The best place in print — besides the New Times, of course — to get your South Florida indie music fix is PureHoney. The monthly magazine is a labor of love, borne from the dedication and experience of one great, bearded man: Steve Rullman. The fold-out party bible is entering…
You might think it funny for a band that got its start amid the seaside kitsch of Myrtle Beach to have a name like Alabama. But sort of like calling your Brooklyn-born baby Brooklyn, these guys were actually appropriately named after their native state. In 1969, cousins Randy Owen and…
When the video for Mumford & Sons’ “Hopeless Wanderer” begins, you think: snoozer. It looks like it might just be a few minutes of Jason Sudeikis, Jason Bateman, Will Forte, and Ed Helms goofing off, but only enough not to offend humorless folk fans. Then suddenly, at a minute and…
If you were playing Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, someone you might want to sneak into your lineup of connected stars is Sinbad. Though he’s not the first actor that comes to mind when you think “who’s acted with everyone,” he definitely might win you a game or two. Fans…
Just this week, Native Florida Tap Room and Music Hall owner Kilmo Doome announced that he’s selling the venue and skipping town. He wrote on Facebook: “I have accepted an offer I couldn’t refuse and I’m relocating to New Orleans, where music and culinary opportunities have beckoned me for years…
In the summer of 2012, drummer Brandon Seymour and guitarist Bobby Maloy, two guys with a common musical vision (if you will), created a garage band. They named their project in honor of the most likable things in the world — after cute kitties and chubby babies, of course –…
If there were a festival and place most suited for the rain, it would be the Vans Warped Tour Music Festival at Cruzan Amphitheatre. Florida summertime thunderstorms are refreshing, and while these kids are dressed to impress, that doesn’t meet they’re wearing lasers, electronic gloves, or spiky stilettos. These pop-punkers…
Andrew W.K. is very recognizable in all white, sometimes with blood smearing his mug and T-shirt. He looks like a santero, and though he seems all obviously “party hard,” he’s actually as mysterious as one of these religious men of the saints. A conspiracy theory even circulated on the never-quite-factual…
UPDATE: Turns out many artists first listed by April Ryan at American Urban Radio Networks, like Rihanna and the Rolling Stones, aren’t actually boycotting the state. Mother Jones reported on the story, as did the Huffington Post. Dear Stevie Wonder, Madonna, Usher, Kanye West, Jay-Z, Justin Timberlake, Rod Stewart, Young…
Respectable Street was solid packed with tingling sexuality and steamy sticky bods this past Saturday. The night featured fans of both the sensual mistresses of Cupcake Burlesque and the totally natural-type hunks of Hurly Burly. It was a burlesque battle of the sexes, and we have to say, overall, sexiness…
Are you the person crazily searching the roadsides for hitchhikers with the unreasonable hope that one of them will be Dave Matthews? Have you already picked up a few middle aged white dudes with broken bikes only to find that they are, in fact, not the real Dave? Can you…
Lanky, polished, and simply very white, rapper G-Eazy is no Vanilla Ice; he’s not Mac Miller either, nor any sort of Eminiem. G-Eazy, with his slicked back hair and easy command of the stage, is known for, among other things, sampling doo-wop, like on his hit “Runaround Sue,” and even…
Brass Knuckles is a South Florida-based EDM trio whose new video for “As Long as I’m Alive,” featuring John Ryan, has impressively accrued more thank 35K views on YouTube in only three days. The Ultra Music-signed group includes Tony Livadas, Danny D’Britto, and Anthony Pisano, who all met behind the…
Lil Wayne with T.I., Hit-Boy, and G-Easy Cruzan Amphitheatre July 14 The problem with Lil Wayne’s America’s Most Wanted concert last night in West Palm Beach wasn’t Lil Wayne. It wasn’t openers G-Easy or T.I. either, nor was it Birdman, who made a cameo during Weezy’s set. The problem was…
At 26-years old, Chauncey Hollis, A.K.A. Hit-Boy, already has a Grammy under his belt for producing one of the most memorable and original songs of 2011 with two of the (arguably) greatest rappers of all time: “Niggas in Paris.” If you could say you worked on any song in the…
Last February, Lil Wayne led a roomful of moronic lemmings in yelping “Fuck the Miami Heat!” all because his douchey antics had gotten him ejected from a game at the American Airlines Arena the week prior. Weezy fucked up real good talking-trash his adopted city’s beloved team. He might as…
Beyoncé BB&T Center, Sunrise July 9 You could divide Beyoncé’s performance at the BB&T Center into two parts: the beginning of the night, when everyone was getting up to pee, and the end of the night, when everyone looked like they had to pee but were not running to the…
Not everyone can have the cutest cat in the world — that role has been taken by my own feline — but everyone thinks her pet is the most adorbs creature to ever crawl the planet. This is true even if your four-legged beast looks like Grumpy Cat or Lil…
Last February, Lil Wayne led a roomful of moronic lemmings in yelping “Fuck the Miami Heat!” all because his douchey antics had gotten him ejected from a game at the American Airlines Arena the week prior. Weezy fucked up real good talking-trash his adopted city’s beloved team. He might as…
Maybe you have an uncle who mews like a kitty at the sight of milk, or a friend who talks to his feet, and you’ve thought before that they are the craziest people in the world. But then, you read about some ridiculous shit that Will.i.am is doing, and you…
Before Kimye “North” West emerged from the near perfect figure of Kim Kardashian, whenever someone asked what the baby’s name was going to be (as if I have the key to Kanye’s noggin), I would joke and say, “North.” And then about two weeks ago, North West was actually born;…
A mere Supercon-related thought can conjure nerds in costume. It’s like they can read minds! These guys and gals want Kevin Smith’s autograph, and they want it NOW! But in SoFla, we add a certain flare to our Cons. Miami’s Florida Supercon tags on a music festival, featuring 50 bands…
