The art of creating a fine cover song is highly underrated. Though playing someone else’s song might seem simple, making it your own is a challenge. Fort Lauderdale boy Protoman bravely took on the beats of a ’90s original, Company Flow, and made a song that’s 15 years old fresh…
PureHoney Sixth-Issue Anniversary PropagandaSaturday, February 24, 2012with John Ralston, the Passenger, the Dewars, and North Atlantic Space Company and the “Little Pieces of Hope Art Show”Venturing to Propaganda on Saturday night for the PureHoney Sixth-Issue Anniversary party was something strep throat and exhaustion couldn’t hinder. Plenty of others came out to catch some of…
Like his father, Woody, before him, Arlo Guthrie has never been about the range or perfection of his singing voice or technical ability as a guitar player. Heck, it really isn’t even about his songwriting, though he writes good ones. Arlo’s primary offering is his ability to entertain while making…
While the 2012 SunFest lineup remains a mystery, the aptly named All-American Rejects have announced a tour stop at the West Palm Beach festival. They’ll be performing this spring in front of more than 200,000 drunk people and the ocean. They’re kicking off their six-week North American tour at the…
When you get the opportunity to ask a member of the Doobie Brothers where they came up with the name — one of the best in the history of band names — you take it. Guitarist and vocalist Tom Johnston gave us the scoop. Johnston admits that the primary inspiration for…
You’ve probably never seen North Atlantic Space Company live, considering they’ve only performed one and a half shows thus far. That small number totally doesn’t mean that there aren’t many more to come. When their group Sweet Bronco disbanded, guitarist Chris Horgan and drummer Steven Copeletti decided to take their love…
The Saw Doctors Revolution Thursday, February 23, 2012 Better than: Dare we say that better-known band from Ireland, the one whose name starts with a U… “Brilliant. Awesome. Life-changing,” we can’t take credit for those particular adjectives. In fact, those are just some of the random comments that came from various individuals who packed…
As random and kind of funny as it is to think of, the entire world of heavy metal would be very different if it weren’t for Tampa. For whatever reason — a confluence of bored, like-minded skater-dude musicians, sun-fried brains, something in the water — the Sunshine State city churned…
Next Thursday, March 1, Revolution presents a night of (mostly) acoustic rock — and a couple of success stories that are completely of the internet age. Headliner Secondhand Serenade is really the project of songwriter and frontman John Vesely, who recorded his earliest material on a multitrack recorder fro his…
George Winston recently released a solo piano album, Love Will Come Vol. 2, on which he interprets the music of Vince Guaraldi. You might know Guaraldi’s genius from the Peanuts Charlie Brown Christmas album that remains the most delightful, least offensive holiday album of all time. Winston’s a big fan…
Arlo Guthrie’s current tour marks the 45th anniversary of “Alice’s Restaurant,” but don’t expect the melodic bard to settle into a rendition of the epic hippie tale when he comes to Parker Playhouse on Friday. He only plays “Alice’s” on tenth anniversaries. “It’ll be on the set list in a few…
Mardi Gras may have just passed, but our love for Louisiana hasn’t faded. Terrance Simien and the Zydeco Experience are bringing their roots, funk, and reggae flavored version of this classic Louisiana music to Bamboo Room this weekend. “Zydeco music is the music of the creole people,” he says, “The creole people…
Someone once said while watching all-female trio Luma Junger perform, comparing them to another, more pop-sounding group, “The other band makes music ’cause they want to; they make music because they have to.” They are a band that doesn’t beg to be accessible to the masses but rather is an…
TygaRevolution Live, Fort LauderdaleWednesday, February 22, 2012Better than: Watching a below-average “swag” rapper.After a few high-energy openers, the crowd’s anticipation heightened after every song the DJ played before Tyga hit the stage. Cheers filled the room once the stage crew uncovered giant letters that lit up and spelled out his…
Adele’s recent Grammy sweep may signal a return to the idea of the mainstream successful soul songstress, but that archetype probably wouldn’t exist were it not for the great Diana Ross. Her voice helped define soul just as her reported offstage behavior helped define diva. But all of it put…
It’s funny to think an act originally from California could sound so swampy and Southern by today’s standards, but the Doobie Brothers were very much of their time. It was the early ’70s, and these happily hairy guys seemed to embody everything about a sort of just-posthippie, freewheeling, motorcycle-on-a-long-road sort…
In the current media and musical climate, it takes guts — or another, more rude-to-reference body part — to launch a straight-up print magazine focused on the local scene. Yet if anyone’s equipped to make it successful, it’s Steve Rullman, the man behind the Honeycomb, one of the area’s best…
Late last week, we posted about the inaugural Fort Lauderdale Beach music festival, which takes place this Saturday at Da Big Kahuna. The intense lineup — some three stages of music all night — and the superwide mix of genres represented therein was a head-scratcher for some. But this is…
If you’re anything like us, chances are you’ve got a garage, house, or closet filled with knickknacks and trinkets from yesteryear that just aren’t getting any love. And for whatever reason — perhaps sentimental or even hoarding tendencies — you just can’t seem to let go. But, c’mon do you…
Barry GibbHard Rock Live, Hollywood Tuesday, February 21, 2012 Better than: Anyone might have possibly expected.Can one Bee Gee make up for the lack of three? After Maurice Gibb’s passing and Robin Gibb’s recent health scare, it was left to brother Barry to carry on the band’s legacy and prove that he can…
It’s been almost four years since Tyga’s told us to “put the lime in the coconut and twist it all up” with his cousin, Gym Class Heroes’ frontman Travie McCoy, on his debut album, No Introduction.Don’t worry if the album doesn’t ring a bell. It was overshadowed by his boss’…
Self and Other is a project born from geography and distance but rooted in an ethical ideology. Rob Goyanes, bassist for metal outfit Slashpine and occasional Miami New Times writer, was living in Miami while Gabe Miller was based out of Providence when they began the project. A 2009 road trip…
