By Erica K. LandauTo kinda quote George Bernard Shaw (or possibly Oscar Wilde — the origins are shaky), if you’re going to tell people the truth, you’d better make them laugh; otherwise they’ll kill you.If there ever was a way to describe what satirical news source The Onion does, and…
By Lane NiesetCanadian quintet Mother Mother may be selling out shows and headlining festivals in Canada, but this band from Vancouver is stepping into uncharted territory in the U.S. With their fourth album, The Sticks, dropping in the States. on February 12, the band is gearing up to hit the road…
By Vanessa MartinThe name Fusik (pronounced few-sick) reflects this Fort Lauderdale band’s signature sound — a fusion of funk, soul, and Latin genres that glides on the fundamentals of hip-hop and psychedelic rock. If that description alone doesn’t incite you to get down, then nothing ever will. The quintet have…
Moe., Post Jam Cruise 11Revolution Live, Fort LauderdaleJanuary 12, 2013By C. Townsend Rizzo”My first show,” an audience member said, waving his cane around, shaking his hips, “was in 1968.” Of course, he can’t possibly mean his first moe. show. “You know, Jerry, and Phil,” he continued, bobbing his long white…
By C. Townsend RizzoYou’d never know the Boozgeois was nearly eighty miles away from the nearest music hot spots in Palm Beach County and a hundred miles away from those in Broward, but tucked away on the Treasure Coast, a music scene is brewing. Legend has it that there’s always…
There are plenty of passages in the Bible that tell us not to lie, but they don’t say jack about fudging invoices or grant applications! On December 21, a Deerfield Beach pastor, Anthony Davis, was hit with $50,000 in civil fines for having overbilled the government. Davis’ organization, Brotherly Love…
By Jason BudjinskiFor the members of West Palm Beach’s New Coke, 2012 was their first full year as a band, and it was every bit as dynamic as the band itself. From hooking up with Netherlands-based Slovenly Records to finding a receptive crowd and like minds at Miami’s 305 Fest,…
Photo by Christine TaylorJesse SykesBy Ben Westhoff Each week in our print editions and every day on our blogs, the 13 Voice Media Group papers feature some of the best music writing in the country. That’s why we’re excited to announce the winners of our first VMG music writing awards. The honor…
Club Cinema is located in strip mall heaven. It’s hidden amidst streams of car dealerships and theme restaurants. Miguel was slated to go on at 2, so I showed up at 1, ready to unwind from a drive’s worth of the normally spineless Piers Morgan going tough on guns. After…
By Billy BolobyPart 1: Billy Boloby’s Last Stand? West Palm Musician Battles Crippling DiseaseAlways the optimist, I looked on the “bright side” – I didn’t have to worry about Crohn’s screwing up my performance schedule. But then I thought about all the traveling I did over the years and how much…
I really hate battles of the bands. I mean, besides the fact that my bands never won, it’s just a reminder that we’re all doing this shit for selfish reasons, despite what anyone says. Yet for some reason I always ended up competing. I just wish my final performance wasn’t…
Y100’s Jingle Ball 2012 with Justin Bieber, Megan and Liz, Zedd, Ed Sheeran, OneRepublic, Karmin, Enrique Iglesias, Austin Mahone, Psy, Cher Lloyd, Neon Trees, Ke$ha, Afrojack, and Flo RidaBB&T Center, SunriseSaturday, December 8, 2012Better Than: An 8×8 cell of screaming Bieberlites.Miami might have been abuzz with everything Art Basel on…
By Dan SweeneyBack in the summer of 2009, I went to Fort Lauderdale’s Culture Room to catch the MySpace Let’s Make a Mess Tour. I was writing a column on the sexiest local band for a now-defunct weekly publication’s Sex Issue, and going with the assumption that a sexy local…
Russians like their vodka plain and simple, with no fruity mixers or funny business. Zoya Harms, the bartender at three-month-old Russia House Restaurant and Vodka Bar in East Boca — where there are 86 different kinds of vodka served — wouldn’t have it any other way. “These vodkas really shouldn’t…
The decor is contemporary and overpoweringly red: red leather booths, cherry wood walls, red curtains, and giant flat screen TVs playing Russian pop music videos. The menu, though, is full of classics. So the three-month old Russia House restaurant has it all: the feel of modern-day St. Petersburg and the…
While a show dedicated to the age-old practice of drawing and the role of “the line” in contemporary art might, at first, seem one-dimensional or simply passé, Following the Line at Girls’ Club in Fort Lauderdale, succeeds at re-informing the power and relevance of drawing in use today. It does…
Was Bain Capital, the company founded by presidential candidate Mitt Romney, built with help from covert Iran-contra operatives? New information uncovered by New Times raises the possibility. The story starts in 1984, when Romney solicited start-up money for Bain at a meeting in Miami with a small group of Latin…
Pop Punk is not dead! Aussie five-piece Tonight Alive! are readying themselves to storm Fort Lauderdale when they open for Pierce the Veil this week. Lead singer Jenna McDougall and guitarist Whakaio Taahi recently took a few minutes to chat with us between gigs in the UK about the inspiration…
Big photos below. Editor’s note: This piece was originally published by our sister paper’s news blog Latest Word on Denver Westword. It’s written by Sam Levin, an editorial fellow who’s been keeping tabs on both candidates in the swing state of Colorado for the past few months. President Barack Obama…
By Alan Scherstuhl It’s a weird miracle that Johnny Cash and his primitive twosome banged out music that still feels so full and vital today. And it’s a weird miracle that My Father and the Man in Black–an extraordinary documentary that hits New York this week without a distribution deal– is…
Black Flag: Very influential, not always critically praised.Welcome to Ask a Failed Musician, in which I will help struggling musicians make sense of their careers and even offer some advice. Whether it will work, who knows? It obviously didn’t work for me. But then again, I was on Kimmel once,…
Does this look like Michael Bolton to you?By John Seaborn Gray Used to be you’d have to hit bar after bar until you found just the right jukebox, which promptly became your own personal lair of alcohol consumption. Folks demanded more freedom of choice, however, so many bars have switched over…
