Five Under $10 for the Weekend of March 16 to 18

Friday, March 16*There’s lots of punk rock, rockabilly, and vaguely Irish-inflected rock tonight at the Speakeasy Lounge in Lake Worth. The main out-of-towners starring tonight are Jason and the Punknecks, a rough-and-ready punkabilly act from Tennessee, and Continental, a group featuring members of Dropkick Murphys. Locals rounding out the bill…

The Business at Respectable Street on March 16

If anyone defines street punk, it’s the English group the Business, one of the original boots-and-braces bands that took the peacock style of punk and stripped it down to its bare bones. The Business, and its fans, preferred an aesthetic of shaved heads over Mohawks and of raw, pub rock…

Chris Webby at Culture Room on March 20

As contemptible a label as it is, “frat rap” is here to stay, at least for a while. The loose term has been applied to a new class of MCs who make no bones about their suburban privilege or subject matter, which usually revolves around partying and first-world problems. Fair…

MuteMath at Revolution Live on March 16

New Orleans quartet MuteMath is one of the few currently commercially viable rock bands that truly seems undefinable. Though the group creates the kind of melodies that are punchy and memorable enough for alt-rock radio, how exactly those unfurl is rarely predictable. The group freely switches between off-time, jazzy bits,…

Five Under $10 For the Weekend of March 9 – 11

Friday, March 9*Tonight, Jacuzzi Boys start a weekend of locally celebrating their upcoming European tour. Tonight finds them in Palm Beach County at the Snooze in Lake Park, supported by Love Handles and Honey Train. Cover details are kinda murky but should be under $10. Click here. *Miami-based live hip-hop…

Lights on March 11 at Culture Room

Much like Owl City — or any number of bedroom projects started by former scene kids — Canadian electronic artist Lights clearly boasts a past that includes pop-punk and other recently popular rock styles. Her singing borrows the alternately pinched and drawn-out vowels and other stylized vocal inflections of the…

Astari Nite on March 10 at Respectable Street

It’s been a couple of months since Miami band Astari Nite last played north of its county line, but the wait was on purpose. When the group hits favorite stomping grounds Respectable Street on Saturday, it’ll have a little more new material to air out. After several years as a…

Photos: Adrian Grenier’s Music Video Shoot at Radio-Active Records

There are plenty of pinup-actor-gone-bandleader jokes to make. Remember Keanu Reeves’ Dogstar? No? Dating ourselves? OK, how about Twilight star Jackson Rathbone’s 100 Monkeys, who played in town not too long ago? Despite all that, Entourage star Adrian Grenier seems pretty (or at least relatively) serious about his own act,…

How Elton John Broke the Serious/Frivolous Pop Dichotomy

We can likely blame this on the ’60s and the musical shift therein, but since the dawn of rock ‘n’ roll as Serious Art Form, there remains a pervasive opinion that Serious Rock can’t also be fun. As a related argument, then, there’s also the argument that pop automatically can’t…