Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band BB&T Center, Sunrise Saturday, February 7, 2015 Better than: Most performers half his age. Watching Bob Seger at a concert is like watching an old-fashioned preacher stir up a congregation. “Give me that old-time rock ‘n’ roll!” Seger commanded his fans on Saturday…
Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman shares stories of memorable rock ‘n’ roll encounters that took place locally. This week: Cotton comes to the Keys. Rock stars of a certain age, like everyone else north of the Mason-Dixon Line, seem to have this intrinsic desire to migrate…
Bob Seger is the consummate road warrior. Even before Bruce Springsteen was kicking off his career playing college campuses or the beachside haunts of the Jersey shore, when John Mellencamp was still referring to himself by the nom de plume Johnny Cougar and John Fogerty was still at the helm…
No matter that he’s been awake some 36 hours straight, Graham Drout finds himself traveling the roads of America’s Deep South, symbolically following in the footsteps of many of his blues idols. He’s working his way back from Memphis, where his band Iko-Iko ably represented the South Florida Blues Society…
Time seems suspended when you’re on a cruise, and like it’s zoomed by afterwards. Recently on the Sandy Beaches Cruise, hosted by Atlanta’s Sixthman music cruise team, a boat full of music lovers got caught up in that complex forward motion. On the Norwegian Pearl, the music ploughed ahead at…
“Just a song before I go A lesson to be learned Traveling twice the speed of sound It’s easy to get burned…” If you’re Graham Nash and your pedigree includes membership in rock’s first, and still most formidable supergroup, Crosby, Stills, & Nash (and, better yet, Crosby, Stills, Nash, &…
Florida is big and populous, and it’s becoming one of the nation’s most popular places for musical gatherings of all sizes and descriptions. One reason we have easy access to huge concerts year-round is the warm weather. We don’t have to wait for the summer months to enjoy live tunes…
The Grateful Dead has its Deadheads and Jimmy Buffet boasts Parrotheads. There’s little distinction between the fans and fanatics once the crowd has its own name, both will follow the musicians to the ends of the earth. Donna the Buffalo can consider itself among the fortunate beneficiaries of that kind…
In the latest blow to a music world already shaken by the sudden deaths of some indelible icons, the passing of Joe Cocker today caps a difficult year of unexpected losses. Cocker, age 70, died today of cancer at his home. Cocker provided rock with one of its most passionate…
Fleetwood Mac BB&T Center, Sunrise Friday, December 19, 2014 Better than: Anyone had the right to expect. All those who packed into the BB&T Center at the penultimate show of the much-heralded Fleetwood Mac reunion tour truly felt they were attending a landmark event. After some 48 years of slinging…
It’s a holiday tradition as etched into our memories as a well festooned Christmas tree or a Hanukkah bush, as intrinsic to our celebrations as a spinning dreidel or the stockings hung on the mantle, presumably with care. We’re referring of course to the annual barrage of holiday albums featuring…
As he approaches the start of his sixth decade making music, Mick Fleetwood’s status as a superstar is beyond dispute. As one of two standard-bearers of the rock band Fleetwood Mac he cofounded some 48 years ago, he can lay claim to two of the biggest selling albums of all…
Long considered the single most revered recordings ever made, Bob Dylan and the Band’s Basement Tapes still retain its legendary status nearly fifty years after the sessions concluded in the basement of a rented house in upstate New York. This year’s release of The Basement Tapes Complete by Columbia Records/Legacy…
Today, lovers of rock and roll all across the globe are engulfed in grief at the loss of two legends. Bobby Keys, the man whose brilliant sax solo ignited the classic “Brown Sugar” and so many other iconic anthems, passed away from cirrhosis on Tuesday. Then, as if fate were…
Among the benefits of buying into the music biz is the opportunity to revisit classic moments in musical history that might have otherwise been lost forever. This year, there was no shortage of offerings released or published — books, DVDs, and straight-up music — that brought us back to crucial…
Given the consistent output and accessible sound Ex Norwegian offers, the band has positioned itself as the next South Florida act destined for national success. The group fostered the same all-inclusive likability as its initial influences, like the Beatles, the Kinks, and the Move, even as it morphed into an…
Referring to the Band of Heathens as an overnight sensation isn’t exactly accurate, even though, by the band’s own admission, it ascended into the spotlight fairly quickly. What began initially as a series of Wednesday-night jam sessions at a club in its native Austin — an event the group dubbed…
It’s hardly headline news to find a musician expressing enthusiasm for marijuana. After all, weed has been the drug of choice for the hippest players going back decades. Likewise, artists advocating for certain political causes have become an instinctual experience for many songwriters since the ’60s. These days, however, the…
Justin Hayward Parker Playhouse October 24, 2014 Better than: The Moody Blues as a whole? No, but this solo show came close. As an artist ages, so does his following, and at 68, Justin Hayward is attracting — shall we say — “mature” audiences. Indeed, it was no surprise to…
Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman shares observations, insights, and updates relating to South Florida’s musical environs. This week, a final interview with the late and legendary Jack Bruce. The passing of Jack Bruce, who died Friday at age 71, is a loss that didn’t resonate only with…
Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman shares observations, insights, and updates relating to South Florida’s musical environs. This week, Lee discusses the reality of the right vibe. As a music journalist, one of the biggest perks of my job is being able to speak to musicians I admire…
When an artist is indelibly identified primarily with an incredibly successful rock band and well-known for writing and singing dozens of its signature songs, any attempt to launch a solo career is bound to be a challenge. And when the individual in question is Justin Hayward, one of the longtime…
