There’s something unsettling about stretching and curving and lifting your body in unnatural, demanding ways. At least that’s what you tell yourself when you don’t want to hit the gym. Well, local contortionist Jade Goddess shapes her body in all sorts of unpleasant but jaw-dropping positions for performances across South…
The IWAN concept facility The Bubble in downtown Fort Lauderdale will be hosting another event Saturday starting at 7 p.m. Except this show will break somewhat from the indie rock/punk that usually fills the space and show some love for the metal heads of South Florida. Opener Lazer Beast describes…
Douglas Marshall, director of business development for Planned Parenthood of South Florida and the Treasure Coast, has no shortage of distressing accounts of patients he has helped. After the ribbon-cutting ceremony yesterday at the newly opened clinic in Pembroke Pines, he recounted a story about a 15-year-old girl who came…
Punk band To Be HatedShows by local artists, or concerts that are otherwise under-the-radar this weekend in Broward and Palm Beach. Friday: Boca-based trio The Pretty Faces create the sort of garage pop that’s dirty enough for a dive, but too tuneful to be wasted on shitty acoustics. They’re playing…
We’re all guilty of romanticizing the Sixties. We forget that the era defined by political struggle wasn’t always a big, naked party. Civil rights struggles, women’s rights, gay rights, and various Chicano movements battled deep-seated ignorance and hate. But the shifting social mores and revolutionary tone laid the foundation for…
It was only a matter of time before South Park unleashed its comic wrath on generation guitar-hero. If they only spent as much time practicing a real instrument, they’d be able to play a real instrument, Stan’s mom observed. Well, real talent be damned. Undergrounds Coffeehaus is hosting a Guitar…
Have you just started watching the popular HBO series True Blood? Well, you missed an entire season of titillating, shocking, suspenseful drama about those intriguing bloodsuckers. Undergrounds Coffeehaus is hosting a True Blood viewing party for the next three Fridays, starting tonight. Follow the beginning of Sookie and Bill’s relationship,…
There are no hippies left, only Phish fans and other wandering dread-head souls who travel from jam festival to jam festival, yearning for the 1960s like a pothead for a brownie. Thus the revolutionary tone of the decade is sometimes lost through tie-dye-colored Sixties nostalgia. But for a lot of…
Piano and drums mixed with vocals that are simultaneously breathy and uncompromising define the sound of The State Of, the female duo from Miami playing Wilton Manors’ New Moon (2440 Wilton Dr., Wilton Manors) tonight at 8. Although you can really hear their influences (Fiona Apple, Portishead, Radiohead, to name…
“Do you guys masturbate together?” hollered the rowdy but good-humored Guttermouth frontman Mark Adkins. It was 2000, I was 16, and a long-time pal (we’ll call him Will) and I were backstage at a Guttermouth show at the now-defunct West Palm venue Orbit. Taken aback, Will and I looked at…
For a lot of us, green living means changing our light bulbs, doing our best to recycle, and signing a petition to save polar bears. Baby steps, we tell ourselves; we can’t overhaul the system overnight. But according to the graphic novel As the World Burns: 50 Simple Things You…
You’ve heard me gush over the grrrly bands The State Of and Bonnie Riot (previously Sno Cones) on Crossfade before. The State Of takes drum n bass out of the jungle for a dark but fun mix of piano and percussion. Word is they’re having a CD release party sometime…
”Florida,” a single off Miami-based duo (though they tour as a trio) Awesome New Republic’s July release Rational Geographic II, taps kinetic echo-y vocals over New Wave synths and steady drumming for an anthem that is memorable and infectious; you’ll sing it for days. Think dance-pop a la Dogs Die…
Noted South Florida sculptor Peter Giovenco died Tuesday after a long fight with brain cancer. Giovenco, who was 37, worked with all types of metals, creating modern industrial-inspired furniture, like the stool and aluminum high heels that graced the cover of Playboy magazine. You can see more at his website…
Miami’s Ex-Norwegian channels power-pop of the past.Starting Sunday, the local-music haven Propaganda will officially celebrate its grand opening with the best recent lineup of South Florida acts I’ve seen since the opening of the IWAN concept facility theBUBBLE. Sure that wasn’t too long ago, but cheers to keeping the momentum.Sunday:…
Pop-punk used to mean more than boy bands with eyeliner (cough, Good Charlotte, cough). The Ramones and The Clash made pop-influenced punk before the subcategory existed, and Screeching Weasel wore the pop-punk label as a badge. SoCal group Agent Orange is a part of that tradition. Known for fusing surf…
Recently, Bust writer Priya Jain walked in on Kathy Griffin with her face in a mountain of blow. Raising her head, Griffin entered a cocaine-induced rage, slapping all those around her, including her makeup artist, Naomi Campbell-style. Or so the 48-year-old D-list comedian wants you to believe. “I never scare…
The Cottage will host Pucciarelli’s Medicine Show Saturday, which will feature artwork by Lake Worth tattoo artists Leo Vendetta, Brad Cain, Scott White and Pooch. Pooch’s real name is Mike Pucciarelli, the award-winning tattooist and fine artist, whose artwork and tattooing style incorporates vibrant colors and lots of detail. He…
Electroclash duo Fischerspooner, made up of Warren Fischer and Casey Spooner, last dropped by South Florida in March, at South Beach’s Liv. It was just a couple of months before the release of their third album, Entertainment, which proves a snapshot of the twosome’s sound evolution to date. Fischerspooner’s first…
The Miami quintet Ketchy Shuby takes its name from the song of the same name on Peter Tosh’s Legalize It. And the band name as homage to the reggae legend makes perfect sense when you consider Ketchy Shuby’s sound, a hybrid of Jamaican beats and psychedelic soul. The group’s MySpace…
Photo by Sayre BermanTo view a full slideshow of pictures from the show, click here. Green DayTuesday, August 4American Airlines Arena Better Than: A show by any other pop-punk outfit playing today. The Review: Green Day still rules, despite the fact they’re all grown up. Sure, in their early days,…
Mike Mineo fuses reggae, soulful vocals, and fan-chain pulling, computer-monitor slapping, light-switch flipping percussion for his funky and quirky single “Work,” off his upcoming album Eccentricity, due out in late February. Produced by Brent Williams, who produces and plays with local singer-songwriter Cat Shell, “Work” conveys the sense of stagnant imprisonment and monotony associated with middle-class/blue-collar existence. Mineo used a click…
