled 6-song EP is comprised of material put together by the group’s fiery-haired lead singer Lindsey Sayre and guitarist/ mandolin-player Adam…
On the tenth anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, it’s appropriate to reflect and pay tribute to all the brave souls who lost their lives on that heartbreaking day. Over the years, many musicians have attempted to capture the spirit of grief, frustration, and remembrance that followed for the…
2 Live CrewDelux Lounge, Delray Beach Friday, September 2 Better than: Face up, ass down. “Face down, ass up, that’s the way we like to fuck.” Now here are some words that moved a generation. OK, perhaps that’s a slight exaggeration. But for this reviewer, stumbling upon Miami-based rap group…
Rousing melodic rockers the Smithereens are probably best remembered for the ubiquitous single “A Girl Like You” off their 1989 album, 11. However, it would be a disgrace to consider this Who-loving four-piece from New Jersey a one-hit wonder. On the contrary, it should be championed for a no-nonsense, British-invasion…
Tonight’s album release party for local quartet the Howling Winds has been a long time coming for the group’s frontman Jorge Rocha. The rasping vocalist has been at it since 2005 when he cut his teeth with folkie acoustic duo Fight Back! Through the years, his band’s sound has morphed…
Breaking: Langerado 2011 has been canceled.Yesterday, revived South Florida music festival Langerado announced the final 15 bands for its Last Band Standing competition. In conjunction with indie MP3 sharing site PureVolume, the band bout pitted 159 upstart acts against each other for an once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to perform alongside festival headliners…
Consummate Palm Beach County music champion Steve Rullman is taking a stab at the publishing business with a new print publication called Purehoney. The newspaper-style monthly will be an extension of Rullman’s webiste TheHoneycomb.com and his weekly e-mail newsletter of the same name — but with a twist. Rullman is…
This Friday marks the third-annual Naked End of Summer Bash organized by amiable nudist club Florida Young Naturists. In our opinion, the Young Naturists have the right idea — probably no better way to revel an end of summer blowout than going au natural. The group has lined up a…
Fire-breathing folk-punk act Everymen is geared up for the highly anticipated onslaught of record-release parties this Friday at Lake Worth’s Propaganda. Lucky for those in Palm Beach County (or devoted enough to be making the trek), the Lake Worth indie dive is Everymen’s admitted “home turf.” The purveyors of ruffian-style…
Whoever said “Play with fire and you’ll surely get burned” never met Everymen’s Captain Bobo. During the Lake Worth bluegrass-punk troupe’s kinetic sets, the charismatic frontman displays a penchant for carnival-style theatrics — especially of the combustible sort. But Brazilian-born Bobo (real name: Sergio Witis) insists that the blazing balls…
Last Saturday, we went to the Funky Buddha in Boca Raton with intentions of hearing new material from local indie darlings Surfer Blood’s forthcoming EP. We had heard ruminations of West Palm Beach act Bear in Mind, who were the opening act, but had never taken in one of its…
Although we were bummed to hear the news that West Palm Beach shimmering indie pop troupe the Clementines called it quits back in February, the group’s talented frontman Andrew Marr assured us that he would be putting together a new outfit called Ski Lodge with a similar post-punk leaning frame…
