Saturday night, Reverend Mother Flash pissed into a cup, drank it, and spit it at the crowd amid the total sonic and physical chaos of Cock ESP’s closing set at the 2014 International Noise Conference. A fan flew and firecrackers popped. It was the perfect ending to a full week…
Every once in awhile, we here at Miami New Times and New Times Broward Palm Beach start looking around for some fresh meat (fresh as in sassy and new; meat as in freelance writers). That time has come again!…
South Florida is the best place to experience live music. Hear me out on this, haters. I’m not saying we have the largest, most diverse scene, or whether we do or don’t have the coolest bands ever, of all time. Our venues aren’t like necessarily far superior to those in…
Over here at New Times, we never miss a Cat Power show. Whether she’s “on” or “off,” you better believe we’re there with bells on, singing into our fists. ‘Cause not only is Chan Marshall a total goddess on the mic but she’s a local gal. Even though we spoke…
Dreads don’t necessarily equal reggae, but when it comes to the D.C. area septet SOJA’s singer, Jacob Hemphill, it’s a balanced hair-to-sound equation. These rootsy storytellers recently released their fourth LP, Strength to Survive, on ATO Records, a label cofounded by the very famous music man Dave Matthews. New Times…
Mötley Crüe is heading home sweet home. Well, home in the death sense. And yes, on this, their allegedly final tour, the “boys” are coming to South Florida, a place old folks have long used as their final abode. As it turns out, one of the wildest bands of all…
The world is looking at you Fort Lauderdale! A spread displaying Broward County’s coolest everything appeared in the February/March 2014 issue of the fantastic BUST Magazine. In it, writer Bridget Sweet calls the city, “more mellow than Miami and more punk than Palm Beach.” While the gutter-punks of Lake Worth…
South Florida fans of roots music, rejoice! The Virginia Key Grassroots Festival is returning for its third year in a row to that funny little plot of beach on Biscayne Bay. This year, it even made our list of the top five fests in the Sunshine State worth a road…
pic.twitter.com/ShhN9ROlPi— Seinfeld Current Day (@Seinfeld2000) January 27, 2014 Guaranteed, there’s a Grammy-hater contingent out there picking their tight asses and snorting away about how lame the award show was last night. But we watched, and the 2014 Grammys were actually freaking good. And dude, would we lie about how entertaining…
It’s pretty safe to say that yesterday must have been a humbling experience for the young Justin Bieber. He learned a thing or two about driving on Miami Beach, about the level of cop power they have down there, and that drag racing in a relatively wealthy neighborhood is a…
An inevitable part of being involved in club culture is, at some point, you will date a person who loves drugs. Many folks you’ll find at a concert, festival, or dive bar appear as if they partake fairly regularly, and — unless they are very unlucky genetically — you can…
Every year, the Allman Brothers Band gets together in Live Oak, Florida, and organizes an instrumental blowout at the Spirit of Suwannee Music Park. They bring out a roots and jam scene that is as trippy as it is granola, classic but never stale, and all talent. 2014 marks the…
As a kid, I rummaged through my parents’ cassettes, separating the good from the Billy Ocean. Sometimes, though, I’d come upon a tape that was beyond great, that was nearly perfect. And then I’d listen to it a thousand times while lying on my bedroom floor and eventually let it…
Justin Crumpton is from Muscle Shoals, AL, a place he describes as, “pretty much exactly the same as it was in the 1970s.” It is, he adds, “known for its soul music, history, that sort of thing.” Crumpton, a guitarist since he was 14, was more of a metal kid…
Surprisingly, as a music editor, I don’t get to listen to full albums all that often. I’m too busy doing the editing part to get caught up fully in that music bit. I did, though, spend December listening to album after album that came out in 2013 so I could…
“I started the club on a wing and a prayer with no bar experience at all,” Rob Stannard says of the beginnings of now-legendary Fort Lauderdale rockabilly watering hole Monterey Club. Though it shuttered its doors on New Year’s Eve in 2011, its spirit powers on, and by the end…
If you liked to party, you’ll always like to party, at least a little. It’s part of who you are. All those years of sloshing cheap booze down your gullet and getting blasted on bass have integrated party-time into your actual physical being. Those flashbacks don’t come from nothing, and…
Who could forget that time Jerry told Elaine that War and Peace was originally called “War, What is it Good For?” Absolutely no one. Seinfeld was a show that challenged, and it enriched (your collection of “I’m really funny, no, really” quotes, if nothing else). It sometimes did that awesome…
No doubt, the recent Twitter announcement by Justin Bieber that he’s retiring is a total Cher move. On Christmas Eve, probably in a drunken eggnog haze, he tweeted: “My beloved beliebers I’m officially retiring.” This was even after he had already announced this “big” news earlier in the month on…
Doesn’t it feel like every year is the “worst” or “best”? Like if you got married in 2013, it was the best year ever. If you lost your pinky toe, it was the worst ever. Maybe you’re anticipating another Pintrest-perfect 12 months or you’re hoping you don’t lose your other…
Doesn’t it feel like every year is the “worst” or “best”? Like if you got married in 2013, it was the best year ever. If you lost your little toe, it was the worst ever. Maybe you’re anticipating another Pinterest-perfect 12 months or you’re hoping you don’t lose your other…
Sometimes you want to enter the future while paying tribute to yesteryear. It seems a bunch of parties make this their thang, but at Retro Lounge, formerly 5 Points Lounge and Monterrey Club, has kept their Rockabilly aesthetic steady, day in and day out. They’ll be welcoming 2014 with a…
