When news arrived of the passing of Stone Temple Pilots lead singer Scott Weiland this past Thursday, no one who came of age in the ’90s should have been surprised. Few rock stars of his era, it seemed, took the cliché of sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll more literally…
In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, Keith Richards gave out the ultimate compliment to St. Paul and the Broken Bones when he called the James Brown-channeling soul singer Paul Janeway and his band “interesting to watch.” “He’s a cat that can do an Otis Redding,” Richards told Stone, and if you…
Photo by Chad Kamenshine “Shreveport, Louisiana is a weird, isolated place with a strong musical history we’re constantly reminded of,” says Seratones singer and guitarist AJ Haynes from her Southern hometown. Though they came together as Seratones less than two years ago, guitarist Connor Davis, bassist Adam Davis, drummer Jesse…
Science, or at least Google, now claims that eating turkey does not make you sleepy — which gives you one less excuse not to go party with your back-in-town friends on Thursday night. As an added bonus, here’s one less excuse (think of it as your first Christmas or Hanukkah…
Due to complaints that America’s favorite fall reality show, The Presidential Debates, have been taking too damn long, broadcasters have taken editorial liberties with some rather crucial interactions among the nominees. Though they’ve kept discussion on trivial topics like the economy and foreign policy, it seems one of the most…
John Lydon, more infamously known as Johnny Rotten, earned his place in the books as lead singer of the Sex Pistols, but last night at Fort Lauderdale’s Culture Room, the legendary punk rocker proved his “secondary” band, Public Image Ltd, are second to none. Lydon walked on stage at…
“In the Aztec tradition, there is a special day when the world of the living and the dead have a gateway to party, sing, and dance together,” explains Jim Hammond of the November 2 holiday known as Day of the Dead. As executive producer of the Florida Day of the…
A bit after 8 p.m., what sounded like an automated female voice said over the Hard Rock Live loudspeaker, “Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the stage the best fucking rock band you’ve ever seen — Cheap Trick.” That might be a bit of hyperbole, but last night, the aging Midwestern…
While you might have been too young to experience Woodstock—or perhaps non-existent—there’s no excuse not to hit up Rudystock. This weekend, starting this afternoon, nearly 40 musical acts will partake in three days of “peace and music” at Rudy’s Pub in Lake Worth for the mini music festival’s fourth installment. Mary…
South Florida isn’t exactly a hotbed for indie folk. Whether it’s the heat, the humidity, or the swarming mosquitoes, our musical tastes don’t typically veer toward the introspective. Most acts that make their way down here are of the head-banging or booty-shaking varieties, but last night under a nearly full…
If you’re the kind of person who believes in reincarnation, it would be reasonable to assume that when Nick Drake left this mortal plane in 1974, his soul — or at least his soulful voice — landed in Sweden in 1978 to a newborn of Argentine heritage named José González…
Unashamed is the name of rapper Lecrae’s autobiography, out next May, in which he promises to go into vivid detail about the childhood abuse he suffered, his struggles with drugs and alcoholism, and an attempt at suicide. It will also undoubtedly elaborate on how he came out of the other…
Photo courtesy of George Guerra You wonder how a man who called his band The Mothers of Invention, as Frank Zappa did, would take to his son making a living as a tribute band? Sure every artist longs for their art to outlive their time walking this Earth, and every…
Photo courtesy of “Swap Shop Kid” Last week, Fort Lauderdale rapper Bleubird — middle fingers a-blazin’, gold grillz shining, and Gary Busey face masquerading — released his new video “Keith Haringbone” directed by BJ Golnick. On September 18, a whole new album named after his home turf, Lauderdale, is set to be released. Recorded…
Even those most jaded by crowdsourcing campaigns — whether from that acquaintance who wants you to pay for him to film a documentary about facial hair or your cousins looking for help to furnish their apartment — should take a look at Thomas Fekete’s campaign on GoFundMe. The Surfer Blood guitarist…
Free concerts at a racetrack usually have connotations of washed up good time oldie bands who are a quarter century past their glory years. So it was a pleasant surprise for South Florida hipsters, Thursday evening, when James Murphy took the stage. Murphy, the mastermind behind LCD Soundsystem, did not…
Donald Trump is probably the funniest comedian of 2015, but his biggest impact in the world of comedy might be that he convinced Gallagher to shave off his trademark mustache for the first time in 40 years so he could imitate the bombastic presidential candidate. Leo Gallagher, the one-time pop-culture…
Started in 1987 out of the ashes of a Ministry tour, My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult (or if you’re into the whole brevity thing TKK) have been blasting catchy industrial dance music for nearly 30 years. Songs like “Sex on Wheelz” captured the early ‘90s rave culture and were featured in…
If you drove around Miami in the 1990s, you probably remember the name DJ Ballistic Billy. At 7 and 9 on the dot every night on Power 96, he would play his mixes, mashing up rock with hip-hop and house. Though he found himself broadcasting on a major radio station…
When New Times last spoke to local synth-pop duo Eons, keyboardist Matt Gossman told us emphatically “rock is dead.” The duo’s new six song EP Serene Machine, out August 7, proves that musical philosophy hasn’t changed. The dreamy dance soundtrack harkens back to the 1980’s a decade when the synthesizer…
The Smashing Pumpkins and Marilyn Manson Bayfront Park Amphitheatre Wednesday, July 22, 2015 Better Than: If you went to a Kiss/Cheap Trick co-headlining tour in 1995. In their peak years The Smashing Pumpkins and Marilyn Manson would have never toured together. Though they are both of the same genre, the…
With coheadliners the Smashing Pumpkins and Marilyn Manson, the End Times Tour is a traveling history museum of ’90s rock. In fact, no two bands could represent the rock world’s issues of the 20th Century’s final decade quite like they do. As the ’90s began, the main musical debate involved…
