Since the 1970s, Alice Cooper has been making bloody fantastic rock ‘n’ roll. Known for his shocking stage shows, the artist born Vincent Damon Furnier is now a little further along in years but still touring like crazy. Cooper lives in Arizona, where he enjoys playing a lot of golf…
Christopher Moll’s musical ambitions have always extended far beyond South Florida. His previous band, the Postmarks, made a mark on the national — and international — scene, releasing a trio of excellent albums with a precious, semi-prog pop sound. Now, Moll is back with a new entry, a group formed…
The first film at the 2013 Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival (FLIFF), Free Ride, debuted to a packed audience. The crowd included the likes of producer Stephen Moyer (AKA Bill Compton of True Blood — yes, the Vampire Bill), director Shana Betz — who wrote and directed the film based…
Hell ranneth over Friday night, as ghouls and the morbidly mutilated swarmed the Revolution Live complex for an evening of all-ages family fun (and some late night drunken debauchery) at Fort Lauderdale’s third annual Zombie Walk. This year’s parade of not-quite-post-mortem monsters twisted and turned its way through the closed…
Since 1988, Trent Reznor has produced a bludgeoning body of work under the Nine Inch Nails flag, rife with imaginative sonic concepts, sullen lyrical content, and stark aesthetics that are uniquely his own. An artist in the truest sense of the word, perhaps Reznor’s greatest accomplishment is his ability to…
If you didn’t already know her, you might think Jessie Ware was just a regular girl. The family-oriented, superfriendly 28-year-old was an English lit major at the University of Sussex and had plans to attend law school. A self-proclaimed homebody and geek, the British songstress, whose debut album, Devotion, topped…
My Grandmother would call it chutzpah to do what the Lumineers did Sunday night at Sunset Cove Amphitheatre. For a one-hit wonder to play their one hit four songs into their set takes what my high school gym coach called balls the size of Jupiter and Saturn. The Denver-based band…
This Sunday, arts and social justice marry at Unit 1, the new Lake Worth gallery and performance space, as it hosts a fundraiser for the South Florida Prison Book Project. It is the latest effort in the group’s many years of providing free books to citizens who’ve run afoul of…
The hard rockin’ duo shtick has been done ad nauseam since the White Stripes stormed the airwaves in the early 2000s. Though life has gotten better for jilted bassists and keyboardists in recent times, who says there isn’t always room for a new twist on an old trick? Enter Deap…
It’s all about the local music scene tonight at Gigi’s Music Café in Sunrise. It’s where Vocapalooza, a nine-act showcase, is going down. Put on by Conundrum Stages, the fest features singers belting out songs in everything from pop to folk, rock to R&B, musical theater to country. There’s nowhere…
Standup comedy is a tough sport. It can take years to train and hone your craft, and the chances of getting drafted to the big leagues are still slim. So a guy who’s earned a place at Chelsea Lately’s roundtable and a minor role on an already-canceled NBC comedies has…
One person’s “curation” is another man’s life blood. Hollywood CPA and 33 1/3s guitarist Rob Budowsky has spent decades watching his favorite bands bypass South Florida to avoid the “200-mile trip to nowhere” from Orlando so loathed by lazy booking agents. Budowsky, 46, is no stranger to musical education. He…
They’re out there in the bushes, unrecognized but bursting with talent, according to Saxsa Stevens. And Saturday night, he and unindicted co-conspirator Tuesday Gilliam plan to lure local aspiring artistes onto the stage of Coastars Coffee in Lake Worth. It is there that they will sing, dance, prance, read, tell…
As we at New Times often gush: “Austin Mahone is a teenaged dreamboat.” But even teen idols get sick. And sadly for millions of Mahomies, the 17-year-old Cash Money-signed cutie has come down with a bug that’s forced him to cancel both his Miami and Orlando concerts his entire 2013…
It looks like we must have been especially good this year in South Florida. Why? Because we had the delightful opportunity to revel in the indie-pop radiance of Matt & Kim twice this year. The first time was at Ultra, straight with side-boob and an avalanche of colored balloons, and…
Yesterday morning, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announced 15 acts that are on the ballot to be inducted in its august body. Not to be confused with the Hard Rock Casino, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is a museum in Cleveland, Ohio, that celebrates its new…
Susan Joy Share likes to play dress-up with paper. Onstage, to varied musical accompaniment, she drapes book-like constructions over and around her body like a tutu, then a bandolier, then a head wrap and a prayer shawl; she spreads them across the floor or fans origami slinkies through the air,…
When you’ve made ten albums over the course of 20 years and your songs have been featured on countless network television shows, you can feel pretty assured that you’ve hit on a successful formula. Yet if you’re singer/songwriter Matt Nathanson, you might feel there’s some reason to tweak your trajectory,…
Austin Mahone is a teenaged dreamboat. The perfectly adorable 17-year-old pop sensation went from YouTube cutie to VMA winner in almost record time. Signed to Cash Money Records, he was voted 2013’s “Artist to Watch” by the formerly musical channel and named the new Justin Bieber by everyone else. Mahone…
As the internet demonstrates on a daily basis, Popular Culture beats the horse down to its elegant skeleton better than anyone. So to make mention of common discourses as redundant is more redundant than your average trend or meme or hit or whatever. In other words, how the fuck (in…
Have you been feeling as deprived of the bootylicious babes of Hurly-Burly Burlesque as we have lately? Have you and your girlfriends solemnly resorted to the washboard abs and kneepads of LaBare to get your fix of flesh? Well, grab a Kleenex and wipe away those tears, ladies and sexuality-confident…
Bicyclists of Fort Lauderdale, we feel your pain. We know it can be tough navigating America’s fourth most dangerous metropolitan area for biking and walking and risking getting pulled over and profiled for lack of registration, all while dodging some of America’s worst drivers. Yet despite less-than-ideal conditions, our little…
