Friday, Boca Raton is going to get a little taste of the swamplands. Veteran blues crooner and musician Marcia Ball is bringing her rollicking, New Orleans-style piano jams to the Funky Biscuit, along with blues singer and guitarist Jimmy Thackery. Since her first solo LP, Circuit Queen, in 1978, Ball…
The Tortuga Music Festival this morning announced the partial lineup for April’s event: Kenny Chesney and Zac Brown will headline. The concert on the sands of Fort Lauderdale Beach is scheduled for April 11 and 12. Here are the acts that were announced today, from a news release:…
Jessica Kross I cleaned some sprouts off some red potatoes, and they sat in the sink, wet and glistening like pomegranate seeds. It was a fleeting thought, them looking that way. A thought I found amusing and privately poetic. I had recently heard that Jeff Tucci had passed. I didn’t…
Among the benefits of buying into the music biz is the opportunity to revisit classic moments in musical history that might have otherwise been lost forever. This year, there was no shortage of offerings released or published — books, DVDs, and straight-up music — that brought us back to crucial…
In Flagler Village, the last Saturday of the month usually means one thing: FAT Village art walk. And while many did turn out to sip complimentary wine while browsing local art, the energy of the night was most intense elsewhere. And it was .6 miles northeast, to be exact. It…
Thomas Warren, guitarist and lead singer of the Sweet Chariots, arguably South Florida’s best (and undoubtedly its hardest-working) rockabilly band, has passed away. Warren was on his way home from a gig when he was involved in a car accident, Friday, November 28, around 12:45 a.m. in Indian River County…
You likely know Billy Gardell as the Mike to Melissa McCarthy’s Molly on the aptly titled CBS sitcom Mike & Molly. The very successful show is returning for its fifth season on December 8. But before Gardell found fame on the small screen, he paid his dues traveling the country…
As we watch Ariana Grande — the miniature lady with the highest ponytail in pop since Madonna’s Blond Ambition tour — bellow into the mic on national television, like daily, we often wonder, “Did the bite-sized Boca babe actually swallow Mariah Carey?” It would explain why the American public is…
In 1996, Amit Duvdevani and Erez Eisen met in Haifa, Israel, where their mutual love for creating psychedelic trance music had them join forces to form Infected Mushroom. Nearly two decades and eight full length albums later — including those with the conversation starting titles Converting Vegetarians and Vicious Delicious…
The Filthy Casuals play an amalgam of styles rooted in rock and blues that display elements of funk, alternative, jazz, and grunge. This young outfit is a product of its building blocks and with many of the quintet’s members stinting in local hip-hop groups, there’s also an airy digital-ness to…
Every November for the last 14 years, Steve Sticht has gathered together a big sack of goodies that even Santa and his elves would envy. But these aren’t Christmas gifts, wrapped in pretty paper and placed neatly under the tree. To get ahold of these treasures, you have to find…
The Fort Lauderdale Riverwalk isn’t exactly known as a mecca for high art. “It just goes to this weird lowest common denominator,” says artist Robin Merrill. “Really beautiful, intrinsically valuable work has never had a great history on Las Olas.” But with the Upper Room Art Gallery & Mission Gifts…
There is a certain type of celebrity the world wants, yearns for, even. It’s the type of person who does everything wrong. This person starts fights with other celebrities, burns bridges, uses copious levels of narcotic drugs, possesses a laughable sort of vanity, and lives a public life filled with…
What do you get when you combine three chamacos from Monterrey with a love for EDM and their Mexican patria? DJ crew 3BallMTY. Pronounced Tribal Monterrey, Erick Rincon, Sergio Lavala (Sheeqo Beat), and Alberto Presenda (DJ Otto) have been breaking beats since 2009. And now, the “Latino electronica” trio is…
South Florida rapper, Apakalypse has been one of the busier gents of the local hip-hop scene. Just this fall season he’s released two full-length efforts, Future From the Past and Earth’s Special Forces. Either he’s been on an incredible creative kick or he simply has nothing better to do, but…
Last night, Vintage Tap on Atlantic Avenue in Delray Beach hosted its own microcosm of the alternative rock world hosted by local music rag PureHoney Magazine. Four bands, hailing from Oregon, California, New York, and Fort Lauderdale, took the stage to deliver their own brands of ’90s style at the…
I remember when my brother gave me a couple of Anberlin CDs years ago when I was in college — the Never Take Friendship Personal and Cities albums. I fell in love with the rocky ballads, graceful lyrics, and the voice of Stephen Christian, which always softly rose above the…
Art Basel hits our city each December like a ton of very stylish, possibly graffitied, definitely expensive bricks. People with cash flock here to snap up valuable artwork, culture nerds come for the quirky performances, and party animals get ratchet at each and every live music venue, because it’s still…
The best Thanksgiving memories are the ones in which you’re surrounded by family. But what’s glittering for your memory bank can be hell on your IRL stress levels. Way down the line, you can accentuate the positive, but at 6:52 p.m. Thursday, you’ll have to use all your will power…
The Masterminds Behind Fort Lauderdale’s Flagler Village from Voice Media Group and Mitchel Worley on Vimeo. Flip-flops aren’t dancing shoes. But on any given afternoon in Fort Lauderdale, you can find too-tan folks working off hangovers by chugging Coors Light, jamming out to covers of Lynyrd Skynyrd… in flip-flops. That’s…
It’s hard to turn a classic on its head, especially when you’re talking about one of the most performed and beloved musicals of all time. Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera has hooked children into theater and dazzled audiences young and old since its premiere in 1986, and yet,…
Many years ago, South Florida had herself some evenings of particular wanton excess that resulted in the Clap. A quad of musicians left to their own devices formed a separate VD-named entity while their bands, Radiobaghdad and the Holy Terrors, took some “much needed time off.” The Clap made a…
