Kool and the Gang didn’t only contribute to the soundtrack of Saturday Night Fever but also for that of our party lives. Few bands’ songs are so universally recognizable and still stay so freaking funky and cool from generation to generation. “Too Hot” shows you how you chill out a little…
Charles Bradley was just finishing with a series of other phone interviews before he got on the line with us. The Gainesville-born soul singer’s story of success is typical of no one else. A former James Brown impersonator going by the name of Black Velvet, his golden years are actually his…
Timothy NorrisCoachella is back, for two desert weekends this year, April 13 to 15 and April 20 to 22. Our massive team of writers and photographers will be covering everything from the performances to the fashion trends to the drug-induced tomfoolery. More than 140 artists are performing — we’ve got…
Raekownwith Freddie GibbsRevolution Live, Fort LauderdaleApril 6, 2012Better than: Growing up on the New York Times side.Stepping into Revolution Live around 9 p.m., you’d expect the venue emptier than a desert. But this show was for the grown folks, not for the baby-aged rap fans. We arrive early.Raekwon began with…
Andrew W.KMath the BandSuede Dudes Revolution LiveSaturday, April 7thClick here for the full slideshow. Better Than: Puking on a rug that really ties the room together while in the midst of partying.Do you get wet? Andrew W.K. has been soaking for the past decade. His current tour celebrates the 10th anniversary…
Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman offers his insights, opinions, and observations about the local scene. This week: the story behind DJ migrations. In the world of radio, anything can happen, even at a moment’s notice. The news that DJ Laz, a radio institution in South Florida for…
The term singer/songwriter typically conjures an image of a pensive soul, clad in bohemian garb, with an acoustic guitar slung over one shoulder. New-school singer/songwriters, though, like Coral Springs’ Mike Diaz, AKA Millionyoung, fit that description only partially. Diaz is of the pensive variety, and his fashion sensibility is of the…
Eddie Vedder has announced that he is unfortunately going to have to postpone upcoming solo tour due to injury. The Pearl Jam frontman has temporary nerve damage in his right arm resulting from a back injury that occurred earlier this year.The Broward Center shows were scheduled for May 13 and…
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The beginning of 2011 started off auspiciously for local electronic favorite Panic Bomber. He enjoyed increasing fans on the circuit for his performances that combined live instrumentation — brass, vocals, and more — with technology and ooh-aah stuff like light-up suits.He played Ultra Music Festival and other similar events around…
If you play or attend local music events, you have probably seen Tim Hicks on the dance floor. He moves like a jellyfish in the shifting and unpredictable currents, somewhere in between the dark depths and glimmering surface. He shows no preference as to what sort of music is being played…
Gainesville, Florida trio, J2K, has been steadily rising through the jamband scene’s ranks since its inception in August 2010. Although in the budding stages of its career, the exuberant, wisecracking three-piece has earned slots at respected, groove and patchouli-heavy festivals like Blackwater, Aura, Rootwire, and Big and Hearty. Consisting of guitarist…
After a few years of whining, makeup, and unfortunate haircuts, things seem to have come full circle in certain corners of the all-ages hardcore-ish scene. Actual hardcore is back in its full gym-shorts-wearing, windmilling glory — no overly complicated attempts at subgenres or sing-screaming needed. Luckily, too, there’s a new…
When Two-Door Cinema Club comes to town on June 5 to headline Revolution, their well-chosen supporting act is well worth a listen by fans of similarly punchy pop-rock. Cincinnati duo Bad Veins has popped in and out of mainstream consciousness, but certainly are radio-friendly enough to push past the verge…
As this popular internet meme so adeptly illustrates, there is a big difference between what a touring band actually does, and what society and the band members’ mothers and lovers think that they do. Some members of society may be even more prone to projecting fantasies onto a band named Yo…
Atlanta five-piece Stokeswood has dubbed its style “low-endie,” which a listen reveals to mean thus: indie rock bolstered by plenty of electronics and the occasional bass frequency. Think sweet, melodic vocals with tinkling beats and layers upon layers of reverb and effects, expertly capturing a sort of nostalgic indie-world Zeitgeist…
Sure, Tiësto and Swedish House Mafia party on private planes, flooding fuselages with champagne on their epic 36,000-mile-high ravers. And yeah, rappers like Lil Wayne and Rick Ross make it rain millions at King of Diamonds, unleashing cash-money thunderstorms on big-booty girls like Tip Drill and Skrawberry. But Andrew Fetterly…
With Torche’s latest album, Harmonicraft, the sort-of-local trio continues to move further and further away from the metalish sounds that defined its earliest material. If anything, Harmonicraft is as close to pure distorted guitar pop as the band has ever been, full of sing-along choruses and even — perhaps distressingly…
At just under 30 years old, Freddie Gibbs, who opens for Raekwon at Revolution this Friday, April 6, boasts more than a decade in the hip-hop game already. All right, in hip-hop, that’s actually several lifetimes, and that makes Gibbs pretty much a wise old battle veteran. Yet for many…
“I feel like our music offers an alternative to whatever’s current,” Say Anything’s Max Bemis says, comparing his band’s sound to mainstream and indie rock. He thinks it offers “more of a personal and visceral experience than a lot of the stuff coming out right now, but,” he notes, “still,…
Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman offers his insights, opinions, and observations about the local scene. This week: Four local theater pros weigh in on Glee, Smash, and the burgeoning popularity of theater.Anyone who’s been here for even a little while knows that there’s more to the South…
SONiA is a singer and songwriter who’s been in the business for more than 20 years, making music alone and with her group, Disappear Fear. She tours endlessly and writes music constantly, singing in Hebrew, Spanish, Arabic, and English. Her résumé and list of awards is extensive and includes 16 albums. SONiA…
