Galactic With Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, and Bobby Lee Rodgers Trio Revolution Live, Fort Lauderdale January 14, 2012Better than: Anything that doesn’t include Stanton Moore showing how good he is at the drums. If all good things must end, Saturday night’s funk marathon was the best possible way to…
If you’re reading this you’ve found yourself in South Florida for yet another year. Although it may not be your heart’s desire, you can’t let it go to waste. Rejoice! Because you’re in an area flocked with the oddest assortment of musical varieties that one state can handle. To be best…
SoFla Flow pays tribute to South Florida’s wonderful jam-band, reggae, and related activity — both the homegrown, heady, local stuff and national acts passing through.One year ago, the legendary reggae group Inner Circle, alongside local promoter and scene elder Lance-O of Kulcha Shok, called on the area’s most energized reggae…
Hollywood-based singer-songwriter Jose Ferrer, better known as Boxwood, has earned a reputation for his uncommon performance approach, using a loop pedal to singlehandedly layer tracks live. But his second release, the EP Sun Garden City, leaves no doubt, the studio is his playground.Which isn’t to say you should expect frisky,…
Click here to view a full slideshow of photos from the Bob Seger concert at BankAtlantic Center. Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band BankAtlantic Center, Fort Lauderdale Thursday,December 12, 2012 Better than: The majority of rockers who are only a fraction of his age.White-haired, slightly expanded around the middle and boasting wire-rim…
On my final day as New Times Broward-Palm Beach’s music editor, I can say with certainty that County Grind is much more than just the name of this blog. What began as my play on the phrase “county line,” which ties our multicity coverage area together, also sums up an…
If you know one thing about South Florida rapper/producer Lex One it probably has to do with his penchant for donning wizard costumes and rapping to high energy electro beats. If you know two things it’s probably that this dude never stops hustling for a second — that and the…
Fair warning to my soon-to-be-announced replacement at New Times: if Surfer Blood gets a hold of your phone number, there’s a good chance that you’ll be on the receiving end of a prank call at some point. In fact, the West Palm Beach foursome are so dedicated to their phone…
Back in late December, our main music feature spotlighted the colossal producing exploits of Pompano-based hip-hop beat-smith Numonics. In that piece, we found the studio dynamo preparing to unveil five projects with five different emcees in 2012. Brother was certainly in demand. Numonics sent us a taste of his studio…
Stop Burgers, a Weston-based emporium for beef patties, enlisted rapper and our recent interview subject Jake Miller to create a jingle for their 2012 advertising and marketing campaign with local high schools, radio and television. As a result of their partnership, Miller, a Weston resident, was given the opportunity to…
Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman shares observations, insights and updates relating to South Florida’s musical environs. This week, cool conversations… The start of a new year always seems to inspire a look back at the past 12 months, and while it may be self-indulgent to share certain…
In the sparkly, off-kilter world of Miami electro-pop duo Afrobeta, a new party anthem is bubbling under the surface all the time. Even if it’s outside of official studio hours and even if half the group is sleeping and even if that song started as a fragment or a half-joke…
Man, you ever get the feelin’ that today’s music ain’t got the same soul? Well, as Motor City rambler, Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, and facial hair aficionado Bob Seger once sang: “Call me a relic, call me what you will/Say I’m old-fashioned, say I’m over the hill… I…
True hip-hop has long had an affair with classical music, though indirect. The best producers have long used booming strings and brass to add a sense of melodrama and impending doom to classic boom-bap beats. Broward-native duo Black Violin has gone a step further in circling that musical relationship back…
Winter Haven quintet Anberlin arose out of a particularly Central Floridian millennial scene in which various punk-derived strains of music commingled freely with Christian sensibilities. Early Anberlin material featured the kind of swoopy hair, soaring hooks, and inspirational lyrics popular with fans of its original majorish record label, Tooth and…
Gregg Allman is of course the only surviving eponymous brother in the Allman Brothers Band. But the group is one of the few of the late hippie generation enjoying renewed fan infusion over the years, thanks to popularity on the jam-band scene and the addition of younger players like Derek…
We’d like to say that Auggie living hasn’t changed the non-conjoined twins. We have to admit, after hearing their brand new tune, “Toys Poise the Boys,” it sounds like they’ve been hitting up the fudge shops on St. George street during the day, and hopping the ghost train in the…
Add a new chapter to the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ nearly three-decade history of highs and lows: Anthony Kiedis has a bum foot, and the band’s U.S. tour has been postponed. Originally, the dates were set to begin in South Florida at BankAtlantic Center on January 20 — which is…
The last time New Times caught up with charismatically offbeat Fort Lauderdale singer songwriter Travis Newbill, the charming musician was embarking on a career-defining project, which saw the young 29-year-old releasing 11 records in 11 straight days. The prolific project, spanning the length of his entire eclectic career, culminated in…
It can be either edifying or aggravating to see a couple who seem to be so perfectly in love frolicking together on the beach, so take the video accompanying local retro-pop duo Blonds’ acoustic take on “Kite” with a warning. This will either drive your cold, lonely heart into a…
Holy Ship! With Fatboy Slim, Skrillex, Buraka Som Sistema, Diplo, A-Trak, Dillon Francis, Rusko, Brodinski, Egyptrixx, Dave Nada MSC PoesiaJanuary 6-9, 2012 Check out a slideshow from the cruise here.Better than: All my pre-Holy Ship! expectations — this was pretty special… Arriving at Port Everglades on Friday afternoon for embarkation…
Currently, there are still a bunch of people who think that other people shouldn’t be allowed to interact with a certain plant that grows on our planet. They don’t even think that sick people who could benefit from using the plant as medicine should be allowed to do so. This…
