Madonna is a dirty old lady. And though she wasn’t always old, the Queen of Pop has been a hot and proud taboo-smashing slut from birth. Even before becoming famous, Ms. Madonna Louise Ciccone was making thought-provoking egg porn. She’s also burned through an insanely long line of famous and…
Dolly Parton. If there’s one divine diva drag queens would be justified in pulling wigs off to impersonate, it’d be her. But Reba McEntire? That’s more of a head scratcher. But for Nicolette over at Lips, the only dinner and a drag venue in Fort Lauderdale, these are her two…
If you know what’s good for you as a musician right now, you’d be scrambling around to get Rihanna’s publicist’s number. This person is unapologetically expanding Rihanna’s demo from an otherwise pop/house audience to include a more subversive, self-aware, (in some ways, postmodern) audience.Ones who might gravitate more towards Squidbillies…
Das Biebz is busted!Ever since rapidly puberting pop star Justin Bieber split with longtime flame Selena Gomez, the wunderkind Canuck has been descending down a sinful spiral of biblically epic proportions. We’re talkin’ venial, carnal, and mortal sins.The latest addition to zee Biebzes exceptionally long confessional booth itinerary?Immediately following cold…
Come Friday — or Thursday for the real Twi-Hards — it’s all coming to an end. That’s right, the vampire love story that captured the undivided attention of teenage girls and grown women, making their kids late for school, hair unwashed, dogs unwalked, wraps up in the final installment of…
Many artists who achieve big breakthroughs and take the masses by storm are also the ones who reinvent the norm and create a persona that’s entirely out of the ordinary, and likely entirely untrue to their own roots. But there’s a lot to be said for tradition. And it seems…
Progressive house DJs Swedish House Mafia are announcing their untimely retirement at very young age, but not before first headlining Ultra Music Festival in 2013.The three Swedes announced their appropriately titled “One Last Tour” this August, and this year in Downtown Miami, they’ll play their last two dates ever! As you…
While a show dedicated to the age-old practice of drawing and the role of “the line” in contemporary art might, at first, seem one-dimensional or simply passé, Following the Line at Girls’ Club in Fort Lauderdale, succeeds at re-informing the power and relevance of drawing in use today. It does…
“Denney and The Jets are special band in that they so effortlessly weave between genres — rock ‘n’ roll, country, soul, and blues — without it being so much as an afterthought in your mind,” Limited Fanfare Records’ Brian Kurtz says of the Nashville act whose eponymous EP he recently…
Ignorance is bliss, so they say. Face to Face seems to adhere to this timeless adage, considering they used it to title one of their albums. The veteran pop-punk outfit, fronted by Trever Keith (also of Viva Death and the Legion of Doom), used it as the backbone of the group’s…
You’ve likely bared witness to seven-year-old phenom Adrian Romoff’s majestic classical piano playing that made him one of YouTube’s latest viral sensations. Chances are Boca Raton teens the Vogans have not made it on your musical radar in such a way, just yet, but the local saplings have a budding talent…
Since 1968, Neil Young has released more than one album a year. Some of these records are among the greatest ever produced in the blues-derived idiom known as rock ‘n’ roll. And some of them are tremendous pieces of shit. Or at least, like, confusing as fuck. But, hey, that’s a big part…
Does anyone else not care even a dusty fart’s worth about the Rolling Stones’ 50th anniversary? If anything, it’s kind of embarrassing.Are you really gonna drag out that tired, crippled, wheezing dog-and-pony-show again? Do you really believe Mick Jagger is still “dissatisfied?” And besides, why do you want to watch a Civil War…
In his one man show Undisputed Truth, Mike Tyson compares himself to Medea in a photo at the height of his coke addiction, refers to his facial Maori tattoo as a “tramp stamp,” and sings Minnie Ripperton’s “Lovin’ You Is Easy Cause You’re Beautiful” in a strained falsetto. See also- Mike Tyson…
Ian WitlenBoxwood Green Room in Downtown Fort Lauderdale had to deal with New Times shenanigans as we celebrated our first annual South Florida Web Awards Saturday night. See also: New Times’ South Florida Web Awards at Green Room slideshow Nominees from Miami, Fort Lauderdale, and Palm Beach gathered for drinks…
If you happened to wander into the vinyl wonderland that is Radio-Active Records last Friday night, you would have been confronted with a scene not too far removed from your average Harmony Korine flick. Ok, maybe it wasn’t that uncomfortable, but to the uninitiated, an intimate performance by Vancouver’s Mecca…
It all started mid-week this past February with a DJ set and impromptu concert by Talib Kweli, and it will come to an end with a REKS headlined showcase. Sadly, Green Room’s hop-hop night Brown Bag Wednesdays hosts its final event this week with Numonics, Hazardis Soundz, DJ Klassik, DJ…
All Time LowWith the Downtown Fiction, Hit the Lights, and the Summer SetFriday, November 9Revolution LiveBetter than: Being hanged, drawn, and quartered.Ever wonder where angsty teens hang out on the weekends? Yeah, us neither, but we knew where they were Friday night, engulfing the entirety of Third Avenue at Revolution…
Election Day was hectic, and we’re not simply talking about too long voting lines and intense news channel coverage. We’re talking about social media, which was arguably the busiest and craziest it’s ever been since its inception (whenever that was…).Every single person was chiming in with Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Instagram…
We may be hardened a-holes over here at County Grind, but we still leave a little room in our bitter lives for making out. And, perverts that we are, sometimes we even create free time for watching other people smooch. That’s why there’s no way we’re missing out on Antonia…
To say the web bridges worlds together seamlessly through invisible streams of data would be a gross understatement. In any case, New Times is well aware of the importance of the web, and we’re celebrating with our first annual South Florida Web Awards. We’ve scoured the Internet in search of…
It’s hard to believe Weezer has been a band for 20 years. Yes, Weezer, AKA The Blue Album, is almost old enough to order a beer. You’d never guess it by how fresh the band’s sound was last night at Hard Rock Live. See also- Weezer’s Patrick Wilson on Dubstep: “It Seems…
