Serving as a direct challenge to the mindset that has deemed Vashti Bunyan the patron saint of freak folk, this two-disc collection of demos and unreleased songs from the singer’s earliest era demonstrates an approach far less common than the one for which she is known. Some Things Just Stick…
It’s lucky for Kid Rock that he’s an egomaniacal dipshit, because otherwise his music would be about as memorable as a Molly Hatchet eight-track sans “Flirting With Disaster.” Still, the former Mr. Pamela Anderson’s good-humored salutes to his own cocksmanship, not to mention his skill at Xeroxing classic boogie, can’t…
Tipperary Pub 1540 SE Third Ct.Deerfield Beach954-421-9769The combination of a hot, greasy, delicious breakfast and lots and lots of alcohol usually goes like this: You drink lots and lots of alcohol until the sun comes up, then you hop over to the nearest IHOP for a hot, greasy, almost-delicious breakfast…
Juliette and the Licks October 30, 2007 Culture Room Better Than: Patti Smith fronting the MC5 – or just as good anyway. It’s a sad state of affairs when more people turn out on a Tuesday for the Tiki-fied floor show at Mai Kai than for a second South Florida…
The Hawaii-born trio Pepper is based in Southern California, played this year’s Warped Tour, and mix in Jamaican rhythms with a little punk rock ‘tude. But don’t call ‘em any variation of s-k-a. Rather, they look a little further later in the history of Caribbean beats, mixing in a classic…
If you plan on going to Sleepless Night this Saturday, make sure you head to Collins and 21st around 1:00 a.m. That’s when Habana Abierta, the Cuban supergroup – by way of Madrid – will rock the beach. For an excellent profile on the band, read Julienne Gage’s February New…
Although the band originally about ten years ago in Minneapolis, Minnesota, things really started picking up for Motion City Soundtrack within the last few years. A booster: a big helping hand from Blink-182’s Mark Hoppus, who fell for the band’s high-powered, punk-inflected, Superchunk-y rock. Hoppus later produced the band’s second…
Last Night: G Records Presents Lil’ Blaze & Yungen Monday, October 29, 2007 Vice at the Cameo, Miami Beach Better Than: Watching reruns of I Love New York 2 on VH1. OK … so maybe it’s not as good as watching Tailor Made get his ass beat by Midget Mac…
BY ANDY VIHSTADT E=CD^2 The Eels are kicking off 2008 time-capsule style. Along with the Essential Eels Vol. 1 2CD/DVD greatest hits collection, the band will releasing Useless Trinkets (also 2CD/DVD), an all-inclusive anthology of B-sides and rarities that makes the cache of import singles I’ve been collecting just that…
Toots and the Maytals Sunday, October 28, 2007 City Limits–Delray Beach Better Than: Getting Swept in the World Series Reggae fans around the world should be familiar with the raspy yet powerful voice of Toots Hibbert, enigmatic frontman of legendary band, Toots and the Maytals. The group has left their…
It was just last week that CrossFade reported news out of Miami that R&B/pop star Kelis was heading to trial for her recent run in with the law this past March in South Beach. As if that’s not enough to deal with (aside from everyone hating on her fashion style)…
This week, I wrote about Tommy Lee and DJ Aero’s tag-team DJ/live remixing project in my column, Suicide Blonde. (Click here to read it and get background info). A lot of stuff got cut out necessarily for space, so here’s the full Q&A. — Arielle Castillo Details: Tommy Lee and…
DJ Qbert October 24th, 2007 Studio A, Miami Better Than: The fat lady singing on a gondola in Venice Q-Bert All photos by Eddie Rosenstock The Review: If you’re not familiar with Qbert, he is the best scratch DJ on the planet earth, zectar and any other distant solar system,…
Popular reggae star Jah Cure has announced that he’s performing a show close enough to South Florida that it almost feels local. He’ll be in Nassau, Bahamas on November 3rd as part of the Millennium Countdown and the show is just his third concert since being released from prison in…
Back in March of this year, R&B star Kelis, famous both for her songs, “I Hate You So Much Right Now” and “Milkshake” plus obviously for being married to Queensbridge rapper Nas, got arrested in South Beach for interrupting an undercover prostitution sting. If you want specifics on that event,…
The past two weeks have been heavy with hip-hop nostalgia. Two weeks ago, VH1’s Hip-Hop Honors held its annual awards show, which has essentially become a Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame for rappers. Everyone from DJ Kool Herc and Fab 5 Freddy to KRS-One has been “inducted” since the…
3770 NE Third Ave. Pompano Beach954-781-6209It ain’t pretty. It smells like smoke. No one dances. But damn it, it feels like home. At closing time at Dr. Philgoods, we’re all too attached to our own little corners, to our drinks, to our conversations, to leave until they kick us out…
Magic is being hyped as Springsteen’s rocking return to his classic period, and that’s understandable: The album contains lots of familiar musical totems, not to mention lyrics about driving a highway until the road turns black and about a diner on the edge of town (bet it’s dark there). But…
The bar in the Muscle Shoals, Alabama, Marriott is called Swampers, after the house band at nearby FAME Studios that played on many of the greatest soul records ever made — Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett, Clarence Carter, and so forth. Detroit-born Bettye LaVette’s 1972 album, Child of the Seventies, could…
Ben Harper’s band, the Innocent Criminals, are in the middle of pillaging several newly arrived boxes. The first copies of their collective CD, Lifeline, have just arrived, and the musicians are grabbing stacks with each hand. Meanwhile, Harper, who’s already gotten his share, is shuffling about their rehearsal space with…
Traveling across the United States as a reggae star has its pluses and minuses. With a new album, Light Your Light, on record shelves, there’s no doubt that Toots Hibbert, charismatic frontman of legendary Jamaican band Toots and the Maytals, doesn’t mind the exposure. His band is a crowd favorite…
Stranger couples have formed musical partnerships in the past. Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson… Sting and that Moroccan guy; hell, nobody saw Gnarls Barkley coming, and they took the world by storm and won two Grammy awards. So maybe folks shouldn’t be surprised that Tommy Lee, former Mötley Crüe drummer,…
