Five Under $10 For the Weekend of March 2 – 4

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…

Live: Marc Maron at the South Beach Comedy Festival, March 1

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,…

Perpetual Groove on March 2 and 3 at Culture Room

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…

Badfish on March 7 at Revolution Live

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,…

Hymn for Her on March 2 and 3 at Dada and E-213

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…

Five Underrated Songs by the-Dream; Revolution Show April 12

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,”…

Local Music Boosters: The Good Fund Wants to Give You $2,500

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,…

Five Under $10 For the Weekend of February 24 – 26

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…

The Purehoney Sixth Issue Party on February 25 at Propaganda

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…

The Doobie Brothers on February 24 at Hard Rock Live

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…

Diana Ross on February 23 at Hard Rock Live

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…

Download: Knowledge Medina and Numonics – Never Enough EP

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…

Five Underrated Songs By Blondie; Hard Rock Live Show March 25

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…