Yonder Mountain String Band at Revolution, February 4

​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…

Blueprint (Rhymesayers/Soul Postion) at Catalyst February 12

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…

Reminder: Cowboy Benefit Show is at Propaganda Tonight, Set Times

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…

Yann Tiersen’s Twisted Songcraft to Enrapture Fillmore Miami

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…

Your Umbrella Hits Respectable Street Patio

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…

Leif Inge Brings 24 Hours of Beethoven to 18 Rabbit Gallery

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…

Yonder Mountain String Band’s New Grass Coming to Revolution

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…

Vaski Headlines World Is Mine Dance Fest at Revolution

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,…

Paul Rudd and Jason Segel Crash Rush’s Time Machine Tour 2011

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…

Live: Surfer Blood, Carnivores at Propaganda, January 31

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…

Duran Duran, Underworld, Will.i.am Join Ultra Music Festival 2011

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…

Backstage: Richie Havens’ Chompers and Five More Folk Legends

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…

Stream: Bright Eyes’ The People’s Key

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…

Five Predictions for the Kiss St. Patrick’s Day Show at Hard Rock

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…

Live: NOFX at Revolution, January 28

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…

Nobodys Hero’s Perfected Aggression Opens for NOFX Tonight

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…

Lady Gaga Leaks “Born This Way” Lyrics on Twitter

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…