You could complain that Alice Cooper’s voice sounded strained Wednesday night at Hard Rock Live in Hollywood, Florida, but that would be like visiting the zoo and whining about the quality of the food. If you go see the Godfather of Shock Rock live, it’s not to hear a fine…
“If you love the movie, you’ll love the show even more. There’s a very visual feeling to the show.” Chazz Palminteri explained about his one man play A Bronx Tale coming to Seminole Casino Coconut Creek on February 26. He originally started performing the stage version of in 1990. Robert…
Another day, another music video. So goes the philosophy of prolific, java-loving, Delray Beach rapper Eric Biddines. He’s the creator of a cool, creative growing sonic canon he calls Planetcoffeebean. His most recent album, his fifth, is part of that growing body of work, though it doesn’t include the word…
If you’ve been hearing live music on the formerly quiet corner of NW First Ave. and West Las Olas Blvd., your ears are not deceiving you. On January 10, Crafti Bar opened for business, bringing reggae band Fourth Dimension every Friday night, rock band Late Bird every last Saturday of…
All aspiring rock bands should be aware that giving your group a human name may one day cause identity issues for your lead singer. Debbie Harry, whatever her hair color is now, will always be known as Blondie; same with Marilyn Manson, and what about poor Hootie? Nobody knows this…
It can be easy to get nothing done when you’re in limbo between a move and a move. Broward native, piano man Jacob Jeffries, is fighting all sloth after leaving New York and staying in Plantation, waiting to join his actress girlfriend in Los Angeles. He’s keeping his fingers and…
Calling an event For the Love Music Festival might leave you wondering, “For the love of what?” For the love of music? The love of festivals? The love of pursuing love? “It’s all those things, but it’s for the love of the art, of our town, Fort Lauderdale.” said event…
Music can make you feel old. Standing in the aisles of a record shop waiting for an in-store performance, you come upon used records from your youth. You scratch your head wondering if that can be right, that it has been 26 years since De La Soul’s 3 Feet High…
Listening to the old-timey Americana of Nashville-based Forlorn Strangers’ new EP American Magic Tricks, you’d never guess the band formed in Palm Beach County. But it was at a local writer’s group, attended by Hannah Leigh Lusk, Benjamin Lusk, and Chris Banke, where its harmonic seeds were sown. “There’s not…
“A conductor is a lot like a football coach,” explains Keith Lockhart, conductor of the Boston Pops. Football comes up a lot in the conversation, probably because his beloved New England Patriots are days away from playing in the Super Bowl but also because of what he sees as obvious…
Hypoluxo is a band on the move. Born on the mean streets of Lake Worth and currently based in New York, the young indie rockers have already completed two excellent EPs — It’s a Beautiful Day to Leave and Feelings — that they will promote with an East Coast tour…
When Chris Robinson first rose to prominence singing with the Black Crowes, he seemed to embody the rock ‘n’ roll spirit considered long dead. Though the band he started with announced yesterday that it was calling it quits after all these years, time has not changed the man himself. Calling…
One of the most surprising things you learn when interviewing singer Michael Bolton is that he has a sense of humor about himself. Not only did he make recent appearances roasting himself on the sitcom Two and a Half Men and record the self-skewering “Jack Sparrow” with Lonely Island but…
“I could have thought of hundreds of guitarists I’d put in front of me,” blushed Sean Chambers when asked about the time the U.K.’s Guitarist Magazine named him one of the 50 best blues guitarists of the century. “We were in England touring with Hubert Sumlin, who was Howlin’ Wolf’s…
Though its sounds harken to the folk music of Ireland or the bluegrass of the Appalachian Mountains, you’ve probably never heard anything just like Nashville five-piece Humming House. Crafting music with the mandolin, fiddle, and upright bass, singer Justin Tam can see how Humming House might be typecast as bluegrass…
Bono’s been on my shit list for a while. Sure, “I Will Follow” is impossible not to bob your head to, and I have found myself humming along to “The Sweetest Thing,” but the lead singer of U2 has always annoyed me with his self-importance. Presenting himself as a patron…
When you go to a museum, nobody really talks about who the curator is. When you pick up a book to read, it’s not because you’re thinking about who edited it. But when you go out dancing, the first question anyone asks is: Who’s the DJ? The disc jockey selects…
Last week, when I wrote about the upcoming Gregg Allman concert, I caught hell from his fans for stating that some have laid claim that Allman coined the term “Southern rock.” Commenters said to do some research. After all, everyone knew Gregg Allman hated that term being thrown around to…
Gregg Allman is a legend. He either coined the term “Southern rock” himself or inspired it with the Allman Brothers Band. Gregg kept the band going for 45 years through countless reformations and pushed on after the fatal motorcycle crash of his brother Duane Allman. The group only recently called…
The future is so close; at least the future Marty McFly time-traveled to with his flying DeLorean in Back to the Future 2. Yes, 2015 was the setting of the far-off future in the 1989 sequel that seemed so far away that Zemeckis imagined we’d have skateboards that defy gravity,…
Gregg Allman has lived the type of life that spawns movies. The singer of the Allman Brothers found fame and riches creating classic rock staples like “Ramblin’ Man” and “Whipping Post.” Depending on whose legend you believe, he either coined the term “Southern rock” himself or inspired it with the…
No matter how bad Americans are at geography, there’s one shape in the Union everyone can pick out when handed a blank map. That’s Florida. The uniqueness of the Sunshine State extends beyond the configuration of its borders. There are just certain Floridian qualities that capture the world’s imagination –…
