By Alan Scherstuhl It’s a weird miracle that Johnny Cash and his primitive twosome banged out music that still feels so full and vital today. And it’s a weird miracle that My Father and the Man in Black–an extraordinary documentary that hits New York this week without a distribution deal– is…
A friend likes to call the genre that Fiona Apple falls under “crying vagina” music. Though an accurate description, have to say, there weren’t an overwhelming number crying vaginas last night at the Fillmore on Miami Beach. Maybe because it’s Miami Beach and everyone’s tanned and worked out. Who knows?!…
Alongside Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger pathetically begging Hell’s Angels beating the shit out of hippies to “cool it” at the disastrous Altamont Free Concert of 1969, Charles Manson is the ultimate symbol of flower-power corroding, fermenting, and rotting until it transformed into the nihilistic sleaze of the 1970s.Sure, free…
Brad Paisley with Scotty McCreery and the Band PerryCruzan AmphitheatreSeptember 28On Saturday night, West Palm Beach’s Cruzan Amphitheatre was stormed by an army of country music fans. The parking lot was crowded with heavily modified pickup trucks, beer-pong tables, and legions of Brad Paisley’s devoted followers, all ready to get…
We’re kinda hopping no one’ll be singing the Florida blues again on January 19th this year due to any kinks in our state’s electoral process. Instead, we’re crossing our fingers that the only blues heard around here will be those coming from the instruments and mouths of Jacksonville’s Tedeschi Trucks…
Joe Cocker and Dave Mason Seminole Hard Rock Live Hollywood Friday, September 28 Better than: Presumably, either artist on his own It would appear to be a winning combination. Two seminal British artists of the late ’60s, two instantly identifiable voices, one great song they share in common. That was the set-up for what…
Better than: The Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. A pair of drum kits onstage indicate either, A: a Grateful Dead catastrophe about to occur or B: a pair of drummers ready to overtake all other sounds by performing like one. More on that later in a sec. See also:- Adam Ant, an…
Most Americans know Marc Bolan and his band T. Rex for their 1971 hit “(Bang a Gong) Get It On,” but in the U.K., the group was a national phenomenon. Some accountants claimed at the time that these glam gods’ records added up to some six percent of the country’s…
One might define Nan Goldin as pretty damn punk rock.The daring photographer brought honest scenes of the post-punk and queer counterculture of the ’70s and ’80s to the attention of the mainstream, and didn’t forget to also beautifully shoot what weird stuff was going on in our homes either. One…
Juan Montoya is a compulsive creator. The former Torche guitarist and Miami ex-pat’s new band, MonstrO, is as busy as a group could hope to be. They spent most of last year touring with notable artists like Danzig and Clutch, and currently are working on a follow-up to their critically…
About a year ago, I reviewed Lady Gaga’s Monster Ball show at American Airlines Arena. She spoke endlessly and earnestly with the audience, offering them a slew of unwarranted but well-received bits of advice. Though not the aesthetic, the activity and energy reminded me of an Ani DiFranco concert circa…
Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman shares observations, insights, and updates relating to South Florida’s musical environs. This week, a cool conversation with Joe Cocker. It’s one of the most indelible images in rock ‘n’ roll, that of Joe Cocker, clad in tie dye, twitching and gyrating onstage…
Aura Music and Arts Festival has certainly come a long way since its 2010 inception. It started out a very modest St. Cloud affair, a town halfway between BFE and the middle of nowhere in Central Florida. It’s come such a long way, in fact, that this year, the jam-heavy…
Black Flag: Very influential, not always critically praised.Welcome to Ask a Failed Musician, in which I will help struggling musicians make sense of their careers and even offer some advice. Whether it will work, who knows? It obviously didn’t work for me. But then again, I was on Kimmel once,…
I think it goes without saying that Serum is one of the best local hip-hop artists. Also one of the most prolific, he is rapidly winning in the “most likely to give it away for free” category.See also:- Download Serum’s New Hip-Hop EP Daydream of Nightmares for Free- Video: Serum…
Florence and the Machine with the Maccabees BB&T Center, SunriseSeptember 26, 2012Better than: Casting spells in a graveyard. “Turn to everyone around you. Kiss them. Hug them. Shake their hands. Get to know them. Make friends. Now you don’t have to be shy with them,” Florence Welch said halfway through…
Ah, the 1980! For some, a vacuous, Quaalude-devastated memory of a decade, and for others (mainly fashionistas, hipsters, and some born in the 90s) an epoch of unrestrained cocaine myth glamour, when American Psycho excess ruled the waves and coated everything with a thin dusting of “nostalgia.” Give us a…
Some of the saddest and most depressing moments you’ll ever have in your life will be when you’re drunk or high at a club — but you won’t realize it, because you’re drunk and high at a club. Naturally, a complete loss of inhibition causes you to do the dumbest…
A native of North Miami Beach, String Cheese Incident percussionist, and one-half of the blowup livetronica duo EOTO, Jason Hann is a lighthearted beat machine. He has an easy sense of humor and a love of life on the road. Along with his musical partner in crime, Michael Travis, the…
Kids waiting at the orthodontist play Galaga, guests at the Breakers run from digital ghosts, and Rick Ross is gaming at home, thanks to Robert Childs. The owner of Fort Lauderdale’s Arcade Game Sales, Childs holds the second-highest score in Tempest in the world, according to the website Twin Galaxies…
When British new-wave sensation Adam Ant last toured the U.S., Tupac and Biggie Smalls were still alive. Bill Clinton was in his first term as president. A lot has changed since that time. Ant, however, says his first U.S. tour in nearly two decades is familiar territory. “It’s starting where…
When Eddie Murphy backed out of hosting the 2012 Academy Awards earlier this year, Bill Crystal naturally stepped right in. After all, he’d hosted the Oscars eight times up until then, the most for any star, second only to the late Bob Hope, who hosted the show 18 times. That’s…
