The advertisements for the “Angry” line of sandwiches at Burger King is foreboding. Filled with huge flaming letters and steam lines, they seem to promise punishment to anyone foolish enough to try one. I was feeling up to the challenge, so I pulled in the drive-through and ordered the Angry…
At first glance, a band called Hit The Lights would probably be considered a Metallica cover band. After all, it’s the name of one of the best songs on Kill ‘Em All. But in an interview for the Warped Tour, HTL let it fly that their name came from the…
Pompano Beach’s favorite surf rock three piece, The Gutter Queens, are releasing their new six song EP at Solid Sound Studios this Saturday. If you’re unfamiliar with Solid Sound Studios, it’s a rehearsal studio in Pompano Beach (4616 N Powerline Rd) with a penchant for booking local shows on the…
What do you get when you kill 52 nuns and can’t properly dispose of their bodies? Hilarity, of course! In Dan Goggin’s Nunsense, Sister Julia “accidentally” poisons 52 nuns with her home cooking. Then, after she repents of course, she turns her attention to raising funds for the burials. A…
This week, it looks like I’ll be eating balls of birdseed. A clear package sits on my desk. The label says Best Quality Bansi manufactured these Rajgira Ladoo. So far, exactly two words on the package make sense to me. The next five words, Les Balles de Rajgira Douces, don’t…
On Friday, September 4, The Talent Farm (a.k.a. Broward-Palm Beach New Times’ Best Music Venue) is hosting Every You’s CD release party. Every You plays a cleaned up style of radio friendly rock and roll tinged with lyrics the heartfelt, emotional lyrics you’d expect from the genre. The Fort Lauderdale-based…
So the ominous wording of the press release a few weeks ago wasn’t signaling the end of Live Nation’s Wednesday deals after all. This week, the boys and girls at America’s favorite ticket merchant are once again offering one price tickets for all shows at Cruzan Amphitheater. All day today,…
No not on the same ticket, but The Bravery and Perpetual Groove have both announced dates at the Culture Room. Rock and Roll darlings The Bravery, fresh off a stint opening for Green Day, are coming to Culture Room on October 16. They’ll surely be trying out songs off their…
On this, Gene Simmons’ 60th birthday, the greatest gift any of us could give him is this: buy tickets to the upcoming Kiss tour. Unfortunately, there is not an exact date for when tickets go on sale, but the show will take place on October 22 at the BankAtlantic Center…
It’s shaping up to be a busy end of the year at Revolution Live. Here are the most recent show announcements.Definitely not a band to eschew corporate sponsorship, Bowling for Soup is undertaking the clunkily named Bowling for Soup Presented by 7-Eleven Slurpee, Flavored by Coke tour at Revolution Live…
The second round of the Summer Spin Series (hosted by Gryphon Nightclub and New Times) went down August 21 with DJ Edgar G, DJ Mikey Shanley, and DJ Supersede squaring off in a house format competition for the second spot at the finals on October 16. DJ Edgar G started…
There are plenty of shows to check out in Broward and Palm Beach this weekend, here are some of the highlights:Tonight, Propaganda in Lake Worth is hosting Vultures are Wolves, a down and dirty noise metal band, punk rockers UglyHarts, and TV Kills Kids.If synth pop is more your thing,…
The Culture Room is filling up their fall schedule with show announcements. Here are a few you might want to plan on checking out:On Thursday, September 24, The Almost, This Providence, Anarbor, and The Dares are going to try to make you cry all night long. Tickets go on sale…
Although Clean Plate Charlie is the only food blog you really need to read daily, some people just can’t get enough. Here are some highlights of other food blogs.It’s hard to call The Amateur Gastronomer anything but a professional. Well, maybe she’s not getting paid for the blog, but with…
The OP Presents tour is making a stop at Revolution Live on November 5. That means those of you who missed Boys Like Girls (who are slated to release their next album, Love Drunk, on September 8), Cobra Starship, or The Maine last time they came have a second shot…
How’s this for funny? Comedian Nathaniel Stoman, better known as Earthquake, admitted on the Howard Stern Show that during his stint in the U.S. Air Force, he nearly wiped Louisiana off the map. Earthquake said he nearly dropped a live nuclear weapon while daydreaming. What was so tantalizing as to…
Sometimes you want to go where everyone knows your name, and sometimes you’d rather disappear into a crowd of new and unfamiliar people. Tequila Ranch is the latter. Maybe it’s because the enormous restaurant and bar is located in the heart of the sprawling Hard Rock Hotel and Casino property…
Even after 33 years together, The Dirty Dozen Brass Band simply doesn’t stop touring. Between playing around 30 festivals a year, DDBB also headlines their own shows and has recorded 16 albums since 1984. Although their sounds hasn’t changed much since they started, it’s far from being stagnant. They’ve added…
Jordin Sparks, American Idol’s youngest winner has been added as another opening act on Britney Spears’ second leg of “The Circus Starring Britney Spears” tour. So if you’re counting reasons to buy your tickets to the show: Jordin Sparks, Kristina DeBarge, $50 million production, 50 dancers, magicians, clowns, acrobats, and…
When it’s my turn to pick something for this weekly post, I’ll be the first to admit I’m not too adventurous. Instead, I’m looking for something that is strange enough to pass as exotic yet not so strange as to give me anxiety thinking about what it will do to…
Every death metal, horror punk, shock rock, and costume wearing band in America owes Alice Cooper a debt of gratitude. Without him bringing electric chairs, fountains of fake blood, and corpse makeup onstage, rock and roll would be a much tamer genre. He hasn’t been all shock rock and makeup…
So much for the Guitar Hero Champions being able to rock out in front of a huge audience at BankAtlantic Center. Oh and Aerosmith has canceled the rest of their tour at the BankAtlantic Center due to injuries sustained by Steven Tyler. Unfortunately, this means the show they already missed…
