Yonder Mountain String Band Revolution, Fort Lauderdale Friday, February 4, 2011 “[It’s been good] over the years to learn that there is a home for this band here,” said Ben Kaufmann, bassist for Yonder Mountain String Band. “I heard what kind of music comes out of South Florida… and it…
While most South Florida hip-hop fans might have some legitimate gripes concerning the amount of touring artists that bypass our isolated peninsula, fans of the Rhymesayers label have nothing to complain about. In less than a year, the area has hosted shows from Toki Wright, Grieves & Budos, Musab, and…
No-brainer, folks. Get thee out to Propaganda tonight to support Everymen’s hospitalized washboard player Cowboy. Yesterday, we spoke to Everymen frontman Sergio Witis about how the band’s holding up, and he gave some inspiring words about the love felt within the music community since Cowboy’s accident.Please attend, and give generously…
We were very happy to hear that Robert Plant is coming to town with the Band of Joy, his new project, which works gospel and country material as well as Led Zeppelin classics. And we are very happy for Robert Plant for, well, seeming so happy. One peek at his…
Most of your American friends don’t know composer Yann Tiersen by name. But play a couple of ten-second clips from songs like the melancholy accordion-and-piano piece “La Dispute” or the waltzy whirlwind lament “J’y Suis Jamais Allé” and your test subject will almost immediately identify him as “that guy who…
Last September, Boynton Beach indie band Your Umbrella performed at Propaganda, the group’s first show at a serious local venue. Frontman/songwriter 22-year-old Daniel Demosthenes, backed by 17-year-old drummer Mike Taylor and 22-year-old bassist Douglas Anderson, presented 11 of the songs that he’s been writing and developing since 2006. A handful…
Norwegian composer Leif Inge has taken a recording of Beethoven’s “Ninth Symphony” and stretched it out to 24 hours — about 24 times its normal length — and without changing the pitch. The daylong result came out on two DVDs last year from the Table of the Elements label, that…
It’s not surprising that the majority of offerings in Yonder Mountain String Band’s recorded catalog are culled from live performances. A foremost proponent of the so-called “new grass” phenomenon (think the Dead or Phish), the band couples guitars with banjos, bouzouki, and mandolins to spur the communal enthusiasm. Investigate YMSB’s…
For a practitioner of a style as young, relevant, and underground as dubstep, Vaski (AKA Alex Brouwer) was introduced to electronic music via an unusual everyday source. Brouwer’s father — a house and trance enthusiast — both turned him on to synthesized music and bought him Sony Acid Pro 2.0,…
Deftones fans in South Florida get an unusual treat this spring: the second visit by the band to the tricounty area in less than six months, after a previous multiple-year absence. (Before last August’s show at the Fillmore Miami Beach, the band had last visited the area during the 2006…
Does anyone love Rush more than the bromantic comedy I Love You, Man’s main characters Peter Klaven (Paul Rudd) and Sydney Fife (Jason Segel)? In a new Funny or Die sketch, the pair reprise their roles and dare to bite into Neil Peart’s hallowed sandwich in the band’s green room…
Surfer BloodWith Carnivores, Young Circles, Guy Harvey, Band in Heaven, and the DewarsPropaganda, Lake WorthMonday, January 31, 2011View a slideshow from the concert here.Better than: Finding a really smelly $20 bill.Even if some of the night’s performers were more awake than others, Propaganda’s jam-packed Monday lineup proved to be a…
Now that Ultra Music Festival has announced phase two of its 2011 lineup, maybe a few more of the yearly revelers’ parents will get into the action. New-wave pinnacle act Duran Duran, which will celebrate the 30th anniversary of its self-titled debut later this year, has been added to 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, a look back at some timeless troubadours. Last week marked Richie Havens’ 70th birthday. So what, you say? The significance lies in the fact that folk…
Nearly impossible to forget about genre-splitting voice of Conor Oberst, but it’s been a while since Bright Eyes was the project mentioned along with him. Last year, an initial track from new album The People’s Key called “Shell Games” started making the rounds, and today the rest of the album…
Kiss us, we’re Irish. St. Patrick’s Day’s creepy little green guy will be overshadowed by larger, possibly more satanic, man-monsters this year when Kiss brings its “Hottest Show on Earth Tour” to the Seminole Hard Rock on March 17 — one of only two scheduled North American appearances for 2011…
NOFXWith Bouncing Souls, Cobra Skulls, Old Man Markley, and Nobodys Hero Revolution, Fort Lauderdale Friday, January 28, 2011″It was 15 years ago, right here that we first met NOFX,” said Bouncing Souls bassist Bryan Kienlen to an overcapacity crowd at Revolution on Friday. For many of the crowd members, it’s…
Ahhh, the Take Away Show. What is it, really? Well, if semilocal outfit Iron & Wine has got anything to say about it, it’s an adventure in puns and true wit! The American folkster has just released a video documenting its latest take-away show. Frontman Sam Beam samples wines from…
Though Sab the Artist played an integral part in the development of the Twin Cities’ hip-hop scene, he chose to defect from Minneapolis to Sin City, where he has reportedly been getting his legal pimp game on for the past half decade. Pimp or not, Sab was in full-time rapper…
Nobodys Hero frontman and Against All Authority founding member, Joe Koontz is punk rock. If you spend any time driving between Coral Way and South Miami you’ll see Koontz on his skateboard, wearing a sleeveless T-shirt and headphones affixed deeply into his ears. Whether he’s tearing up Sub-Humans, Judge or…
There are three things that Lady Gaga loves — wearing crazy (and sometimes edible) clothes, her “monsters” and Tweeting. So it should be no surprise that Lady Gaga just Tweeted the full lyrics to “Born This Way,” the title song from Gaga’s much anticipated third album, set to be released…
Need a kick in the pants to get out and be with some people? Spend some time with a gent County Grind holds in high regard: Lex One, an integral part of the South Florida/London hip-hop collective Wizard Sleeve. It’s his birthday tonight, and a party with a purpose is…
