In November, local hip hop wordsmith Bleubird announced his Kickstarter project to fund the music video for “Pimp Hand” — an ironically titled single about heartbreak off his new album, Cannonball!!!. After successfully reaching the $3000 goal, New Times was invited along for a wardrobe shopping adventure and given a…
In a musical world fueled by electronic beats and pop star remixes, there is little room for a revival of rock ‘n roll nostalgia. However, South Florida rockabilly quartet, the Sweet Chariots, is dedicated to proving otherwise. A few years ago, seasoned drummer Freddy Schwenk crossed paths with Thomas Warren…
Beginning last week, Milwaukee emo band the Promise Ring made its mysterious return to the internet by way of Twitter. A week after posting the equivocal “Hello, again…” status, the band released a 34-second video titled “It’s All Coming Back to Me Part 1.” The cryptic video contains clips of…
In preparation for his new album,Cannonball!!!, hometown hip-hop hero Jacques Bruna, AKA Bleubird, has turned to Kickstarter to help fund the filming of his music video for “Pimp Hand.” With the earnings, Bleubird will join forces with Chris Hill of Digital Cypher Photography to film the music video on a…
Saves the Day with Bayside Revolution, Fort LauderdaleTuesday, November 8, 2011Better Than: Sweating your ass off and being packed in like a bunch of sardines the last time Saves the Day was here. At the ripe age of 15, I had a crush on Chris Conley, but who didn’t? Saves…
It’s the late-’90s inside a dingy club, hardcore music echoes throughout the room, and a female-fronted band takes the stage. A chubby-faced girl with scraggly short hair walks onto the stage and picks up the mic. She’s dressed in baggy jeans with an inside-out, over-sized T-shirt and some heavily worn-in…
It’s been one hell of a Halloween season, zombie dance parties, zombie walks, fetish fashion shows, and the vampire ball kept us all quite busy. But despite this exhausting — in a good way, of course — amount of events, not even the rain could keep Fort Lauderdale from celebrating…
Forget brains. Forget blood. There is only one thing that the dancing zombies at the Mai-Kai crave: rum barrels.On Saturday night, the folks at the Mai-Kai Restaurant and Polynesian Show — everyone’s favorite tiki-themed drinking spot — hosted the Zombie A-Go-Go dance party. (View our full slide show here.) Partygoers…
Saying you don’t like Hall & Oates is like saying you don’t like air. It’s just unheard of. It’s completely irrational. In fact, it quite possibly could be considered un-American. Hell even Son of Sam murderer David Berkowitz enjoyed kicking back to some good ol’ Hall to the Oates. But…
The weekend was a rainy one, but when the clock struck nine o’clock on Sunday night, the clouds disappeared for the glitzy rainbow exploding from inside the Manor. For the last ten weeks over a dozen women and men have been participating in a free gender impersonation workshop given by…
The full moon glistened in the sky on Friday night, the air was muggy, and a strange feeling of uncertainty loomed on the horizon. This was not going to be just another night of drinking in downtown Fort Lauderdale. The evening went awry when a mad scientist named Keegan Hitchcock…
The Sounds Culture Room, Fort LauderdaleWednesday, October 12Better Than: Singing at the top of your lungs and dancing around your apartment to the band’s entire discography. Maja Ivarsson is one hot ass bitch. There is no denying that. But there isn’t any smoke or mirrors — or auto-tune — when…
Previously: Marilyn Manson’s Antichrist Superstar Is 15: Daisy Berkowitz SpeaksMarilyn Manson’s Antichrist Superstar Is 15: A Video HistoryFollowing the release of Antichrist Superstar in 1996, Marilyn Manson began exploring other realms of media and made his silver-screen debut in David Lynch’s Lost Highway. For the next decade, Manson was cast…
The music industry is a fickle one, especially when it comes to pop music. So for a group like Black Eyed Peas — who have been together for over a decade — to go from an underground L.A. hip hop group to world renown musical heavy hitters is quite an…
In the ’90s, the explosive riot grrrl movement rolled in, banging on doors of the music industry and inspiring woman all across the globe. As this past summer marked the 20th anniversary of events that brought the feminist crusade to life, many of the original riot grrrls — now in…
Modern EnglishRespectable Street, West Palm BeachThursday, September 22, 2011 Better than: Staying home to watch Valley Girl. It has been almost two decades since the original Modern English lineup took the stage, and although they look a helluva lot different (see random details 1 and 2), you could close your…
For nearly a decade the indie community has been making the trek to West Palm Beach to hit the dance floor at Flaunt, Respectable Street’s weekly Thursday night party. The DJs play everyone’s favorite hits from electro to 80’s rock, and it’s almost a guarantee that you’ll hear the sounds…
Aside from eating brunch every Sunday at Rosie’s, I’m still new to the nightlife scene in Wilton Manors, so traveling to Bill’s Filling Station on Saturday night was like visiting a foreign land. It’s easy to imagine the male gay bar scene to be covered in glitter with half-naked boys…
Before Amy Winehouse tragically passed away on July 23, she recorded one last track with music legend Tony Bennett entitled, “Body and Soul”. In honor of what would have been her 28th birthday, Bennett released the single and accompanying video on Wednesday, September 14. The video is simple, without gimmick,…
Thanksgiving, a time for family, stuffing our faces… and electronic music? The Dancegiving Music Festival seems to think so. Now in its second year, the Committee Entertainment-assembled electronic musical festival has returned to kick your ass out of that food coma. The party-till-you-pass-out affair will once again take over the…
This morning, the news of DJ Mehdi’s sudden death flooded the internet, shocking the music industry and electronic fans all around the globe. No official release from Ed Banger has been sent out. But several reports have confirmed the news of a freak roof accident that took Mehdi’s life. Mehdi…
Lately, Zooey Deschanel has distinguished herself among musicians — both by teaming with M. Ward to form She & Him and tying the knot with Death Cab for Cutie’s Ben Gibbard and forever influencing his lyrical content for years to come.It has been a busy season for her: She &…
