At this point, everything that can be said about Clarence Reid, aka Blowfly, has been said within our digital and newsprint pages. There’s little to add save for a few unknown and completely made-up facts; like when Blowfly, in full funky regalia saved schoolchildren from a burning bus in the…
Coastline Festival is storming into town this Sunday with some mega-names in indie pop. Passion Pit, Matt & Kim, and the Joy Formidable stand out in the lineup, but it’s also sprinkled with up-and-coming genre climbers that you might not know yet. Chances are that St. Lucia makes that list…
Are you in a music funk? No, we don’t mean a George Clinton phase. We mean the terrible feeling that tortures your soul when new tunes are hard to find. That empty hole where once a hot Pandora discovery made its cozy home. It’s aching to be filled again. Might…
Expect an excess of thrift store flannel, floral Doc Martens, and teenage angst this weekend when South Florida’s premier Nirvana tribute act Smells Like Grunge rolls into Lake Worth’s Speakeasy Lounge. We caught up with the trio a few months back where we gleaned that the act’s drummer, Jay Scott,…
All right, we get it: Van Hagar was not Van Halen, nor will the band’s work with Sammy Hagar ever hold a candle to the groundbreaking canon the David Roth era produced. However, Sammy Hagar is, in his own right, a real-deal rock star, and while we have to agree…
In a world of people seeking salvation in the beat, Passion Pit is a messiah. These Boston-based kings of indie sound give rockers something to chew on, and techno kids get the electro vibes they crave. The result is simple: Everyone dances to Passion Pit. Having graced us with its…
Tiki Tom is in the far end of the exhibition space when we arrive, in the black light room. Looking like a weatherbeaten, white Rastafarian, he’s fussing with a set of banged-up hub caps painted in fluorescent colors over a coating of his secret recipe of faux-cement surfacing. More typically,…
Sammy Hagar might be the nicest guy in rock ‘n’ roll. As a musician, he’s been the voice of Montrose, one of the most underrated rock bands of all time, enjoyed a strong solo career, and led Van Halen during one of the band’s most successful periods. Most recently, he…
Out of Focus came together like many high school punk bands do — the product of idle ambition and idealistic teenage gumption. Formed in late 1994, and operating until 1997, the group’s earliest roots can be traced back to a short-lived Killian High outfit called Forehead, a hodgepodge of future…
By Monica McGivern Bands living on the edge from little sleep to partying non-stop, is nothing new. Add in a hectic touring schedule, and the potential for danger heightens. Yesterday morning, we received some sad-glad news about Jacuzzi Boys Hardly Art label-mates, La Luz. After living through one of “probably…
Rookie season is looking bright for the Coastline Festival. The one day music, craft beer, food truck, and art oasis is completely stacked with a great lineup on all fronts and a super pumped crowd eager to be a part of the first-ever event. A special treat for West Palm,…
Back in 2000, the Coen Brothers directed O Brother Where Art Thou. You might remember the screwball comedy featuring George Clooney as an escaped convict trying to get back to his family in the South of the 1930s. More likely, you remember the film’s soundtrack, which sold more than 7…
Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman offers his insights, opinions, and observations about the local scene. This week: South Florida’s first festival and a memorable moment with Jimi Hendrix. In May 1968, South Florida had very little to boast about when it came to placing its imprint on…
In a world of people seeking salvation in the beat, Passion Pit is a messiah. These Boston-based kings of indie sound give rockers something to chew on, and techno kids get the electro vibes they crave. The result is simple: Everyone dances to Passion Pit. Having graced us with its…
[Editor’s Note: In his column Serrano Time, award-winning writer and goofball Shea Serrano writes about his life and times.] History: Katy Perry was born in 1984, except back then people called her “Katy Hudson” because that’s her real name. In 2001, she was like, “You know what? I’m gonna release…
If there were a touring duo that’d make both your grandma, a newborn, every hipster and mom, even your dog piddle with excitement, it’d be Paul Simon and Sting. And guess what? Prepare to pee your pants, cause these two are heading, not only around the country (and Southern Canada)…
Here at New Times, we are all about the music scene. Local gigs, big acts, cover bands that play at bar mitzvahs, we love it all! That being said, we feel it’s important to address a serious affliction that affects us all in the music community: Lead Singer Syndrome, otherwise…
Billing itself as America’s number-one Eagles tribute band, the Long Run is a group of South Florida musicians whose obvious love of all things Eagles is dedicated to the sole purpose of replicating the sound of music’s most successful chart-topping rock outfit of all time. Having made that their mission,…
All right, we get it: Van Hagar was not Van Halen, nor will the band’s work with Sammy Hagar ever hold a candle to the groundbreaking canon the David Roth era produced. However, Sammy Hagar is, in his own right, a real-deal rock star, and while we have to agree…
If you heard less howling in the North Miami area, that’s because the bohemian musical/artistic entourage the Wolffpack migrated north to Brooklyn. Earlier this year, singer Mercury Wolff and bass player Pluto were tired of delaying their tour and with $60 combined to their name and thanks to the kindness…
Whether he’s embodying the presence of artist and musician Dave Brockie or that of Oderus Urungus — the foul-mouthed curmudgeon alien scumdog that fronts the universe’s baddest band of profane rockers, GWAR — this man can talk just about anyone under the table. When we interviewed Brockie last year, he…
Rock star has become an overused descriptor. If you down a can of Four Loko or stay out until the break of dawn, people will say you partied like a rock star. But on Saturday night, Alexis Krauss, singer of Brooklyn based band Sleigh Bells, reminded the packed crowd at…
