After 40 years in the biz, David Bromberg doesn’t exactly come across like a musician who’s moved in the same circles as Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Jerry Garcia, Carly Simon, and Willie Nelson. But those and other superstars have availed themselves of his guitar skills. In fact, with his graying…
Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman shares observations, insights, and updates relating to South Florida’s musical environs. This week: The last of South Florida’s home-grown record-store chains comes to the end of its line. South Florida’s roster of physical record stores has been dealt another stunning blow with…
A foremost proponent of the so-called “Nu-Grass” phenomenon — a genre that merges the best of bluegrass with jam band sensibilities — Colorado’s Yonder Mountain String Band has attracted a fervent following that spans both sides of the Great Divide. Extolling the populist philosophy first championed by bands like the…
Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman offers his insights, opinions, and observations about the local scene. This week: Radio funnyman Paul Castronovo gets personal. As half of South Florida’s most popular morning show duo, Paul and Young Ron, Paul Castronovo has become the radio equivalent of a double…
Traci Cloyd works double duty. To HOT 105 FM listeners, she is a bright, effervescent, and straight-talking radio personality who adds local flavor to the Tom Joyner syndicated morning program. However she’s also adept at working behind the scenes as the station’s news director, which literally puts her on call…
“There’s hardly a bass player alive that doesn’t owe gratitude to Jaco for how he changed the role of the bass. Moreover, Jaco left an indelible mark on the music world as an uncompromising artist and composer. The music Jaco created during his brief lifetime sounds just as fresh and…
Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman offers his insights, opinions, and observations about the local scene. This week: Feeling like a VIP! I have to admit that I’m easily spoiled. That’s especially true as far as concerts are concerned. I don’t need to be in the first few rows,…
There are certain traditions that seem to haunt us every holiday season, annual rituals from which we can’t seem to escape. The cry of “ho ho ho” rings from every street corner (and no, we’re not referring to local pimps beckoning their ho ho hos) and on every block, houses…
The University of Miami’s Frost School of Music is a hotbed of talent. Case in point, Bruce Hornsby (though not the Range) graduated from the program in 1977. See also- Jaco Pastorius: The Story of an Oakland Park Man Who Was Also the Greatest Bass Player Who Has Ever Lived- Happy…
Born on November 17, 1966, Jeff Buckley was never close to his famous father, folksinger Tim. And by the time the elder Buckley died of a drug overdose in 1975, his son had only met him once. Consequently, he was raised by his mother and her second husband, and given…
Many artists who achieve big breakthroughs and take the masses by storm are also the ones who reinvent the norm and create a persona that’s entirely out of the ordinary, and likely entirely untrue to their own roots. But there’s a lot to be said for tradition. And it seems…
Over the phone, Steve Forbert comes across exactly as you’d expect him to: Uncommonly affable, decidedly soft-spoken, unmistakably Southern, and unabashedly down-to-earth. After all, that’s the overall impression he’s conveyed through his music for the better part of the last 35 years or so, ever since his debut album Alive…
It’s somewhat intriguing to note how people born on the same day can either share similarities or, on the other hand, actually be polar opposites in every single way, besides both being human, of course.See also- Happy Birthday, Bryan Adams and Ryan Adams!Just yesterday, pop crooner Bryan Adams and indie…
The Who BB&T Center Thursday, November 1, 2012 Better than: Either of the two remaining original members attempting to cover Quadrophenia on their own. When it comes to bidding farewell, the Who have always been prime contenders. I recall a concert at the old Joe Robbie Stadium some 20 years…
Sorting out the Who’s best efforts is a heady task given their vast repertoire, but we thought that since they’re kicking off their upcoming Quadrophenia tour right here, we’d take it on. See also – By Revisiting Their Seminal Classics Quadrophenia, the Who’s Surviving Members Confront Age and RelevanceNarrowing down their…
Aging rockers face a unique challenge, one to which the rest of us can only sort of relate: growing old with relevance under the cruel, critical gaze of the public eye. Some survived the 1950s, like once brash young men Little Richard, Chuck Berry, and Jerry Lee Lewis, and continue…
Bet you can’t even count how many times you’ve screamed out at the TV, the DJ, the person in the passenger seat next to you, in response to the words A1A, “Beachfront Avenue!”In 1989, Vanilla Ice, AKA Robert Matthew Van Winkle, made it big time with his debut album, Hooked…
New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman offers his insights, opinions, and observations about the local scene. This week: The struggle to keep one’s cool while getting jiggy with it. When you get right down to it, dancing is an awfully peculiar pastime. While some people may appear graceful, most dancers look…
Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman offers his insights, opinions, and observations about the local scene. This week: A cool quartet of home brewed offerings. There’s been a flurry of superb local releases lately, proving that South Florida’s hitting some right notes. Four albums in particular offer cause…
Billy Idol may have wailed about a “Rebel Yell,” but no band embraced that Southern sensibility more defiantly than Lynyrd Skynyrd. One of the most essential Southern bands of the last 40 years, they emerged from their native Jacksonville to become album rock standard bearers, courtesy of such radio staples…
Given his spectacular 35 year career that’s placed him at the pinnacle of international rock ‘n’ roll success, it’s easy to forget that Tom Petty is a proud Florida boy whose personal and professional roots were first nurtured in Gainesville. Born October 20, 1950, Petty’s budding interest in music came about…
A part-time South Florida homeboy for the past several years, renowned singer/songwriter Arlo Guthrie announced on his website that his beloved wife Jackie has passed away as the result of inoperable liver cancer. She died at the couple’s winter home in Sebastian, Florida, this past Sunday at the age of…
