As Stonefox, and then Blond Fuzz, Boca-based Young Circles were probably the tricounty area’s finest purveyors of no-nonsense, hard-charging garage rock. Eventually, though, the bandmates found they had painted themselves into a musical corner. The same guitar riffs got to feeling stale, so the guys looked back to their earlier,…
If Kid Cudi were the first lonely stoner to get major radio airplay, Wiz Khalifa is the next rising star of the kush-loving class of new pop-leaning rappers. His major-label debut — though his third album proper — is called, uh, Rolling Papers, and giddily celebrates blunted half-recollections of the…
Statuesque, blond Natasha Bedingfield got an early start on her career in her native England as a teenager, when she was a member of a Christian dance group with brother Daniel. While he went on to further mine the dance/pop vein and achieve massive chart success, Natasha went for a…
Look, people. The burden of creativity has to be occasionally usurped by the sheer joy of reporting something truly breathtaking and wonderful. Elvis (the living one) is coming to South Florida in our lifetime. So take your vitamins and observe that Declan Patrick MacManus will be in the local area…
Chuck Taylors have been the unofficial-official shoes of punk rock and indie rock ever since the Ramones grew out of their Keds. It is an indisputable fact that no matter what you’re doing, what you’re wearing, or who you are, a pair of (Nike-owned) Converse All Stars always looks good…
The Glitch MobWith Com Truise and PhantogramRevolution, Fort LauderdaleTuesday, July 12, 2011Better Than: Waiting until Langerado to see the headlinersIf you could bottle up and sell a drug-free psychedelic experience, a Glitch Mob show dose would be pricey and worth every penny. The electronic act’s headlining show at Revolution last…
Joan Jett & the BlackheartsHard Rock Live, HollywoodTuesday, July 12, 2011Better than: Watching The Runaways movie. No frills was the name of the game at last night’s Joan Jett & the Blackhearts concert. Slithering onto the stage in a pair of sparkly leggings, the punk-rock goddess looked out into the…
If there was any hesitation about attending the Identity Festival at Miami’s Bayfront Park in August, it had better not be about the ticket price. The traveling electronic music fest has just launched a 20-hour fire sale on admission lasting until 5 a.m. Thursday that slashes it down to just…
In a post-Bruise Cruise world, virtually no musician is above hitting the high seas for an indie-rock adventure. Look no further than the Weezer Cruise, which sets sail January 19-23, 2012, from Miami to Cozumel, Mexico. “Island in the Sun” is so on repeat!Although County Grind has expressed some concerns…
Last month, we reported the initial release of Psychopathic Records’ Gathering of the Juggalos 2011 infomercial. It was a long, wonderful success filled with space-aged characters and Vanilla Ice.It is with a great deal of enthusiasm to announce that a second infomercial had been posted! While prosaic in its delivery,…
Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman offers his insights, opinions, and observations about the local scene. This week: PR pro Woody Graber reveals the music that gets him in his groove. In naming him Miami’s Best Flack, Miami New Times described Woody Graber thusly: “A cantankerous old-school publicist who…
Next… damn, what comes after a week from now? Christmas? Wait, wait… we got it: another Monday! Next Monday we are going to hear her new single. The song is written by Brandon “Blue” Hamilton. Blue produced Justin Bieber’s “Born to Be Somebody.” We don’t know what the term “producer”…
Children of BodomWith Septic Flesh, Obscura, and Devin Townsend ProjectRevolution Live, Fort LauderdaleSunday, July 10, 2011Better than: Listening to it on an ipod… kinda. Finnish melodic death-metal band Children of Bodom made its first South Florida appearance Sunday headlining the “Ugly World Tour.” Virtuosic guitarist and singer Alexi Laiho and his horde…
All Hell Breaks LooseWith Homestretch, Harbinger, Deathbed, Eucharist, and AxisThe Talent Farm, Pembroke PinesSaturday, July 9, 2011South Florida has always had a strong hardcore punk scene responsible for putting out some world-class bands in the past. However, recent years have found a lack of inspired bands and, more important, have…
Talking about being at the right place at the right time: If you’re at Green Room Saturday at 9 p.m. — right up until 11 p.m. — you will be drinking a sizzling elixir — champagne — right next to a giant, metal vagina. That’s for free. You must only…
For those unfamiliar with New York duo Camp Lo, they swept the mid-’90s hip-hop scene up in nostalgic hype with a sound that utilized funky soundtrack samples and a unique brand of indecipherable jive talk, self-described as “black Dadaist slang.” Encompassing all that was cool, black and ’70s, Camp Lo…
It’s been slightly less than a year since four-piece indie rock band Goolsby played its final South Florida show at Propaganda in Lake Worth. After that musical farewell, 23-year-old frontman Paul Simundich packed up and headed to the Northeast, where he spent some time in Rhode Island working around the…
David Allan Coe is, simply put, a wonderful white-trash poet. (Note, by the way, that his middle name is “Allan” and not “Allen.”) For five decades, his songs have delighted and disgusted fans of country music, hard rock, Americana, and everything in between. At 71, he still tours relentlessly, through…
New Times is thrilled to hear that Miami musician Ricardo Guerrero is making the schlep up to our parts to perform in this week’s installment of Digital Love at the Green Room. Back on May 27, during the last relevant show staged at Lake Worth’s Little Munich, Guerrero’s two-piece, This…
Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman offers his insights, opinions and observations about the local scene. This week: Walter Salas-Humara of the Silos discusses his new album, his connection to South Florida, and his love affair with Arizona. Although Walter Salas-Humara left our local environs early in his career,…
Foursome the Rx Bandits first appeared on the national scene in the mid- to late ’90s as part of a particularly promising class of Southern California ska revivalists — literally. Band founder Matt Embree went to the same Orange County high school as members of at least two other bands…
This show celebrates the birthday of John Wylie, owner of Aces High Tattoo Shop in West Palm Beach, but really a South Florida and hardcore scene legend beyond that. Wylie’s tough-guy roots run deep — he played in approximately a million bands, most notably Morning Again and Where Fear and…
