Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit had to pull out of their Sunday gig as part of the Orlando Calling Festival after thieves stole their van and all of their equipment from a Dallas Holiday Inn Express. “Looks like we won’t be playing at Orlando Calling at noon tomorrow,” the…
West Palm Beach’s main source for static and fury, the Band in Heaven, is soliciting public support to fund a new music video via Kickstarter. This comes only a couple weeks after the group’s last, and successful, effort to raise monies for T-shirts.The song in question is “Sludgy Dreams,” the…
Curiosity will lead plenty of folks to Opium Nightclub at the Seminole Hard Rock on Saturday for Kreayshawn’s live performance. Over the course of the past few months, the “Gucci Gucci” rapper from Oakland has immersed herself in the popular culture stream, and now is the chance to find out…
It’s impressive what folks pay — or what some other folks think they can get — for concert tickets. Before you drop coin for the $1,750 Radiohead show in February, there’s another bargain awaiting on Craigslist for Jay-Z and Kanye West’s Watch the Throne date next week at American Airlines…
There’s nothing better to call Malcom Lacey’s Arrange than Tumblr-wave. Over the past few months, the Fort Lauderdale resident has provided glimpses into his life and mind through his electronic music and a rather personal blog. Since Lacey has yet to perform a live show — in spite of many…
It’s been tough for internet poon hounds to score some eye-filling views of the Jacuzzi Boys’ (un)official “Glazin'” video the past few days because the thing keeps getting taken down and put up somewhere else. The Jacuzzi Gals — who semi-notoriously dressed up their vaginas as famous mouths to sing…
The Pixies’ victory lap continues widening almost a full two decades after the band last put out a new album. After originating in Boston in the late ’80s and creating a hook-filled rock boilerplate inspiring everyone from Nirvana to Surfer Blood, internal tensions tore them apart. Now, the core of…
There’s something in the air. It’s the aroma of a freshly popping beer froth, the bustle of bodies gently brushing past one another, the anticipation of carefully concocted liquid refreshment about to rush past your taste buds, and the thrill of the extra oxygen rushing through your head as a…
Somebody call the Karma Police! Tickets for Radiohead’s U.S. tour opener in Miami have hit the resellers’ market, and they’re not cheap.For those who did not score any seats during Wednesday morning’s fan presale — the band’s site says “allocation now SOLD OUT” — take heart. Many of these tickets…
It has been nearly 15 months since the runaway success of Cee Lo Green’s “Fuck You.” The song netted him a third Grammy and turned out to be the added punch a lot of movie trailers in the intervening months needed. The song came from the Goodie Mob/Gnarls Barkley founding…
One of the few truly sensitive men in rap passed today. Known as Heavy D, Dwight Arrington Myers was one of the earliest and finest examples of the fusion of hip-hop and soul. He was 44.TMZ reports that Heavy D died in Los Angeles after having difficulty breathing at his…
Fort Lauderdale nü-metal act Nonpoint just had a huge weekend. Bad news first: Guitarist Zach Broderick and original bassist Ken “KB” MacMillan have both split with the band and have formed a new project. The good news: Remaining members vocalist Elias Soriano and drummer Robb Rivera will carry on as…
FishboneWith Downtown Brown and Ketchy ShubyCulture Room, Fort LauderdaleSunday, November 6, 2011Better Than: Succeeding at something only once in eight tries.After funk founders Sly & the Family Stone and James Brown, but before the hip-hop-fused Roots, is the Fishbone era. Unquestionably one of the greatest live bands that fits comfortably…
Radiohead’s The King of Limbs deserves a dusting off between now and February 2012, because the gents are doing a tour of the United States. This is not an Occupy Wall Street hoax! The news comes from the band’s publicity firm. Radiohead has indeed published the first nine dates of…
Chris Cornell has fallen on a black day and can’t acoustically shred at the Fillmore Miami tonight. Live Nation reports that laryngitis caused by flu is the reason for the cancellation.This bug has been bothering him for a few days now. Back on November 2, he tweeted, “Caught cold from…
Even back to his days in Miami metal legends Floor, Torche frontman Steve Brooks has been an unabashed Guided by Voices lover. His Miami-Gainesville-Atlanta quartet has never shirked its responsibilities to forge catchy melodies in the molten fires of its songs.And when you hear the 51-second “Lay Low” from last…
“Does Liquid Courage Exist?” is the central question of the new ¡Mayday! music video for a freestyle over the Beastie Boys’ “Make Some Noise.” The Miami hip-hop staples hit legendary Little Haiti punk haunt Churchill’s Pub to get a satisfactory answer.The clip itself is a gorgeous way to visit this…
If you didn’t read yesterday’s Q&A with Anthrax’s Scott Ian, check it out here. The guy gnashes into people who illegally download music, and 54 comments (and counting) continue the debate today. In Ian’s words: “You still can’t steal a ticket to come see us. That side of it is…
Nope, not a typo. Further Seems Forever drummer Steven Kleisath is going for an honor just as elusive as winning a Grammy or performing at Madison Square Garden — he wants to record the highest Turbo Ms. Pac-Man score of all time. Aiding him in this pursuit is Arcade Game…
No one gets a record deal slugging Tecates in a beach chair, although the Jacuzzi Boys might have you believe differently. In “Vizcaya,” a track from the Boys’ new candy-coated LP, Glazin’, singer/guitarist Gabriel Alcala proclaims: “There’s no place in the world that I’d rather be, than right here with…
Not that long ago, County Grind got obsessed with Miami R&B-jazz ensemble Ketchy Shuby’s current aesthetic direction. This first took hold with “Broke Like My Soul,” a throwback jam for dancing on backroom hardwood floors with hand-rolled cigar smoke curling in the air.Now, the band takes an unlikely approach by…
New Times Beerfest arrives on Saturday, November 12. And it’s going to be a lot more affordable and fancy if you pay attention today.All of the VIP trimmings of unlimited exclusive food (via Bravo Ristorante, Charm City Burger Company, New River Pizza, Pizza Fusion, and Artisan Bakery) as well as…
