Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman shares observations, insights, and updates relating to South Florida’s musical environs. This week: Life with Livesay! Billy Livesay’s been around. Musically, that is. Growing up in Miami and Hialeah, raised by a single mother, and switching schools frequently, he didn’t have the…
Zamora the Torture King feels no pain — sort of. He is part of Hellzapoppin, a clan of sideshow performers who will be hitting up Speakeasy Lounge in Lake Worth on Thursday, February 23, and Alligator Alley in Hollywood on Friday, February 24. Beside him will be Frank Simon, a man with…
Last week, while sitting at a local watering hole talking shop about the area’s music scene (it’s what we mostly do around here), the subject of blazing, distortion-fueled Fort Lauderdale rockers Fevers came up. “What the hell ever happened to those dudes?” Back in May of last year, they enamored…
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. Click here for…
“I’m a self-proclaimed drealist. I may have invented this word, I’m not sure,” says Bret Michaels, “But I’m a dreamer and a realist. I’m the kind of guy that I dream stuff up big and then I try to go for it.” Though many artists do too much dreaming and…
The Resolvers are the biggest reggae band in the area, literally. In fact, with 10 musicians comprising the group, they are among the biggest reggae bands anywhere. “When people find out how many people are in the band, they think we’re crazy,” says guitarist Ron Eisner. Whatever challenges come along…
The idea that a guy who loved crack cocaine and singing about demons is supporting the right wing seems kind of weird to us. But, he ain’t the first rock ‘n roll rebel to stand behind the “moral majority.” Plenty of rock stars whose fans like to trip out on…
In the nightlife scene, weekly parties pop up quicker than you can learn their names. But every now and then, a party will establish itself and stand the test of time. It’s happened with such local parties as Flaunt (Respectable Street) and Shake (Vagabond). And with a year under its…
For years, Oski Gonzalez — alternately known as DJ Oski or just Oski — has been hosting all-local multiband festivals in Miami, usually at Tobacco Road. Now, with his partner in Qool Productions, a promoter friend who prefers to go by “Queen of the Scene,” he’s expanding. Recent months have…
A review of the Spin Ultra Lounge before College Wednesdays kicks off.Spin Ultra Lounge is a chic, sleek, beautiful nightclub — a shining jewel worthy of South Beach, Beach Place, or really any happening downtown scene where only the sexiest young things are even allowed inside the club. Unfortunately, it’s…
There’s no telling us otherwise — the Beach Boys kicked some Grammy ass last weekend. With Brian Wilson back, they sang a pretty undeniably solid “Good Vibrations.” The band is together again, and not just for the Night of Giving Awards to Adele but for a 50th anniversary tour. The…
LMFAO is tacky, fratty, loud, goofy, and stupid. That’s not the biggest bad of the dance-party duo. Their worst quality is that they’re a group that is tacky, fratty, goofy, and stupid that performs for audiences of babies. This past year, three concerts in particular exemplified the phenomenon of what…
Glimpses of the South Florida Scene is a column devoted to the artists thriving within Broward and Palm Beach counties featuring interviews with the folks making it happen. This week, Chrome Dick.It goes without saying, but “Chrome Dick” is a jarring phrase, image, and idea. The sounds Raphael Alvarez constructs…
Singer/songwriter Conor Oberst is considered something of a boy wonder. He trod the way for off-the-beaten path, alt-folk indie rock in the late ’90s and early aughts. Born February 15, 1980, he began his music career at the tender age of 13. By the time he was 15, he had already accumulated tenure…
Singer/songwriter Paleface is often credited as one of the founders of the so-called “freak-folk” movement, a pioneer who influenced later fellow New York artists like Kimya Dawson and company. In fact, he even counted Beck as an early roommate and like-minded musician — and like his buddy, he enjoyed a…
As an alumnus of the late-’90s, early Warped Tour-type scene, Authority Zero is one of the few acts of its ilk not only surviving but thriving on the underground circuit. The group has long specialized in fast, no-frills skate punk blended with reggae and a little ska. It’s nowhere near…
How can one man inspire so many different emotions over the years? In the ’80s heyday of Bret Michaels’ band Poison, he was the ultimate hair-band object of devotion, the kind of guy who would seemingly drink all your whiskey and leave but at least write a song about it…
The damp and swampy expanse of grass just west of us would be a completely imperfect place for a goaty devil. A goat is totally what’s lunch in the Everglades. A cerberus with the possessed heads of a gator, dolphin, and manatee with a flamingo dick? That’s another story entirely. Gainesville’s…
Through his Dangerfun brand, Miami-based promoter Ian Michael boasts some of the most unusual events in the tricounty area.While some are straightforward rock and roll shows, most are so much more. The typical Dangerfun Sideshow evening of entertainment may involve bands sharing the stage with contortionists and burlesque dancers, with…
Imagine taking a stroll through a dreamscape where sound comes at you in the shape of stoned dragons, crazed sirens, and limping hobbits. This is kind of what it’s like to listen to the electronic yet timeless music of Dusthead, A.K.A. Bill Le. The artist says of his work, he’s…
Whether you’re a fan of Dave Matthews, you’ve listened to Under the Table and Dreaming at one point or another in your life. Whether trapped and tortured at a party in Tallahassee or singing aloud on a long drive to visit your boyfriend in Gainesville, you’ve heard this bad boy…
[jump] 01. Madonna Seriously. The Catholics don’t want her. The Brits don’t want her. The Jews don’t want her. The only people left on the world who want her are the queers. What could be better than a fabulous gay-organized Irish funeral throughout the streets of some random major city?…
