The 2010 “American Idol Live!” tour ostensibly features the ten up-and-coming pop performers that a feverish segment of the U.S. knows way too much about and the rest of us wouldn’t be able to pick out of a lineup. Leading the way is Illinois native Lee DeWyze, who won the…
By the time Kanye West’s announcement that he has indeed joined Twitter made it to our Google Reader, more than 10,000 followers were on board — that number doubled quickly once Perez Hilton got wind of it and just topped 25K, thanks to Entertainment Weekly. By the end of the…
For those who think Joanna Newsom doesn’t take her harp-accompanied, grown-up dollhouse songs as close to the primal state as she should, there’s CocoRosie. During the past decade, the sisters Bianca “Coco” Casady and Sierra “Rosie” Casady survived the passing of the fleeting “freak”-folk movement (unwittingly spearheaded by former tourmate…
In our Moving Units column, Mike Ramirez at Fort Lauderdale’s Radio-Active Records graciously keeps us up-to-date and comments on the current releases flying out of his store each week.One of the week’s top-sellers, the Books’ The Way Out — a collage of spoken word, German rock, electronic glitches, ambient noise,…
Of Montreal frontman Kevin Barnes will not perform at Lake Worth-It on August 7 due to the economic climate and low sponsorship, according to organizer Cecil Lunsford. Barnes was previously slated as the headliner for the daylong festival in Lake Worth’s Bryant Park. In connection with the announcement, Lunsford adds…
The main thing to be excited about here is that West Palm Beach’s Surfer Blood is back on the road with the Drums, another band with Florida roots and a surf-friendly sound. This latest string of U.S. dates runs between September 10 and October 22 and includes a stop at…
More proof that County Grind is greatly influenced by 954 Hip-Hop, Kie Money has unveiled a video for the song we got excited about a couple of months back, “Welcome to Broward County.” Or, as some people around these parts like to say, BroCo.Directed by Ed “Nolu” Noel, the slickly…
Nas & Damian Marley put on a masterful performance at this year’s SunFest oh, 84 days ago, if anyone’s counting. Prior to that, the duo was down in Miami for the Ultra Music Festival exactly 121 days ago. Now, this is precisely 27 days of advance warning for the Distant…
Plantation-bred J-O, AKA Jonathan Olivert, has a hip-hop name that makes sense — it’s his initials. Right now, though, a certain popular fabric retailer’s site is up top of the search results. This guy hasn’t even reached his 20th birthday, according to his Facebook page, so he’s got some time…
Weird Al YankovicMizner Park Amphitheater, Boca RatonSaturday, July 24, 2010If the thick South Florida heat was getting to Weird Al Yankovic Saturday night, he sure wasn’t showing it — even while donning a suit that turned him into a Hell’s Angels version of Humpty Dumpty for his performance of “Fat.”…
Country fans: In addition to a trio of massive Cruzan dates already announced in this space (Brad Paisley on August 14, Toby Keith on September 4, and Rascal Flatts on September 24), we have a quartet of bookings coming up that will likely have you hogtied.The biggest of the big…
Now some of the gossip-type rags will probably be most interested in the fact that, oh, CONFIRMED: Evan Rachel Wood still crawls in the tattooed, pasty arms of our South Florida alumnus Marilyn Manson! However, this photograph is courtesy of the sexual napalm joke-tosser John Mayer (please click on the…
Seeing Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young in South Florida this year is now possible. Of course, you’ll have to buy tickets to Neil’s show on September 23 — also at Hard Rock Live. Anyhow, David Crosby, Stephen Stills, and Graham Nash have long been components in one of the most…
Pitchfork Music Festival 2010 Recap from MPLS.TV on Vimeo.Our lovely sister paper Minneapolis’ City Pages presents a charming video snapshot of this past weekend’s Pitchfork Festival, which was held in Chicago’s Union Park. Interspersed between interviews with Pitchfork head honcho Ryan Schreiber, comedian Michael Showalter, Neon Indian, Best Coast, South…
Tuesday night was a brief journey to the center of Billy Corgan’s universe when Revolution hosted a jam-packed Smashing Pumpkins concert in Fort Lauderdale. Some of us can’t get that beautiful bald head out of our minds, so here are two goodies for the day after the day after.First, the…
Among bands that your cool dad might know about even before you is Edward Sharpe & the Magnificent Magnetic Zeros (oh, whatever), so maybe bring him to Culture Room on October 19. Even if NPR suggests that the ten-piece troupe from Los Angeles “defies documentation, let alone description,” here’s a…
In our Moving Units column, Mike Ramirez at Fort Lauderdale’s Radio-Active Records graciously keeps us up-to-date and comments on the current releases flying out of his store each week.Many, many music reviewers might have you believing that the M.I.A. album is the worst thing to be committed to tape since…
Tuesday marks what could be the best thing for Lindsay Lohan’s recording career. For better or for worse, hip-hop culture is overly linked to the idea of “authenticity” (especially in the case of 50 Cent). As Lohan begins a 90-day prison sentence today — which likely will amount to about…
The righteous talents of South Florida rappers Protoman and Bleubird come together on this urgent new jam, “Guns Don’t Kill People (Florida Does).” And yes, their spitfire verses on the track will leave some welts in your flesh.According to Protoman’s MySpace, “This funk inspired breakbeat produced by Dantanna also features…
Don’t be squeamish. The slideshow from Friday’s killer set by the Pretty Faces at Propaganda features some folks who’re pretty darn picturesque and worth a lot of pageviews, ahem, eyeballs. Bassist Hannah Thorslund even rocked what I believe is an award-winning T-shirt, and Jeph and Tom were equally slick. Shots…
If the Glimpses of the South Florida Scene piece we ran last week and the MP3 of the day prior to that didn’t draw enough attention to the trippy brilliance of Totem Pole, let one of the finest South Florida music blogs, Hear Hums’ blog, be a reminder. Totem Pole…
If what you usually do while deciding what to have for dinner is cook up something else in the mean time, the process behind Blond Fuzz’s “Go Back to California” clip will make tons of sense. Photographer Ian Witlen, who doesn’t seem to need sleep, was meeting with the Boca…
