About two years ago, singer/songwriter Melissa Sandoval was on the brink of a record deal in New Jersey when the offer went sour due to circumstances out of her control. But what seemed like a big disappointment at the time actually became the spark she needed to produce her own…
For the past few years, off and on, a group of DJs has taken over the Mai-Kai bar to spin the most danceable songs off their favorite records. The last one in August was a real doozy that packed the house. This past Saturday night, they delivered again with a…
Lettuce’s show last night at Revolution Live was a tour de force or, more accurately, a tour de funk. Band members are masters of their craft, presenting a sonic tightness and denseness that reached near magical levels. Lettuce kept the crowd rapt on a long, funky ride the entire night…
Rosston Meyer is an artist of a high order; a craftsman, a warrior in the age of digital incursions. And anything related with true craftsmanship is hard to come by in this day and age. He is one, if not the only artist, making a real stab in a oft-ignored…
Though its sounds harken to the folk music of Ireland or the bluegrass of the Appalachian Mountains, you’ve probably never heard anything just like Nashville five-piece Humming House. Crafting music with the mandolin, fiddle, and upright bass, singer Justin Tam can see how Humming House might be typecast as bluegrass…
The Seminole Tribe of Florida is celebrating the 119th anniversary of its Big Cypress Seminole Reservation this weekend. The party will be wild with the expected alligator wrestling but also with a proper country-music hoedown. The Seminoles tapped country music stars Gary Allan and Montgomery Gentry to close out the…
5. Ladies’ Night at Pawn Shop 9 p.m., Friday, January 9, at Pawn Shop. 219 Clematis St., West Palm Beach. Visit Facebook. Ladies, enjoy the benefits of having two X chromosomes tonight on Clematis with its ladies’ night. And, since Pawn Shop doesn’t play, it’s actually providing complimentary bevs for…
Lovers of indie and world cinema take note, the Donald M. Ephraim Palm Beach Jewish Film Festival returns this month screening 31 film premieres — from shorts to features to documentaries. The fest is showing at five different venues countywide, with 71 screenings scheduled in total, it’s trying to maximize…
Like anybody else who lives in the Northeast, the members of the Sharp Lads are glad to be escaping the impending polar vortex for comparatively warmer weather. The hard-charging punk-rock four-piece is four days into a two-week tour and will make its Fort Lauderdale debut tonight at the Poorhouse, with…
Last summer, one of the most risqué fashionistas in pop music, Elton John, told Sky News that if Jesus Christ were around today, he’d be down with gay marriage. “He was all about love and compassion… and that’s what the church should be about,” John reflected on J.C. And all…
Fort Lauderdale’s oldest, still-standing structure, Stranahan House, will host its first event of the year today from 6 to 9 p.m., appropriately titled “Holiday Hangover.” It’s clearly geared at all those still recovering from seasonal festivities; there will be an open bar, music, a beer garden sponsored by Moore Stephens…
Rolling Stone’s Erik Hedegaard’s recent article on Brian Warner, AKA Marilyn Manson, poses the following nugget of geographical ignorance: “Among other feats, his new album The Pale Emperor, is almost an equal to Antichrist Superstar, the 1996 record that lifted him out of the Fort Lauderdale post-grunge wasteland and shock-rocked…
Game of Thrones is a huge, huge deal. You know that, though. The fantasy drama is HBO’s most popular series ever, and reached the event horizon where novelty craft beers are now brewed in its honor, and T-shirts emblazoned with slogans and images that only viewers understand abound. And let’s…
Bono’s been on my shit list for a while. Sure, “I Will Follow” is impossible not to bob your head to, and I have found myself humming along to “The Sweetest Thing,” but the lead singer of U2 has always annoyed me with his self-importance. Presenting himself as a patron…
A muscular man is wearing a gray corset-like dress with yellow stripes. Adorning his arms are yellow feathers. He gives the appearance of a bird in flight as he moves gracefully. On this dancer’s head are three bird puppets, held up by a metal pole. Gliding across the stage, this…
Florida is big and populous, and it’s becoming one of the nation’s most popular places for musical gatherings of all sizes and descriptions. One reason we have easy access to huge concerts year-round is the warm weather. We don’t have to wait for the summer months to enjoy live tunes…
As the ancient proverb goes, blood is thicker than water. West Palm Beach-based playwright Todd Caster flips that notion on its head in his latest work, Little Piggies — a satirical black comedy in which greed, not blood, trumps all else. Staged by local theater company the Playgroup LLC at…
John McHale is quite possibly the busiest independent promoter in South Florida. For about 11 years, McHale has tirelessly booked the best in national and local hardcore, punk, metal, and indie acts under the moniker Breakeven Booking. He also fronts the bands Guilty Conscience and Street Judge and is considered…
When you go to a museum, nobody really talks about who the curator is. When you pick up a book to read, it’s not because you’re thinking about who edited it. But when you go out dancing, the first question anyone asks is: Who’s the DJ? The disc jockey selects…
Inside Stache, the sign-less speakeasy in downtown Fort Lauderdale, it’s dimly lit and ornately decorated with parlor-style seating. In the main room, a wall is handily stacked to the ceiling with libations. The classy venue hosted a special fundraising event for a homeless advocacy nonprofit that’s been in the news…
There are two distinct types of heavy-metal fans that have developed over the past decade. There are those who continue to ask, “What’s next?” And then there are those who live in a leather-clad past with a vehement disdain for all that threatens to sully the genre by straying too…
Last week, when I wrote about the upcoming Gregg Allman concert, I caught hell from his fans for stating that some have laid claim that Allman coined the term “Southern rock.” Commenters said to do some research. After all, everyone knew Gregg Allman hated that term being thrown around to…
