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Santana at Hard Rock Live, Friday and Saturday

Only in America will you get sneakers and “Pu$$y” for $20. And only an Australian dude can make it happen. A decade ago, Aussie Peter Fahey embarked on a mission to combine two of his passions — footwear and music. The result: The “Sneaker Pimps USA Tour,” a mishmash of…

Respectable Street 25th Anniversary Block Party, Saturday in West Palm Beach

While guitar legend Santana was scheduled to perform on Friday, August 24 and Saturday, August 25 at Hard Rock Live in Hollywood, as well as Gary Amphitheatre in Tampa on August 26, the shows have been postponed. According to a press release, these changes are, “due to circumstances beyond our…

Misfits’ bassist and current vocalist Jerry Only (born Gerald Caiafa) has made a career out of playing dress-up. With his ghoulish getups and pointy, trademark Eddie Munster tribute “devilock” ‘do, Only sports one of punk’s most recognizable looks. His band is an innovator of the horror-punk movement, an antiestablishment culture…

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If you’ve never seen George Clinton and his musical collective Parliament-Funkadelic perform live, then, friend, sorry to say, but you have never had the funk. This funk is nothing like the stale armpit kinda funk. This funk has soul, scope, and depth. This funk will make you dance till your…

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Some recognize the City of Brotherly Love as a jumping off point for an assortment of rappers, including Beanie Sigel, Jedi Mind Tricks, and Freeway, while children of the nineties associate Philadelphia with Will Smith’s days before Bel-Air. Recently joining the ranks of these wordsmiths is Meek Mill, a 25-year…

Don’t you love the B-52’s? Of course you do! You’d be a downright honey badger’s fuckfuck toy if you didn’t! The world’s greatest party band will grace the stage at Hard Rock Live on August 22 with a five-decade-strong repertoire of audience pleasers. It’s not only your booty they wanna…

See also: Foreigner: Changing Players, but Same Stash of HitsMusic vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman offers his insights, opinions, and observations about the local scene. This week: Distinguishing the band from the brand. A friend of mine recently sent me an interesting item about a legal brouhaha that’s simmering…