Ska music is made for dancing and parties and fun, which often leads to fans’ buying their favorite band drinks. Drinks they sometimes have to turn down if they’re gonna make it to the next town alive — because they’re professionals who care about their craft. Didn’t expect to hear…
A group of college kids with a passion for jammin’ and a desire to funk — that’s how NOLA’s funkmeisters Galactic got their start in the music biz nearly two decades ago. “We were all, myself, Rob [Mercurio, bassist], Jeff [Raines, guitarist], and Stanton [Moore, drummer], in school in New…
By Erick Lappin When you go to an event and the door guy takes a Sharpie and draws a happy face on your hand because they ran out of wristbands, then you know fun is on its way. And it’s likely helped along by the free drink that comes with…
Did you take a final lap on the go-kart track? Play one last round of minigolf with friends? Win any souvenirs from the ticket counter? If you didn’t go yesterday, you’ll never go again to Boomers! family-fun megaplex in Dania Beach. The old Broward staple, housing every childhood niche under…
Adam Foster is a South Florida-based DJ and producer, founder of twilightnotes.com, and entertainment director for the Restaurant People. He was named best DJ of 2014 by New Times Broward-Palm Beach. In the Booth is his new column about electronic music, DJ culture, and South Florida nightlife. Visit his Facebook…
We recently interviewed interviewed Lucinda Williams, and on our call, she lamented the difficulties of her earlier days, hitting the road alone. “I talked to a girl not too long ago, a young singer-songwriter. And she was doing all that that I used to do, driving all over the place…
Regular old weeknights don’t have to be boring. House of Reggae at Delray’s Boston’s on the Beach, hosted by Kulcha Shok Muzik, makes sure of that. The label’s head DJ Lance-O is keeping things irie and bumping in Palm Beach County every Monday night. With no cover for ladies from…
If you read our article “You Think You Know T.I., But You Have No Idea” this week, you learned how dang cool T.I. is — how he’s a published author, acclaimed actor, and even how he saved two dudes from killing themselves, even Scott Stapp (thus saving Creed, but whatever)…
Since winning the sixth season of RuPaul’s Drag Race, Bianca Del Rio has emerged as America’s last great insult comedian. No one is spared her acid tongue: friends, enemies, fans, even herself. For four shows this weekend, the reigning drag royalty will bring her “Rolodex of Hate” to South Florida…
South Florida’s Hollywood generally isn’t the place stars come to when they’re looking to make it big. A new Comedy Central show may start changing people’s minds on that — or at least get them laughing at the idea. The first season of Big Time in Hollywood, FL, a series…
Family-friendly theme park performer by day, degenerate artist by night: Jason Bourgholtzer leads a double life, but he’s not complaining. It’s a childhood dream to work for the Big Mouse, but he has to keep his secret identity under wraps. Under the moniker J. Michael Glass, the St. Petersburg artist…
On January 8, the Florida Grand Opera’s (FGO) general director and CEO, Susan T. Danis, announced that a fundraising goal of $400,000 from Broward patrons and donors would be crucial to ensuring the company’s 2015-16 mainstage productions. Last fall, FGO hosted “Town Hall”-style meetings to explain its financial situation and…
Fear not, greaser guys and gals. After a three-year absence, Revenge of the Tiki IV will be in full swing Saturday at Kreepy Tiki Lounge, with plenty of grub, hot rods, and a more guitar action than is proper to experience in one day. Promoter Rob Stannard and Kreepy Tiki…
Fort Lauderdale musician Dwight Pendelton goes by the mysterious moniker Washa. He’s a singer and songwriter that crafts complex tunes he calls “baroque pop.” Pendleton, 20, is creating the sound of a three-piece group on his own. His recently released four-song EP The Bright, Part 1 shimmers with dreamy and…
Musician Keller Williams came from some humble beginnings. Before becoming a singer, he did construction work for a temp agency. However, Williams soon came to a revelation. “I realized,” he said, “I could make more money sitting on a bar stool, drinking beer, and singing.” And that’s where it all…
A slew of Grammy-winning jazz artists are coming to Pompano Beach for the Sea of JazzFest this Friday and Saturday at the Pompano Beach Amphitheatre. Christian McBride, Ken Peplowski, the Clayton Brothers, Randy Brecker, Hubert Laws & Tierney Sutton, Nanny Assis & Brazilian Carnaval Jazz, and the Phil Woods Quintet…
National Geographic photojournalist Maggie Steber remembers one of the first times she was confronted with the real possibility of danger on the job. “Once in Haiti in a church that had been attacked by a gang with machetes and machine guns, and it was the church of Father Aristide, who…
5. Kids Record Release Show at Culture Room 7 p.m., Friday, January 23, at Culture Room, 3045 N. Federal Hwy., Fort Lauderdale. Admission is $9.95. Visit Facebook. Local indie act Kids is releasing its second album Rich Coast in style at Culture Room. We recently spent some time with this…
Every year since 1971, with Pazz and Jop, our sister paper the Village Voice has polled music nerds worldwide to determine which were the best albums released the year prior. In 2014, most of us came together in agreement that D’Angelo’s Black Messiah — which just snuck in before the…
Not all rappers are versatile. Many speak on what they know and play it creatively safe. Or, if you’re Rick Ross, you make up a fantasy and sell that. There’s a standard formula in the game — the rise up from the streets to a subsequent lavish life in the…
Time seems suspended when you’re on a cruise, and like it’s zoomed by afterwards. Recently on the Sandy Beaches Cruise, hosted by Atlanta’s Sixthman music cruise team, a boat full of music lovers got caught up in that complex forward motion. On the Norwegian Pearl, the music ploughed ahead at…
Alex Botwin is about to make it rain, but not in the usual way. You may better recognize the Coloradoan by his professional moniker Paper Diamond. Under this name, he’s spent the past four years releasing multi-instrumental neoclassics via Pretty Lights Music and worming his way into the hearts of…
