Rascal Flatts, like so many of its contemporaries out of the Nashville music machine, is technically a country band but with further-reaching pop sensibilities. This may be, in fact, because the band hails from north of the Mason-Dixon line — Columbus, Ohio, to be exact. This innate Midwesternness comes through…

Those missing the late, great but short-lived Miami act Beings might be cheered to know that at least a third of the trio — and one of the coolest thirds — has already gone on to form a new project. Drummer Betty Monteavaro’s new project is Holly Hunt, also featuring…

Wednesday’s epic stop of the “Summer Slaughter Tour” is likely the ultimate show of the year for area deathcore fans — those who are underaged or underemployed, anyhow, as the show kicks off at 2 in the afternoon. Still, that early door time is a must, as the lineup packs…

This show marks a sort of watershed booking for Propaganda. The club’s original manifesto, as posted on its website, stated an aversion to screamo and punk and required everyone through the door to be of legal drinking age. That has apparently changed — because this multiband extravaganza will feature hours…

The perfect music of late summer could be freestyle, AKA the Latin-tinged, electro-derived music indigenous to South Florida and New York in the ’80s. With its tinkly synths and often slightly helium-pitched vocals, the genre captures the breezy late-afternoon August sun. But freestyle often boasted a kind of bittersweet undercurrent,…

It’s no secret that Lake Worth’s red-hot scene seems to birth a new band of Americana-roots-whatever-loving types almost every week. That’s awesome — the underground music world can never have enough tattooed, bearded manly men — but females have been pretty scant on the circuit’s stages. Until now! Enter the…

Hot Tuna is one of those amazing legendary acts whose list of past members now dwarfs its list of current members by more than fourfold. Of course, that’s not surprising — the act that originally began as a Jefferson Airplane spinoff has now been going on and off for more…

With Girl Talk and even acts like Super Mash Bros. now playing to festival crowds of thousands, mashup artists have firmly been accepted as artists in their own right. And among the next big sound-collage artists is Southern California duo the White Panda. In one of those very-’00s stories, group…

Brandon Bolmer, current frontman for leading posthardcore act Chiodos, certainly faced an uphill battle when he joined the band a year and a half ago. Just a few months earlier, the band had acrimoniously parted ways with its original lead singer, Craig Owens, a fan favorite and a longtime face…

The adjoining venues (Green Room, America’s Backyard) in the Revolution complex have been seriously heating up lately with bookings of up-and-coming artists. But just such a gig this Saturday at America’s Backyard serves a higher cause. Headlined by Detroit singer/songwriter Pato, it’s a benefit for the Williams Leukemia Foundation…

Who the hell are 100 Monkeys, and how are they headlining Revolution? Well, the answer to the first part is that the band is an independent Los Angeles-based five-piece with funny-quirky promo photos and pretty-faced members with nicknames like “J. Rad.” The music is party-time pop rock inflected with heavy…

The Jonas Brothers have gone solo or more “serious” with their musical careers. Miley Cyrus has been caught on video smoking funny stuff and speaking in tongues. Demi Lovato’s very publicly done a stint in rehab for various unpretty issues. That pretty much leaves Selena Gomez as the latest hope…

Tech N9ne has always lurked at the fringes of the larger hip-hop industry, and it seems he prefers it that way. Instead, the Kansas City, Missouri, rapper has enjoyed a career older than that of many of his fans — more than two and a half decades — and sold…

It may be hard to believe, but slow jam king Keith Sweat marks a half-century on earth today. And the man that launched a thousand late-night radio dedications has been helping boyfriends apologize and generally setting the mood for a good chunk of that time. Sweat got his start as…

There’s a lot of the Southern gothic found within Jane Jane Pollock, a coed foursome hailing from Tallahassee by way of Thomasville, Georgia. In its handful of released songs, there’s always a slightly forlorn echo and a definite pensive mood, with twin female vocals trilling in and out of each…

In the large constellation of Bob Marley offspring, it can be hard to distinguish among the various musical sons, all of whom are sharply talented in their own right. So if Ziggy is the eldest and the most rootsy, Julian is the young genre-bender, and Damian and Ky-Mani are the…

It’s the thick of summer, which means school is out and it’s time for epic, long package tours of rock bands under cutesy names. Voilà, the “Summer Partery” tour, which arrives at Rocketown this Monday at a start time, 5 p.m., that clearly excludes anyone old enough to keep regular…

PlainsPlains (10K Islands) Although South Florida may have a lot of indie (as in independent) bands, until recently it’s been light on “indie rock” in its classicist form. We mean straightforward, meat-and-potatoes jangle rock with plenty of intellectual wit but not a lot of cross-genre trickery. That’s especially true in…

Statuesque, blond Natasha Bedingfield got an early start on her career in her native England as a teenager, when she was a member of a Christian dance group with brother Daniel. While he went on to further mine the dance/pop vein and achieve massive chart success, Natasha went for a…

If Kid Cudi were the first lonely stoner to get major radio airplay, Wiz Khalifa is the next rising star of the kush-loving class of new pop-leaning rappers. His major-label debut — though his third album proper — is called, uh, Rolling Papers, and giddily celebrates blunted half-recollections of the…