In 1966, the Beach Boys wrote the seminal psych-rock masterpiece “Good Vibrations” about a girl who put out all kinds of positive cosmic energy. The Hip Abduction, a seven-piece outfit from St. Petersburg, sings about similar “good vibrations” in the 2013 song “Live It Right.” However, the meaning extends beyond…
When Bob Dylan recently won the Nobel Prize for Literature, it caused a lot of controversy. Do songs count as literature? According to the Swedish Academy that decides the prizewinners, they apparently do. This could open the floodgates to rock-and-rollers being championed in Stockholm. In honor of Bob Dylan…
Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival has announced the 2017 lineup for the four-day camping bonanza to be held Thursday, March 2, through Sunday, March 5, at Sunshine Grove in Okeechobee. Among the more than 70 acts confirmed were Tennessee rockers Kings of Leon, R&B superstar Usher accompanied onstage…
Chris Young enjoyed another bump up the country music hierarchy this year thanks to his duet with Cassadee Pope, “Think of You,” which is up for a CMA award for Musical Event of the Year. And with a Christmas album hitting the shelves, Young says he continues to accomplish things…
Give Le Youth a time machine, and it’s clear where he’ll go. “There was something cool about the ’90s. the California-based, Ohio-born electronic musician, DJ, and producer says. “I think everyone knows what I am talking about.” His bio describes his music as a “?’90s sounds refracted through a thoroughly…
They say it’s not what you know but who you know. Nothing proves this quite like the number of successful musicians who have famous parents. While many of the people on this list have considerable talent, there are scores of starving brilliant musicians out there who will read this and…
When Coral Springs resident MC Jumanji and his manager Sergio Mendes didn’t hear the music they liked in South Florida, the pair decided to do something about it. They recently founded the label American Grime, named after their favorite strain of hip-hop. “Grime was a way for the London underground to…
Its press release describes its sound as “New Orleans Big Brass Circus Rock,” but saxophonist Matt Thomas says his band Dirty Bourbon River Show is, more simply, a theatrical party. “We want to pay tribute to New Orleans while doing something artistically satisfying,” Thomas tells New Times as he shows some…
In the blink of an eye, Halloween has passed us by. And if you don’t stop and pay attention, you’re going to miss your last chance to get early bird tickets for the Riptide Music Festival. Now through Sunday, November 6, you can continue to get early bird-priced tickets…
A year ago guitarist Stu Sauce, drummer Cody Orange, and bassist Rod Reiter were strangers. After a few Craig’s List ads and a meeting of the minds at a Starbucks, the Deerfield Beach trio quickly united to form the funk band Xotic Yeyo. Though their influences ranged from jam bands like…
We’ve all had that urge to take the stage and sing. There is no shortcut. You have to just get out there and unleash your inner diva or troubadour at the open mike night. All you need is a name, a song, and a venue. Broward and Palm Beach have…
For Bonnie Raitt to be one of the few people to make Rolling Stone’s lists of both the 100 greatest singers and guitar players demonstrates her unique abilities. In the midst of an extensive tour that takes the blues-rock legend to the Broward Center tonight, Raitt spoke with…
“We decide on stage what songs we play.” That is how Go Kurosawa, the drummer of Japanese psychedelic rock band Kikagaku Moyo, explains how his group prepares for a concert. “If the crowd is silent, we’ll play meditative, dreamy songs. If people are more wild, we will play more punk…
Foals, an award-winning indie rock quintet, sold out their first-ever show in Fort Lauderdale at Revolution Live.
We might not be New Orleans or New York, but South Florida has a large audience craving the uniquely American art form of jazz.
For most South Floridians, the worst thing about living here is the traffic. In our heavily suburbanized landscape, getting anywhere means crawling into a car and suffering through the frustration and tedium of a long — and often dangerous — drive. But for Fort Lauderdale native Jess Gentile, better known…
Not even old enough to legally drink in America yet, the 20-year-old Irish musician EDEN is already in the second chapter of his musical career. Born as Jonathon Ng in Dublin, Ireland he received classical training in violin at age seven. In the next dozen years he taught himself piano, guitar,…
With the release of his new album, Third Ward Stories, Fort Lauderdale-based saxophonist Jason Hainsworth set out to create a musical biography of his childhood in Houston. But how do you tell a story through instrumental jazz without any lyrics? “Too often I think we take for granted the countless…
There’s no figure more polarizing in music right now than Kanye West. Love or hate him, everyone has an opinion on Yeezus. While he hasn’t come out and straight up said it, it’s apparent that Kanye has positive vibrations for South Florida. Mr. Kim Kardashian just revealed his Saint Pablo…
It’s Halloween. While you might not have your creative, life-like, or scantily clad costume ready to go just yet, South Florida’s promoters are already at full throttle making sure all you vampires, pirates, comic book characters, and sexy cops have someplace to party. Here are the ten best Broward and…
Tortuga might mean turtle in Spanish, but on Fort Lauderdale Beach it means one of the world’s premier country music festivals. Yesterday Tortuga Music Festival announced the line-up for the fifth edition. The three-day festival on the sandy seaside of Fort Lauderdale Beach Park will be held in 2017 on…
“A bunch of us just said, ‘Hey, we have the basic ingredients, let’s pull it together.'” is how Layne Fox, music director at Lake Worth’s CWS Bar + Kitchen, explained how the Damn Glad to Party with You Festival came together for an all day extravaganza October 15. The free all-day, all-night…
