Sure, the headliners at Bonnaroo may leave something to be desired, and Coachella may be inching more towards “blah.” But there are still plenty of other destination festivals worth a look — and Pitchfork’s just-announced lineup again promises an impressive showing. The notoriously cranky web site is now also famed…
Fort Lauderdale’s inna reggae mood lately. Yesterday, we brought you some free tidbits from Californians the Expendables, who aren’t strictly roots but play plenty of laid-back songs on the upbeat, and bring their show to town next Wednesday. Just two weeks after that, though, dub fans can look forward to a…
Paleface is one of the great heroes — not unsung, but perhaps undersung — of the ’90s East Coast folk(-ish) revival whose influence would eventually spur on bigger marquee stars in the early ’00s, like Kimya Dawson and Regina Spektor. (Actually, fun fact: Way before all that, Paleface even shared…
At the beginning of yet another headlining tour, the guys of Underoath unwittingly find themselves elder statesmen of the particular branch of post-hardcore they helped create. Playing in support of the band’s seventh studio album, last year’s Ø (Disambiguation), the six-piece enjoys the unlikely honor of having musical predecessors Thursday…
The Santa Cruz, California-based quartet the Expendables lives in a musical and mood world we would very much like to inhabit in real life, all the time. It’s one in which you never have to rush, nothing depressing ever happens, and the next laid-back, beer-soaked house party full of potential…
While Miami’s been snagging many of the big dubstep bookings of late, here’s something to make the southernmost bass crews green. It’s Respectable Street that’s hosting the next South Florida appearance by producer/DJ titan Noah D. The Portland-based artist started sniffing around the low end in the early ’00s; first,…
At the beginning of yet another headlining tour, the guys of Underoath unwittingly find themselves elder statesmen of the particular branch of post-hardcore they helped create. Playing in support of the band’s seventh studio album, last year’s Ø (Disambiguation), the six-piece enjoys the unlikely honor of having musical predecessors Thursday…
Miami quartet Astari Nite seems to have found a second home in West Palm Beach, where the band’s take on dark Anglophilia seems to go down particularly well during regular gigs at Respectable Street. Led by the lanky, louche Mychael Ghost, after a few years on the circuit, the group…
The rockabilly revival circuit may be full of beautifully painted ladies, but only a few feisty females have picked up the torch lit by early guitar-wielding, glass-ceiling crashers like Wanda Jackson. Among those leading the charge is the flame-maned Kim Lenz, who began recording and touring with her backing band,…
Though its name conjures up thoughts of isolation, the reality of Canadian indie-rock juggernaut Broken Social Scene is anything but. Instead, the Scene is more of a loose umbrella moniker for members who come, go, return, and couple on the side in a Tolstoy-worthy web. The band’s earliest incarnation began…
Culinary swashbuckler Anthony Bourdain now occupies the enviable position of making more money talking about food than actually cooking it. Still, his charisma and wit were both too big to be contained behind the line, and it’s Bourdain we can thank in part for ushering in the era of chef…
People who actually remember the ’90s — i.e., people over the age of, let’s say, 25 — rejoice! Here’s something to make you happy but feel old at the same time: The Beavis and Butt-Head series is back. If their cameo appearance in the latest Jackass movie gave you hope they…
At the dawn of 2011, Jimmy Eat World is one of the few rock bands to blow the hell up out of the early-’90s indie-rock (even, perhaps, the proto-emo) scene without later getting bashed for selling out. The group’s longevity — nearly 18 continuous years as a band, with new…
Deftones fans in South Florida get an unusual treat this spring: the second visit by the band to the tricounty area in less than six months, after a previous multiple-year absence. (Before last August’s show at the Fillmore Miami Beach, the band had last visited the area during the 2006…
London-born, Miami-raised MC Wrekonize is probably best known to party people these days for his role in rising live hip-hop juggernaut Mayday! Before he joined the group a couple years ago, though, he was renowned by underground heads for his freestyle skills. As a teenager, he ascended the ranks of…
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. …
Fans of distinctive female vocalists will find much to love in the Saint Paul, Minnesota, duo Daymoths, which makes its South Florida debut at Little Munich. Frontwoman Emily Dantuma and musical partner Ollie Dodge have been writing music together under a variety of guises for a decade, and this latest…
We at New Times don’t usually endorse ladies’ nights — the concept usually screams watered-down fruit martinis and purse-clutching group dances to Beyonce — but it’s worth heading over to Kill Your Idol for the bar’s weekly Wednesday human jukeboxes, especially if your chromosomes are of the xx variety. The…
First, the obligatory reference to the old glory days of South Beach. Sandra Bernhard totally hung out here in the ’90s, and — obligatory related reference to Ingrid Casares — totally dated Ingrid Casares! OK, got that out of the way. Everyone involved has moved on from that era, but…
Fans of distinctive female vocalists will find much to love in the Saint Paul, Minnesota, duo Daymoths, which makes its South Florida debut later this week. Frontwoman Emily Dantuma and musical partner Ollie Dodge have been writing music together under a variety of guises for a decade, and this latest…
A quick scan of Funcrusher’s self-penned bio shows that this new Lake Worth quartet has a serious taste for the obscure. There’s the fact that each band member has given himself a nonsensical nickname, for instance, or the fact that each lists his role not by instrument but by element…
Linkin Park surprised its fans with the release of its fifth studio album, A Thousand Suns, last year. Its introductory single, “The Catalyst,” was just a hint of the band’s radical shift in direction. Chester Bennington’s (New Times’ interview with him is here) trademark nasal croon and existential lyrics stayed…
