Neon Trees returned to Fort Lauderdale’s Revolution Live for their third time in four years, Thursday night. This time, the Provo, Utah four-piece was in town for their Intimate Nights Tour and the show truly lived up to its title. Having seen Neon Trees every time they’ve performed at Revolution,…
Since the release of their breakthrough LP, Habits, in 2010, Utah’s Neon Trees have refused to slow down. The band members continue to write and release songs — too impatient to wait and put out a proper album — and though they tried to take the year off from touring,…
For the Vans Warped tour, it’s all about staying fresh. Now in it’s the 21st year, the venerable music festival and staple of American youth culture continues to find new ways to do just that in every sense of the word. First of all, let’s get right to the issue…
When Kevin Sprouse bought a rat-infested building in a blighted area, many family members believed he had invested in a money pit. With bars on the windows and a lack of customers, Sprouse opened what was originally supposed to be an art gallery and studio. One day, during a showing,…
The Margaritaville Hollywood Beach Resort, under development on the Hollywood Broadwalk, joins a crowded portfolio of businesses — including bars and restaurants — that are inspired by the musical catalog of easygoing and fun-loving singer/songwriter Jimmy Buffett. The 17-story, 349-room destination resort and entertainment complex is billed as having “an…
Before the 14th annual Hukilau festival gets too far away from us — remember, Mary Ann was in town last weekend — we’d be remiss not to point out this video that our friends across the BPB universe made last weekend, featuring festival founder Christie White. Here, White shares a…
“The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry…” On the same night as Game 6 of the NBA Finals, Lana Del Rey at Coral Sky Amphitheatre, and a Tuesday of all days, Sakred Nightclub held its official grand opening in Boca Raton. Perhaps that’s why despite boasting beloved…
Nostalgia is a powerful concept. We tend to romanticize the past either because we miss the way things used to be or out of necessity to whitewash our own personal histories. But what about getting nostalgic for a past we were never actually a part of? Well, that might occur…
Aloha kakou! Do you have an oddly specific fetish for fire-breathing mermaids? Do you still fantasize about being marooned with Mary Ann from Gilligan’s Island? Are you unafraid of Tikis regardless of the doom they spelled for The Brady Bunch? If so, then does Fort Lauderdale have a righteous festival…
Saturday night, Miami’s Bayfront Park Amphitheater hosted an evening of returns and homecomings. Third Eye Blind was back in the South Florida area for the first time since 2013 for its co-headlining tour with Dashboard Confessional. Speaking of which, Chris Carrabba and his old bandmates reunited on stage after a…
When The Psychedelic Furs burst onto the art rock scene in the late ’70’s, the English outfit were helping to create said scene. Labeled post-punk for their arrival after the punk explosion, yet preceding the torrent of new wave that engulfed the ’80’s, The Psychedelic Furs scored huge hits both…
Florida is a bizarre, sunburned place, there’s no question about that. Thankfully however, not everything strange in our state ends up as a joke on The Daily Show. Sometimes we actually manage to produce oddities that are quite delightful. Makers Square, a membership-based makerspace and social club in Fort Lauderdale,…
In just a few weeks, mid-May to be inexact, the Lake Worth art hub UNIT 1 will close its doors — at least in its current incarnation. New Times sat down with the owner of this fledgling cultural beacon, Jacques de Beaufort, to discuss what the short, happy life of…
For a few hours on a balmy Monday evening that felt more like mid-July than late April, Fort Lauderdale partied as if the summer months were indeed upon us. Indie pop quartet, Walk the Moon — the musical equivalent of Pop Rocks and Coke — returned to Revolution Live for…
We share this world with a variety of people of varying mental capacities and affectations including (but not limited to) airheads, cokeheads, deadheads, eggheads, hotheads, knuckleheads, metalheads, potheads, redheads, shitheads, turtleheads, warheads, soft baby heads, and of course, cheeseheads. But then, somewhere in the middle of that list, clutching a…
Many driving down US1 this Saturday were confused by the long line snaking out of Radio-Active Records. Why, on one of the hottest days in months, were these folks waiting patiently on the concrete skillet of Federal Highway? They were doing it for Record Store Day — all in the…
Rock The Ocean’s Tortuga Music Festival returned triumphantly for a third year this past Saturday and Sunday. The country music fest hosted on the shores of Fort Lauderdale Beach held opportunities to let loose in the Florida sunshine with headliners Kenny Chesney, Zac Brown Band, The Doobie Brothers, Jake Owen,…
