War isn’t funny. Neither are Planet Earth’s environmental woes. But this Veteran’s Day weekend on November 9 and 10, the Friends of Nature Music Festival (AKA FONFEST) will descend upon Virginia Key Beach Park in the hope of making Miami laugh and dance and be merry. That’s right — these…
We’re getting close to the end, folks. So far, you’ve gotten a taste of the slow-grinding, culo-clapping fiesta that is the South Florida rap game. As we now lightly-tread the first half of the top ten, prepare for tremendo slow-grinding. We are the strip club capital after all. Check the…
On the morning of September 11, 2001, the National League East was still up for grabs. Having taken three of four games against the Marlins, the third-place New York Mets squad was within five games of its division rival, the Atlanta Braves, and set to start a series against the…
By Derek Heid I have to admit, chiptune is something I’ve only been really into for a very short while. That’s not to say I haven’t been familiar with it. I knew people still made 8-bit music using old consoles, with special cartridges and modifications, and it pretty much sounded…
For the former lead singer of the Runaways, Cherie Currie, life has been an intense ride. While a portion of the Runaways’ story has finally been told thanks to a 2010 biopic starring Dakota Fanning as Cherie and Kristen Stewart in the role of guitarist and foil Joan Jett, the…
Evan Rowe has been a part of Fort Lauderdale’s music scene for over a decade now. If you’re a newcomer or a young-ish millennial following music around these parts, you probably know him as the often-tutued half of the cross-dressing outfit Travalonia, a band name that mashes the moniker of…
It’s official. Downtown West Palm has more than one music festival to be giddy about. Now back for its second year, Summer Jam is slated to turn the Meyer Amphitheater into a little reggae paradise at the end of the month. The lineup is stacked with reunions of mega-local acts…
When Dr. Dre rapped, “We in that sunshine state with a bomb ass hemp beat/the state where ya never find a dance floor empty” on 1995’s “California Love,” we’d like to think he was subliminally calling out Florida. We started booty bass, after all. Check the cut for numbers 15…
There’s a distinct sensation when you’re at a party that’s outgrown itself. The crowd’s there, the music, the drinks, the same cigarette smoke and sidewalk jerk-chicken vendor, the same bouncer and bartenders, and the same guys playing pool in the back. But there’s a certain air of restlessness, a subtle…
Valyn Calhoun’s camera is his therapist, he says. And one need only look at his photographs to see what he means. An often jarring assortment of random limbs soaked in bright, harsh colors, his photos can feel discomforting at times, like a bondage, big-top circus. Combating the chaos, ostensibly at…
Album release parties can be a snoozer. We get it: You made an album. But the fine gentlemen of Boca’s Phantomime are doing their best to smash that potential boredom into tiny little pieces with one explosive formula. Their The Heist EP release party is for the people. Because it…
South Florida punk band Zero to the Left — composed of guitarist Joe Gallo, bassist Will Gallo, singer Angel Montes, and drummer Pablo Reyna — was originally known as W.A.S. in the ’90s. The origin of their name derives from the mathematical proof that any leading zeros to the left…
Yesterday, we kicked off our list with “Get Fucked Up” party boys Iconz and reminisced to the Buckwheat Boyz’s “Peanut Butter Jelly Time.” Experimental rap reared its funny head with newbies SpaceGhostPurrp and Robb Bank$. Today, we’ve thrown a few SoFla party rap big shots and classic Miami bassheads into…
Cold Cave is Wesley Eisold, the brooding, multifarious former vocalist behind influential hardcore groups Give Up the Ghost (previously American Nightmare) and Some Girls. Since 2007, he’s been churning out a stream of self-produced experimental darkwave synth, occasionally collaborating with friends like Sean Martin of Hatebreed and the late Justin…
FastForward is a column documenting the nighttime scene in Fort Lauderdale and Palm Beach County. It’s a weeknight stop at your neighborhood dive; it’s a blurry, bass-filled Friday night in the club; it’s that one moment in a conversation you hope you’ll remember the next morning. For hundreds of suburban-dwelling,…
Action Bronson Revolution Live, Fort Lauderdale Saturday, August 17, 2013 Better Than: A judo stunt show at the Cannabis Cup. Blowing on a blunt rolled longer than Mutombo’s finger, Action Bronson strolled out onto the Revolution Live stage in Fort Lauderdale, hair slicked back, breathing in the moment. He took…
5. Backstreet Boys With Jessy McCartney and DJ Pauly D. 7 p.m. Sunday, August 25, at Cruzan Amphitheatre, 601-7 Sansbury’s Way, West Palm Beach. Tickets cost $29 to $109 plus fees. Call 561-795-8883, or visit cruzanamphitheatre.net. Backstreet’s back! What do we have to say to that? All right! The Orlando…
North Florida’s kind of weird. Nothing ever seems to get accomplished in T-Town. And the landscape above the I-4 corridor is a desiccant abyss of ‘villes (Jacksonville, Gainesville, Crawfordville, etc., I’m talkin’ to you). On the the other hand, South Florida is at the sweltering foreground of the Sunshine State…
It’s been a while since we last caught up with West Palm Beach psych rockers the Band in Heaven. With a full-length album, Caught in a Summer Swell, due out September 17, a dreamy, Ray Bradbury-inspired single, “Dandelion Wine,” getting buzz all over the internet, and a tripped out new…
Our resident vocal superhero Cassadee Pope earned the right to be called The Voice of America after taking home the gold in season three of the mega-hit reality show. She last came back to her hometown when still in the top three — not quite yet a winner — to…
Bruce Hornsby is like one of those kids you loved to hate back in high school. Good grades aren’t enough — they have to take on every challenge the teacher offers. In Hornsby’s case, he comes across as a perennial multi-tasker: An artist who’s never been content with hit singles,…
Backstreet’s back! What do we have to say to that? Alright! The Orlando quintet are no longer technically a boy band, but that doesn’t mean that they’ve lost their sense of youthful exuberance. (Spoiler alert!!!) Nick, Kevin, Brian, AJ, and Howie’s appearance in the final scene of This Is the…
