It is a wonder why someone with a name as cool as “Troy Beetles” needs a stage name. Either way, Beetles, AKA Datsik, brings his hard-hitting alloy of bass-heavy dubstep, bombastic house, and funky hip-hop to Revolution Live on the Fourth of July. Canadian-born, Steve Aoki-mentored, Datsik has been steadily…
Stephen Brennan, a Brit, teacher, and soccer fanatic, will tell the World Cup’s craziest moments over the next few days. Read the others here. Cameroon Makes It to the Quarters, 1990 Teams outside the strongholds of South America and Europe had featured in the World Cup before. There had been…
Less than a month after Jay Z and Beyoncé did not attend Kayne West’s wedding to Kim Kardashian, rap fans have put forward a theory that Yeezus is articulating his indignation by censoring Jay Z’s name from his recent live performances. But weep not; they were not even the biggest…
Stephen Brennan, a Brit, teacher, and soccer fanatic, will tell the World Cup’s craziest moments over the next few days. This is the sixth installment. Read the others here. The Battle of Santiago, Chile versus Italy, First Round 1962 The so called “Battle of Santiago” in the ’62 tournament was,…
Stephen Brennan, a Brit, teacher, and soccer fanatic, will tell the World Cup’s craziest moments over the next few days. This is the fifth installment. Read the others here. England versus West Germany, Semifinal 1990 Since winning the World Cup on home soil in 1966, there had been little for…
Stephen Brennan, a Brit, teacher, and soccer fanatic, will tell the World Cup’s craziest moments over the next few days. This is the fourth installment. Read the others here. West Germany versus Hungary, Final 1954 It is difficult to believe now, but in the 1950s, Hungary possessed one of the…
Stephen Brennan, a Brit, teacher, and soccer fanatic, will tell the World Cup’s craziest moments over the next few days. This is the third installment. Read the first one here and the second here. Italy versus West Germany, Final, 1982 Italy is a team that seems to thrive on low…
Stephen Brennan, a Brit, teacher, and soccer fanatic, will tell the World Cup’s craziest moments over the next few days. This is the second installment. Read the first one here. On the eve of the 1958 World Cup finals in Sweden, the Brazilian team’s psychologist, Dr. Joao Carvalhaes advised the…
Stephen Brennan, a Brit, teacher, and soccer fanatic, will tell the World Cup’s craziest moments over the next few days. This is the first installment. Almost a century ago, during the first Christmas of the bloodbath that was World War I, war weary German and British soldiers climbed hesitantly out…
Jessica Fichot’s first Florida show at Sunrise Civic Center tomorrow promises a tantalizing intermingling of sounds. Fichot, backed a three piece band, marshals a plethora of influences, taking the listener from summer evenings in Parisian cafes, to smoky 1940s Shanghai nightlife palaces. The American-born, Paris-raised, L.A. based chanteuse fuses her…
It is difficult to believe that when Cher first topped the charts, LBJ was in the White House and America was taking its first steps into the quagmire of Vietnam. She is one of an elite few in the annals of pop history who aptly deserves to be called a…
As the boil of EDM becomes ever more bulbous, new variations of the scene need to be explored. Well, look no further. Italy’s Bloody Beetroots provide a blast of molten punk anarchy to the normally euphoric genre, fueling an incredibly intense live experience that’s heading straight to Fort Lauderdale on…
It is difficult to believe that when Cher first topped the charts, LBJ was in the White House and America was taking its first steps into the quagmire of Vietnam. She is one of an elite few in the annals of pop history who aptly deserves to be called a…
George Orwell’s predictions in his dystopian classic 1984 seem more apt for 2014 than the titular year. The scale and scope of our intelligence agencies suggest that Big Brother is well and truly with us. Our corruption of the English language in social media is more than reminiscent of newspeak…
While countless rock groups clutch their guitars like Flat Earth Society members do their disc-shaped models of Earth, Nebraska’s the Faint goes past the regular instrumentation of its “indie rock” genre to create something new. It pioneered an electronica-flavored, dance-punk sound with synth-saturated menace. Emerging from Omaha’s own Saddle Creek…
Surf rock legend Dick Dale takes to the stage at West Palm Beach’s SunFest tonight. Sandwiched in between early rock ‘n’ roll, rockabilly and the British Invasion, surf rock briefly dominated the charts in the early ’60s. Its easily accessible rhythms and narratives of carefree adolescence conjure images of sun…
I was only 7 when the Smiths split, was still in diapers (or nappies, as we call them in England) when the Two-Tone Ska revival was in full flow, and was but a twinkle in my father’s eye when punk first came around. By the early 1990s, the British charts…
The anticipation surrounding Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band’s show at the BB&T is brewing like a swollen sky before a thunderstorm. The Boss plays the venue for the first time in more than four years on Tuesday, April 29, as the tour supporting latest release High Hopes bounds…
Since the 1970s, rock bands have feverishly plundered the reggae springing out of the islands of the Caribbean and the West Indian neighborhoods of London and New York. Clapton, Blondie, and Led Zeppelin all either covered or lovingly entwined their own sound with the bass-heavy grooves of everything from dub…
Living in New York City was exhausting. My wife and I lived there for eight years and loved it. However, its intoxicating alchemy of history, culture, cuisine, and attitude was a fuel that ran low as ever-increasing rents and cost of living hit heavy. Southward ho we went to the…
