The electronic DJ/producer/remixer threesome Depressed Buttons is relatively quiet about its musical pedigree. But dance-happy hipsters north of 25 will likely perk up at mention of the rising trio’s old act: the Faint. Yup, all of the guys are also members of the Omaha dance-rock band, including Todd Fink, the…
Just because Asher Roth hasn’t been lazily rapping about college lately doesn’t mean his influence on an entire wing of suburban rap has dissipated. It’s quite the opposite, in fact. In Roth’s wake, an entire subgenre of so-called “frat rap” is on the rise, and no amount of hip-hop purist…
When the era of millennial electro-rock seemed to be definitively on the wane, the scene’s smartest stars stylistically retooled. Among them were three-fifths of the Faint — lead singer Todd Fink, keyboardist Jacob Thiele, and drummer Clark Baechle. Though the group has yet to break up for good, it’s been…
Los Angeles duo Uh Huh Her appears to display its musical predilections openly. The all-female group’s name is cribbed, after all, from the P.J. Harvey album of the same name. Strangely, though, you won’t really find any musical traces of the English guitar queen’s moody sound in theirs. Rather, the…
For a heady period from about 2006 to 2008, My Chemical Romance seemed ready to truly run the mainstream-crossover rock world. Its third album, The Black Parade, proved a commercial megasuccess despite its unlikely form — a concept album — about a regretful cancer patient mourning from a hospital bed…
via facebook.com/pages/Fidel-rueda/51863959910You wouldn’t know it by living in South Florida, where Urban and tropical beats dominate the Latin music landscape. But throughout the rest of the United States, many of the top-selling Spanish-language artists are actually those the industry calls “regional Mexican.” It’s a term that can refer to any…
It’s Cinco de Mayo! We’re not going to try to dissuade you from drinking yourself cross-eyed tonight, embarrassing yourself and true Mexican culture by proxy. But in the interest of musical, global harmony, the least we can do today is introduce you to some amazing Mexican crossover (or semicrossover) acts…
Nothing like a little good-doing to offset the sex-and-drugs image of touring rock ‘n’ roll bands. For almost a full decade now, Hopeless Records has been fighting this good fight by sending out its “Take Action Tour” around the country, alongside a compilation on its own nonprofit label, Sub City,…
Considering their geographical origin and their more obvious influences, the comparisons between Atlanta group Carnivores and their scene predecessors Black Lips are inevitable. Like the Black Lips, this quartet plays lo-fi rock that’s more than a little informed by psychedelia and garage. Still, to call them Black Lips Lite would…
What do you get when you cross Mötley Crüe hair, a Kiss-style penchant for theatrics, a sprinkling of vaguely goth aesthetic trappings, and relentless postmetalcore? Well, it would be something like the Black Veil Brides, a Cincinnati quintet that looks Sunset Strip but still sounds Warped Tour. This particular brand…
Though they’re separated by a couple of band generations, both Rise Against and Bad Religion share one very important trait: Though they’ve both enjoyed as much mainstream success as true punk bands could hope to enjoy, both acts have kept it real. Here’s a locally relevant case in point. Rise…
Enough time has passed since the late-millennial days of hardcore/pop-punk/indie/”emo” (cringe) that, in 2011, there’s a healthy market for nostalgia shows aimed at people in their late 20s and early 30s. It’s easy to have mixed feelings about this. Every generation thinks the music of its teens/early 20s is better…
Further Seems ForeverWith Legends of RodeoPropaganda, Lake WorthThursday, April 14, 2011View a slide show from the concert here.Better than: The recent-ish Dashboard Confessional nostalgia show at Revolution. Happily, there were no rowdy, wasted girls in sorority baseball hats or bros in Rainbow flip-flops disturbing audience members last night at Propaganda. The…
As part of Propaganda’s revitalized booking efforts, the venue’s now going multimedia and more equal-opportunity in its celebration of local arts. Friday’s Radio Triptych Art Show marries visual works with local sounds and opens it all up to all ages for a change. Come for the art, which comprises works…
This Sunday-night postpostposthardcore extravaganza is not only a brutal dude’s nightmare but also a grammatical wonder. Excepting the headliner, nearly every band’s name forms a technically complete sentence! Their English teachers may be proud, but all four bands have enough to be proud of already. Each act proudly sits atop…
When rock ‘n’ roll legend Jerry Garcia passed in 1995, he left behind a biblical constellation of musical offspring. Of course, he’s best-known as frontman of the Grateful Dead, a position he held for the band’s entire 30-year existence, starting in 1965. Rightfully, the band ended with his death. Meanwhile,…
In this week’s print edition of New Times Broward-Palm Beach, we introduce you to Lil Twist, the next up-and-coming star in Lil Wayne’s Young Money stable. That story details his early rise to hip-hop stardom — which started at age 10! — and his current, wider-sweeping visions of pop success…
Are you over 25 and remembering fondly the days of venues like Fubar, major local events like the Slammie Awards, and genre-defining must-buy releases like Deep Elm Records’ Emo Diaries compilations? Okay, so then you’re probably totally stoked that the upcoming Further Seems Forever reunion, previously only hinted at by band…
With Ultra now an already-blurry memory, the hordes of electronic music tourists have pretty much cleared out. That leaves us locals to business as usual, and that doesn’t meant the music stops. It just gets a little more pop over the next week, with the arrival of a couple of…
In 2003, rapper Lil Twist was riding high in his hometown of Dallas. His debut single, “Texas Twist,” was a massive ground-level hit, thanks to its rolling, piano-driven commands to hit the floor. (The twist in question is a longstanding urban line dance.) Based on club and street heat, the…
These days, a jam band “scene” and sound are givens, but that wasn’t always so. Though so-called “classic rock” was a big flavor, moe. and ’90s peers like Phish and Widespread Panic created a new hybrid that spanned genres and time periods — which was partially a result of the…
For its 13th-annual edition, the Ultra Music Festival has expanded to three full days of electronic excess with a 200-plus-act lineup that’s just as stacked as ever, featuring dance music legends like Underworld, Carl Cox, and Moby as well as crossover stars like Crystal Castles, Jinder, !!!, Cut Copy, Röyksopp,…
