When people talk about “heavy metal,” they’re really just talking about Steel Panther — a band so imbued in the form, it may as well have invented it. The band that once crept from the Sunset Strip’s gutters like some sort of mutant, spewing sequins, Aqua Net, and glitter with…
If you’ve never seen Tommy Lee strapped in and beating the skins in his 360 roller coaster drum machine, you’ve never lived. If you’ve never screeched along with Vince Neil playing “Home Sweet Home” on a disco ball-style grand piano, you don’t know emotion. Motley Crue is one of the…
If there are music loving deities — and there likely are considering every religion, cult, and even coven uses a good chant or acoustic guitar to transmit holy energy into the universe — then those powerful beings love rock and roll. No matter how often major corporations of try to…
Tim Reynolds might be best-known as the one who offered Dave Matthews his first words of musical encouragement. Matthews, born in South Africa, and Reynolds, born in Germany, would have their confluence in Virginia. The two are separated by a decade in age, with Tim the elder, and though it…
Three Bad Jacks is a rarity in music. The band’s been together for almost two decades, touring since it formed in Los Angeles in 1995, and members still manage it themselves. Even after performing with such music legends as Joe Strummer and Dwight Yoakam, along with creating a springboard for…
It’s that time of year again, when a romp through Fort Lauderdale’s contemporary arts scene explodes for a one-night affair on Saturday. Art Fallout, the 954’s largest art walk, features pop-up art shows in and around downtown’s environs — FAT Village, Sailboat Bend Artist Lofts, Third Avenue, and the NSU…
Every Christmas week brings with it new screaming babies, old people hobbling home for turkey, and some of the finest tunes about snow ever written. But since it doesn’t get colder than 40 degrees all winter around here, we can’t truly appreciate the focus of those seasonal songs in the…
The most remarkable thing about Mötley Crüe’s farewell tour is that it’s taking place in 2014 and all four members — singer Vince Neil, guitarist Mick Mars, bassist Nikki Sixx, and drummer Tommy Lee — are participating. None of them is in jail, in drug-induced comas, or dead — or…
I was never a New Found Glory fan. When I first got involved with punk rock back in the early ’90s, there was a reason. A reason that was spelled out in different forms, sure, but they were still easily identifiable by all parties involved. Maybe I was lucky. No…
The Black Dahlia Murder is a death metal band that will grace Revolution Live tonight with its dark presence. The band is named after one of the most infamous unsolved cases in California history and one of the most gruesome mysteries of all time. The Black Dahlia case took place…
It’s been close to a decade since your favorite trapper’s favorite trapper, Young Jeezy, made his solo major label debut with 2005’s Let’s Get It: Thug Motivation 101. Many consider the album a classic because it helped bring Atlanta trap to the mainstream. His witty dope-boy rhymes like, “The game…
With newer acts like Streetlight Manifesto to OGs like Rancid and Reel Big Fish all still touring, it’s clear ska never died. But probably before these guys even picked up guitars, there was the Toasters. The 2 tone act was one of the first American bands that emerged in the…
At just 19 years old, Canadian pop singer/songwriter Francesco Yates has accomplished more for his age than the average college freshman. Not only is he on his first U.S. tour, but he is also one of the many faces of the global “Faces of Fall Winter 2014 ‘People’ Campaign from…
It’s an offbeat event perfectly suited to the offbeat city of Lake Worth, a three-day festival of colorfully-clad dancers, acrobats, jugglers, martial artists, and mistresses and masters of movement arts of the most exotic kind, gathered in the city’s waterfront park to spin and bounce and twirl through the day…
Opening its doors in March 2009, the IWAN (Independent Working Artists Network) Concept Production Facility proved to be a pioneering concept in what once was a blighted area of Fort Lauderdale. Come to be known as “The Bubble” (which was actually the title of the first event held at the…
Avoiding the usual country music songs about Daisy Dukes, pickup trucks, and Fireball Cinnamon Whisky, Delray Beach cutie Taylor Loren has more of an edge. “My music is country with a little bit of outlaw Western style with a little bit of folk because I play acoustic guitar,” the 22-year-old…
Now is not the time to start a band. Not if your intention is to be rich and famous. Not if you think you’re going to get by on talent alone. Not if it’s for anything more than an innate need to create and make people, yourself more than anything,…
5. The Train Wrecks at Dada 10 p.m. Friday, October 10, at Dada. 52 N. Swinton Ave., Delray Beach. No cover. Visit Facebook. Savannah’s the Train Wrecks leave out lyrics about pickup trucks in favor of a more gritty, traditional style of country music. With two albums, Whiskey and War…
Kelcie McQuaid’s excitement about her third solo show in her first year as a full-time painter was apparent even over the phone. “I have been an artist for many years, showing and selling work for about five now,” the 25-year-old says. “However, this is my first year taking it on…
If you’re like us, chances are you’re still in deep recovery mode from Saturday night’s Respectable Street’s 27th anniversary shebang. You’ve had a few days to pull yourself up by your party bootstraps and get ready for another rocking block party. The Fourth Annual Artoberfest this Saturday will have 16…
There’s very little in the music world that Earth, Wind & Fire bassist Verdine White hasn’t accomplished in his 44 years as a recording artist. He’s sold hundreds of millions of records. He’s played in front of mammoth festival crowds. He’s widely considered one of the best bass guitarists of…
By Daniel J. Stout Crown TV & Records has been a trusted name in stereo and television repair in Deerfield Beach since 1967. From its Hillsboro Square exterior, placed comfortably in a small building housing Michael’s Haircutters and the award-winning Charm City Burger Co., it would appear to be there…
