Even without the Black Lips, the 2012 edition of the Bruise Cruise is already shaping up to be a boat loaded with wild abandon. We recently unveiled an initial lineup featuring cruise newcomers the Soft Pack, the Dirtbombs, and comic Neil Hamburger, along with vets Thee Oh Sees, Quintron &…
One of the driving forces behind Respectable Street’s Thursday-night indie mainstay, “Flaunt,” DJ J.J. Contramus, has branched out on his own with a new project titled Symbols. Chock-full of brooding synthesizers and distant, unintelligible lyrics, this is “witch-house” finally embedding itself in South Florida. In layman’s terms and (as the…
Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman shares stories of memorable rock ‘n’ roll encounters that took place in our local environs. This week, Lee’s most memorable shows ever… I’ve often alluded to my concert experiences in past columns, and indeed, I’ve seen so many shows throughout the years/decades that…
It was a pretty big deal the last time Lil Wayne brought his “I Am Still Music Tour” to South Florida. And it was on April 5. Today, Weezy added a second leg of North American dates, and local fans need only wait until August 2 to get their fix…
Regular local show attendees have undoubtedly seen Tim Hicks out in front of the stage with his idiosyncratic dance moves at some point or another. This 29-year-old Fort Lauderdale native and avid local music supporter has no shame in his game and cuts the rug with a spasmodic style all…
SW 3rd Ave Music FestivalNew Times StageThe Green Room, Fort LauderdaleMay 6, 2011Better than: Rebecca Black’s version of Friday.Click here to see a slideshow from the night.It’s disturbingly easy to put into words what the combined efforts of six local acts, a supportive venue, trusting fellow New Times staffers, and…
Aphrodite Tour 2011 Starring Kylie Minogue BankAtlantic Center, Sunrise Saturday, May 7, 2011 Better than: Watching Lady Gaga’s “Monster Ball” on TV If there’s a god, let’s hope he’s taking notes from Kylie Minogue. After her concert Saturday, I believe in her, and it’s about time the rest of America…
All of the bands who performed at Friday’s New Times Stage as part of the SW 3rd Ave Music Festival were on point — but only one can hold high the title of winning the evening’s text vote challenge, a “Battle of the Bands” of sorts.After a long night of…
One final reminder that tonight is the New Times-curated SW 3rd Ave Music Festival show at the Green Room in downtown Fort Lauderdale. With a packed lineup boasting John Ralston, the Dewars, Young Circles, Plains, the New, and Lavola — plus an afterparty with Radio-Active Records’ DJs — this should…
Would you like to become a movie star? The hoards of beautiful bodies littering South Florida are just teeming with excitement at the thought of rubbing shoulders with A-listers.If you’re one of those people now is your chance to see such stardom.Ellen Jacoby Casting International is having an open casting…
Previously:New Times Hosting SW 3rd Ave Music Festival Stage at Green Room May 6SW 3rd Ave Music Festival Full ScheduleThose of you who read this week’s print piece regarding John Ralston only scratched the surface of what’s going on with the Lake Worth master songwriter. In the raw, exclusive Q&A…
It’s Cinco de Mayo! We’re not going to try to dissuade you from drinking yourself cross-eyed tonight, embarrassing yourself and true Mexican culture by proxy. But in the interest of musical, global harmony, the least we can do today is introduce you to some amazing Mexican crossover (or semicrossover) acts…
Kylie Minogue, the Australian pop princess who burst onto the music scene in 1988 with “Locomotion,” is in the middle of a decadent 2011 North American tour dubbed “Les Follies.” According to the Guardian, attendees can expect a heart-shaped stage, several dancers, eight acrobats, and 30 water fountains. The 42-year-old…
Daughter of the late, great Texas blues master Johnny Copeland, Shemekia is a strong, convincing belter in the tradition of Koko Taylor and Etta James. Raised in Harlem, she got her start filling in for Johnny during his difficult later years and has won scads of blues-snob polls along the…
Fillmore Miami welcomes two artists who manage to be widely underappreciated, despite residing squarely in the pop spotlight. Bruno Mars, baby-faced doo-wop reinterpreter, gets the fangirls for his sugary ballad “Just the Way You Are,” but he goes largely unheralded for cowriting B.O.B.’s “Nothin’ on You” and Cee-Lo’s mammoth “Fuck…
The 1920s were a seminal time in American music, and not just because of the fruitful jazz scene (though the decade that delivers “Rhapsody in Blue” is still the one to beat). In the rural Piedmont region of North and South Carolina, African-American jug-and-string-band music formed a short-lived but still…
Original Creedence Clearwater Revival bassist Stu Cook and drummer Doug “Cosmo” Clifford have been the backbone of the Revisited lineup since its formation in 1995. Even without the group’s legendary voice, John Fogerty, the swampy rhythm and blues from the late ’60s and early ’70s lives on. Now it’s veteran…
Those paying close attention to the upcoming concert listings at Revolution, Fort Lauderdale’s sizable downtown rock venue, will certainly notice a sizable gap in programming for June. After May 28’s Face to Face show, nothing follows on the calendar until a Dirty South DJ gig on July 1. This is…
A few weeks back at Respectable Street’s Japan/Haiti benefit show, there was one band out of the dozen or so performers that really captured our attention, Fevers. Like the crackling whip of an expertly trained dominatrix, these Fort Lauderdale noise-pop purveyors shelled out a set that was as punishing as…
Downtown Fort Lauderdale will overflow with local music fans when the SW 3rd Ave Music Festival gets underway this Friday, May 6. As already mentioned, come early — the revelry begins at 5 p.m.Earlier this week, we unveiled the full lineup and set times for the free New Times/County Grind…
For the tenth straight year, a boatload of hippies will be getting high as balls on the high seas aboard Jam Cruise. That is, as long as the bully authorities don’t ambush the scene and gank their stashes like they did last year. This year’s lineup is looking pretty good,…
Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman shares stories of memorable rock ‘n’ roll encounters that took place in our local environs. This week: Lee literally goes off the wall. Autographs are strange commodities. In procuring someone’s signature, you feel like you’ve captured something so intimate and unique that it…
