Joan Armatrading Goes Solo at Parker Playhouse

Joan Armatrading Parker Playhouse May 3, 2015 Better than: Many performers who dare go solo, sans accompaniment After spending more than a year on the road as part of what’s been touted as her last extensive world tour, Joan Armatrading had no reluctance at all in admitting she’s tired. “It’s…

Five Things to Do Under $10 This Weekend

We have good news and bad news. The good news: it’s the weekend! The bad news: you’re poor. But don’t cry! There’s still a little bit of good news left. It doesn’t matter if you’re poor. That’s right, even the financially challenged (or just plain thrifty) people of Broward and…

Six Reasons You Should See Kaskade at SunFest

Kaskade is coming to play in West Palm Beach this Friday night at SunFest. He will be headlining on the main stage from 9:30 p.m. until the festival closes at 11 p.m. This is the first time SunFest has booked a DJ as a headliner, and for fans and rookies…

Why SunFest’s Bizarre Booking Strategy Is Brilliant

Walking into SunFest is a bit like thumbing through The Cheesecake Factory’s menu for the first time. Your eyes start to water before you even make it to the pasta section. There’s so many choices your stomach starts to turn at the thought of making a decision. And they haven’t…

SunFest’s VIPee Is the Best $5 Your Urethra’s Ever Spent

It’s the one part of music festivals we can all agree suck: the bathrooms. Whether you’re squatting in a hot porta-potty, or waiting in a concrete bathroom for 30 minutes for a stall to open up, small bladders and big concerts don’t mix.  And while SunFest might not have solved…

Iration Brings Reggae to a Diverse SunFest Lineup

Hawaiian bred and California based, Iration — made up of members Cayson Peterson, Joe Dickens, Micah Pueschel, and Adam Taylor — are bringing their sweet brand of reggae-rock to SunFest this Sunday. This year’s SunFest lineup is possibly the best ever. But it’s not just fans who are excited, Iration…

DJ Adam Foster’s Favorite Tracks of April

What’s the saying? April showers bring May flowers? Well that’s all good and fine, but this April, we weren’t paying attention to the weather. No, we had our ears pressed against speakers in hopes of finding the April’s best dance tracks. Here are the songs that stuck with us this…

There Were Only Two Arrests at Tortuga, and One Involved Butts

The South Florida festival scene is getting stronger. The last two months have brought our tip of the state Ultra Music Festival and Tortuga Music Festival. And the next few weeks will bring us West Palm Beach’s SunFest and Tampa’s Big Guava Music Festival. When it’s all said and done,…

Five Best Music Events in South Florida This Week

Counting down the hours until Friday even though it’s only Tuesday? Yeah, we’ve all been there. While you can’t make the next four days disappear as quickly as the #KylieJennerLipChallenge faded into obscurity, there is one thing that will make the next 96 hours fly by: music.  But not just…

Hollywood Undead Brings a Loyal Army to Revolution Live

The Internet is a fetid womb from which perverse and offensive offspring are born into popular culture. Bizarre sexual fetishes that make most normal folk squirm with disgust found a home and a highway through the networks of the web, while countless musicians found fans in similarly derelict corners of…

Joey Santiago on the Pixies’ Past, Present, and Future

Joey Santiago, the guitarist of the greatest American rock band there ever was and probably ever will be is out running errands. While fans of The Doors and The Beach Boys might take umbrage to that title, nobody from the USA has ever matched the fury, the beauty, the ridiculous…

Through it All, Tom Hunting Sees Exodus as a “Brotherhood”

Formed by pals Tom Hunting and Kirk Hammett in 1980 and named after a Leon Uris novel, Exodus stands proudly as one of the founders of the Bay Area’s longstanding and lauded thrash metal scene. Now on the Dark Roots of Thrash II tour with the equally essential Bay Area thrashers, Testament,…

Five Things to Do Under $10 in South Florida This Weekend

Times are hard which means that times need to be cheap. Before you stay home tonight and cry over what happened in Grey’s Anatomy or rewatch all the leaked episodes of Game of Thrones, take a look at this list.  It’s full of fun things to do that won’t cost…

Dancing Legend Sugar Sullivan Turns 85 in Fort Lauderdale

At 85-years-old, swing dance champion Sugar Sullivan says she doesn’t have a single regret. “I’ve had a beautiful life,” she said on her birthday this past Wednesday. “I had a wonderful childhood, I have a beautiful family. We have fun together, and I have no regrets about anything. I’ve really…