2015 is nearing its end and you have to admit, it was a great year for hip-hop in South Florida. All your favorite artists, like Pouya, Denzel Curry, and Yung Simmie, dropped some bangers that are still in heavy rotation on our playlists. But what about the head-nodders we overlooked?…
Originally form Massachusetts, JoJo (AKA Joanna Noëlle Blagden Levesque) was only 13 when she recorded her first album. Her debut single, “Leave (Get Out),” reached number one on the Billboard Pop Songs chart in June 2004. Since then, JoJo has gone on make several movies, including RV, starring the late…
Oxford-based indie rock outfit Glass Animals came to what should have been sunny South Florida in an attempt to escape their often dreary and rain-soaked stomping grounds of England. Instead, they got more of the same in terms of weather Tuesday night. However, what really made it feel like a…
Amy Poehler better watch out; there’s a new Amy out for her laughs, and she’s doing it with a little bit of feminism and a whole lot of vulgarity. While Amy Schemer is no newcomer to the comedy scene, 2015 was most definitely her year. Most memorably, Schumer wrote and…
Corey Jones called his older brother to let him know he’d be late. His SUV had broken down near the southbound I-95 exit ramp to PGA Boulevard. It was 2:52 a.m., and Corey had pulled onto the shoulder to wait for help. His older brother, Clinton Jr., would call back…
No matter how much buzz Bulletproof Stockings receives, neither I nor half of the human population will ever have the opportunity to see the Brooklyn rock band live. That’s because the four-piece that has received comparisons to Florence and the Machine and Fiona Apple will play in front of women…
Glass Animals Aside from taking your mind on “an epic journey” with their “collection of tropical sounds, languid jungle vibes, and electro-R&B” tunes, Oxford’s Glass Animals are on a mission to find an alligator during their South Florida debut this week. “I’m going to find an alligator,” frontman Dave Bayley recently…
When news arrived of the passing of Stone Temple Pilots lead singer Scott Weiland this past Thursday, no one who came of age in the ’90s should have been surprised. Few rock stars of his era, it seemed, took the cliché of sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll more literally…
In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, Keith Richards gave out the ultimate compliment to St. Paul and the Broken Bones when he called the James Brown-channeling soul singer Paul Janeway and his band “interesting to watch.” “He’s a cat that can do an Otis Redding,” Richards told Stone, and if you…
“I think the blues is fresher than ever if you consider the blues to be a broad-based American art form,” says Mike Zito, the St. Louis rocker who co-founded Royal Southern Brotherhood. “If you think that it’s only blues if it sounds like the 1950s, then you’re probably going to be let…
Mr. Entertainment is a South Florida musician and herald of the local scene since the 19-somethings and serves as the unofficial Musical Mayor of Hollywood. I have just finished reading the newly released Streetopia, published by Brooklyn Imprint. It’s a photographic and verbal documentary of a massive anti-gentrification art festival that took…
Greetings, fellow penny-pinchers! It’s time for your weekly rundown of all the supercool yet refreshingly cheap stuff you should do this weekend. Read on for details on an ugly sweater video game party, a toy drive benefit show, a “PopPunkmas” concert, and more. The world is your oyster, friends! First…
Adam Foster is a South Florida-based DJ and producer, founder of twilightnotes.com, and entertainment director for the Restaurant People. He was named best DJ of 2014 by New Times Broward-Palm Beach. Follow him on SoundCloud, and like him on Facebook. Art Basel kicks off this Tuesday in Miami, which means…
Death in June is a British post-punk band that has been around since 1981. According to one reviewer, “Early DIJ is basically Joy Division with trumpets,” but later albums include more acoustic guitar and sound more singer/songwriter-ish. As part of a 12-date American tour, the band is playing Tuesday, December 8 at…
Sophie Sputnik has never been one to shy away from the spotlight, but at this Saturday’s Big Time Music Show, Sputnik will be stepping out as more than just the powerhouse singing, drumming half of bluesy Fort Lauderdale rockers Killmama — she’ll be taking the stage as a one-time addict…
Lumar LeBlanc clearly doesn’t abide by the old adage “Show, don’t tell.” Oh, The Soul Rebels’ leader probably won’t bother to say so; not in so many words, anyway. He doesn’t need to. Because instead of fretting what shows, he’s already telling you how it is: “The Soul Rebels are…
We’ve already told you about some relatively well-established Broward-based artists who are showing works at Art Basel and about the free shuttles between BroCo and Miami Beach. But there’s more. As usual, the most offbeat happenings sound like the most fun. There’s the Burning Man-themed Edge Art Fair, and there…
If you all, like us, were still trying to wrap your heads around the mind-melting mashup of artists already topping the bill at Florida’s latest music festival offering, Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival, launching this spring, you might not be prepared for this morning’s third-wave lineup announcement. But here goes:…
Be honest with yourself, art fiends: There are only so many times you can see fluorescent lights stacked neatly in a pile until you want to pull your hair out. That’s why this week’s parties, afterparties, and after-afterparties are so necessary. They provide the alcohol and escapism from all the…
It’s been about ten years since Silverstein and Senses Fail last toured together. Back then, both bands were new on the screamo scene and just cutting their teeth. Neither would have imagined that they’d each go on to sell hundreds of thousands of albums, let alone tour together again a…
“For me, it’s a little different,” says Will Swan, guitarist and founding member of posthardcore mainstays Dance Gavin Dance. “I always want to do this and write music and stuff, so I can’t really see myself doing anything else… It’s not like that for everybody in the band, though.” On…
R&B isn’t the new rock. It’s only continuing to influence rock the way rhythm and blues always has, going as far back as the rockabilly of Elvis and the brown-sugar-loving Rolling Stones. Still, some of the biggest “rock stars” these days are more apt to lay down a silky-smooth groove…
