For Mickey Hart, passion brings purpose. “I like it when there’s a lot of rhythms going on and a lot of mental and physical activity,” he insists. “Being able to follow the muse is a real privilege.” While he may have gained fame for his decades-long tenure as a drummer for…
Throw on some Beats Antique, close your eyes, and a crazy mystical sonic world awakens. Electro elements flirt with Middle Eastern strings, and the fusion of sounds is pure audio enlightenment. Surprisingly, David Santori, Sidecar Tommy, and Zoe Jakes were not a threesome born in a Bedouin tent. Instead, this Cali based…
In September, the UR1 festival — taking place during Art Basel Miami Beach — announced its headliner, Kanye West. About two weeks later, the Kardashian krew made it public that they were filming Kourtney and Kim Take Miami. Coincidence? Or takeover? See also – Kourtney and Kim Take Miami: Five…
Arising from the cracks of the New York City postpunk scene in the early 1980s, Swans’ music is a genre unto itself. An otherworldly sonic disturbance, their sound is aggression turned musical. Not obnoxious noise but fearsome magnificence.See also- Swans Michael Gira on the Seer: “Once It’s Done, It’s Just…
It’s October 8. You’re riddled with anxiety. All you can do is nail-bite and think: “What the fudge am I gonna be for Halloween?!” October is a month of many splendid fall things but also stresses. To alleviate some of this preholiday horror, we’ve put together a list of the…
Yo, we can’t hate on Lady Gaga for gaining a few pounds recently and looking normal. So how could we diss on her nipple slip yesterday while doing a titty shoot with Donatella Versace and Terry Richardson? We can’t! Girl, let it all hang out. See also- Lady Gaga Is Today’s…
If you were looking for some live, local music all up in your face and an instance of upright bass surfing in PBC this past Saturday night, Lake Worth’s Propaganda was your ultimate destination. With the recent change in management, Prop has been churning out great shows left and right,…
Better than: Claiming you were there when, clearly, you weren’t. “The gig’s going really well. I mean really well. The crowd is going wild — people are dancing, yelling, and applauding loudly after every song, and the house is packed. There’s someone who looks to be a talent agent in…
“Fucking made it possible for me to exist,” says DJ Fucked Up. “And everybody likes fucking.” DJ Fucked Up is not your normal selector. He’s a hip-hop alter ego of Motown session player turned free-jazz vagabond turned shitjazz noise pervert Kenny Millions. DJ Fucked Up is an intensification of the raunchiest moments…
Let’s say you put together a fantastic series where you bring super famous, talented directors and comedians to Fort Lauderdale. If you start at the top with John Waters, where do you go from there? Can you find someone equally as delightfully controversial and fantastically gifted? Well, yes, if you’re…
Kids across America will be swimming in Bantha poodoo come Saturday, as Lucasfilm launches their first wave of attacks against the evil empire that is illiteracy with Star Wars Reads. Maybe if little Anakin had been read to more when he was a kid, he wouldn’t have grown up into…
Since the early 1980s, Victor Wooten has been a sonic force, nurtured and tempered by his musical family — four older brothers and parents, all supportive and all innovative musicians themselves. Better known for the rhythm section he shares with his brother Roy “Future Man” Wooten in the long-running progressive jazz fusion…
Breakups aren’t easy — but sometimes they’re for the better. That seems especially true since the abrupt disbanding (and subsequent hiatus) of Hey Monday last year after West Palm-born-and-raised singer Cassadee Pope decided to pursue a solo career, leaving the band’s future uncertain. Former bandmates and brothers — guitarist Mike Gentile and bassist…
The Bawse is, we suppose, coming of age as a different kind of boss, the chosen kind. With the announcement of his new mixtape The Black Bar Mitzvah it’s like he’s the Sam “Ace” Rothstein of rap. The cover even has him pictured dressed like De Niro’s character in Casino suspended…
EOTORevolution LiveWednesday, Oct. 3, 2012Better than: Any humpday I can remember. It’s been a few years since the String Cheese Incident’s percussion duo Michael Travis and Jason Hann visited South Florida as the notorious EOTO. As I recall, they were last seen booming the flaps off a dinky rage tent…
Roofless Records Presents Jeff Zagers at Radio-Active Records on October 4
2 Live Crew at the Stage on October 7
Beats Antique at Culture Room on October 10
Tory Lanez’s stage name arose from two very different sources. Neither the first nor last has anything to do with his birth name, Daystar Peterson. A janitor in his community, he says, called him Lanez because he would weave in and out of traffic. And Tory? Well, that title was…
Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman offers his insights, opinions, and observations about the local scene. This week, the Funky White Boy returns. There are many problems with cover bands, but one of the biggest is that their dance anthem happens to be Wild Cherry’s “Play That Funky…
Forget the flu. This autumn, the germ du jour is Neil Young Fever. The highly esteemed classic-rock singer/songwriter is fucking everywhere. Festivals, New York Times, New York Times magazine, on NPR, and, believe it or not, in Delray Beach. OK, that last one isn’t entirely true. Young will not be appearing in…
Brad Paisley with Scotty McCreery and the Band PerryCruzan AmphitheatreSeptember 28On Saturday night, West Palm Beach’s Cruzan Amphitheatre was stormed by an army of country music fans. The parking lot was crowded with heavily modified pickup trucks, beer-pong tables, and legions of Brad Paisley’s devoted followers, all ready to get…
