New Times is seeking a freelance arts writer to contribute a weekly column about the arts scene in Broward County and to write for special issues like our annual Arts & Eats guide and Best Of Broward-Palm Beach edition. Ideally, applicants will be familiar with the county’s longtime arts institutions…
Maybe you’ve been going to the New Times’ Original Beerfest for the past 17 years and have a memory clouded by alcohol or maybe you’re a festival virgin and have no clue what’ll happen when your mega-brewski cherry pops this Saturday. Either way, you need to know what to expect…
West Palm Beach’s coolest ghouls will be crawling along Clematis Saturday night, drinks in hand and ready to party. It’s already time for MoonFest again, the city’s annual Halloween block party that results in a fair amount of hubbub, smooching, and booze-flinging while dancing. With 20 bands and DJs on…
5. Boynton Beach’s Anniversary Art Walk 6 p.m., Thursday, October 23, at Boynton Beach Live, 422 W. Industrial Ave., Boynton Beach. No cover. Visit Facebook. Boyton Beach Art District once again hosts its monthly art walk, but this weekend, there’s something a little different. Its the event’s fourth year anniversary…
A lot of rappers would have you believe they come from the streets and make music for hustlers, and a lot of rappers would embellish the story. A lot of rappers are quick to jump on songs with pop stars, looking for crossover success as a means to greater ends…
It just seems to creep up on you, doesn’t it? Suddenly one morning, you notice a few gray hairs have commandeered space on your scalp. This is precious real estate, considering how far that hairline has receded in the past year. Most of your old high school pals are popping…
There are only two Beatles left on this planet, and Tuesday night one of them was in Fort Lauderdale. If you’ve ever seen Paul McCartney live, you know what an unforgettable experience that is. Even at seventy-two years of age, Sir Paul still belts out three hour performances, playing all…
If you’d like a trip to the past, Friday night at Culture Room might be the right setting for you. There, Santa Cruz band the Devil Makes Three will take the audience down a musical wormhole to mountain honky-tonks and country juke joints of yesteryear. Like its name implies, the…
What do you say to a person who’s given us ten years of booming beats and hypnotic melodies? Beer-soaked, deliriously happy evenings? Who’s brought almost everyone you’d ever want to see live — Tim and Eric, Henry Rollins, GWAR, DMX — to Fort Lauderdale? You say thank you. That’s exactly…
When an artist is indelibly identified primarily with an incredibly successful rock band and well-known for writing and singing dozens of its signature songs, any attempt to launch a solo career is bound to be a challenge. And when the individual in question is Justin Hayward, one of the longtime…
According to a famous quip from John Lennon, when asked if Ringo was the best drummer in the world, he said Ringo wasn’t even the best drummer in the Beatles. But to be fair, that was some tough company to keep. One superlative the man born as Richard Starkey Jr…
Four years, three albums, and a good thousand shows later, Georgia’s most roarsome quintet, Manchester Orchestra, returns to our neck of the hoods after last playing Revolution Live in 2010. But whereas it once performed back-to-back opening slots at that venue, supporting the likes of Silversun Pickups, this time, the…
Picture it: Munich, 1810. OK, so you probably can’t without the help of a Google search. But that’s when Germany’s first Oktoberfest took place to honor the marriage of Prince Ludwig and Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen. Since then, the world has been celebrating that special day by boozing heavily while garbed…
On Saturday, October 18, the quirky Lake Worth masses converged upon downtown venue Propaganda to drink, be merry, and behold the release of Everymen’s latest effort, Generations. It was one heck of a party, complete with puppets, confetti, silly string, and pool toys. The evening began rather innocuously at 9…
As Halloween draws nearer, so does the annual, aptly titled Hulaween Festival at the Spirit of Suwannee Music Park. It’s four days of camping and jamming out to Medicine for the People, the String Cheese Incident, Thievery Corporation — the lineup goes for days. But there’s only one man with…
From Dada to Camelot to Kill Your Idol, Sub-Culture Restaurant Group’s got almost all the markets covered. The ever-expanding empire is launching its latest nightlife concept, Honey, set to open on Atlantic Avenue in Delray Beach later this month. According to Honey partner Scott Frielich, the new spot will add…
With its first album and single “Reverse” under the band’s belt, SomeKindaWonderful has just kicked off a pretty sizable 34-date tour. The song is a love story written backwards which definitely hit home with many romantic music lovers who drove it to extreme popularity. Alongside New Politics and Bad Suns,…
If you’re like the rest of the Western world, you’ve heard the song “Best Day of My Life.” American Authors have usurped these words in your mental vocabulary, and now when you say them, you sing them. The Brooklyn based foursome met in college in 2007 and has only one…
5. Rocky Horror Picture Show 10 p.m., Friday, October 17, at Respectable Street, 518 Clematis St., West Palm Beach. No cover. 21+. Visit Facebook. If you’ve never sang the words, “I’m just a sweet transvestite from Transsexual, Transylvania” amidst a crowd of Rocky Horror fanatics, here’s your big chance! Respectable…
Out of all the bands that performed at Radio-Active’s ode to the magnetic tape Cassette It Together a few weeks back, there was one that really piqued our interest. It was a child-aged group called Brenner Pass. Surprising? Not really. This brother and sister duo, singer Anastasia Brenner and her…
Believe it or not, there is a limit to how much a rapper can (or should) mention “flippin’ bricks,” “gettin’ it for the low,” or still “meeting papi at the dock.” But if they stop talking about this lifestyle, will fans get bored and move on? What are they to…
Last week when I interviewed Earth, Wind & Fire bassist extraordinaire Verdine White, I referred to the band’s amazing performance on PBS’ Soul! show in 1973 as “what it must’ve been like to see” them in a club. Verdine didn’t exactly deny that, so I looked for a modern-day funky…
