Sometimes there are those nights when, despite hours of drunken debauchery, you’re still not quite ready to admit defeat — You still have room for another cocktail or three before accepting tomorrow’s inevitable hangover, or maybe need to keep dancing to Robyn and forget the crappy week you just had…
This morning, Okeechobee Festival has added a fresh batch of artists to its lineup. Bassnectar, the Avett Brothers, and Odesza round out the top of the bill, joining Mumford & Sons, Kendrick Lamar, Skrillex, Future, Miguel, Fetty Wap, and Big Grams (Big Boi & Phantogram), who were announced last month as part of an eclectic…
Today marks the launch of Infinite Channel, a new web-based video platform created by a collective of local musicians and FAU commercial music students to “present and preserve real music.” With the goal of providing “content and exposure for bands that are invaluable to the South Florida music scene,” the…
Martin Barre knows what it’s like to reach the stratosphere of superstardom. He’s toured the world, played the biggest arenas and, for more than four decades, recorded dozens of classic albums, all as chief guitarist for Jethro Tull. So it’s no small turnaround to find him scaling back in the…
With its individual members now scattered about the country chasing their respective dreams, tending to careers and the life that happens outside of the van, South Florida melodic punk stalwarts Protagonist, spawned in Boca Raton in the late 1990s, have every right to hang it up and leave behind the…
To the band that made the following lines famous — “Anywhere you go, I’ll follow you down. I’ll follow you down, but not that far!” — we have a message for you: We, your loving audience, will keep following you, because you’re great. For the countless adults caught in that…
99 Jamz Uncensored From being that weird-looking dude in the background of Fat Joe music videos to owning his own record label, restaurant, and headphone business, DJ Khaled has certainly Changed a Lot. More than just a fact, the hip-hop head will be dropping tracks from his latest album this…
You may think you know DJ Khaled, but he’s changed … a lot! The loud-mouthed catch-phrase aficionado first came into prominence locally as the afternoon DJ on 99 Jamz. I can’t tell you how many times I drove my car down University Drive and shouted at my radio, “I’m trying…
Pop-punk stalwarts the Wonder Years and Motion City Soundtrack have joined forces on what could easily pass as a Vans Warped Tour minireunion. Both bands are out in support of new records in 2015. The Wonder Years’ fifth studio release, No Closer to Heaven, dropped in September, is a concept…
Due to complaints that America’s favorite fall reality show, The Presidential Debates, have been taking too damn long, broadcasters have taken editorial liberties with some rather crucial interactions among the nominees. Though they’ve kept discussion on trivial topics like the economy and foreign policy, it seems one of the most…
Joey Barreiro is pretty stoked to be returning to his hometown as a newsie. And not just any newsie—Jack Kelly, the leading role in Disney’s original movie-turned-musical. Newsies the Musical will be playing at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts from November 17-29. Both Cuban and Portuguese, Barreiro says…
While Miami’s had ample opportunity to move their bodies to the experimental, electro-pop sounds of Afrobeta in the near decade they’ve been a band, it’s not as often that we’re treated to a visit from the funky and unpredictable dance duo on our own turf. If you’ve never heard of…
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 a raunchy comedy event at Kreepy Tiki, a stop by international DJ EDX at Vibe, and more! The world is your oyster, friends. thatDROP…
Every musician, DJ, and producer out there: Quick, go grab your phones. The new Jam Compass app is out now for both Android and iPhone users. Launched earlier this week by Tony Livadas and Anthony Pisano, two DJs and producers who got their start here in Broward County as solo…
Here’s a free lesson for aspiring musicians who want to make it big quick: A) Find a band on the verge of success and become a rabid fan; B) Learn said band’s catalogue backward and forward; and C) Pray and hope, and maybe even light some candles to whatever iconographical…
Jason Derulo’s last week or so could have come out of a Dos Equis commercial script. The Top 40 R&B/pop hitmaker’s recent streak began last Wednesday, playing Carpool Karaoke with James Corden on CBS’s The Late Late Show with James Corden. During the ride-along interview, which starts out with the…
Why is it that so many of the best things in life end up being the ones that were there all along, hidden in plain sight? Whether we’re staring at our phones too often to notice, or simply haven’t been looking in the right places, South Florida is home to…
Why does Miami get to have all the fun? And more importantly, why does that so-called fun have to be so damn expensive? Our neighbors to the south may boast an international profile, port-of-entry status to the United States, and a more dense nightlife scene, but we’re of the mind it’s…
You’ve got to hand it to the guys in the Zac Brown Band — they’re nothing if not ambitious. Their latest album, Jekyll + Hyde, finds the Atlanta-based group expanding into territories far outside its country-music tag, with explorations into EDM, bluegrass, big band, and metal. And let’s face it:…
It’s generally assumed that when a musician ventures out on his own and takes a hiatus from his band, chances are it has to do with some combination of money and ego. But ask Paul Barrere why he and fellow guitarist Fred Tackett opted to take leave from their longtime…
The South Florida rap scene has been going pretty hard lately, but if you’re looking for a breath of fresh air, we’ve got your back. Fort Lauderdale DJ/producer Nick León has teamed up with Kendall’s sultry R&B production duo the Loft on a new track, “Glass Walls,” that will have…
America and Three Dog NightThese two bands, as pointed out by New Times, “helped pioneer the jangly-guitar-and-falsetto-harmonies revolution of the ’70s.” And this week, America and Three Dog Night will be sining to all the “Lonely People” of South Florida at the Hard Rock Live. While their show is aimed…
