Chicago-bred blues man Reverend Raven has squeezed out soulful guitar notes for the past 40 years and earned his share of blues cred. But he doesn’t rely on it to impress his audiences and maintains that he’s “only as good as last night’s gig.” Judging by the praise sung for…
The tattooed, skate-happy Black Locust Society opened the doors to their SWARM Warehouse Saturday night, inviting friends and newcomers alike to get on their level — which is about three feet above the coping on their in-house skate ramp. The event featured album-cover-inspired artwork and live tattooing in one room…
There is something inherently cute and enjoyable about bake sales that makes them attractive to just about everyone. Who could be against a couple of people at a fold-out table slingin’ homemade cookies and the like to benefit their cause? Not us at County Grind. However, as much as we…
Human beings have been drumming for thousands of years. In different scenarios, the act of slappin’ the skins has served as a way to communicate, celebrate, rally troops, and of course, annoy parents and neighbors. This Sunday, at Hollywood’s Art Park, human beings will be drumming for a very specific…
Mark Karan is a somewhat late comer to the Grateful Dead family — he first took the stage with the Other Ones in 1998 — but his trip has been long and strange indeed. Today, he’s become a well loved character among the Deadheads. His Dead resume includes stints in…
Proving that emo kids care as much about people as they do their hair, Never Shout Never and the Maine are using their current tour as a way to collect lots of food for the hungry. Their goal is to collect 200 pounds of non-perishable food items at each show…
Levon HelmWith Ray LaMontagnePompano Beach Amphitheater, Pompano BeachThursday, November 4, 2010Better than: A dry seat at a lousy show.Hours of pre-show rain assured that there wouldn’t be a dry booty in the crowd Thursday, but nobody seemed to be complaining about their soggy seat as they took in a stellar…
Usually, the festivalgoers who get the worst rap are the dreaded (pun intended), stinkin’ hippies. At this moment in South Florida, though, as the First Annual Southern Monster Smash Music Festival approaches, there exists a group that is even more stigmatized than the hippies: the monsters. People of all ages…
EP3 is a band that takes its name from a position in the cosmos: Eight Planets Past Pluto. To be more specific, the moniker could be Atlanta, Georgia. But based on the futuristic sounds EP3 pumps out, there’s an intergalactic audience being targeted that may or may not have heard…
It’s now been more than two years since music lovers gathered in the ‘glades for the last Langerado, the annual fest-supreme that for six years strong served as a backyard blessing for the locals and an excuse to bum-rush the equator for the traveling hippies. For those who have been…
7 WalkersWith Bobby Lee Rogers TrioRevolution, Fort LauderdaleFriday, October 22, 2010Long before any band took the stage at Revolution Friday night, a full moon rose over the city, evoking pre-show howls from peeps eager to celebrate the lunar occasion with one of the most beloved deep space drummers of all…
For 30 years, Bill Kreutzmann was the sensitive stick-wielder channeling psychedelic rhythms as the Grateful Dead’s drummer. After Jerry Garcia’s death in 1995, Kreutzmann moved out to Hawaii — something he and Garcia had promised to do together if the band were ever to break apart. Since then, Kreutzmann has…
GWARwith the Casualties Revolution, Fort Lauderdale Thursday, October 7, 2010 The review: Giant creatures descended upon Revolution in Fort Lauderdale on Thursday night for a furious evening of fluid exchange and heavy metal… oh, and GWAR played too. From the cool safety of the balcony, the conditions in the mosh…
The early recordings of singer-songwriter Dar Williams transport the listener to a New England coffeehouse — the setting in which her songs came to life in the early ’90s. The topical narratives’ insights make every word essential. Over the course of Williams’ career since then, a flower garden has grown…
The early recordings of singer-songwriter Dar Williams transport the listener to a New England coffeehouse — the setting in which her songs came to life in the early ’90s. The topical narratives’ insights make every word essential. Over the course of Williams’ career since then, a flower garden has grown…
“Forty-eight hours till the Wailers will be there in Fort Lauderdale! Tell the people to get ready to sing all the hits… ‘One Love,’ ‘No Woman, No Cry.’ Jah Rastafari!” You heard the man. That’s Aston “Family Man” Barrett announcing that the Wailers will be playing Revolution in Fort Lauderdale…
Living in South Florida, one can easily miss the changing of seasons. In fact, it’s not unusual for South Floridians to forget that there is such a thing as fall. The upside to this is that we get to surf without wet suits on Thanksgiving morning. The downside is that…
Bobby Lee Rodgers is a well known jammer in the world of twirling hippies, mostly as the guitar whiz in the Codetalkers, a band which also featured the legendary Col. Bruce Hampton. Beginning Thursday, September 23, he will be revisiting his jazz roots with a regular gig at the Green…
Among the complaints that we hear every day, rarely do we get something like this: “I spend my days in a wire cage just bigger than my body. I’m full of scabs and sores, and I’m standing with cut feet… in my own shit.” It would really be a drag…
“This song is about seeing my ex-girlfriend with another dude in the produce section of Wal-Mart and ducking behind the cantaloupes so she wouldn’t see me. But then she saw me anyway. It’s called ‘Feelin’ Like a Melon.’ ” See, at an open-mic night, you never know what you’re going to…
Snoop DoggWith the Spazmatics and Fourth DimensionRoxy’s Pub, West Palm BeachSunday, September 5, 2010Snoop Dogg is a master party performer — which is to say that his cool is contagious. For the duration of his hour-plus set Sunday evening, the fenced-off parking lot behind Roxy’s Pub looked like a sweaty…
GroundationWith The Beautiful Girls and Stampede MovementCulture Room, Fort LauderdaleSunday, August 29, 2010The Review:With a young local group, and a couple of well-established groups from distant lands, Sunday’s encounter with Groundation at the Culture Room was a reminder of the local artists and SoFla community at large of how high reggae can get…
