Glimpses of the South Florida Scene is a weekly column devoted to the artists thriving within Broward and Palm Beach counties featuring interviews with the folks making it happen. This week, Weird Wives.Weird Wives is not a Jesus Lizard cover band, contrary to the reader comments over here. Nor are…
The name Arlo immediately conjures up images of the great “Alice’s Restaurant” songwriter Arlo Guthrie, son of Woody. Columbus, Ohio,’s Arlo & the Otter’s multifaceted folk band core isn’t a far cry from Guthrie — a lot’s going on here. The story goes that the group started as Our Cat…
Miami’s “lo-fi garage” act of the moment, Lil Daggers, has earned a rep outside of Florida for good reason. Often lumped in with other bands of a similar ilk, the Daggers’ accessible yet brazen, organ-speckled, sometimes-Spanglish tracks are heavier than that. Bringing that weight down on Little Munich — a…
Glimpses of the South Florida Scene is a weekly column devoted to the artists thriving within Broward and Palm Beach counties featuring interviews with the folks making it happen. This week, West Palm Beach’s the Clementines. The Clementines have a “song” on their MySpace page titled “Unbridled Enthusiasm” — two…
Boca Raton’s Funky Buddha Lounge will play host to a fundraiser to raise money for Angie (last name omitted) there’s even a hookah raffle, if you’re into that. Our very own indie darlings, Lavola along with DJ Agent Rose will play a live set to “highlight” the Mordernesque Burlesque show…
Glimpses of the South Florida Scene is a weekly column devoted to the artists thriving within Broward and Palm Beach counties featuring interviews with the folks making it happen. This week, West Palm Beach’s the Band in Heaven.The Band in Heaven is the stuff of dreams, channeled directly from the…
Luna Rex are named after a ghost in their rehearsal space, and they’re probably picking up on some wily, haunted voodoo magic, because these guys — and one babe — rock very, very soulfully. They seem like a bunch of wayward kinsmen; songs like “Travels From a VW Bus” and…
Glimpses of the South Florida Scene is a weekly column devoted to the artists thriving within Broward and Palm Beach counties featuring interviews with the folks making it happen. This week, “South Floriduh” band Last Phone Booth.Though they’ve been a proper band for only eight months, the dudes of Last…
To see the burgeoning creativity on our sandy shores culminate in the Lake Worth-It Festival is an awesome thing — and with photographer Monica McGivern’s Lake Worth Photo Project exhibition to flesh things out, it will be a celebration of music and the visual arts. The first local Lake Worth…
Glimpses of the South Florida Scene is a weekly column devoted to the artists thriving within Broward and Palm Beach counties featuring interviews with the folks making it happen. This week, Lake Worth’s the Jameses. The Jameses played a set at Miami’s Endless Summer at Churchill’s in June. True to…
Viernes is an experimental electronic duo from the Orlando area keyed into the atmospheric lining of the machines used to create the music. The opening of “Swimmer’s Ear” featured on recent release Sinister Devices plays like a winter’s carnival ride for the ears before growing into an undulating and magical…
Viernes is an experimental electronic duo from the Orlando area keyed into the atmospheric lining of the machines used to create the music. The opening of “Swimmer’s Ear” featured on recent release Sinister Devices plays like a winter’s carnival ride for the ears before growing into an undulating and magical…
ASG stands for “amplification of self-gratification,” and the thought of that conjures up all kinds of exciting and potentially destructive thoughts — which is suitable for these guys, who are Iron Maiden status-heavy but a little easier on the ears. Think Split-era Groundhogs. In a word, they are (the overused-but-necessary)…
Glimpses of the South Florida Scene is a weekly column devoted to the artists thriving within Broward and Palm Beach counties featuring interviews with the folks making it happen. This week, West Palm Beach’s Lavola.Lavola was picked from a slew of equally great bands to open for Silversun Pickups last…
Glimpses of the South Florida Scene is a weekly column devoted to the artists thriving within Broward and Palm Beach counties featuring interviews with the folks making it happen. This week, Lake Worth’s Love Handles.Love Handles might be one of the most confounding bands in Florida, and someday we might…
The Talent Farm is good at booking events like this one: massive, all-day shows featuring at least five bands – always awesome and often local. FYF Booking secured Between the Trees as the headliner. The Orlando-based act is doing big things, and according to the Talent Farm’s event page, this…
Glimpses of the South Florida Scene is a weekly column devoted to the artists thriving within Broward and Palm Beach counties that features interviews with the folks making it happen. This week, West Palm Beach’s Totem Pole.I am waiting impatiently for Totem Pole to play a show — there’s absolutely…
Glimpses of the South Florida Scene is a weekly column devoted to the artists thriving within Broward and Palm Beach counties featuring interviews with the folks making it happen. This week, Jupiter’s Under Every Green Tree.As Under Every Green Tree, Danny Brunjes creates an alt-country-ish assortment of folky, acoustic songs…
As Under Every Green Tree, Danny Brunjes creates folky, acoustic songs driven by his sweet voice and smart, tell-all lyrics. Often playing sets with friends in Fort Lauderdale indie-rock act Alexander, Brunjes’ earnest heart sings a good story, often of something deeply personal without being exclusionary. In light of his…
Glimpses of the South Florida Scene is a weekly column devoted to the artists thriving within Broward and Palm Beach counties featuring interviews with the folks making it happen. This week ex-Miami’s Nerve City.Nerve City is reverberating, lo-fi, almost-folk sung through a drainpipe and punctuated by cackling (“Bars”) and moments…
Port St. Lucie-based Sweet Chariots are releasing their CD on Wednesday, and giving copies away at Propaganda for a party that will double as a time warp. “Rock and roll 60 years ago” is the band’s self-described genre, and the other two acts, Futurebirds and Bananafish, are practically living homages…
Glimpses of the South Florida Scene is a weekly column devoted to the artists thriving within Broward and Palm Beach counties featuring interviews with the folks making it happen. This week, the Dewars.The brothers who make up West Palm’s the Dewars are clouded in dreamy mystery: they play shows only…
