Let’s get this out of the way right here, right now — I’m a Blockhead, AKA a New Kids on the Block fan. Have been since 1989. So if you’re expecting to read a takedown of the 1980s pop group that is still going strong 25 years after it first…
Six hours after Tweeting “ugh boob sweat,” the 22-year-old international pop star Charli XCX shared an even more disheartening message on Twitter. The singer who rose to fame after making appearances on Iggy Azalea’s “Fancy,” and Icona Pop’s “I Don’t Care,” shared a photo of a handwritten note on Twitter…
What is a remix? At its most basic definition, a remix is a new version of a song that already exists. However, the lines between remixing, sampling, making edits, mashups, white labels, and bootlegs have blurred. These days, it’s hard — maybe even impossible — to make something truly original…
When The Psychedelic Furs burst onto the art rock scene in the late ’70’s, the English outfit were helping to create said scene. Labeled post-punk for their arrival after the punk explosion, yet preceding the torrent of new wave that engulfed the ’80’s, The Psychedelic Furs scored huge hits both…
Don’t ask Chris Carrabba why his band Dashboard Confessional is making a comeback. Never mind the fact that he and his outfit have been on a self-imposed hiatus for the past six years and that they haven’t had a tour or a new album since late in the last decade…
Last night in West Palm Beach, there was enough camo and American flag combos that, at times, Coral Sky Ampitheatre looked more like Fort Bragg. Ladies in booty shorts with boots searched for a good spot on the lawn, and thousands were ready to see a band that some have…
Whether you blew your dough splurging on Memorial Day Weekend, buying the perfect Mother’s Day gift, or going nuts on National Hamburger Day, you just don’t have adequate party funds. But that doesn’t mean you can’t party. Here are five events under $6 that will leave you happy and rich…
Around this time every year, Cameo frontman Larry Blackmon gets calls from people he hardly knows saying, “Larry I love you! Happy birthday, man!” But they never know when his birthday is — it’s listed as May 24 by some sources and May 29 by others. Few beyond close friends…
On the telephone Dave Davidson sounds like an ordinary guy. You’d never guess his was the booming, guttural voice of Boston death metal band Revocation. Davidson laughed when the contrast was brought up. “I have to work on my voice. Especially before a tour with vocal warm-ups. But I’ve been…
It’s tough to make it in music, and that’s true for every musician in any genre. Breaking into the music industry is like trying to climb a wall that grows taller the more you climb. This is especially true for jazz, one of America’s greatest and fastest shrinking genres. For…
It’s official: summer is upon us, and June is right around the corner. That doesn’t mean much for us South Floridians. It just goes from being pretty hot to really hot. For the rest of the country though, summer time is special. It means festival season, beach season, boat season. No…
Nothing makes a preteen heart swell quite like a boy band. A single boy is a powerful enough force in the life of a 13-year-old girl, but when you assemble multiple boys — who can all play instruments like rockstars and sing like canaries — it’s game over. Benji Roberts…
Like talent, it can’t be taught. Like the wind, it can’t be caught. And like cool, it can’t be bought. Not at any price. It can’t be bottled, it can’t be boxed, and it won’t go in your pocket. It can’t be touched either, but it wants to be touching…
In just a few years, Florida Georgia Line has evolved from self-proclaimed hillbillies to country-music superstars. They’ve shelved almost 20 music awards since 2013. Their debut single, “Cruise,” is the best-selling country digital song of all time. And yet the band is among the most insufferable acts to ever muck…
The sometimes-glorious, often-notorious Miami rapper-slash-actor Notorious Nastie is an enigma. And we’re no Alan Turing, but we think we’ve sort of cracked the code to South Florida’s underground hip-hop scene by letting Nastie drop his insight on us like a firebomb. Notorious Nastie brands himself a nightlife impresario and entertainer…
Summer is right around the corner, and what better way to celebrate than to prepare a hurricane supplies list? Just kidding, this isn’t that list. This is a list of the best places to throw back some drinks this summer. We’re obviously very lucky to live in such a beautiful…
Rick Ross remembers the day he discovered the identity of his greatest enemy. In 2011, after suffering two seizures in less than 24 hours, the Bawse found himself sitting in the waiting room of a very expensive doctor’s office. “I was the only black dude, and the rest was 55-…
Rap has always been a genre of shifting themes, varied messages, and ever-evolving production. At its best, it can be like a mirror, a voice that reflects the current climate of American affairs at any given moment. Other times, it’s just really fun music you move your head to. In…
For those of us whose Memorial Day Weekend consisted of nothing but sun bathing and Corona bottles, today will definitely be one of those days you really wish you could stay in bed forever. While you can’t take a “personal” day to recuperate from that MDW hangover, there is one…
We often think of the last Monday in May as a day revolving around beaches, heavy drinking, and barbecue, but Memorial Day is meant to be a day of observance for the soldiers who lost their lives in war. Started after the Civil War as Decoration Day, Memorial Day became…
There’s no better way to celebrate Memorial Day weekend than by wearing enough pink to make Andie Walsh blush. Fish out your mom’s shoulder pads from deep inside her closet and start growing out that mullet, because the ‘80s Prom is back at Respectable Street for its ninth year this…
This weekend is Memorial Day weekend. Some know it as a time when we pay tribute to those in our armed forces, and some — most — see it as another of the precious few three day weekends we get a year. And because some of us can’t afford that…
