LMS is one of the handful of local MCs whom we like to write about because of their sheer dedication to the game, productivity, sense of community, and in hopes that the locals will awaken to realize the awesome amount of hip-hop that is basically everywhere in South Florida. While…
Last time we saw power-pop punkers All-American Rejects, they brought Spanglish, mini-moshpits, and scores of 18-year-old girls to West Palm Beach’s SunFest. This time, they’re singing at Febrewary, a beer-based fest at Mizner Park Amphitheater, taking place this weekend. On top of all the beer that’s going to be there,…
Good Light, the latest album from Nashville’s Drew Holcomb & the Neighbors (out on February 26th), is drenched in the sort of Southern comfort that will make you laugh, smile, nod your head and raise your beer in appreciation for every nugget of truth that slips out of the singer’s…
Boca band Montage is offering tribute tonight to Ray Pachter, whom his brother and former band mate Ben calls, “our fallen cofounder and original guiding force.”See also- Montage and Maddie Besser Take on Dada This Friday with Vulgarity but Not Destruction- Flaunt at Respectable Street: Fashion Meets Music in West…
Speaking on the phone from her home in Nashville, Melanie Anne Safka-Schekeryk — better-known to Baby Boomers everywhere simply as Melanie — sounds exactly as one would expect: personable, engaging, down to earth, and, in the slightest way, ever so fragile. It’s hard to believe it’s been nearly 45 years…
5. Curren$y8 p.m. Friday, February 22, at Revolution Live. 100 SW Third Ave., Fort Lauderdale. Tickets cost $30 plus fees. Call 954-449-1025, or visit jointherevolution.net.It’s pretty clear from his songs and Facebook page that Curren$y likes to ride fancy cars and fancy gals. The New Orleans rapper is all about…
The musical void between Delray Beach’s Dada and Fort Lauderdale’s Green Room is being filled by a new indie night at Deerfield Beach’s American Rock Bar and Grill. Northern Broward music fans, rest assured. You can now avoid traveling on I-95, at least for one night, and still catch a…
A campfire crackles and throws sparks. A Liberace cape rises and falls in waves of starlit sparkles. Holopaw’s new video for their song “The Lights from the Disco,” directed by the Gainseville act’s lead singer John Orth, contrasts natural beauty with elements of seductive fashion, all to the delicate rise…
For the Hives, Sweden’s ultimate contribution to the canon of “karrangin’ ” guitar chords and shouted choruses, it’s back to brass tacks these days. Their most recent release, the “cheaply” recorded and undeniably rocking Lex Hives, bottles some of the lightning that earned the band its reputation as one of…
For the Hives, Sweden’s ultimate contribution to the canon of “karrangin’ ” guitar chords and shouted choruses, it’s back to brass tacks these days. Their most recent release, the “cheaply” recorded and undeniably rocking Lex Hives, bottles some of the lightning that earned the band its reputation as one of…
You’re drinking your fourth delicious draft of domestic swill when darkness overtakes the Culture Room. A random girl’s ass shakes against your leg excitedly. Someone hoots, someone hollers, someone lights a joint. With a flick of his wrist, bass player Jesse Miller triggers a sample on one of many electronic…
As you already know, Lil Wayne made some seriously powerful enemies in South Florida this week by flapping his big weird grill at Birdman’s b-day. Out of his maw poured those awful words: “fuck the Miami Heat.” And let us tell you, our memory is long down here, and we…
South Florida is no stranger to the summertime shenanigans of a quad of deranged eternal teenagers the Icelandic press once proclaimed “greater than the touch of God between your legs.” But who are, rather, what is Pool Party? A prolific rock ‘n’ roll power combo for sure. Eighty-degree-weather-clad young men?…
You’re drinking your fourth delicious draft of domestic swill when darkness overtakes the Culture Room. A random girl’s ass shakes against your leg excitedly. Someone hoots, someone hollers, someone lights a joint. With a flick of his wrist, bass player Jesse Miller triggers a sample on one of many electronic…
As a culture, it’s become second nature for us to gauge a person’s musical taste based on the clothing they wear and the accessories with which they adorn themselves, or the modifications they make to their hair and bodies. There are some exceptions to the rule, but it’s not likely…
Manly men with voluptuous guts or superskinny six-packs, hairy chests with tattoos, and full, luxurious beards are as popular as the Harlem Shake these days. This all-natural mountain-man look gestated and was born in hip Brooklyn, presumably as a response to the ’90s metrosexual. With the financial downturn, cool guys…
The Harlem Shake. If you’re as annoyed by this trend as we are, then we don’t blame you for not wanting to read more. Shit grows and decays so fast here on the internet, who knows what the hell you’re into right now?See also- Five Things You Need to Make…
All photos by Tony Salazar.If you bring the bass, they will come. That’s what we learned last night, after watching Fat Cat’s in downtown Fort Lauderdale fill up with a crowd of subtly hip and pleasantly low key 20- and 30-somethings, some trekking from as far north as Tallahassee, to experience…
The duality of the Beach Boys’ legacy is a hard pill to swallow for some fans, especially in recent times. Ask a well-studied fan’s opinion on megalomaniac Mike Love and you’re certain to get an earful regarding “Kokomo” or that time in 1988 when Love decided the best route to…
Better than: Having to sit through an entire Alan Parsons Project studio album.The Alan Parsons Project is one bizarro creature born of England’s matured prog-rock scene in the latter half of the 1970s. Most important progressive pop music albums, including the famously Parsons-engineered Pink Floyd LP Dark Side of the…
The internet is teeming with ridiculous, over-the-top, crap trends that make “hip you” blush with shame.But secretly, there’s an “inner you” who wants to burst out of your coolcoon and hop on it. The “it” being hopped on right now is the Harlem Shake, a video lasting about 30 seconds…
Better Than: Johnny Winter’s performance on the Crossroads Festival DVD There are increasingly fewer artists with a tangible and direct impact on the direction of blues music still working today. We have but one of the three Kings left in B.B., and Buddy Guy is hanging tough and arguably playing as well…
