What began as a crafty gimmick on 1996’s Plays Metallica by Four Cellos — four classically trained cellists blasting out refined renditions of Metallica tunes — has evolved into serious business for the four Finnish dudes of Apocalyptica. Since then, the group’s rock concertos have received kudos from both the…
After a three-year recording hiatus, Lake Worth emotive singer John Ralston is issuing forth a flurry of activity. This past Christmas saw the release of seven-inch single “Jesus Christ,” a bit of Americana for the holidays, on mom-and-pop Tampa-based label 24 Hour Service Station. Last year, he also contributed to…
Lake Worth quartet Luna Rex tears a page from Frank Zappa’s spoof-rock manual on its highly satirical and conceptually humorous debut EP, Glass Wave. With the record’s tales of rip-roaring road trips in a VW van, interstellar time machine romances, and odes to “happy little trees” painter Bob Ross, virtually…
Led by frontman Cameron Stiles’ Southern rock guitar strokes, Jupiter-based duo (and veritable Black Keys understudies) Filthy Animals can fill a room with down-home Dixie vibe. Even as a scrawny, suburban, 20-something, Stiles possesses the pipes of a husky veteran bluesman from the Mississippi Delta. Here’s a guy who hoots…
The Frank the Unicorn Show With Luna RexWorld of Beer, Coconut Creek. Sunday, February 13, 2010Every pun was intended at the “Get ‘Horn’y With Frank the Unicorn for Valentine’s Day” event held at Coconut Creek suds haven World of Beer on Sunday night, the first out-of-studio live show for the…
Lavola With Filthy Animals and the Howling WindsPropaganda, Lake WorthFriday, February 11, 2010Better Than: Sitting at home couch-surfing on a Friday night, only to find out from friends of the sonic fury you had missed out on come Monday. It was prosperous evening for the three gents of West Palm Beach…
West Palm Beach trio Lavola and its sonically charged rock ‘n’ roll are perhaps too brazen and piercing to fit alongside the quirky indie pop that reigns supreme in Palm Beach County. But even without piercings, tattoos, circulation-clogging skinny jeans, or other accouterments, the trio’s music speaks volumes for itself…
According to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech last night, this country is on its way back from its economic woes of the past two years. Could it be possible that this sound recovery from the recession is trickling down locally, especially in our local live music hub…
The incongruous-sounding Motel 6 Rock Yourself to Sleep tour slides into town for the second time in six months on Tuesday. Instead of pop-punk groups, this tour brings with it a litany of Christian metalcore acts. For those unfamiliar with the genre, it is hard to conceive that these acts,…
After putting out respectable-yet- amateurishly raw debut EP See Lons Fini this past November, boisterous Lake Worth punk trio Kill Now?! had, seemingly, a lot of momentum going into the new year. But alas, the hardcore-meets-classic rock three-piece has decided to call it quits. According to its Facebook page each…
CakeSunset Cove Amphitheater, Boca RatonFriday, January 14, 2010View a slideshow from the concert here. Better Than: A Skittles sugar rush ’90s eccentric pop group Cake at Boca Raton’s Sunset Cove Amphitheater did not disappoint its suburbanite masses on Friday, with ample saccharine hooks for all to hear and sing along…
Awesome New Republic With Sumsun, The Band in Heaven and Beings. Little Munich, Lake WorthSaturday January 15, 2010Better Than: A Coral Reefer Band.It was a Discosoma takeover at Little Munich Saturday night. Four acts performed at the Lake Worth German bar turned late night hipster hotbed, and each had ties…
West Palm Beach’s Luna Rex is putting its spacy rock on wax. New Times has learned that the four-piece — named after a ghost that inhabits its rehearsal space — has taken its first foray into studio recording. According to the group’s Facebook fan page, the band is putting the…
Avant-garde pop sensation and New Times’ Best Male Rock Vocalist winner Mike Mineo is diligently wrapping up his next album at Pompano Beach’s Power Station Studios in the new year. Beach Guava is scheduled for release on March 25, with plans for a CD release shindig on said date at…
Judson Rodgers, the mastermind behind the spacy swirl of West Palm Beach electro act Sumsun, leads a new night of experimental dance music to Lake Worth’s Propaganda. They’ve been all up in the Hype Machine koolaid recently, labeled everything from “non-menthol dub” to “jungle industrial electropop fun dance,” but Sumsun’s…
Judson Rodgers, mastermind behind the spacy swirl of West Palm Beach electro act Sumsun, leads a new night of experimental dance music at Lake Worth’s Propaganda. Beginning Wednesday, December 29, Rodgers will take time out of his busy schedule to launch the Lush Haus residency, a monthly event where nebulous,…
Zitfest Day 1With Snakehole, Partial People, Nerve City, Slippery Slopes, Jacuzzi Boys, and Cop City/Chill PillarsThe Orange Door, Lake ParkFriday, December 17, 2010Read a review of Day 2 here.Better than: The satisfaction one feels when popping a gigantic puss filled pimple that ejects its white gooey innards all over the mirror. The review:…
County Grind is counting down the best local albums in South Florida. Monitor our progress here.The Dewars’ six-song EP, Songs From the Neverglades, is one of the most off-center offerings we heard this year, but we would not change one bizarre-o minute of it. Ranging from the breezy freak-folk heard…
After sitting vacant for nearly two years, the space formerly known as City Limits in Delray Beach has been brought back to life as Pineapple Groove. Brothers Mitch and Richard Clarvit bought the 8,000 square-foot facility that lies just east of the train tracks at 19 NE 3rd Ave. and…
We’ve been touting the merits of West Palm Beach quintet Surfer Blood for quite some time now, even listing its hook-heavy debut album, Astro Coast, as one of our favorites last year. Well, it comes with great local pride (and some vindication) to share the news that we are not…
We continue with our wall-to-wall coverage of the inaugural Bruise Cruise this week with news that both the Black Lips and Surfer Blood will headline a kickoff show on February 24 at downtown Miami’s Grand Central. Looks like the celebratory contusions on the swashbuckling garage-rock-on-open-seas bash keep getting more black…
With its ghoulish Eddie Munster getups and iconic skull logo, seminal punk-rock act the Misfits makes every day Halloween. The innovators of horror punk come to town at the tail end of their extended 30th anniversary tour. Diehard fans might scoff at the fact this trio is even touring under…
