Five Key Moments in the Evolution of Billy Corgan’s Smashing Style

The Smashing Pumpkins have announced that their new album, titled Oceania, will be hitting stores on June 19 courtesy of EMI. When reviewing the news release and wondering how Billy Corgan sleeps at night, we couldn’t help but notice the Pumpkins frontman’s drab printed hoodie. The Billy Corgan we grew…

D.V.N.O. to Play SunFest, Give Song Away for Free (MP3)

Making some serious strides is what local indie-dance punk outfit D.V.N.O. has been doing lately. The West Palm Beach quintet will be performing at the 30th edition of SunFest this year. Led by brothers Marco (vocals, bass) and Jacob (drums, percussion) Baez, D.V.N.O. will take the FPL stage on Sunday,…

Passafire at Propaganda on March 30

Savannah, Georgia, sure isn’t a particularly beachy place, but reggae knows no geographical bounds, especially among the college-age set. And school is indeed where this group formed in 2003, when its members were all students at the Savannah College of Art and Design. In ensuing years, though, visual art has…

I Am the Avalanche at the Speakeasy on March 31

In the late ’90s and the early ’00s, Long Island act the Movielife seemed like the official band to like for tattooed tough dudes who just wanted a little melody sometimes. The group drew some threads from melodic hardcore but wove them mostly into melodic, sing-along pop-punk and played notoriously…

Astrea Corporation at Dada on March 31

With current-day experimental electronic music so often divided along trendy blog lines, it’s refreshing to hear a local act resurrect a term you don’t hear too much on Hype Machine and the like — trip-hop. But the local three-piece Astrea Corporation does, indeed, pick up a strain of boom-bap beats…

Jacob Jeffries Band Opens for Dirty Dozen Brass Band at Beerfest

Singer, songwriter, and keyboardist Jacob Jeffries heads up a quartet that makes lovely piano-driven pop rock perfect for a relaxing afternoon at the beach or contemplative evening in the woods. Just before kicking off its fifth tour, the band has made time to open up for New Orleans’ raucous Dirty…

Lake Worth’s the Toilets Really Don’t Stink at All (MP3)

When we saw that there was a band from Lake Worth called the Toilets, we knew they were kindred spirits. Ellis D Traails heads up this punk-metal outfit, playing with Brett Ackling on drums and Robert Bernhardt on bass. All we wanted to know was if they were as fucked…

SoFla Flow: Resolvers’ Big Band Reggae Is Billboard Big

SoFla Flow pays tribute to South Florida’s wonderful jam-band, reggae, and related activity: heady, homegrown, local stuff.​Deerfield Beach band the Resolvers’ new album, Big Band Reggae, debuted at number five on the Billboard Reggae Charts, and that was before it was released online, which happened last week. As readers may…

Bassnectar Packs Live Stage at Ultra Music Festival 2012 (Video)

The three-day electronic musical extravaganza Ultra Fest ended with a few things: a sweetly loud and vibrant fireworks display over Biscayne Bay and a mind- and ear-blowing Bassnectar performance. You didn’t have to be a fan of the man’s work to notice the intensity of the crowd’s adoration, the impressive stage…

Annie Mac Presents – Ultra Music Festival 2012 – March 24

Better than: Morning radio ​After spending what felt like 24 hours at Ultra being sandwiched in between shirtless men and women in their underwear, we took a breath of fresh air and headed over to the Mixmag Annie Mac Presents tent for most of Saturday. In addition to her two shows and…