West Palm Beach seems to have sprouted a broad array of bands over the last two or three years, all of varying qualities and scope. It is with great care that we have taken on the responsibility of determining, for you blog readers, the mice from the men of quality…
Over the past year, Omar Ghaffer and Mike Miro have been throwing Techno Beach, a chilled-out daytime, rooftop dance party. EDM fans throw down monthly at Fort Lauderdale beachside bar McSorley’s. This Sunday, the duo is bringing San Francisco’s Sean Williams, AKA DJ Worthy, to town to entertain the natives.Worthy is…
It’s hard to believe that this year marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Rolling Stones. Once the most outrageous and insurgent bands of their generation — the Who and the Pretty Things notwithstanding — they transitioned from rebellious youth to senior citizens with such respectability, it actually…
Of all the national acts South Florida has exported to the rest of the world, Sam Beam may well have been the most unlikely.His hushed, introverted stance is a far cry from the effusive approach taken by most reared in these environs, whether they were birthed in the disco boom…
Helmet with ToadiesRevolution LiveJuly 25It’s still kind of weird to think of ’90s bands as nostalgia acts. However, Toadies and Helmet really are just that: Groups that bring you back to another time. A time when the music they created was still relevant and playing in the background of what…
Ab-Soul With Sin and Will BrennanGreen Room, Brown Bag WednesdaysJuly 25 See also:Our interview with Black Hippy’s Ab-SoulBetter than: Listening to so-called hip-hop radio stations in South Florida.You could tell something different was going on Wednesday night just by driving by Green Room.”People come here on Brown Bag Wednesdays to…
Be still my temporarily beating vampire heart! The rumors are true. Kristen Stewart cheated on our most beloved toothy Brit, Robert Pattinson, better known to the Twi-Hard community as Edward Cullen.Last night, the news broke of Kristen’s affair with Snow White and the Huntsman director, 41-year old Rupert Sanders. She’s…
See also:Jon Bon Jovi and the Kings of Suburbia tonight at Hard Rock LiveThe Hardest Questions on the Bon Jovi Trivia App”It smells like Bon Jovi in here,” my friend said as he walked into the kitchen. And that it did.On the stove, the pop rock god’s family pasta sauce…
It’s not like everyday that a Miami-based, indie record label puts out music by a Greek band. No, not a frat guy band, but one actually from Greece. Owner and Broward native, Brian Kurtz of Limited Fanfare records stepped outside of tri-county lines, and into a Mediterranean shoegaze space with…
See also:Jon Bon Jovi and the Kings of Suburbia tonight at Hard Rock LiveSo, in preparation for Jon’s big debut as a solo artist at the Hard Rock Live tonight. I found this trivia app from Quizicals. I figured I would easily score, like, 99 percent. But no!Yes, there are…
Oh, no… They don’t need no lovin’, no respect. ‘Cause it’s all about the sex. Even though the dudes of Mötley Crüe have all reached that advanced age when it often becomes necessary to pop a little blue pill if you wanna rock a long, strong, and sustained erection, they’ve…
Kiss, the band, garners fanatical, obsessive devotion more than almost any other musical act, maybe ever. Despite countless attempts to ruin the fun with bad glam albums, dramatic reality television, and the replacement of two original members with impostors wearing the same makeup, Kiss manages to maintain a fan base…
The looming threat of Texas seceding from the rest of America lingers like a fat man’s fart in an elevator. But while it’d be sad to see the Lone Star State go, it wouldn’t be nearly as detrimental as New Jersey breaking off and becoming a sovereign state. If that…
For South Florida natives under age 30, it’s quite likely that your first concert experience took place on a sweaty summer day at the Coral Sky Amphitheater. And it was probably the “Vans Warped Tour.” Though Coral Sky eventually became Mars and Mars later became Sound Advice and Sound Advice…
There’s a time and place for everything, so they say. And when you’re a chubby guy or raven-haired maven with an affinity for vinyl pants, fishnet shirts, duct-taped nipples, and leather chokers, that place is Green Room on a Friday night. For the past year, the club’s weekly Black Friday…
The internet is a magical place. And when certain doors of the world wide web are opened, out comes some crazy shit, especially by people who are kinda famous. Instagram is one of those portals that lead to total internet retardation. It is there that “celebrities” seem to forget they…
GWAR, one of the longest-running collections of rock ‘n’ roll boogeymen around, returns to perform at Revolution on October 20. If it feels like the band has been parading around in its costumes with fake blood since before you can remember, that is likely true — the band first got…
“Hip-hop is dead” became a catch phrase in the music industry over the past decade or so. The idea was that the culture’s best times were behind us. Our response to this dramatic statement: Don’t be so hasty, haters.To compare it to the NBA, there may be no more Michael…
It would appear that while those quirky Middle Eastern miscreants in Iran were busy splitting atoms and generally trying to figure out a way to bring upon the nuclear apocalypse, someone managed to sneak some malware into their computer systems. Now, while we find the thought of any sort of…
Hey, you! Yeah, you, the kid dancing around in his bedroom to New Found Glory’s “Hit or Miss.” You’ve got only a few days until the pop-punk music festival of your teen dreams comes to town. And you sure as shit don’t want to show up unprepared.A few questions that…
Carol City don and MMG head honcho Rick Ross will celebrate the release of his fifth studio album, God Forgives, I Don’t, on August 4 at the world-famous “urban gentleman’s club” and home of five-dolla T-bone steak King of Diamonds. We know, when you first heard about this partay, you said to…
William Balfour received three life sentences plus 120 years on related charges today in Chicago. He was convicted of murdering American Idol finalist, singer, and Academy Award winner Jennifer Hudson’s mother, brother, and nephew. Illinois, where the trial took place, doesn’t have the death penalty…
