Comedian Dave Chappelle gave a bizarre performance last night during his appearance at Zo’s Summer Groove Comedy Show at Hard Rock Live in Hollywood, the yearly charity event put on by ex-Miami Heat center Alonzo Mourning (and that we regrettably had a ticket giveaway for). The former Chappelle Show star…
It may be hard to believe, but slow jam king Keith Sweat marks a half-century on earth today. And the man that launched a thousand late-night radio dedications has been helping boyfriends apologize and generally setting the mood for a good chunk of that time. Sweat got his start as…
“It’s been ten years since we played together,” Groovenics’ bassist Pete Carmichael says via telephone of the six-member Palm Beach nü-metal band that rocked, rapped, and shredded in South Florida venues from its inception in 1993 to its true demise in 2001, the same year the band trekked to Austin…
Equal parts foodie event, art show, and live concert: Wednesday’s Sliders and Spirits event at Poor House combined everything good about the local scene and showed a natural progression for a watering hole that’s undergone a huge face-lift over the past couple of years. Case in point, not one person…
Fans of ’90s alternative, rap-rock, hackey-sack bands, garage rock, smooth Latin rock, and classic rock, rejoice! The inaugural Orlando Calling festival is going down November 12 and 13 at the Citrus Bowl. If you’re wondering if you should save up some money, grab your friends and a cooler of snacks,…
Vein CranesWith Snakehole, the Band in Heaven, Dharma Days, and M-Tank The Snooze Theater, Lake ParkWednesday, July 21Better than: A parallel universe in which the Snooze Theater is actually a Snus depot. In the future, children will gather around a video of a campfire projected on the forehead of their cybernetic grandfather…
It’s the thick of summer, which means school is out and it’s time for epic, long package tours of rock bands under cutesy names. Voilà, the “Summer Partery” tour, which arrives at Rocketown this Monday at a start time, 5 p.m., that clearly excludes anyone old enough to keep regular…
In the large constellation of Bob Marley offspring, it can be hard to distinguish among the various musical sons, all of whom are sharply talented in their own right. So if Ziggy is the eldest and the most rootsy, Julian is the young genre-bender, and Damian and Ky-Mani are the…
There’s a lot of the Southern gothic found within Jane Jane Pollock, a coed foursome hailing from Tallahassee by way of Thomasville, Georgia. In its handful of released songs, there’s always a slightly forlorn echo and a definite pensive mood, with twin female vocals trilling in and out of each…
Emcee Jabrjaw (AKA Ryan Britt) and DJ Dee Dubbs’ (birth name: Dan Wilkes) debut full-length album Eastern Specifics poises the duo as South Florida’s very own Eric B and Rakim. Because they’ve worked together since 2006, it would seem like the wait for a final product from the Lake Worth…
Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman offers his insights, opinions, and observations about the local scene. This week: Talk twosome Jimmy Cefalo and Manny Munoz embrace the music… Face it — the world of talk radio isn’t exactly a hotbed of musical savvy. Maybe that’s why they call it…
Normal American Sex (Surfer Blood)With Band in Heaven and This Heart ElectricRespectable Street, West Palm BeachSaturday, July 16, 2011Better than: Your average cover band.With all four members of Surfer Blood onstage, Saturday’s performance at Respectable Street had the appearance of so many of the past for this local indie-rock success…
Wiz KhalifaWith Big Sean and Chevy WoodsSunset Cove Amphitheater, Boca RatonFriday, July 15, 2011Better than: Not wearing bug repellent.Here is a full 35-photo slide show from the Wiz Khalifa show.For the large crowd assembled at Sunset Cove, there would’ve been precious little better than Wiz Khalifa and Taylor Gang rolling…
Well, the giddy acoustic flourishes of Guster and Jack’s Mannequin’s slickly honed alt-rock are apparently not amphitheater-worthy in South Florida this time around.The two bands’ joint summer tour will not take place at the 3,000-capacity Pompano Beach Amphitheatre but will be moved indoors to Revolution, which holds about 1,000. Sluggish…
We’ve long believed that celebrities like to capitalize on their fame in every way possible. It’s the American dream.For some reason, singers think they can be actresses, actresses think they can sing, and they all think they’re capable of creating fragrances.Taylor Swift can now join those ranks of fragrance-extraordinaires. Yahoo!…
The king of lo-fi, the Godfather of Chimp Rock, the man who can’t even be bothered to spell the word e-f-f-o-r-t — Stephen Malkmus — has issued a call to arms. He’s about to officially release a new single off of his latest effort with the Jicks (and Beck!), Mirror…
Back in December, the excitement was ramping up for Poison frontman Bret Michaels’ Super Cruise. County Grind’s Travis Newbill even coined the phrase “Rock of Love… Boat” for the four-day party heading from Miami to Cozumel set for this November. However, further proof that every rose has its prickly thorn,…
J. Cole, Roc Nation’s first signee, is all raw potential at this stage. He has spoken to the streets via high-profile mixtapes that include his own beat production, and his clean-cut playboy rhymes, exhibited in “In the Morning” and “Work Out,” are ready for a pop audience. In anticipation of…
PlainsPlains (10K Islands) Although South Florida may have a lot of indie (as in independent) bands, until recently it’s been light on “indie rock” in its classicist form. We mean straightforward, meat-and-potatoes jangle rock with plenty of intellectual wit but not a lot of cross-genre trickery. That’s especially true in…
Last night, resident Flaunt DJs Sean Murphy, JJ Richters, and Oz del Castillo performed in drag at The Lounge, the 500 block of Clematis Street’s favorite gay bar in West Palm Beach. The events, reminiscent of a scene from To Wong Foo, were…colorful, to say the least. The entire scheme…
Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman offers his insights, opinions, and observations about the local scene. This week: The Chris Alvy Band covers the competition.It’s rare that a local band will extend a shoutout to other local bands… at least when it comes to covering their songs. Yet…
That’s right, the “Rock the Bells” 2011 tour will be making a stop at the Fillmore Theater in Miami on September 13. With confirmed headliners Ghostface, Raekwon, and the infamous Mobb Deep, it would be insane not to attend on principle alone. We like you, though, and so we’ll reinforce…
