Nostalgia is a powerful concept. We tend to romanticize the past either because we miss the way things used to be or out of necessity to whitewash our own personal histories. But what about getting nostalgic for a past we were never actually a part of? Well, that might occur…
While many would be intimidated to replace a lead singer in a band that had found major success, Bobby Amaru says joining Saliva has been no sweat. After 15 years of rapping hits like “Always” for the Tennessee metal band, Josey Scott left Saliva in 2011 to sing Christian music…
5. Wayne White, Douglas Hoekzema and Project LSD Opening 6 p.m. Friday, June 12 and Saturday, June 13 at Art and Culture Center of Hollywood. 1650 Harrison St, Hollywood. $7 adults, $4 students. Visit Facebook. Hollywood is a hidden mecca of art and although the monthly Wynwood art walk is happening on…
Imagine you’re holding an instruction manual called “How to be a Famous Rapper.” Now open to page one. What does it say? There’s probably some stuff about making beats, money, diamonds — the usual suspects. Chances are, nowhere in your imaginary text does it say anything about devoting entire verses…
Huey Lewis and the News hit the Hard Rock in Hollywood this Friday, bringing their chronically out of fashion, but irresistibly straight forward rock with them. Expect hit after hit – “Hip To Be Square”, “Happy To Be Stuck With You” and “The Heart of Rock n’ Roll” to churned…
The summer tour season brings many curiosities to your doorstep, ghosts of music past sent to stir up emotions long unfelt—or at least buried beneath years of turned-over trends. When Candlebox plays “Far Behind” at Revolution Live this Saturday, will you tear up and hug your grunge poetry-scribbling, flannel-clad high…
On Tuesday, Snoop Dogg will drop by Boca Raton to perform at Sakred Nightclub. That’s an odd pairing, Snoop and Boca. The forefather of West Coast gangsta rap and connoisseur of only the stickiest of the icky-icky will mesh with Boca about as well as Mel Gibson on spring break…
Aloha kakou! Do you have an oddly specific fetish for fire-breathing mermaids? Do you still fantasize about being marooned with Mary Ann from Gilligan’s Island? Are you unafraid of Tikis regardless of the doom they spelled for The Brady Bunch? If so, then does Fort Lauderdale have a righteous festival…
Summer is right around the corner so you know what that means; it’s time to bring the party outside. Here in South Florida we are lucky enough to have some of the most beautiful weather in the world — especially this time of year — so it’s an absolute must…
Chloe Dolandis.Chloe Dolandis’ debut album, Bring Back the Fever, may have been released as a jazz album in 2011, but, as the Boca-bred artist told New Times in a recent interview, there’s More to her talents than being “pigeon-holed into one genre.” That’s why the “young voice with an old soul”…
Saturday night, Miami’s Bayfront Park Amphitheater hosted an evening of returns and homecomings. Third Eye Blind was back in the South Florida area for the first time since 2013 for its co-headlining tour with Dashboard Confessional. Speaking of which, Chris Carrabba and his old bandmates reunited on stage after a…
Professional trumpet player, Yamin Mustafa, can teach you how to play the trumpet in three seconds. Though that may sound crazy to you, Mustafa proves it to be true every Wednesday night at the Kreepy Tiki Lounge & Bar in Fort Lauderdale. Last week, Mustafa went up to a young…
With 2015 marking the twentieth summer series at Coral Sky Amphitheatre and with Live Nation always looking for ways to fill out their lawns around the country, the concert behemoth is giving fans a break on tickets this week. From 10 a.m. today through Sunday, lawn tickets will be available…
The War on Drugs is still very much Lost in the Dream of its breakout year. Since the release of its gorgeous, expansive, and undoubtedly brilliant album in 2014, the Philadelphia band has spent the majority of its time dancing on the positive side of almost every critical tongue and…
5. 2nd Annual Art & Beer Fest 5 p.m. Saturday, June 5, at TAP Global Beer Collection, 14813 Lyons Rd Suite 100, Delray Beach. No cover. Visit Facebook. Art is great and all, but with beer, it’s even better. Plus, artwork just looks so much cooler after three Bud Lights…
Miami jam band Suénalo — Spanish slang for “hit it!” — is often described as an Afro-Latin in style. But that’s just doesn’t go far enough. Think Dave Matthews as Davíd Matteos. But then replace Dave’s Creole-seeped scatting with reggaeton influenced raps, a full-time female vocalist and dogged suave. We…
If nothing else, The Gipsy Kings hold the distinction of being the soundtrack to one of the great moments in comedic history. If you’ve never seen The Big Lebowski, you should stop what you’re doing right now and change that. But those sane souls who have seen the Cohen Brothers classic…
Singer Brett Scallions had as good an excuse as any to leave his rock band Fuel for a few years. “Robbie and Ray called me to do the Doors thing.” That would be Robbie Krieger and Ray Manzarek, the original members of the Doors who asked Scallions to step into…
Hate him or tolerate him, Pitbull represents South Florida. Or he at least depicts a corrupted stereotype of our collective counties. When he burst like a boil onto mainstream music he proudly rocked Miami-Dade’s area code as Mr. 305. Mr. 305 now prefers Mr. Worldwide but he nonetheless puts on…
It was a typically dreary evening in the Colombian capital—cold and drizzling. Yet that didn’t stop thousands from coming out on May 17 when Colombian sensation Bomba Estéreo gave Bogotá a sneak peak of its new album Amanecer (“Daybreak,” in English) at a massive open-air, mountainside dance party on the…
“The world was bigger then,” says Mark Riddle, host of the Quiet Village Podcast. He’s attempting to explain why tiki culture and all its Polynesian-themed bars, stiff tropical drinks, and beachy music dominated the United States in the ’50s. “It was the beginning of when middle-class people could travel. The…
No matter how much work is on your to-do list, sometimes you just gotta turn up the music and take the week on like a boss. While jamming Spotify deep inside your ear canal will definitely help you get through the long days, creeping deadlines, and disastrous inbox, nothing will…
