[jump] New Times: We’ll get more in-depth as we go, but I must ask, where does the name Suede Dudes come from? The word “suede” makes me think of the material, which is fuzzy but not particularly soft…At the risk of being corny, that’s kind of like your music!Bryan Adams: Haha, I…
Founded by Daniel Elias Fernandez, {in boxes} are multifaceted, functioning as more than a musical group. More a multimedia collective than just a band, the group evolved from its previous life as Bear Nine, a similarly structured performance project whose alumni — Kenneth Martinson and Tristan John — went on…
Do a little research on actual ley-lines and you’ll find out they’re geometric alignments that run across and connect landscapes, spiritually attaching both natural (bodies of water) and man-made (ancient, historically significant monuments) spaces together. Whether they’re real is up for debate. The Leylines, who took their name from these…
Attached Hands are masters of texture: Each of their sound collages begins slowly before transmuting into something intense, colorful, and mellifluous. Band members have changed, and the duo prefers to remain anonymous, but for those of us who don’t know them personally, that simply adds to their secret, hidden, wizard…
Conflict-of-interest alert: I know that Manny Mangos is really named Manuel Vazquez because I actually know Manny. I met him about a year ago, and he is a buddy of mine, though I don’t see him around much these days. Beached Miami compared Manny Mangos to Calvin Johnson, and it’s…
Here’s an opportunity to share with the world your dancing skills, whether they’re genuine skills or totally embarrassing. Ex-Miami sweetheart Rachel Goodrich is making a music video, and has teamed up with Borscht to get you — and your friends and your years of modern dance or years of a…
Ah, summer. Though it officially started on June 21, it might as well have started in April, given our location. We’re clearly in the throes of mosquitoes, an increase in daytime drinking, and temperamental rain. According to the fable of summer, this is the season to expose skin, drop ice…
Today is the birthday of Hope Sandoval, and our love for her can be best understood with a brief anecdote from your humble reporter. Having listened to her through the walls of my big sister’s bedroom for years, I was certain the girl with the breathy, angelic voice was actually…
Glimpses of the South Florida Scene is devoted to the artists thriving within Broward and Palm Beach counties featuring interviews with the folks making it happen.This week, Lake Worth’s Funcrusher.On their Facebook page, Funcrusher jokingly lists its genre as “Psychedelic Gospel.” But they’re only half-kidding. Likening themselves to different colors and…
[jump] We know of his bizarre behavior, like placing his piano in an indoor sandbox (but then, that’s kind of cool), his initial reign as leader of the Beach Boys, his bout with mental illness, his emotional decline, and his dubious, then strong attempts to come back after all of…
Glimpses of the South Florida Scene is a column devoted to the artists thriving within Broward and Palm Beach counties featuring interviews with the folks making it happen. This week, Fort Lauderdale’s Arrange.Florida-born and Georgia-raised (he’s back), Malcom Lacey is technically still a teenager, but he’s already created an album…
Glimpses of the South Florida Scene is a column devoted to the artists thriving within Broward and Palm Beach counties featuring interviews with the folks making it happen. This week, Your Umbrella. Your Umbrella is very good at being heartbreakingly sweet: bare-all lyrics, vocalist Daniel Demosthenes’ rich voice — even…
Once a traditional bottle-service club in downtown Fort Lauderdale, the space that now houses Green Room is far from its past life — the rebirth of this venue is directly influenced by its arguably cooler events and the defiantly more eclectic musicians who take its stage. The location is unique:…
Glimpses of the South Florida Scene is devoted to the artists thriving within Broward and Palm Beach counties featuring interviews with the folks making it happen.This week, Sea Things.We mentioned Sea Things a couple of months back after West Palm’s Sumsun did a remix of his track “Sad Girls.” Since…
Glimpses of the South Florida Scene is devoted to the artists thriving within Broward and Palm Beach counties featuring interviews with the folks making it happen.This week, Fort Lauderdale’s Dooms De Pop.A good portion of our interview with Dooms De Pop mastermind Garo Gallo appears in print right here. For…
Garo Gallo and his band, Dooms de Pop, have been inextricably tied with local subcultural and artistic goings-on for the better part of a decade. In April 2009, Gallo founded the Bubble (the Independent Working Artist Network Concept Facility) with his love and creative partner, Yvonne Colón, in a Fort…
Glimpses of the South Florida Scene is a column devoted to the artists thriving within Broward and Palm Beach counties featuring interviews with the folks making it happen. This week, Kevin Popejoy. The common and boyish first name, the seemingly heroic surname: Is there a better moniker than Kevin Popejoy?…
The “ ’80s Prom” is a well-loved party theme: The exigencies of the ’80s aesthetic (neon, off-the-shoulder blouses, synthesizers) are all hinted at in modern pop culture, but at an ’80s Prom Party, they can explode. All proms are unabashed style showcases anyway, so if the prom is just a themed…
Like a good country band, the guys of Harvey and the Buckets boast a knack for storytelling. It extends well beyond the lyrics, right into the music, till the guitars and drums themselves are singing the song’s tale right along with vocalist Nick Petakas. …
To employ the cliché, you have been living under a rock if you haven’t heard of Lewis Black. He’s particularly necessary in these trying times, when his role as pleasantly bitter pundit is not just supremely funny — it’s needed. Comic relief from the alternate universe our world has become…
Jonathan Michael Richman — we like to call him “JoJo” — is 60 years young today. He has spent 40 of these making the kind of music to make you fall in love. Some was created with the Modern Lovers and some without. Whether the songs are in English or Spanish…
Nick Eberhardt started playing live at the tender age of 16, long before he settled in Florida — and just before he started training under master finger-picker Tim Sparks. With stints playing in blues bars, being on the road, and sleeping on couches, Eberhardt has had enough rugged grooming to…
