The annual Jazz in the Gardens festival returns to Sun Life Stadium this weekend, on Saturday and Sunday. As in the recent past, the lineup promises yes, jazz, of course — but also some of the leading artists in R&B, soul, and other assorted grown-and-sexy urban music. The big name this…
File this under: Things Everyone Including Us Should Have Known About Earlier But Didn’t, For Whatever Reason. Tonight, Miami rockers Jacobs Ladder open for Anthony Green at Culture Room. Yes, that’s the Anthony Green from Saosin a million scene years ago, and most recently from Circa Survive. You’ll know him and…
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: Significant others embrace the rock rock regimen.I’m not the first to say that rock and roll and domesticity often don’t make good bed fellows, either…
Kiss Hard Rock Live, Hollywood March 17, 2011Last night, most people were donning their greenest green garb and getting sloshed on Guinness while jigging it up at their favorite local pub. But in South Florida, a few thousand epic nerds were instead at the Hard Rock Live, decked out in black and…
Rebelution Revolution, Fort Lauderdale March 16, 2011 Surf scene reggae bands always do well in South Florida, and that statement is especially true for the month of March, aka “Spring Break!”. For the sold-out show, a line wrapped around the building for will call tickets. Rebelution, the headliner of the…
Though Murs got his start in L.A. in the early ’90s, his message has always been anti-gangster, thumbing his nose at the violent outlook of gangsta rap over beats that are just as infectious. His delivery is strong, clear, and honest — whether he’s making social commentary about race and…
Philip Glass is a heavyweight of contemporary minimalism. Alongside auteurs such as Steve Reich and John Cage, Glass is, simply put, one of the biggest, boldest names in 20th-century music. And much like those peers in experimentation, his oeuvre delicately and delightfully blurs the line between the colloquially dubbed classical…
Right now, if we were to play a game of pop-culture free association beginning with the ever-infamous name Bobby Brown, our minds would probably wander off in the following direction: Whitney Houston, cocaine, reality TV. But there was a time, circa 1989 (an era of Brown’s life also known as…
It’s an amusing bit of irony, really, that Freezepop’s most popular songs are “Less Talk More Rokk” and “Get Ready 2 Rokk,” as the quirky synth-pop act formed in 1999 to purposely provide an electronic antithesis to all of the rock played in Boston. Since then, the act’s gained prominence…
After a three-year recording hiatus, Lake Worth emotive singer John Ralston is issuing forth a flurry of activity. This past Christmas saw the release of seven-inch single “Jesus Christ,” a bit of Americana for the holidays, on mom-and-pop Tampa-based label 24 Hour Service Station. Last year, he also contributed to…
Although it may initially seem strange, a double bill combining raspy-voiced, spiky-haired dandy Rod Stewart and self-styled earth mother Stevie Nicks actually makes sense. It could serve a purpose, mainly to ease Nicks out of temporary retirement and to bring Roddy back to rock after years of crooning. Indeed, both…
The Battle of the Bands is a throwback to the days before file-sharing. But the concept — bands offered in both a showcase and a competition setting — is still one of the best ways to hear (and then judge) an act. You get a live show and the ability…
Although glockenspiel and ukelele queen Rachel Goodrich is no longer local — she recently relocated to Los Angeles — she’s still a hometown hero. On the heels of the February release of her self-titled album, Goodrich is coming back for a few concerts in the area, including one at Propaganda…
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: A sullen Sammy and a beaming Bennett.While most people tend to associate rock ‘n’ rollers with wackiness and eccentricity, I’ve found in my experiences that…
Our sister paper’s account of the drama that unfolded with the Winter Music Conference and Ultra Music Festival divorce this year and all finger-pointing that ensued left us curious regarding how everything would actually unfold for the weeklong dance music festival. Noticeably lacking in 2011’s WMC list were the agency…
G. Love & Special Sauce Culture Room, Fort Lauderdale March 13, 2011 The party spirit was thick in the air Sunday night, as it always is when G. Love comes to town. His timing this year was especially fortunate, though. Spring break 2011 is in full swing down here, and…
Local rock powerhouse of sorts, Nonpoint is the first act confirmed for the forthcoming Revolution & Poorhouse Music Festival, SunSentinel.com reports. Neither of the participating downtown Fort Lauderdale venues has confirmed much in terms of the scope of the festival, but it is expected to include 20 bands on five…
Dr. Dog, the Philadelphia quintet with a Ph.D. in psychedelic rock just jammy enough for the Relix crowd and structured enough for the rest of us, makes its return to South Florida in April. Expect a night of bellow-alongs in step with the best of George Harrison’s riffs from the…
The newly resurrected Bamboo Room is throwing open its doors to the masses tonight, suspending its cover charge so everyone can see how the downtown Lake Worth blues venue has grown.Local bands Memphis Soul Revue, Matt Farr, and DWHAS will take the stage in the spacious, airy bar, where the…
Experimental hip-hop artist Astronautalis finally has a band, but it will sound nothing like the Roots. After seven years of relentless touring in the U.S. and abroad, armed only with a mic and a laptop, the man known to his mother as Andrew Charles Bothwell has upgraded to full-fledged live…
Fans of Dave Matthews know Tim Reynolds as the quiet guy who has occasionally flanked Dave over the years and blows minds each time with his masterful guitar work. Reynolds used to perform a lot at a Virginia bar where Matthews worked, and he encouraged the young man to start…
At its core, Cradle of Filth is a hard-rock band. With punishing beats and heavy keyboard and guitar riffery buttressed by flurries of dour orchestral phrasing, the band’s music plays like a soundtrack to a Tim Burton heavy-metal opera. The band’s latest effort, 2010’s Darkly, Darkly, Venus Aversa, is a…
