This new video from West Palm Beach’s artful synthesizer trio the Jameses might be dangerous for work consumption strictly because it’s a joyful, scream-inciting affair. Directed by Sunset Television’s Drew Blatman, the clip has immense amounts of quick cuts that ensure an extremely nostalgic buzz. The song is the b-side…
According to numerous sources, past rumblings that the South Florida alt-weekly City Link is closing are finally becoming factual.The 20-year-old arts and culture paper, currently published by the Sun-Sentinel, is expected to cease publication within the next couple of weeks, according to reporting by New Times blog the Pulp…
White Denim’s D provides a lot to chew on but is easy to digest. Released in May by Downtown Records, the fourth LP from the Austin quartet gleefully cribs inspiration from all over the place, throwing bits and pieces of progressive rock, garage rock, Afropop, and other genres together into…
ProtomanThe Green Room, Fort LauderdaleSaturday, November 19, 2011For a slide show from the concert, click here.Better than: A serious rapper who is also funny is always better than a comedian who wants to be taken seriously as a rapper.Protoman’s been repping the 954 as a rapper for the past decade,…
“They call me Dr. John, known as the Night Tripper.” With that guttural growl, the once and future Mac Rebennack assumed the persona that would continue to define his guise going forward. One of New Orleans true originals and a musician who helped further the Crescent City sound, he was…
Mayday ParadeWith The Make, There For Tomorrow, You Me At Six, and We Are The In CrowdRevolution Live, Fort LauderdaleFriday, November 18Where were all the underage hipster punks partying on Friday? Apparently at the local Mayday Parade show…
Like Elvis Costello, with whom he first shared the spotlight at the height of England’s punk music revolution, Graham Parker drew his image as an irascible, rebellious rocker who was perpetually defiant and decidedly anti-authority. Born 61 years ago today, Parker may have since matured, but that cynicism and intensity…
Joel DaSilva’s been a scene fixture around South Florida for more than a decade. Although he built up quite a notoriety fronting the surf-rockabilly outfit the Hep Cat Boo Daddies, now the 34-year-old’s rolling solo as Joel DaSilva and the Midnight Howl (Facebook). Artistically, things have shifted very loosely to…
A typical Chrome Dick performance lasts about as long as it’ll take you to read this story. Lone member (and County Grind pal) Raphael Alvarez rigs whatever he feels like up to an amp — pedals, a guitar, a microphone — and lets loose every bit of emotion he has…
Sondre LercheWith Peter Wolf CrierCulture Room, Fort LauderdaleThursday, November 17, 2011Better than: Saving money by not coming at all.Sondre Lerche is the face of the economic woes befalling independent musicians everywhere. There was no hiding the minuscule turnout Thursday at Culture Room, but the showing onstage was just as small…
To be fair, the exact genre tag is Neue Deutsche Härte (“new German hardness”). Although the American counterpart was a distinct synthesis of hard, evil-sounding rock and beat-my-girlfriend rapping, the hard-ass Germans are a slightly more amorphous phenomenon, dating back to the late ’80s. The term more or less seems…
Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman shares stories of memorable rock ‘n’ roll encounters that took place in our local environs. This week: The former Goods guy shares the music that changed his life… One of South Florida’s most renowned and critically acclaimed singer-songwriters and multi-talented musicians, Jim can…
Readers with exceptional memory can easily recall that July 2010 marked a Legends of Rodeo reunion show at Propaganda. According to Alex Rendon, beer is the culprit for singer John Ralston, guitarist Nathan Jezek, drummer Jeff Snow, and bassist Steven Eshelman’s reformation after a six-year hiatus.As part of that show,…
In preparation for his new album,Cannonball!!!, hometown hip-hop hero Jacques Bruna, AKA Bleubird, has turned to Kickstarter to help fund the filming of his music video for “Pimp Hand.” With the earnings, Bleubird will join forces with Chris Hill of Digital Cypher Photography to film the music video on a…
Peter Wolf Crier is a sensitive band name to be sure, but more in the Bon Iver sense than a Pedro the Lion ilk. The Minneapolis-based duo (or trio, of late) is the offspring of Chicago-bred singer Peter Pisano, with his unmistakable vocal cords cutting through the void. Both of…
Had Jeff Buckley not died from a freak drowning accident some 14 years ago, he would have turned 45 today and hopefully added to a recorded legacy that was capped at only an EP, one album, and a handful of demos and posthumous live recordings. It’s tantalizing to imagine what…
Foul-mouthed instigator Kenny Millions couldn’t give a hootenanny of fisty flying fucks if you’re into his version of shit and/or jazz and/or noise and/or art and/or life. He is 5,000 years old. He’s recorded more than 60 albums. His sound comes from the ether seconds before creation. He is an…
The Black Eyed Peas haven’t even begun their hiatus yet, but the ever-promotional mind of Will.i.am is still in overdrive. Does this guy sleep with a microphone taped to his face just in case he might snore something brilliant? The timing of his debut single from his Twitter-ready solo album,…
Before pop-punk entered its current incarnation, usually a radio-ready, overly compressed form of fast songs written by barely legals nostalgic for lives they never lived, there were the Queers. The Queers, of course, were often reminiscent for lives they never lived. During the band’s real peak in the early to…
Though he’s now 63 years old and an established legend in the jazz world, for much of his career, Paquito d’Rivera was known as a wünkerkind. As a child in Cuba, he picked up a love of wind instruments from his father, saxophonist and conductor Tito Rivera, and by 5…
Skip the misleading name: This group is neither from any Manchester (England, New Hampshire, or elsewhere) nor particularly large or orchestral. However, this Atlanta-based five-piece does manage to write songs that sound intimate and wide-sweeping. Led by 20-something Andy Hall, the group specializes in the kind of almost painfully earnest…
Most rappers have never lived in their car, and even fewer are eager to admit it. However, Protoman and I are parked near the intersection of SE Ninth Avenue and Broward Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale. This nondescript street of single-level dwellings, only steps from the fat-pocketed tourists populating Las Olas…
