Aesop Dekker currently drums for the incredible and long-running metal outfit Agalloch, as well as VHÖL and Worm Ouroboros. Whereas I would love to spend the next three sentences exhausting my word count hailing his skills and making crap statements like “powerhouse dynamo” and/or “a whirling dervish of the skins”…
If you’ve walked down Las Olas or Clematis lately, chances are you’ve seen a Cycle Party. You know, the mobile bar/bicycle contraption that looks like something Leonardo da Vinci would have invented if he were in a frat. Yeah, that. If you still have no clue what I’m talking about,…
The other day, I watched the second to last episode of True Blood in my living room, and I cried. I pressed pause, I made lunch, and then I cried again. I know. It’s totally embarrassing. Shameful. And I can blame my funky hormones or total exhaustion, but the truth…
Last night marked the third installment of C&I Studios and Exposed PR’s Summer Soundtrack, a pop-up series that showcases talented local artists performing alongside Phil Barnes and delicious drinks. The kicker? Locations are not revealed until an hour before the event starts. Take last night, for example. After a week…
Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman offers his insights, opinions, and observations about the local scene. This week: Local duo Chance Meyer and Nicole Noël take a traditional tack. Given South Florida’s decided lack of higher terrain (in the physical sense, that is), any music that takes its…
Who among us doesn’t have the urge to create a cat-inspired superhero? Instead of burying that feeling deep inside, the sun-drenched dudes of Fort Lauderdale’s Octo Gato have given in to the feline fever. To share its laid-back, beach-rock sound and style with the masses, Octo Gato is premiering its…
It’s certainly a cliche to say rock ‘n’ roll will never die, but these oft repeated truisms exist for a reason — they ain’t all wrong. Rock might morph, the aesthetic applied may forever be in a state of glorious flux, but it will always survive. More importantly, it will…
Chances are, when you heard that Michael McDonald and Toto were coheadlining the stage at Hard Rock Live last night, you didn’t wet yourself with anticipation. Of course, if you’re on the older end of the geriatric spectrum, then perhaps you did wee a little. Unlike you, I was very…
The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this week that the National Football League asked representatives of Katy Perry, Rihanna, and Coldplay how much they would pay to play next February’s Super Bowl halftime show. While the NFL generally hasn’t paid its Super Bowl halftime performers in the past, it did…
5. Back to School Party at Pawn Shop 8 p.m., Friday, August 22, at Pawn Shop, 219 Clematis St., West Palm Beach. No cover. Visit Facebook. Just because you graduated doesn’t mean you’re too old to go back to school. West Palm’s Pawn Shop celebrates the beginning of the school…
The all-knowing internet defines “ballyhoo” as “a buildup, hoopla, fanfare.” And no title more aptly describes the musical output produced by the Aberdeen, Maryland, reggae/rock/punk fusion quartet known by that handle. Add an exclamation point to the end — Ballyhoo! — and one can already imagine the level of merriment…
The rise of Stitches, the Miami rapper who attracted millions of page views and huge national attention for his hit “Brick in Yo Face,” provides a blueprint for modern-day hip-hop myth-making. Almost overnight, Phillip Katsabanis went from being a suburban Kendall kid known as “Lil Phill” to a bona fide…
Some will say a Mad Men party is so 2007. People with shorter attention spans might prefer honoring a newer TV show maybe an Orange Is the New Black night where everyone is dressed in female prison garb or a True Detective evening where guests perform their best Matthew McConaughey…
Miami-based Latin Funk band Electric Piquete will headline B.B. King’s Long Hot Summer Jam, playing some covers and original tunes. The 90-minute set will be recorded live and possibly used for the band’s upcoming music video for its new single “De Cara Al Sol.” So when you attend, you can…
Let’s be real. You can find a reggae show in Palm Beach County just by closing your eyes, spinning around and pointing arbitrarily in any direction. The sheer volume of these bands has made every showgoer a master of the reggae lean. It’s also made for some discerning listening palettes;…
“Wanted: a ’60s-influenced singer looking to participate in a project with a sense of energy and soul,” read a Craigslist ad posted by local musical whiz Christopher Moll two years ago. Moll had gotten the itch to start crafting music again after stepping away from a bustling career with his…
The all-knowing internet defines “ballyhoo” as “a buildup, hoopla, fanfare.” And no title more aptly describes the musical output produced by the Aberdeen, Maryland, reggae/rock/punk fusion quartet known by that handle. Add an exclamation point to the end — Ballyhoo! — and one can already imagine the level of merriment…
A gleaming white Cadillac Escalade lurches to a stop in a grimy South Beach alley. A slender, olive-skinned dude in a T-shirt steps out holding a bulky duffel bag. He approaches a husky, Mohawked young man with gold teeth and a face full of startling tattoos that include a microphone,…
Stop-and-go afterwork traffic lined the way out to Cruzan Amphitheatre Friday night. The road was packed with people out to see Stiff Little Fingers, Pennywise, Bad Religion, and the Offspring on a balmy summer night. Surprisingly, the lawn was closed off and only seats-seats were available. Well, seats and the…
Holly Hunt’s Gavin Perry is quite the antithesis of the archetypal “guitar hero.” But Perry’s approach to the instrument, as a coconspirator in creating the crushing sonic monolith that is Holly Hunt’s sound, undoubtedly qualifies him as an hero of sorts. With the unchecked proliferation of sludge, stoner, and doom-metal…
It’s rare to get a rock star on the phone at 9 a.m. on a Saturday. It’s even rarer when it’s actually an hour earlier where he is. Yet the phone rings, and there’s Toto’s veteran guitarist, singer, and songwriter Steve Lukather himself on the line, eager to dispel any…
Bury December was first conceived in Fort Lauderdale back in 2011 when founders guitarist Antonio Ramos and bassist Claudio Kucelin met in high school. Once they teamed up with vocalist Kevin Saballos, guitarist Keegan Hughes, and drummer Brandon Brace, the band with a name inspired from a misheard song lyric…
