Before Detroit was heavy with techno beats, it was rich with Motown’s rhythm, blues, and soul. Smokey Robinson started singing with the label, heading up the Miracles, with a voice as smooth as melted buttah and those sparking light eyes. Detroit in the 1960s was the milky way of music. Robinson…
Street fashion became overwhelmingly popular about eight years ago thanks to tasteful guys like the Sartorialist and Bill Cunningham. It’s like, with all those rail-thin, gorgeous gals on bikes in tailored suits and high-heels, who needs the runway? But the thing that really steps a lit-up stripper heel right on the…
Time to go out and celebrate! Again! The first weekend in any new year is usually the most low key. Folks are still a little drunk from last week’s debacles. But, it is your duty as a member of this cultural community to set the tone for the year ahead…
Weeks later, and we’re still curled up in a fetal position, nursing a regret-filled, weepy New Year’s hangover, favorite blankies in hand, suckling our thumbs. Just when we thought we’d cried our last tear, it turns out Chris Carrabba is performing a solo acoustic set of Dashboard Confessional songs at the…
Rock ‘n’ roll — at least in its most essential form — will never truly die. The organism evolves, splits, and reforms as time marches on, but at the end of the day, there is absolutely no substitute for what a band like the Darkness does. These British glam-rock revivalists…
We’d tell you what YOLO stands for, but, as Drake would say: “You already know, though.” See also- Rapper Drake Thinks He Owns the Term YOLO — but Did He and Rick Ross Crib the Phrase From the Fort Lauderdale Restaurant?The rapper’s been running around the web claiming that Walgreens…
You’d think an act named “the Coral Reefer Band” would never get the chance to leave the dark, dank corner of your local old-guy bar. But when that group, even with the dorky pot joke nestled so comfortably amid its letters, is led by Jimmy Buffett, well then, fire up the jets!…
Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman shares observations, insights, and updates relating to South Florida’s musical environs. This week, a radio veteran shares his joy.In the radio business, where a year or two signifies longevity, Joe Johnson is the definition of a true survivor. He’s been a mainstay…
Rick Springfield’s life has been an interesting ride from the peaks through the valleys of major stardom. The man is a Grammy-winning songwriter, a former soap star, and the face plastered on the inside of your mom’s locker. He’s been through the ringer of Behind the Music cliches — including a…
Maybe it’s the latest season of Downton Abbey. Or perhaps it’s the upcoming premiere of The Great Gatsby. Whatever it is, the style and flair of the roaring twenties are back. Everywhere you look, it’s Daisy and Jay drinking this and wearing that. And you know what? We like it. The…
A few weeks ago, DJ and producer John Dadzie, AKA 12th Planet, did something very clever. He let loose his LP The End, offering it to the world on 12/12/12. So many 12s! The Smog Records-released album featured new tracks and ones already out on his The End Is Near…
For the second time in a row, the hands-up-and-down best rock ‘n’ roll record released in the United States of America was brewed in… Palm Beach County? Despite (or maybe as a direct result of) its blandly Floridian origins, Cop City/Chill Pillars — a PBC band always comprised of guitarist…
This year’s sold-out Jam Cruise proves that one bad acid trip (i.e., 2011’s pre-embarkation drug raid, which yielded little more than some pot, ‘shrooms, hash oil, and other virtually harmless hippie drugs) can’t spoil a decadelong tradition of patchouli party music at sea. Back for the 11th time, the annual…
It’s 2013. But some people (like New Times) secretly wish the year were still 1969. In private, when the shades are drawn, we bust out the dashikis and love beads, the incense and rainbow-colored hemp teepees, spark up an ol’-fashioned Acapulco Gold doobarino, and prance around without shoes, soaking up…
Wednesdays are great, eh? They’ve got that quirky “hump day” distinction, marking the middle of the workweek with a pseudosexual innuendo, and it’s the day that new episodes of Modern Family premiere on ABC. But at Green Room, Wednesdays are a real riot. In fact, they’re called Riot Wednesdays ’round…
You probably saw the tragic news that paparazzo Chris Guerra was struck by a vehicle as he crossed the street in an attempt to snap a photo of who he thought was Justin Bieber, pulled over by cops. Except Bieber wasn’t in his Ferrari, it was his protege Lil Twist…
In order to be included on our list of most theatrical rock bands of all time, you must not simply be a great entertainer, you must put on a grand spectacle. We want to see some showmanship, people. See also- Nicki Minaj of Prog: The Many Faces of Peter Gabriel’s…
By Jason BudjinskiFor the members of West Palm Beach’s New Coke, 2012 was their first full year as a band, and it was every bit as dynamic as the band itself. From hooking up with Netherlands-based Slovenly Records to finding a receptive crowd and like minds at Miami’s 305 Fest,…
British DJ Alex Sushon, AKA Bok Bok, is best-known for running electronic record label Night Slugs with partner L-Vis 1990. Sushon keeps busy hosting a radio show on RinseFM, producing other artists, and creating all of the graphic designs for the label. Night Slugs is popular for its genre-crossing, undefined sounds, and…
Better Than: Seeing Kid Rock For the average 87 year old, New Year’s Eve usually means a night of sleeping up-right on the couch at a family function. For blues legend, B.B. King, it’s just another working night. The undisputed King of the Blues was kind enough to grace the Broward Center…
New Year’s has a way of making us feel all introspective. And as the self-appointed arbitrators of the local music scene, we thought it apt to shift our gaze inward and examine the goings-on in Broward and Palm Beach counties. Wading through this year’s regrets and next year’s hopes for music…
Wednesdays are great, eh? They’ve got that quirky “hump day” distinction, marking the middle of the workweek with a pseudo sexual innuendo, and it’s the day that new episodes of Modern Family premiere on ABC. But at Green Room, Wednesdays are a real riot. In fact, they’re called Riot Wednesdays ’round…
