South Florida’s Eight Best Concerts This Week

R. City R. City may have hit mainstream as solo artists thanks to their 2015 single, “Locked Away” featuring Adam Levine, but the Virgin Islanders — brothers Theron and Timothy Thomas who go by their stage names, A.I. and Uptown AP — have written and produced countless hits for some of…

Pro Tips From a Himmarshee Street Bartender

Ah, Himmarshee. It’s like the Bourbon Street of Fort Lauderdale, except instead of beads, all anyone throws is up. In high school, it’s where you go to drink underage and during college, it’s the place your inner ratchet wild child finds solace. Post-college, it’s where I would earn extra cash…

Bleubird Drops Trippy New Video for “Fake Cats/Lauderdale Squad”

2015 was a whirlwind year for South Florida’s shamelessly sleazy art-rapper Bleubird, AKA Jacques Bruna, who arguably hustled harder for Fort Lauderdale than any other local emcee. Over the last year, Bruna put out a video for his single “Keith Haringbone,” to hype the release of his first album since…

Reverend Horton Heat Preaches the Good Word of Rockabilly

Contemporary rockabilly doesn’t retain much in the way of true institutions these days — at least as far as stalwart artists go. It’s a seductive world, chock-full of interesting aesthetics and implied authenticity, but one that many are just passing through on their way out of whatever other musical subculture…

Country Singer Garth Brooks Is “Done With Retiring”

When Garth Brooks announced his comeback tour with Trisha Yearwood last year, it garnered so much buzz that a third date was added to the South Florida stop at BB&T Center in Sunrise — and rightfully so. Brooks has earned his spot at the top in a way very few…

Rapper Oyabun Is Out to Prove His Is the New Sound of South Florida

Derived from Japanese etymology, Oyabun means “the father” and refers to an absolute leader of a Yakuza clan. While 23-year-old Royal Palm rapper Oyabun takes his name from that mythic and shadowy underworld of organized crime, the Brooklyn transplant is still working hard to lay down roots and stake a…

South Florida’s Eight Best Concerts This Week

The Garth Brooks World TourFrom an eight-year retirement to a five-year Vegas residency to the release of a brand new album and accompanying world tour, Garth Brooks continues to be — and has always been — one of country’s top-selling solo artists. And this week, the Man Against [the] Machine will…

Rapper Robb Bank$ Is a Phenomenon Among Millennial Hip-Hop Fans

Upstairs, in a dressing room backstage at the Orpheum in Ybor City, Robb Bank$ walks in small circles, winding himself up like a spring, mike in hand and awaiting his turn onstage. It’s about 9 p.m. Saturday, November 14, the last date of the 21-year-old rapper’s U.S. tour, an all-ages…

Ten Metal Releases That Defined the Last Year

Alright, so we’re a little more than a week into 2016. Too late for a year-end best of list, you say? Nope. This is a Florida-based website and we implore you to try and not forget that Florida answers the call of no man nor beast. We remind you, friend,…

Ten Underrated David Bowie Songs From His Early Career

David Bowie always epitomized what it means to be a true musical chameleon. Some artists evolve. Bowie transformed. From his beginnings in the late-‘60s as a fair-haired folkie to his drag queen persona, on to his iconic role as Ziggy Stardust and the androgynous guise he adopted early on, through…

16 Dating Rules to Break in 2016

Let’s be honest, most of these dating rules are just excuses we’ve told ourselves over the years to avoid the fact that someone we liked just didn’t like us back. At the end of the day, if you’re into someone, the “rules” don’t really matter. Following the standard dating procedures…

Ten Bands That Still Haven’t Reunited at Coachella

When it was announced earlier this week that Guns N’ Roses and LCD Soundsystem were reuniting for Coachella, the first reaction was shock and awe. Slash and Axl of Guns N’ Roses seemed to be in an eternal blood feud, while just 5 years earlier, LCD Soundsystem filmed a documentary…

Trendy Silent Disco Dance Party Comes to Delray Beach’s Old School Square

In today’s high-tech, hyper-speed world, it can sometimes feel like despite our endless channels for social interaction and the barrage of “curated content” hurled in our general directions at all times, we’re more isolated than ever. Whether it’s counterintuitive or downright genius, the global phenomenon that’s become the silent disco…

Kristin Chenoweth’s Five Best Performances of All Time

You may have seen her as Glinda in Wicked on Broadway, or perhaps more recently on The Muppets Show on ABC. The uber popular theater and television veteran Kristin Chenoweth is perky, hilarious, and of course, she sounds incredible live. She’s currently on tour performing a mix of favorite her songs,…