For the most part, the lead singer gets all the attention. Not too many frontmen are willing to share the largest spotlight. It is rarer than an honest cab driver to witness a band divide the role and the attention as evenly as the Drive-By Truckers. On Wednesday night at…
“Why do interviewers always ask me that question?” wondered Keb’ Mo’ in response to being asked what audiences can expect at his June 8 concert at B.B. King’s Blues Club. The Southern Californian who currently resides in Nashville has become synonymous with the blues. After years as a musician dabbling…
No, this is not a list of musicians who are most like cartoon characters, so you’ll find no Iggy Pop, Twisted Sister, or Lady Gaga on the list. Rather, this is a collection of stars who have been captured in animated form: some for children, some not so much for…
For those out there that wish Bob Dylan were wordier, Drive-By Truckers might be the band for you. The Athens, GA, quintet combine rock, country, folk, and punk to chronicle the American dream from the bottom of a bottle. Ten albums into a career that spans almost two decades, their…
Sticklers will tell you summer doesn’t start until June 21. These are probably the same people who don’t believe in global warming. The sweat on the back of your shirt and the daily storms tell you summer is already here and if the weather isn’t enough proof for the changing…
“Never trust anyone over thirty” was the motto of the Woodstock generation. But now, 45 years after the legendary Woodstock Music & Art Fair, we still trust many of the musicians who performed on that stage to entertain us. While those musicians might currently be self-loathing, as they are on…
Local rapper and internet phenomenon Stitches has made it known he loves the Miami Heat. In his artistic “Brick in Yo Face” video, one of his homeboys is wearing a LeBron James Heat jersey. In return for the love shown by Stitches, the Miami Heat warmed up to “Brick in…
For the MP3 generation, albums don’t mean diddlysquat. Playlists go from genre to genre, artist to artist, decade to decade, from Frank Sinatra to Beyonce to Kiss. But there was a time when music was consumed in one large gulp whether by vinyl, cassette, or CD. And in a current…
Who is your favorite comic book character? Spider-man? Batman? Groo the Wanderer? Darren Davis publisher of Bluewater Productions would like it to be Jon Bon Jovi, Freddy Mercury, or Kurt Cobain as his company has published biographical comics of each of these rock stars this month. “In 2008, we noticed…
1994 was a hell of a year for music. While in order to listen to most of your favorite albums from that year, you must come into contact with your moldy CD collection, at Culture Room on May 16, you can hear Rubberneck by the Toadies in an actual human…
There aren’t many musicians who inspire serious scholarship, but Bruce Springsteen is one of them. The New Jersey native has sold more than 120 million albums over his four decade-plus career. Although many acts that started in the 1960s or ’70s still sell out arenas, most of these musicians (without…
There aren’t many musicians who inspire serious scholarship, but Bruce Springsteen is one of them. The New Jersey native has sold more than 120 million albums over his four-decade-plus career. Although many acts that started in the 1960s or ’70s still sell out arenas, most of these musicians (without naming…
You do not turn to adjust your set. The stations have not been renumbered. It is not a local channel you accidentally landed on playing Palm Beach rapper Eric Biddines’s new video. You are in fact watching MTV Jams which has put Biddines’s “Railroads Down/Unfinished” in heavy rotation. The song,…
I was taught good guys wear only white. So after the stage lights came on and Tech N9ne stood in front of a packed Culture Room clad in a white gas-station-attendant shirt, matching pants, and a star-shaped mask pasted onto his face, revealing only his eyes, mouth, and the considerable…
For a man who started his career doing session work in the shadows, most notably on Lauryn Hill’s “Everything Is Everything,” Alicia Keys’ “You Don’t Know My Name,” and a gaggle of Kanye West confections, you would think Ohio’s John Stephens would have picked a more humble stage name than…
How fast is too fast? Rapper Tech N9ne’s supersonic lyrical delivery tests the boundaries of human comprehension. The Kansas City-based MC was bestowed his name thanks to his ability to spit out words with the speed of a TEC-9 semiautomatic weapon. Tech N9ne later gave his handle a double-entendre by…
If you want a taste of Chicago, you don’t have to bite into a deep dish pizza, instead you can stop into B.B. King’s Blues Club this Friday night and get a listen to Lil’ Ed and the Blues Imperials. Headed by Lil’ Ed Williams — who sings while playing…
It’s April 8. It’s been 20 years since Kurt Cobain shot himself. Unlike the O.J. Simpson chase or 9/11 or the Challenger explosion, I can’t exactly remember where I was when I heard the news, though I do remember MTV solemnly covering it all that weekend. A friend pointed out…
Manchester Orchestra had one ambition when recording their newest album Cope. They wanted it to be loud. Really loud. Chris Freeman, the band’s keyboardist and percussionist told the New Times, “Everyone in the alternative world is trying to be quiet playing with acoustic guitars. We wanted to go the other…
According to Deltron 3030, the 31st century is a bleak place. Technology and corporations have run amok. But fortunately, we have rad music to look forward to. At least as evidenced by the rap supergroup’s Thursday night show at Culture Room. Del the Funky Homosapien emceed the story that’s been…
Event 2, the second release by Deltron 3030, is less an album and more a cinematic experience for the ears. We were reintroduced to Deltron Zero, the hero of the future, as he battles evil corporations that rule the universe. We first met him in the year 2000 on Deltron…
Do not refer to Get the Led Out as a tribute band; you will greatly upset its gracious lead singer, Paul Sinclair. Though the act plays only songs by classic-rock gods Led Zeppelin, it believes it serves a nobler purpose than mere imitation of the Rock and Roll Hall of…
