Let’s be honest, why would anyone ever watch anything other than YouTube? It’s like a wealth of brilliant user-uploaded knowledge and information. So what if it’s getting monetized and taken over by Google? We live in America, baby! We’d be disappointed if this wasn’t the case.See also- How Would Jesus…
In a party town like Fort Lauderdale, known for its three-for-one happy hours and beachy debauchery, Ray Strack stands out. As a bicycle advocate, he brings an active subculture to “Fort Liquerdale.” He co-organizes nightly bike rides and monthly bike meetups like Critical Mass, a group bike ride that spun out…
Doesn’t it suck when emo post-punk nostalgia slaps you in the face and reminds you that (a) you’re getting old and (b) have only accomplished about 12 percent of what you said you would by now? After reuniting on last year’s self-titled record, original members of Taking Back Sunday are on…
The Swedish electro chicks of Icona Pop sing, “I crash my car into a bridge. I don’t care. I love it,” to a floor-smashing dance beat. They are the perfect example of a species that one of their songs terms the ” ’90s Bitch.” Who is this bitch? She’s a…
Doesn’t it suck when emo postpunk nostalgia slaps you in the face and reminds you that (a) you’re getting old and (b) you have accomplished only about 12 percent of what you said you would by now? After reuniting on last year’s self-titled record, original members of Taking Back Sunday…
Aging rockers face a unique challenge, one to which the rest of us can only sort of relate: growing old with relevance under the cruel, critical gaze of the public eye. Some survived the 1950s, like once brash young men Little Richard, Chuck Berry, and Jerry Lee Lewis, and continue…
The benefit to being an “adult” is that the best holiday Halloween (sorry, Christmas) doesn’t just fall on one scary day. Nope. The entire month of October is filled with opportunities to slather yourself in fake blood and pervertedly eye young’uns in slutty nurse costumes. Because you need to know where to wear…
What is it about humans that we just love being terrified? What’s the appeal of a panic attack? On the surface, not much; hives, hysteria, and misery aren’t sexy to most. But maybe the mystery and unease acts as a doorway to our inner psyche? Unfortunately, psychology isn’t one of our…
They say copycatting is the highest form of flattery, but does that count when your ex dresses up as you for Halloween?See also- Halloween Guide 2012: Fort Lauderdale and Palm Beach County- My All Time Best Musical Halloween Costumes; From James Hetfield to Bjork- What These Ten Musicians Will Dish…
The serious trick-or-treater doesn’t just wander around his neighborhood aimlessly knocking on doors, hoping the residents are home and have candy.See also- Halloween Guide 2012 for Fort Lauderdale and Palm Beach County- My All Time Best Musical Halloween Costumes; From James Hetfield to Bjork- Six Drugs That Britney Spears Could Have…
With a romantic band name like Astari Nite, your ears get get the music they might expect. There are the emotional, poetic lyrics, the Peter Murphy-esque voice of Mychael Ghost, and an overall dark New Wave, ’80s sound. Though we’ve been anticipating their debut full length for quite some time now,…
Bet you can’t even count how many times you’ve screamed out at the TV, the DJ, the person in the passenger seat next to you, in response to the words A1A, “Beachfront Avenue!”In 1989, Vanilla Ice, AKA Robert Matthew Van Winkle, made it big time with his debut album, Hooked…
Do y’all know anything about currency trading? Every financial expert we’ve talked to says it’s probably best to stay away from the forex market because it’s based purely on speculation; currency trading is mad risky. See also – Hip-Hop Artist Eric Biddines Goes Against the Grain- Review: Curren$y – Revolution Live, Fort Lauderdale…
“We have a few ideas planned, but we don’t want to give it away.” Brass Knuckles’ Tony Livadas says of the group’s possible Halloween costumes they’ll be donning for Electrik Haunted Circus. “We might have an appetite for pizza and we might look a little green.” Guessing there’ll be some turtle power…
“Around the house we always had music,” Justin Bieber’s mother, author Pattie Mallette told us in a back room at Books and Books in Coral Gables. She’d just arrived from the Women of Faith event in Fort Lauderdale. “I would sing and play the guitar and have people over. And…
As time marches on, fans of the (now) classic rock ‘n roll animal have fewer and fewer groups to enjoy in their original, or even mostly original configurations. The years can be pretty unkind to bands: Members quit, members die, and “the magic” can so easily disappear.Aerosmith has almost lost…
Five years after YouTube shriek freak Chris Crocker implored the world to “Leave Britney alone,” the pop music megastar’s former manager isn’t getting the hint.For one reason or another, Sam Lufti just won’t shut the fuck up about alleged drug use Spears partook in during the mid-2000s, when she just…
Saturday night marked yet another Moonfest, Clematis Street’s annual Halloween free-for-all. For the first time in the event’s 20 year history, there was a cover fee, but luckily that resulted in a safety facelift and solid lineup of local acts, not a lack of bodies and boredom. On the hunt…
Starting with 1976’s raucous Dreamboat Annie, sisters Nancy and Ann Wilson — the hard-rockin’ masterminds behind Heart — played a critical role in the history of womankind’s right to rock. The Wilsons, with the help of assorted, equally heavy backup shredders, earned the distinction of being called “the female Zeppelin.”…
There are an bundance of musical celebrities that call South Florida home. Perhaps none of them is more famous worldwide while still teetering on the edge of irrelevance than Yanni. The composer makes his home in Manalapan (that’s Lantana to us poors) just a stone’s throw from the Ritz Carlton…
First of all, let me say that Divas in Art: Spooktacular 2 was a great show. It was comprised of performances by three drag queens: Ricky Rollick, Melissa St. John, and Roxi DeVine. Singing along with them was Lissen Ellington — an actual woman! This isn’t the only time this…
When Eddie Vedder starts name-dropping you in Rolling Stone and is inspired to record an album full of ukulele songs because of you, it’s safe to say that you’ve arrived. Or maybe it’s when Jimmy Buffett takes you on tour with him for three years. Or when you perform a…
