True hip-hop has long had an affair with classical music, though indirect. The best producers have long used booming strings and brass to add a sense of melodrama and impending doom to classic boom-bap beats. Broward-native duo Black Violin has gone a step further in circling that musical relationship back…
Winter Haven quintet Anberlin arose out of a particularly Central Floridian millennial scene in which various punk-derived strains of music commingled freely with Christian sensibilities. Early Anberlin material featured the kind of swoopy hair, soaring hooks, and inspirational lyrics popular with fans of its original majorish record label, Tooth and…
Gregg Allman is of course the only surviving eponymous brother in the Allman Brothers Band. But the group is one of the few of the late hippie generation enjoying renewed fan infusion over the years, thanks to popularity on the jam-band scene and the addition of younger players like Derek…
Add a new chapter to the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ nearly three-decade history of highs and lows: Anthony Kiedis has a bum foot, and the band’s U.S. tour has been postponed. Originally, the dates were set to begin in South Florida at BankAtlantic Center on January 20 — which is…
Holy Ship! With Fatboy Slim, Skrillex, Buraka Som Sistema, Diplo, A-Trak, Dillon Francis, Rusko, Brodinski, Egyptrixx, Dave Nada MSC PoesiaJanuary 6-9, 2012 Check out a slideshow from the cruise here.Better than: All my pre-Holy Ship! expectations — this was pretty special… Arriving at Port Everglades on Friday afternoon for embarkation…
Currently, there are still a bunch of people who think that other people shouldn’t be allowed to interact with a certain plant that grows on our planet. They don’t even think that sick people who could benefit from using the plant as medicine should be allowed to do so. This…
Sometimes we wonder how photographer Ian Witlen gets out of bed in the morning with the rough assignments we give him. This shot, and plenty of others from this past weekend’s Holy Ship! cruise seem to suggest that he’s constantly in the middle of a total bummer. I mean, the…
On Saturday, the Green Room in downtown Fort Lauderdale becomes a sonic-visual haven for area music fans as the inaugural County Grind Live Music series kicks off. This installment features music by Miami synth-pop proprietors Afrobeta, and six other local acts. Arielle Castillo recently caught up with Afrobeta regarding the…
Not surprisingly, the headliners for this year’s South Florida Fair are about as rich artistically as corn dogs and elephant ears are nutritionally. And about as diverse as a diet centered around those fried, sugared items. It is a mainstream country-driven affair, with a couple of tired rock acts thrown…
Jam Cruise Preparty With Umphrey’s McGee Sunday, January 8, 2012 Revolution, Fort Lauderdale After a highly energized but somewhat choppy performance on night one, Umphrey’s McGee was settled in and grooving deeply on the second night of Jam Cruise Prepartying at Revolution. Where on the previous night the band often…
The inaugural Holy Ship! cruise, which sailed this past weekend from Fort Lauderdale to the Bahamas with a huge cast of electronic music artists and fans in tow, hit a serious snag on Saturday morning. Like, the MSC Poesia literally snagged land, and things got shaky for a while for…
Jam Cruise PrepartyWith Umphrey’s McGee Saturday, January 7, 2012 Revolution, Fort Lauderdale Umphrey’s McGee has developed quite a bit since their last visit to South Florida, especially in their ability to groove and improvise as a group. That ability was on display for segments of Saturday night’s Jam Cruise Preparty…
Donna the Buffalo January 6, 2012 Revolution, Fort Lauderdale Revolution wasn’t packed for Friday’s Donna the Buffalo show, suggesting that Jam Cruisers are still filtering into South Florida. The extra space in the club made for a very relaxed and enjoyable scene as the band performed as well as they…
George Porter Jr. and Runnin’ Pardners Bamboo Room, Lake Worth January 6th, 2011 Better Than: Anything going on in New Orleans that did not have George Porter Jr. on bass. Lake Worth’s premiere music venue, The Bamboo Room, was invaded by South Florida’s pocket of funk enthusiasts last night. Coming to…
Besides being one of the best-selling artists of all time, Elton John also boasts the distinction of always being on the radio. Don’t believe us? Scan real quick through your FM dial; he’ll either be on Big 106 singing “Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting” or on the Coast doing “Can…
Van Halen’s reunion with David Lee Roth has officially kicked off. There’s a tour coming up, and there’s the first DLR/VH album in 28 years, A Different Kind of Truth, dropping February 7. It’ll be easy going for rock journalists to dig into their list idea spreadsheets today: Top Three…
Music deserves proper space for true appreciation, just like paintings and other forms of art do. And although it cannot be hung on walls, it can color what’s between them quite nicely. Fortunately, the folks at Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach know this and have been thinking…
Holy Ship! Preparty Featuring Major Lazer Revolution, Fort Lauderdale January 5, 2011 By all known counts, only one out of the three people who usually comprise Major Lazer was on stage last night — Diplo. Switch and hype man Skerrit Bwoy were nowhere to be seen. However, they didn’t seem…
People, we’re just over a week away from the very first County Grind Live Music event at Green Room featuring the infectious synth-pop mirth of Afrobeta. The Saturday, January 14, event also includes live music from some other fine locals: Sumsun, This Heart Electric, Dino Felipe, Boxwood, Möthersky, and Astrea…
The talented members of Toubab Krewe play not only traditional rock instruments but also traditional African ones. These include noisemakers you’ve probably never seen in your life: the soku, kamelengoni, and kora. The band is composed of white dudes who marry West African sounds with American jam-band music. Since 1997, Toubab Krewe…
Friday’s show at Revolution doesn’t officially have anything to do with the Jam Cruise, but it might as well. Boat or no boat, upstate New Yorkers Donna the Buffalo are cut from the same free-wheeling, improvisation-based musical cloth as many of their buddies who are sea-bound the following Monday. As…
Miami foursome Krisp is one of the few local acts to actually label itself “chillwave” on its various web pages rather than running quickly in the other direction from even the vaguest whiff of that derided term. More oddly, that pseudo-genre tag doesn’t even fit. Sure, Krisp plays gently retro…
