Bitch Stole My Hook explores the current “indie” generation’s lack of fresh songwriting ability, and its oft-blatant hook thievery from previous acts. For my first installment, I present to you British indie new wave band the XX’s “Infinity.” In this track, the fawned-over group manages to rob the chiseled, brooding…
South Carolina-born Zach Deputy, AKA the human amplifier of soul, croons his way down to South Florida to share his one-man show with curious new ears and enthused followers. Tuesday — that’s tonight — at the Bamboo Stage at Boca’s Funky Buddha Lounge & Brewery, his looped-out, beat-boxing dance party…
Attention, aspiring models and video vixens: The305.com alerted us that Pretty Ricky will be shooting the video for their sexy smash hit “Topless” on Monday, November 8, at the Moonlite Diner in Hollywood — a place renowned for serving the naughtiest eggs Benedict and corned beef on rye in all…
New Times has partnered with the new Village at Gulfstream Park shopping center in Hallandale Beach for a free concert series dubbed Rocktober featuring local artists every Thursday in October. Each show runs between 9 and 11 p.m. Tonight, the kickoff features blues act Juke and psychedelic rockers King Bee,…
Trying to describe a band to someone who’s never heard it usually requires a reference to more than one other combo. Here are five songs that not only share sonic similarities with the perverse party rock of Electric Six — featured heavily in this week’s issue and playing tonight at…
There’s no doubt that ¡MAYDAY! has been hustling pretty hard these days. Not the sort of rap supergroup content to just jam with a pre-incarcerated Lil Wayne, the guys do it all while rocking some of the freshest Dolphins gear in the history of fresh Dolphins gear. Our discerning sister…
Photo by Sarah PenelloPhantogramWith EntresolThe Electric Pickle, MiamiSaturday, October 2, 2010Buzz-band Phantogram played the Electric Pickle’s back porch on Saturday night and lived up to the hype. It was a night of samples and layers, laptops and mixers — a more dynamic and sonically interesting show than expected with so…
RushCruzan Amphitheatre, West Palm BeachSaturday, October 2, 2010Rush completed the North American leg of its “Time Machine” tour in West Palm Beach on Saturday on a stage that seemed to unite the past, present, and future for all participants at this venue. The creative antique stage design — complete with…
Facebook.comWidespread PanicFillmore Miami, Miami BeachSeptember 30, 2010There are only a few times a year when a conglomerate of dreaded hippies gather in Miami and that is probably during the Bob Marley-inspired Caribbean festival and the rare occasion that a jam band makes its way down to our out-of-the-way diminutive paradise…
SpookyKids.netOn April 28, 1990, a 4-month-old band called Marilyn Manson & the Spooky Kids (they were never separate entities) played its first live show at Churchill’s Pub. In the next few years, the band would, in an act of practicality, drop the Spooky Kids suffix, get signed to a major…
Photo by Sayre BermanShakira at BankAtlantic Center, September 25, 2010.Shakira BankAtlantic Center, Sunrise Saturday, September 25, 2010Check out a slideshow from the concert here. Shakira’s last South Florida performance in 2006 meant that fans have had four years, and one successful CD release, to prepare for Saturday night’s concert at…
The ukulele is not just for the Aloha state anymore. The burgeoning popularity of the petite babe of the guitar family whose Hawaiian name translates to “jumping flea” seems to be happening quicker than the time it takes that little parasite to leap onto your pet. This Saturday, August 28,…
For a great read, check out Kory Grow’s print feature about Cynic, a group that originated in South Florida and managed to be influenced by numerous local music genres and the weather too. The band’s performance tonight at Culture Room will feature a trip through the band’s legendary metal back…
Some bands want to create a strong emotional response in their audience. Some bands want to make a meaningful artistic contribution. Some bands want to change the world. Cinderella? They just wanted to get laid and look cool. It’s easy to look back at a band like Cinderella with an…
From neck to crown, Jeph, Tom, and Hannah Thorslund are just a little too attractive to pass the Pretty Faces moniker off without explanation. Adorable married couple Jeph and Hannah add to the “Hey, look at us — we’re pretty!” quotient by wearing snug-fitting trousers and attention-grabbing accessories such as…
Legends of RodeoWith Richard Sherfey, Sweet Bronco, Mike Dunn and the Kings of New England, Miracle StripPropaganda, Lake WorthSaturday, July 10, 2010 For most dissolved bands, eight years changes each member too much to allow them to reunite as a forceful unit that does credit to memory. People lose track…
Tonight begins a two-night onslaught of blood-boiling emotions at Hard Rock Live in Hollywood, courtesy of Bronx bachata quartet Aventura. The double dose make perfect sense based upon what is already well-circulated about Anthony “Romeo” Santos and his Latin boy band: They are popular and they know it.However, writer and…
Call it a perfect alignment of the stars, because there has been an awful lot of mid- to late-’90s love upon us lately, like the recessionary return to lumberjack plaid fashions and the overcorrection of Courtney Love’s meds, leading to the recent triumphant reunion of Hole. While the grunge revival…
More poster detail here.Lightning Bolt is a two-piece band from Providence, Rhode Island. In the past 12 years, Brian Chippendale (drums) and Brian Gibson (guitar) have released four chaotic, spazzy art-metal albums that are metal only in the loosest way. Lightning Bolt songs are like crazy, wounded wildcats: dangerous and…
Sure, Black Kids frontman Reggie Youngblood (read Christine Borges’ Q&A with him for Crossfade here) sings like an overly earnest Robert Smith impersonator, and sure, the band sounds like a thick patois of nearly every ’80s musical dialect ever put on acetate, but that’s exactly what makes them fantastic. It’s…
Those unfamiliar with the Beauvilles might hear that Deep South, plantation-perfect moniker and expect a ragged group of Southern-rock traditionalists or perhaps even revved-up psychobilly retro camp schtick. There’s a bit of the former, none of the latter, and a whole lot more to the story. With enigmatic singer and…
Boston’s on the Beach celebrates America’s 234th birthday with three days of this country’s great indigenous art form — the blues. Never mind that the music was created by the descendants of African slaves or that it’s now dominated by white folk. The Delray Beach institution’s Red, White, and Blues…
