This is a big week for local bands in national media. The Fader featured a downloadable version of Sumsun’s remix of Sun Glitters “They Don’t Want to Let You Know.”The original ain’t bad, but we down here know that the remix is even better. West Palm Beacher Judson Rogers brings…
Somewhere between country, folk, blues, punk, and even metal exists Texas bad boy Scott H. Biram. A cult figure for years, perhaps Biram may start benefiting from mainstream America’s revived interest in Americana via far less salty acts like Mumford and Sons and the like. Where rock radio’s new rootsy…
Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman offers his insights, opinions, and observations about the local scene. This week: Salivating over the Saw Doctors… One of the disadvantages of living in a place as far removed as South Florida is the fact that we’re well off the beaten path as…
Jeff the Brotherhood is one of those bands you see live and you feel like there’s no other band in the room. There’s just you and JTB. They’re playing rock ‘n’ roll that you love, that your stoner uncle would love, and even your mom could dig. Sure, they’re probably…
Suffice it to say, the world lost one of its great voices when Etta James died last week, only a few days prior to her 74th birthday. Born Etta Jamesetta Hawkins on January 25, 1938, she became one of the most influential female performers of all time, a daring diva…
The Sunday chill-out party — or its slightly funkier sister, the tea dance — has long been an afternoon tradition in urban metro areas that are… not this one. But why has the end-of-weekend hangover curing been pushed into darkened caves of shame? Why must Sunday be solely for existential…
Several of life’s most interesting phenomena — sex, religion, and music — are beautifully composed in the Band in Heaven’s new video for its song “Sludgy Dreams.” The seemingly stop-motion creation premiered this morning on Brooklyn Vegan. Very fancy and well-deserved. The track is stoner fantastic, and the video is…
Last time New Times caught up with Viva Le Vox, we got raucous with the crowd at the Poorhouse. We couldn’t help it. Maybe it’s the anticipation of the energy the band brings to every performance. Maybe it’s just simply voodoo. Whatever it is, when Viva Le Vox’s Palm Beach International…
Delray Beach’s Pineapple Groove finally decided on a new identity. The local musical venue closed its doors back in October and is now redefining itself as Hangar 88 under the ownership of Jim Layson’s 88’s Entertainment. The club is calling itself “the most unique venue in Delray Beach.” According to…
Tom Rush’s career has followed many tributaries. He’s a premier singer/songwriter who became one of the seminal figures of the early ’60s folk music scene. For another, he helped introduce the world to emerging talents like James Taylor, Joni Mitchell, and Jackson Browne when they were all but unknowns, courtesy…
Neil Diamond, born January 24, 1941, has always had a polarizing effect as far as music fans are concerned. One thing that’s fact is that he’s one of the most successful songwriters of the past 50 years. Diamond has sold more than 115 million records, scored eight number-one hits, had…
As the frontman of Saosin and then Circa Survive, Anthony Green stood out immediately in sound and sensibility. His two bands came up from a certain mid-’00s post-hardcore scene that welcomed Green but in which he was essentially still a misfit. With an unabashed love for proggy, experimental musical tinkering…
Low Level Laser Radiation, JJXP, Michael Collins, Garrett Johnson, Bubbly Mommy Gun, Telethon, Sumsun, Yahtzee GuyLittle Munich, Lake WorthJanuary 21, 2012Better than: Not liking slam poetry, sticking around, and then realizing that you do. Two guys walk into a German bar at the request of a mutual friend (this lady right…
Bet you’re wondering what the hell Luther Campbell is doing right now. The busy man is probably lounging, sipping a hot cocoa, in Park City, Utah. The father of booty music announced a 2 Live Crew reunion tour this past Saturday from Sundance. He attended the film festival to promote Life…
In 2012, melanin levels are no longer much of a factor in overground rap credibility. See, for example, the success of Yelawolf, plying a trunk-rattling Southern sound, on one hand, and the lighthearted, so-called “frat rap” of Mac Miller on the other. Now entering the mainstream fray is Machine Gun…
The Jacuzzi Boys are so everywhere. Their Daytrotter session went live and likely exposed a slew of internet music nerds to their CrazySexyCool rock ‘n’ roll. It’s quite an honor to be added to this streaming library of live recordings made by mostly emerging indie bands. They’re so everywhere that they’re even…
You read right. DJ, producer, and active tweeter Diplo is off the bill for the Sleigh Bells show. He was expected to perform alongside the Brooklyn noise-pop duo at Revolution Live this February. Diplo grew up Thomas Wesley Pentz in Florida and hit it superbig collaborating with M.I.A. He’s one-half of dancehall…
We would be fools without ears or hearts if we didn’t take a minute to acknowledge the passing of Etta James today.At 73, the Matriarch of the Blues endured many trials during her life, including an absent mother, an addiction to heroin, and more recently struggles with dementia and hepatitis C…
Elton John is the owner of six Grammy awards, has a net worth of $320 million, and despite his extensive history with drug abuse and his unabashed honesty when it comes to pop culture, he remains an inspirational figure in music.The legend transgressed from a young man, yearning for a…
County Grinders, in case you haven’t heard the good word yet, New Times is putting together its 15th-Annual New Times “Original” Beerfest. Perhaps the best news of all, it’s only about two months away — the sudsy celebration is set for March 31. You are probably a little confused right…
If you were trying to watch season one of The Wire yesterday afternoon on MegaUpload, you were probably left with a lot of time on your hands to wonder why the site wasn’t working. The major file-sharing website was shut down this afternoon by the U.S. Department of (in)Justice (we kid, we kid…
Starving as an artist sucks. Starving, period, sucks. That’s why it’s so sweet that Dada is hosting Trauma Hawk, a co-op event for artists to sell their usable art, made mostly with recycled materials, this Sunday. They’ll make money and do things like eat with it. Artist and musician Maitejosune…
