Friday, March 2*Airstream-dwelling, roots-rock playing couple Hymn For Her arrives in South Florida for the weekend. A second show that was to take place tomorrow night at E-Bar in Fort Lauderdale is canceled (venue’s fault!), but tonight’s free show at Dada in Delray Beach is still happening. Click here for…
It’s been a few months since Miami band Astari Nite last played north of their county line. In Broward, they were last seen opening for Stars at Culture Room this past October, and in Palm Beach County, for Modern English at Respectable Street in September. On Saturday, March 10, the…
Marc MaronThe Colony Theater, Miami BeachThursday, March 1, 2012Better Than: Spending an evening alone on TwitterMarc Maron — despite the fact that he’s based in sunny Los Angeles — projects an image that’s almost the antithesis of South Florida. His comic persona is constructed around being an over-thinker, a self-sabotager,…
This year marks the 15th of existence for Georgia quartet Perpetual Groove. The group has become a titan of the jam-band scene. While it gathered a following in its early days around the college towns of Savannah and then Athens, Georgia, the group quickly became a favorite of fans of…
Sublime, what with its tragically curtailed output of laid-back, genre-mashing pop hits, remains one of the most mythical bands of the late ’90s. Even though it’s been more than 15 years since the band’s late singer, Bradley Nowell, died of an overdose, the group’s best reggae/punk/hip-hop songs still sound fresh,…
Don’t try to figure out where the duo Hymn for Her is from — the answer is the open road. As the ultimate rock ‘n’ roll nomads, the real-life and musical couple, Lucy Tight and Wayne Waxing, travel, live, make, and record music in a vintage Airstream trailer, crisscrossing the…
Yesterday, we got so wrapped up in explaining our musical crush on songwriter/artist the-Dream that we completely forgot to include the reason for his upcoming tour and renewed internet buzz. His upcoming spring tour was originally set to include an April 12 date at Revolution (along with a couple of other…
Unless you are (1) Canadian, or more likely, (2) a probably underaged girl who spends a lot of time on Tumblr, you can be forgiven for not immediately recognizing Toronto-based electro-pop artist Lights. But if she and the seeming marketing juggernaut behind her have their way, that should soon change…
The-Dream, the songwriter, arranger, and artist born Terius Nash, is the mind behind the melody of some of the biggest radio hits of the past five years or so. Most often along with the equally important Christopher “Tricky” Stewart, the-Dream penned megasmashes like Rihanna’s “Umbrella,” Mariah Carey’s “Touch My Body,”…
We know South Florida is full of ideas for bringing music to the community. Just see the recent PureHoney show at Propagandam which benefited Inspirit, a Lake Worth-based nonprofit that does just that. But if you have a particular plan in mind without an officially established organization to back you,…
Friday, February 24*Yay for original art and music in Boca! The Edition1 Art and Music Showcase at the Black Rose Irish Pub gives cool younger folk something to do there, with live art, DJs, and performances by local bands Stonecutters, Makeshift Wings, and Buffalo Tux (interesting names), as well as…
As random and kind of funny as it is to think of, the entire world of heavy metal would be very different if it weren’t for Tampa. For whatever reason — a confluence of bored, like-minded skater-dude musicians, sun-fried brains, something in the water — the Sunshine State city churned…
Next Thursday, March 1, Revolution presents a night of (mostly) acoustic rock — and a couple of success stories that are completely of the internet age. Headliner Secondhand Serenade is really the project of songwriter and frontman John Vesely, who recorded his earliest material on a multitrack recorder fro his…
In the current media and musical climate, it takes guts — or another, more rude-to-reference body part — to launch a straight-up print magazine focused on the local scene. Yet if anyone’s equipped to make it successful, it’s Steve Rullman, the man behind the Honeycomb, one of the area’s best…
It’s funny to think an act originally from California could sound so swampy and Southern by today’s standards, but the Doobie Brothers were very much of their time. It was the early ’70s, and these happily hairy guys seemed to embody everything about a sort of just-posthippie, freewheeling, motorcycle-on-a-long-road sort…
Adele’s recent Grammy sweep may signal a return to the idea of the mainstream successful soul songstress, but that archetype probably wouldn’t exist were it not for the great Diana Ross. Her voice helped define soul just as her reported offstage behavior helped define diva. But all of it put…
Late last week, we posted about the inaugural Fort Lauderdale Beach music festival, which takes place this Saturday at Da Big Kahuna. The intense lineup — some three stages of music all night — and the superwide mix of genres represented therein was a head-scratcher for some. But this is…
Sometime before the official recording of Never Enough, the new joint EP between South Florida MC Knowledge Medina and producer Jonathan “Numonics” Rosenfeld, the latter suddenly became convinced he was going to die. Numonics was working on a session for another rapper when he felt intense chest pain and pressure…
Craigslist: All the jokes about its inherent creepiness have already been made. So we’ll skip them — and the fact remains that, for better or for worse, the site remains one of the most-visited clearinghouses for musicians in search of fellow like-minded players. The “musicians” section of the South Florida…
Blondie, led by the unforgettably platinum blonde Debbie Harry, was one of the great mainstream successes of the ’70s downtown New York scene. The magic was a sound that artfully blended any number of genres — punk, reggae, even rap — but blended it all together with unabashed pop hooks and…
In the vast galaxy that is “Latin music” — a term that means almost nothing, really, as it includes all kinds of genres and language combinations — regional Mexican music is a solar system unto itself. Of the many styles further grouped into this umbrella, one of the biggest is…
With the sun setting on a certain strain of commercial, latter-day pop-punk, many of that scene’s latecomers and also-rans are understandably growing up, growing out their swoopy bangs, and jumping ship. Exhibit A out of Florida in current pop culture would be Juliet Simms, formerly the singer of Automatic Loveletter,…
