The Bamboozle Roadshow 2008 Saves the Day, Armor for Sleep, Set Your Goals, Metro Station, Lydia Tuesday, April 15, 2008 Revolution Live Better Than: Trading a flash of boobs and a blow job for concert tickets on Craigslist. If partially-bleached bangs cover half your face, chances are, you were at…
by ANDY VIHSTADT Voice of the Beehive Wolf Parade announced details on the yet-to-be-titled (rumored Kissing the Beehive) second LP last week. The album does’t come out until June 16, but you can get a preview below courtesy of Stereogum. Wolf Parade: “Call it a Ritual” MP3 Docudrama For your…
If you want to go pay your respects to Mother Booker, the eclectic mother of reggae legend Bob Marley, all the info that you’ll need is below in the press release. –Jonathan Cunningham Cedella Marley Booker Memorial Service for the South Florida Community Set for April 15 at Fairchild Cedella…
So technically, it’s hard to call this track a “Throwback” since the album only came out in 2006. But the video itself is totally retro, and weird, and some shit that only Madlib and his Stones Throw affiliates could put together. You have to just watch it. Explaining all the…
That sounds like an odd performance request, but according to this story, he’s onboard to perform at the Mandela’s 90th birthday party this summer. The article doesn’t speak too highly of Eminem and you can almost hear the detractors and gay rights activists who will probably jump all over this…
When you first pop in Cat Shell’s debut disc, Cat’s Outta the Bag, you can’t help but notice the retro sound of the lead-off track, “I’m Torn.” It’s full of simple and subtle guitar work, winsome sax, and the alluring vocal style that Shell is turning into her trademark. While…
Taking their cues from dub pioneers like King Tubby and Lee “Scratch” Perry, Austin-based quartet Grimy Styles is ushering in a new wave of exploratory dub. The group’s latest album, Rewind, boasts tweaked-out klezmer, gypsy dub, and other global grooves that are creatively rehashed. Their heavy, syncopated beats beneath a…
A hot, beautiful spring Saturday shouldn’t be spent indoors. There’s too many beautiful women, waves, and other distractions awaiting you. But that’s exactly where I found myself this past Saturday, at Fort Lauderdales’s Laguna Beach nightclub, in the afternoon, hanging with Central Florida’s own Riskay for her first official video…
The year was 2005. Popular television show American Idol was still respectable (come on, you know it’s hard to watch now), and the country was in a tizzy over who the next Idol should be. The competition was fierce — arguably the best it’s ever been and each week, viewers…
Just got this press release about an award show party that’s jumping off tomorrow night at Spirits Nightclub. Puerto Rico’s Black Guayaba will be on hand rocking as will a host of other performers. The Annual Billboard Latin Music Conference is being held at the Hard Rock Casino this year…
British bands in the ’80’s had a strange sense of style. Of course, that’s a relative statement, but I was reminded of it when I came across the video from the Fine Young Cannibals and their international hit, “She Drives Me Crazy” from 1989. I don’t know what happened to…
Last Night: Caribou at the Culture Room Saturday, April 5th, Better Than: Making your own Tie-Dye Shirt. The Review: Pulling into the parking lot of the Culture Room, I felt a little bittersweet seeing all the available spaces. It’s rare when an indie band like Caribou decides to grace S.Florida…
Say Anything, Manchester Orchestra, Biffy Clyro, Weatherbox Friday, April 4, 2008 Revolution Live Better Than: Being spoon-fed dinner in a straight jacket Say Anything lead singer Max Bemis has got enough issues—enough to, well, write a 27-song double disc detailing those issues, which he did in the band’s 2007 sophomore…
Bartow, Fl rapper Riskay wrote one of the raunchiest, and funniest cheating songs of 2007. The tune is called, “Let Me Smell Yo Dick” and everybody from the New York Times to Perez Hilton caught wind of the song and wrote about it. She just got back from SXSW where…
A couple of months ago, we reported that Ali Campbell, long-time lead singer of British reggae band UB40 was leaving the group. They’d been together for nearly 30 years as a band and losing their lead singer was a major blow for UB40. One that could have sent them all…
Listening to the music of local singer Jacob Jeffries has a way of putting life in perspective. Whether you’re catching him live or listening to his newest EP, Life as an Extra, his songs about love, relationships gone bad, and braving the rigmarole aspects of daily existence are potent enough…
So tonight, everything is as it should be. Vince Neil, the name that could be responsible for breathing permanent life into West Palm Beach’s nightlife, is here to do exactly that. Sure, the bar that he co-owns, Dr. Feelgood’s, is successful thus far and already has a consistent turnout most…
If you’ve never heard of Miami-based music group the Baboons, they’re clever enough to capture your attention before you ever listen to their music. For a group of white folks that bills itself as an Afro-Cuban funk ‘n’ roll band, naming themselves the Baboons was a questionable call. You can’t…
On a recent Tuesday evening, local talk radio couldn’t seem to talk about anything except the American Idol viewing parties going on around South Florida. Folks had gathered to root for local contestants Syesha Mercado, an FIU student, and Ramiele Mulubay, from Miramar, as they battled for America’s amateur crown…
Like most tales of triumph and tragedy, the life, career, and untimely passing of reggae pioneer Mikey Dread at age 53 will live on long beyond his time on earth. There aren’t many artists in the history of the genre who were able to gain acceptance for reggae the way…
It’s turning into a week full of klezmer at the New Times office. The folks at Rough Guide sent over their latest disc, The Rough Guide to Klezmer Revival, for review, with 18 tracks of fresh new klezmer music compiled in one kick-ass disc. It’s hard to imagine anything being…
So 2 Pac’s name has been in the news a lot lately. The L.A. Times goofed up a story regarding his assault at the Quad Studios in 1994 and even had to issue a retraction. And Puffy or P. Diddy, or whatever the hell he calls himself is doing everything…
