If you’re looking to attend the biggest Christmas show of the season, you need look no further than the Office Depot Center this Saturday. But unless you like your holiday cheer served with heaps of Christmas carols and a side of show tunes, this may not be your night. Having…
It has been a long, strange trip for Bonnie Bramlett. Ordinarily, one starts off a career as a nobody and then, after establishing oneself as a talented musician, gets to hook up with other able performers. This is how supergroups are started. But Bramlett skipped all that other stuff and…
For those new to the Palm Beach County music scene, Family Function may provide the who’s who you’re looking for. And for all those jokers who go to Respectable Street Cafe every weekend anyway, your entrance to the Street this Sunday may be greeted with the same sort of shouts…
Mick Meehan pulls a tuft of Bali Swag tobacco from its pouch and effortlessly rolls up a cigarette as he discusses his reasons for coming to America. “I came over here in the early ’80s, the same as everyone else,” he states in a thick, gravelly brogue. “There was no…
Ah, it seems like only yesterday, but it was 15 years ago that downtown West Palm Beach first found a little R-E-S-P-E-C-T. Respectable Street Cafe has evolved over the past decade and a half into the finest venue for local live music in Palm Beach County. Where else you gonna…
With time spent as Duane Allman’s replacement in the Allman Brothers Band and as lead guitarist for Phil Lesh and Friends, Warren Haynes has become a hero to the jam-band set. And rightly so. Haynes has combined blues and psychedelia more effectively than anyone this side of the 1960s, when…
Circuses seem to come through South Florida more often than most places, particularly in the winter months. Sure, it’s probably just due to the weather more than any love of Florida audiences, but that doesn’t mean one shouldn’t take advantage of the thrills under the big top. And, in this…
Trey Anastasio, lead singer/guitarist of perennial American jam-band Phish and all-around neohippie icon, is prepared to slam into Florida with gale-force winds. You can hear the excitement in his voice. A Dennis Hopperish frenetic pace infiltrates his speech, and as he talks, each word seems to be a stepping stone…
For the kids in Death Becomes You, Halloween is the most wonderful time of the year. “This is like our Christmas, our Hanukkah, our everything. Totally,” rants DBY drummer Christopher Lee, on the phone from the fifth ring of hell. Halloween, after all, comes only once a year. And when…
Although most people remember Leonard Nimoy for either blue shirts and pointy ears or Rod Serlingesque commentary before documentaries regarding the paranormal, the man’s first love was photography. In fact, it is also his latest. The photography bug sank its teeth into Nimoy while he was still in his teens,…
With Comedy Central’s Insomniac, Dave Attell, set to perform for three days at Uncle Funny’s in Davie, New Times decided it would be a good idea to give the man a buzz at his hotel room in Boston to discuss his show, his standup, and life on comedy time. Q:…
Does Sam Altman, drummer for the Disco Biscuits, smoke a lot of pot? Well, stoners do tend to tell very long, involved stories; consider his response to the question, “So, how did you guys come up with the name for your new album?” “We live in Santa Cruz, California,” he…
How about something right up your alley? Kim’s Alley, in this case, and the myriad other shops, restaurants, and bars that make up the Shops of Gateway. The old-timey (read: nonsucky) strip mall welcomes an addition to the family as CD Collector opens its doors this Saturday. Not only is…
It’s always a shame when a recording studio burns to the ground. There’s a lot of expensive stuff in there, after all. And it’s even worse when half the pricey musical doohickeys that are incinerated belong to close friends and colleagues. It’s one thing to call your insurance company and…
Africa is besieged by problems. Sheesh, a lot of those guys are poor. Damn, many of their governments are crooked. But, hey, most of the countries are new, and the continent has been regularly pillaged by more developed countries (read: France, England, and Holland. Thanks, guys). The raping of the…
Tim Bergling wants to know why some gay people act so gay. And he wants to know why anyone would care. “I think it’s pretty simple,” Bergling says. “In our society, we devalue femininity…. The idea that a man would surrender his place in the hierarchy and act like a…
With more than a quarter of a century behind them, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band has achieved a brassy brilliance rarely heard in the modern age. There was a time, many moons ago, when great herds of brass bands roamed the plains of America. They practiced arts long lost to…
If the Meters were still around, it would be a close contest. But, as it stands now, if you consider talent, expression of the New Orleans sound, and longevity, only one band can claim to be at the top of the heap in the New Orleans music scene: the Radiators…
Ordinarily, we would write off Joanna Connor as just another of the myriad female blues singer/songwriter/guitarists who offer blues lite with a touch of country. But Connor’s album The Joanna Connor Band, released independently this year on M.C. Records, shows that she is so much more. Sure, there are several…
The alt-country boom seems to have mellowed a bit, but it certainly hasn’t hit the skids the way tech stocks have. It’s still alive and very healthy, with Ryan Adams boasting one of the finest records of 2001 and Wilco having released a great album (Yankee Hotel Foxtrot) this year…
Even though he has railed against capitalism for about a decade, John Samson, heart and soul of the folksy punk group the Weakerthans, is distinctly soft-spoken. He’s so quiet that New Times’ voice-activated tape recorder picked up only about half his words, so some of Samson’s ever-so-quotable statements are lost…
Drama queen and drag queen oftentimes go hand in hand, which is probably why drag queens make for such great soap opera. At least, that’s what Robby Kendall hopes. The writer’s creation, Victoria Place, is in stage productions, though Kendall’s ambitious plans for the cast of oddball characters include having…
