The 2012 version of Soul Fest at Churchill’s Pub will include soulful mamajammas like Blowfly A.K.A. Clarence Reid, Ralph “Soul” Jackson, and the appropriately titled Friday Funk Machine with Jaylon “Thunder” Ballard performing a – get this – Clarence Reid Tribute set, along with original songs. That’s not all though. Miami’s self-proclaimed…
The word in the Twittersphere as of Tuesday was that DJ Laz and Power 96 were breaking up. After a 22-year love affair made in South Florida radio heaven, Laz says, he just wants to throw his alarm clock against the wall at 4 a.m. instead of going on the…
Ryan Gosling has got the internet going nuts, again, but not in a good way. At least according to British journalist Laurie Penny — the woman he saved from a speeding taxi in NYC. Side note: If she didn’t want the attention and didn’t care about the fact that it…
If Ansel Adams were alive with a Facebook account, and he saw those really artsy Hipstamatic “prints” that you’ve been posting, what would he think? Would he agree that they are super cool and artistic, or might he call them cheap imitations of the real thing? The debate as to…
Gainesville, Florida trio, J2K, has been steadily rising through the jamband scene’s ranks since its inception in August 2010. Although in the budding stages of its career, the exuberant, wisecracking three-piece has earned slots at respected, groove and patchouli-heavy festivals like Blackwater, Aura, Rootwire, and Big and Hearty. Consisting of guitarist…
After a few years of whining, makeup, and unfortunate haircuts, things seem to have come full circle in certain corners of the all-ages hardcore-ish scene. Actual hardcore is back in its full gym-shorts-wearing, windmilling glory — no overly complicated attempts at subgenres or sing-screaming needed. Luckily, too, there’s a new…
When Two-Door Cinema Club comes to town on June 5 to headline Revolution, their well-chosen supporting act is well worth a listen by fans of similarly punchy pop-rock. Cincinnati duo Bad Veins has popped in and out of mainstream consciousness, but certainly are radio-friendly enough to push past the verge…
Here’s a dude who falls into the “weird for weird’s sake” category at the hands of most people but who also is clearly revered by the other fifty percent who know who he is. Personally, I hold him in partial blame for Snoop Dogg’s 2004 “Drop It Like It’s Hot”…
The 2012 poll has closed. Click here after June 14 for the results. Here’s your chance to vote in our New Times Broward-Palm Beach Readers’ Poll 2012 for your favorite local music venue. The results will appear in our annual Best of Broward-Palm Beach issue June 14. Text the code…
It’s no secret that we love MAYDAY!, the area act making live hip-hop that somehow manages to be intelligent, funky, danceable, and mass appeal-worthy all at once. It’s also no secret that we’re big fans of hard work over hype, and it’s the former from which the local group is…
As this popular internet meme so adeptly illustrates, there is a big difference between what a touring band actually does, and what society and the band members’ mothers and lovers think that they do. Some members of society may be even more prone to projecting fantasies onto a band named Yo…
To an outsider, the name of the upcoming tour by locals Holly Hunt and Scraping Teeth, which kicks off Tuesday, April 10, at Churchill’s, doesn’t bode well. Billed as the “Worst Band in America Tour,” it’s a reference to a dubious nod the latter group earned from Spin magazine in…
Retirement. In a weakened economy, the thought of calling it quits at 55 is a pipe dream. The grim reality for many is that they’ll work till the day they die, much like the 80-year-old who settles for a part-time gig at Publix to supplement a $300 Social Security check…
Atlanta five-piece Stokeswood has dubbed its style “low-endie,” which a listen reveals to mean thus: indie rock bolstered by plenty of electronics and the occasional bass frequency. Think sweet, melodic vocals with tinkling beats and layers upon layers of reverb and effects, expertly capturing a sort of nostalgic indie-world Zeitgeist…
Sure, Tiësto and Swedish House Mafia party on private planes, flooding fuselages with champagne on their epic 36,000-mile-high ravers. And yeah, rappers like Lil Wayne and Rick Ross make it rain millions at King of Diamonds, unleashing cash-money thunderstorms on big-booty girls like Tip Drill and Skrawberry. But Andrew Fetterly…
With Torche’s latest album, Harmonicraft, the sort-of-local trio continues to move further and further away from the metalish sounds that defined its earliest material. If anything, Harmonicraft is as close to pure distorted guitar pop as the band has ever been, full of sing-along choruses and even — perhaps distressingly…
Editor’s Note: Is It Wrong is a therapeutic column examining feelings we have about music that just aren’t quite right. To ease any discomfort, County Grind will explore these emotions and thoughts, breaking down from whence our feelings of guilt, disgust, and shame arise. I was wildly messing with the…
Phenomenologically speaking, the ladies’ night — a North American binge-drinking ritual centered around women getting hammered — is an extension of the standard Girl’s Night Out. What distinguishes the Night o’ Ladies, however, is the large-scale cultural-institutional support (usually by way of free hooch) that launches the depravity far past…
“What I do is essentially poetry with rhythm. There’s no difference. With poetry, there’s just a more-spaced-out cadence than with rap or rhyme,” says Jedi Nemesis, AKA James Kelly, the Liberty City-raised hip-hop artist set to play Brown Bag Wednesdays at Green Room tonight. When asked how he got started in…
One of the most polarizing outfits in music (regardless of genre) has been the Misfits. From their glorious stage-blood-soaked heyday in the late ’70s, the campy hairdos, Caiafa family meddling, splits, and the yearslong lassoing of merchandising rights to the Samhain versus Kryst the Conqueror following, I for one will…
At just under 30 years old, Freddie Gibbs, who opens for Raekwon at Revolution this Friday, April 6, boasts more than a decade in the hip-hop game already. All right, in hip-hop, that’s actually several lifetimes, and that makes Gibbs pretty much a wise old battle veteran. Yet for many…
Top Five Records in downtown Lake Worth is one of the most equally amazing and frustrating record stores ever. Don’t bother trying to look it up online or call — the store’s only web presence comes via Facebook, and the page hasn’t been updated since 2011. Phone numbers in old…
