There are two options for the writer who takes on the daunting task of profiling Skeletons and the Girl-Faced Boys: Spend 800 words, make several trips to the thesaurus, and heap on arcane musical references struggling to describe the band’s sound. Or hang up the hyphens and simply call this…
Steve Rullman continues his run as one of the area’s most consistently creative talent scouts. Thanks to Rullman’s wandering eye and good taste, the Western Massachusetts-based Red Door Exchange is making a three-date run through South Florida this week. RDE plays the kind of smirking, intimate rock that made Sebadoh…
If you’re like me, there have been a thousand nights when you’ve watched some caterwauling hack destroy a good band with bad singing and thought, “Dude, even I can sing better than that.” Hopefully, you’ve got more balls than most and would actually be willing to prove it with a…
Palm Beach County has Don King as its overly verbose, residentiary pugilistic promotator. Now Broward can claim its own fight night major-domo in a low-key dude known as Loki. “I have two loves,” Loki says, “hip-hop and boxing. So I wanted to bring a new twist on the MC battle.”…
A monument stands at the center of What the Toll Tells, Two Gallants’ sophomore album, and like any dramatic reminder of a dark era passed, it inspires some serious introspection. At almost ten minutes in length, “Threnody” is exactly what its title suggests, a poetic song of lament — specifically,…
To properly assess the import of last month’s release of The Essential Kenny G (coughoxymoron!coughcough), Outtakes put the word out that we were looking for a true-blue G lover to question. The only tip we got led us to Nelson Pierre, a 51-year-old, Haitian-born handyman from Delray Beach. What follows…
Something cherished goes away, and something new takes its place. Last Sunday night, a rabid crowd bid a cathartic farewell to Awesome New Republic at Churchill’s Pub, South Florida’s oldest, most venerable rock ‘n’ roll mecca. Here’s the only band that can sound sexy singing “Poody poo poo poo, I…
Since its inception, the world of turntablism has spawned some whacked-out characters and spun off into some surreal, sci-fi realms. Between crews like the Invisible Scratch Picklz, the Bulletproof Scratch Hamsters, the X-Men, and the Beat Junkies, you can find huge talent and even huger personalities. But of all of…
In the world of rockabilly swing, few have flown as high as Big Sandy and His Fly Rite Boys. Currently a quintet, the band first took off from the L.A. nightclub scene right around the time of the short-lived swing revival of the mid-’90s, earning crazy frequent-flier miles by cruising…
Even as it ages, Generation Hip-hop will never appreciate classical music to the same degree previous generations have. We’re myopically fixated on rhythm, so despite the bombastic, dramatic heights a 60-piece orchestra can achieve, unless there’s a bangin’ kettle drum break, we’ll probably shrug it away as lame. Fortunately, there’s…
“Oh my goodness. Oh my God.” Langhorne Slim is on his cell phone, ambling through Manhattan’s Chinatown toward Little Italy. Some noisy commotion has stopped him in his tracks. “My friend, if only you were with me right now. You would see — there’s all these Hassidic Jews, and there’s…
Sometimes this lofty pursuit of music journalism can be just as self-absorbed as the industry whose tail it chases. Case in point: the 33rd installment of the Village Voice’s annual Pazz and Jop critics’ poll, published last week (pazzandjop05). Seven hundred and ninety-five contributors from outlets across the country voted…
New Times is, politically, a nonpartisan newspaper. You’ve probably noticed that we get off on bugging everybody. Hell, we recently ran an exposé about our own mother’s humiliating iced tea addiction and the appalling lack of chocolate chips in her homemade cookies. But when it comes to music, we like…
Hot Chip is the precocious U.K. outfit that’s gonna split listeners down the middle like a sharp ax through cordwood. The slow-bumping, lo-fi reverie of Coming on Strong is so calculatedly fuzzy and detached that it begs the same questions of hip-hop authenticity that LCD Soundsystem did to dance: Are…
It was a cool, peaceful night in Western Broward, patchy clouds parting to reveal a deep, star-speckled sky. A gator looked on with reptilian detachment from the shallow bog bordering a dusty clearing on the edge of the Everglades. About 40 people, teens and 20-somethings mostly, gathered here last week…
After years of stalking every bar, club, concert, and fetish party in Palm Beach County, regaling unsuspecting crowds with stream-of-semiconsciousness poetics, the guy formerly known as “just Timb” made the obvious move and rechristened himself with the U word. Chances are, you’ve seen this leather-wrapped, rainbow-tressed, living manga moppet, either…
I’m not sure exactly what this means, but I know it’s true: The Avett Brothers make the kind of music you can believe in. My introduction to the hard-working North Carolina string trio was from its website (theavettbrothers.com) and the home-movie-quality video for “November Blue,” a ballad of love and…
It’s a little scary when a talent as huge as Shawn Elliot arrives so suddenly on the scene. Which is not to say that the longtime Floridian hasn’t worked his way up: In a former life, the syrupy-flowed MC/songwriter/producer was a stock broker, a career he traded in 2001 for…
Of the many larger-than-life musical archetypes — standbys like the Preening Lead Singer, the Strung-out Axeman, the Hip-hop Hustler, and the Tortured Indie Outcast — perhaps none is as patently cool as the Globetrotting DJ. He’s a lone apostle of the beat, red-eyeing across continents with only a pair of…
Tiësto in Concert begins at 8:30 p.m. Thursday, January 12, at Hard Rock Arena, 5747 Seminole Way, Sunrise. Tickets cost $32.50, $67.50, or $250 for VIP. All tickets for the original October 27 date will be honored. Visit tiestoinconcert.com.
He might not be as famous as the legends he’s played with, but veteran saxman Pee Wee Ellis gets credit for being one of the primary architects of James Brown’s brand new bag. As Brown’s musical director in the late ’60s, Ellis helped coin the emerging language of funk, whittling…
