Respectable Street 25th Anniversary Block Party, Saturday in West Palm Beach

Only in America will you get sneakers and “Pu$$y” for $20. And only an Australian dude can make it happen. A decade ago, Aussie Peter Fahey embarked on a mission to combine two of his passions — footwear and music. The result: The “Sneaker Pimps USA Tour,” a mishmash of…

Santana at Hard Rock Live, Friday and Saturday

While guitar legend Santana was scheduled to perform on Friday, August 24 and Saturday, August 25 at Hard Rock Live in Hollywood, as well as Gary Amphitheatre in Tampa on August 26, the shows have been postponed. According to a press release, these changes are, “due to circumstances beyond our…

Fame doesn’t happen overnight; patience is a key component of success. And few MCs have been as tolerant over the years with the fickle music industry as Yo Gotti. In January, the Memphis-based rapper dropped his major-label debut, Live From the Kitchen, on RCA. It was three years past due…

At Black Locust Society’s monthly party debut at the new Five Points Lounge this past May, BLS954 rapper Protoman introduced fellow MC Ricardo “Gaps” Tejeda as the “Hologram of Tupac.” “I just got jumped into the Bloods,” Gaps later confessed, rocking a gold rope around his neck and a red…

Fame doesn’t happen overnight; patience is a key component of success. And few MCs have been as tolerant over the years with the fickle music industry as Yo Gotti. In January, the Memphis-based rapper dropped his major label debut, Live From the Kitchen, on RCA. It was three years past…

Chief Keef is not a sentimental dude. When the Chicago rapper was approached by the city’s newspaper, the Tribune, and asked how it felt to perform in front of his largest hometown crowd at the Pitchfork Music Festival, Keef said, “This? This ain’t s—.” Similarly, when Rolling Stone caught up…

Diabetes, a literal hole in the heart, and severe brain hemorrhaging would almost certainly kill the common man. But Poison’s Bret Michaels is not your average Joe. “I feel really great,” Michaels recently told the Columbus Dispatch. “I’m about 90 percent back from the hemorrhage and the heart surgery. I…

The unintentional irony of the advertising industry never ceases to amaze. It’s not a coincidence that college-educated, 18- to 35-year-old female caffeine addicts with a hankering for hipster fashion will likely compose the crowd at a Neon Trees show. It’s a premeditated big-business marketing ploy. In May, Seattle coffee giant…

The name Biz Markie is synonymous with 1980s rap music. However, the Long Island MC is more than just “the Clown Prince of Hip-Hop”; he’s also a well-respected DJ. “The DJ ten, 20 years ago wasn’t computerized. It’s easier now to be a DJ because the promoters don’t care, really,…

Stevie Nicks recently said on CBS This Morning while promoting her latest record, In Your Dreams, “It’s the songs that change; it’s not so much me that changes.” But Nicks has changed. And that’s not a bad thing. “We all did drugs because everybody else was doing drugs,” she said,…

They say don’t judge a book by its cover. But when a 63-year-old man in cutoff camouflage shorts, wraparound sports glasses, a cowboy hat, and a hunting knife walks into a room, it’s hard to stop the mind from wandering to a judgmental place. You’ll likely end up in that…

There’s a time and place for everything, so they say. And when you’re a chubby guy or raven-haired maven with an affinity for vinyl pants, fishnet shirts, duct-taped nipples, and leather chokers, that place is Green Room on a Friday night. For the past year, the club’s weekly Black Friday…

For South Florida natives under age 30, it’s quite likely that your first concert experience took place on a sweaty summer day at the Coral Sky Amphitheater. And it was probably the “Vans Warped Tour.” Though Coral Sky eventually became Mars and Mars later became Sound Advice and Sound Advice…

The looming threat of Texas seceding from the rest of America lingers like a fat man’s fart in an elevator. But while it’d be sad to see the Lone Star State go, it wouldn’t be nearly as detrimental as New Jersey breaking off and becoming a sovereign state. If that…

Before 1982, television after 2 a.m. was an absolute waste of valuable airtime. That was about the time when stations literally signed off until programming resumed later that morning. But 30 years ago, a dude named Frank Cannella convinced a few networks to let him push hair-growth products in the…

Nearly two months removed from the infamous “Causeway Cannibal” attack that left one homeless man virtually faceless, South Florida is still struggling to shake the notion that zombies do, in fact, frequent the greater Miami/Fort Lauderdale metropolitan area. When the Heat beat the Oklahoma City Thunder in last month’s NBA…

Well before the pop princess and boy-band wave washed away America’s musical dignity and flooded MTV’s New York City studio with screaming, prepubescent tweens, rock reigned supreme in the hierarchy of the music business. Live music meant muffled vocals over distorted guitars and complicated drum patterns rather than lip-synching and…

… And then he said, “Dave Matthews Band!” Ah-ha-ha-ha-ha It’s become the inexplicable punch line among music snobs globally. For reasons unknown, Dave Matthews Band is often unfavorably lumped together with the likes of Nickelback and Creed, and liking his music is interpreted as “I’m tone deaf and have awful…