Saturday: Aces High Music Fest at Respectable Street

Stop what you’re doing and watch this video right now. “Dumpster swing” band Que Lastima has launched a hilarious new video titled “Mr. and Mrs. Beelzebub.” Slightly reminiscent of the Offspring’s catchy “Why Don’t You Get a Job?” the video opens up with a boyfriend getting kicked out of the house…

Five Things to Do This Weekend Under $10

5. Starlight Musicals 7 p.m. Friday, July 17 at Holiday Park. 1150 G Harold Martin Dr, Fort Lauderdale. No cover. Visit Facebook.  Starlight Musicals returns for a 37th year with a free evening of music. Friday night, bring your lawn chairs and a cooler (or, coolers, depending on how shitty…

THEESatisfaction’s SassyBlack Brings Personal Sunlight to Gramps

SassyBlack (Catherine Harris-White) is the cool alto singing half of THEESatisfaction, a cosmically -minded R&B/rap duo from Seattle. In a region traditionally coated in rock band nostalgia, on a label traditionally thick with those very rock bands (Sub Pop), Harris-White and her group of creative cohorts, which include labelmates Shabazz…

Smashing Pumpkins and Marilyn Manson Hit Miami’s Bayfront Park

With coheadliners the Smashing Pumpkins and Marilyn Manson, the End Times Tour is a traveling history museum of ’90s rock. In fact, no two bands could represent the rock world’s issues of the 20th Century’s final decade quite like they do. As the ’90s began, the main musical debate involved…

Ariana Grande Comes Home to BB&T Center on July 18

Ariana Grande is coming back to her stomping grounds. Saturday night, the pint-sized 22-year-old pop star who exploded onto the music scene last year — and made headlines last week for licking a donut and saying “I HATE Americans” — is bringing her “Honeymoon” tour to the BB&T Center, not…

Sam Smith: The Twitter Q&A

Sam Smith has had a banner year. The British pop star won a bevy of industry awards, sold millions of albums, garnered more than a billion YouTube views, and is headlining an arena tour. Not bad for a dude with a single album, In the Lonely Hour, under his belt…

Ten Live Aid Acts You Shouldn’t Have Forgotten

Live Aid is 30 years old this week. The concert for Ethiopia, held simultaneously at London’s Wembley and Philadelphia’s John F Kennedy stadium, brought together a who’s who of pop and rock. Titans were made at the two concerts: Freddie Mercury and Queen stole the show, U2 took a giant…

Five Best Music Events in South Florida This Week

Thursday Sound Series Jam to the sounds of “love, explosions, bikini contests, bar fights, and good times” of the SunGhosts. Rock “Til the City Goes Under” as Miami New Times’ Best Of 2015 Readers’ Choice winners for best band bring their “sun-drenched garage rock” to Stache. With SunGhosts, Kid Lore, and Millionyoung. Presented…

Rock N’ Roll Hi-Fives Play Three Free All-Ages Shows

For some families, summer vacation means homemade ice pops and trips to the zoo. For the Centeno family, it means taking the band out on tour. New Jersey’s Rock N’ Roll Hi-Fives is a four-piece alternative/glam rock band made up of husband Joe on guitar, wife Gloree on bass, and…

The Eagles Really Do Play the Same Set Every Night

Last week, Charles Cross predicted in these digital pages that when the Eagles brought their show to Miami’s American Airlines Arena on Friday, July 10, they would play the exact same set they did on November 22, 2013, the last time the band was in Miami. “Because that’s what they…

Foreigner Open for Kid Rock at Coral Sky, Thursday Night

You might not know its members by name or remember their MTV videos, but Foreigner recorded a slew of recognizable, era-defining hits. Songs like “Urgent,” “Cold As Ice,” and “I Want to Know What Love Is” remain rock radio staples and have made the band a significant concert attraction nearly…

Steel Pulse Brings Politics, Urban Reggae to Revolution Live

“Everyone looks up to America. When they see these things happening — people shooting in churches, schools, movie theaters — the rest of the world is confused,” says David Hinds, lead singer and guitarist of the British reggae band Steel Pulse. “How can you be police of the world when…

FTLiens Show Love to a City That Doesn’t Get Anywhere Near Enough

“Ridiculous.” That’s the ever-present adjective when Bleubird describes FTLiens, the DIY rapper’s Broward-centric LP project, produced by fellow Ft. Lauder-loiter Numonics, is available now on iTunes. It’s fitting diction when one considers the inspiration. South Florida as a whole is known for it’s quirky-but-murky personality, but at least West Palm…

Neon Trees Gets Intimate With Fans at Revolution Live

Neon Trees returned to Fort Lauderdale’s Revolution Live for their third time in four years, Thursday night. This time, the Provo, Utah four-piece was in town for their Intimate Nights Tour and the show truly lived up to its title. Having seen Neon Trees every time they’ve performed at Revolution,…

Five Things to Do This Weekend Under $10

5. Freaks and Geeks Party at Propaganda Lake Worth 8 p.m. Saturday, July 11 at Propaganda Lake Worth. 6 S J St in Lake Worth. $5 cover if you dress up, $10 if you don’t. Visit Facebook.  Embrace your inner freak-a-geek this weekend with Propaganda’s Freaks and Geeks Party. With…

HITS 97.3 Bringing Adam Lambert to Stache on July 13

HITS 97.3 is back with its (in)famous HITS Sessions, the intimate and occasionally bizarre concert series has brought acts like David Guetta, Carly Rae Jepsen and Pitbull into one room with DJ Laz and a handful of fans. This time HITS Sessions welcomes American Idol sweetheart Adam Lambert to Stache…

American Dick: Kid Rock Brings His Cheap Date Tour to Coral Sky

He doesn’t give a good goddamn that civil rights activists from his home state (it’s Michigan, btw) asked him to distance himself from the Confederate flag after the tragic, race-motivated shooting in South Carolina fueled an uproar against the relic. Nope. He simply hit up Megyn Kelly at Fox News…

Blistered Brings “Unrelentingly Heavy Hardcore” to Churchill’s

Ten years ago at Walter C. Young Middle School, across the street from C.B. Smith Park, 13-year-old Lennon Livesay took the stage with two friends to perform as a nameless band for the school’s talent show. They covered Green Day’s “Brain Stew.” “Obviously, it was terrible,” Livesay says of the…

Finally Happy, the Violent Femmes Play Sunset Cove Friday Night

Sure, the Barenaked Ladies are headlining, and it’ll be awesome to sing along to “chickity china, the Chinese chicken” — but has any rock band ever captured adolescent angst quite like the Violent Femmes? Songs like “Blister in the Sun” and “Add It Up” have helped at least two generations…