San Diego fuzz freaks Crocodiles don’t make Arizona immigration zealot Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s playlist. He hates them. Ever since the duo released a feel-good, anti-SB 1070 single titled “Kill Joe Arpaio” last month, the Maricopa County law enforcer has been bashing the band via Twitter, television, and any other mediated…
Tornado Rider is deeply committed to its wackiness. The Oakland trio’s MySpace bio hails them as “a powerful bird band of swirling goat god victory” before it completely devolves into some nonsense about “Norwegian butt-death” and “Nubian fire heaven.” The group plays “Sneth rock,” which stems from Snee, a land…
Tonight’s Phoenix show at Fillmore Miami might not have the same OMG/WTF/LOL quotient of the recent Madison Square Garden extravaganza. But it still might. In any case, we know that Wavves will open for the French rockers, and that has a level of intrigue worth showing up early for.Most important,…
Hey, geniuses. This is perhaps your final reminder. Although it’s going to be a very busy weekend of finding the right Nicki Minaj wig or sculpting the best papier-mâché spike to drive through your stomach, take a few minutes to grab a wad of cash. We’ve mentioned the MasterMind Awards…
Looking for the 2011 lineup? Click here.Although the Y100 Jingle Ball 2010 lineup isn’t posted on the radio station’s site yet and won’t be announced on-air until Friday, Ticketmaster had different ideas. Ten artists who are “subject to change” are listed on the event page right now for the December…
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, the King of Queens claims his crown, and the Fonz becomes a friend. After segueing from the music biz, working behind the scenes at CBS4…
Friday, November 19, is fixing to be a goth holiday of the highest order with a visit by David J scheduled. The bassist, best-known for his tenures with moody, art-punk bands Bauhaus and Love & Rockets, also worked with Perry Farrell in Porno for Pyros and Jane’s Addiction. His scheduled…
7 WalkersWith Bobby Lee Rogers TrioRevolution, Fort LauderdaleFriday, October 22, 2010Long before any band took the stage at Revolution Friday night, a full moon rose over the city, evoking pre-show howls from peeps eager to celebrate the lunar occasion with one of the most beloved deep space drummers of all…
Last week we brought a recap of the premiere of Wellington resident Vanilla Ice’s new home improvement reality show, The Vanilla Ice Project. In the show, Vanilla Ice (real name Rob Van Winkle) and his buddies are renovating a 7,000-square-foot mansion “rock star-style,” which includes basically pimping out the entire…
According to a little bird in our ear called Blond Fuzz’s Facebook page, the Boca band is “still working on the album” that we reported would be released this weekend and it has been postponed to an unknown future date. That’s getting the bad news out of the way first.Onto…
Tonight, Miami hip-hop duo Ghost Arm comes out of the shadows for only its second official performance as part of Flaunt Thursday at Respectable Street.With rhyming schemes this varied, absurdist, and somnambulant, it’s hard not to get a full-on Definitive Jux flashback churning. FIU students and roommates Robert “Rolodex” Hodgkins…
Andrew W.K. and the Most Interesting Show In The World Revolution Live, Fort Lauderdale October 20, 2010 Better Than: Eating a bunch of bananas. After waiting in the longest, scariest line — re: mimes on stilts — hundreds poured into Revolution to experience Andrew W.K. & Dos Equis’ Most Interesting…
Imagine if you will a musical jam party sometime between 1973 and 1985 hosted by the Residents but somehow, don’t ask me, they’ve managed to travel along the delicate tendrils of time and space into the future and managed to acquire modern (i.e. 2010) technology and are able to bring…
Miami hip-hop duo Ghost Arm comes out of the shadows for only its second official performance as part of Flaunt Thursday at Respectable Street. With rhyming schemes this varied, absurdist, and somnambulant, it’s hard not to get a full-on Definitive Jux flashback churning. FIU students Robert “Rolodex” Hodgkins and David…
These Pennsylvania emo-prog dudes recently completed a stint as Coheed and Cambria’s opening act and hooked up with Deftones for a run. But Circa Survive definitely deserves its own look: On Blue Sky Noise, the band’s major-label debut (which came out in April), frontman Anthony Green layers his yearning little-boy…
Massive Attack is one of the first “trip-hop” acts and so much more than that tag implies. Coming from a diverse background in the working-class city of Bristol, England, Robert “3D” Del Naja, Grant “Daddy G” Marshall, and former member Andy “Mushroom” Vowles grew up listening to reggae, dub, ska,…
MGMT’s initial ascent to the top of the indie heap was unnaturally quick. Brooklyn-based Ben Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden embarked on this pet project in 2005 with no serious expectations of massive triumph, coming together at Wesleyan University over nothing more than a shared love of music. And only three…
Tech N9ne and E-40 are two of the most successful independent artists in hip-hop, so it seems like a no-brainer for them to tour together. Tech N9ne founded his own label, Strange Music, in 1999 and has gone on to release 11 albums, which have sold more than 1 million…
On May 25, 2009, French foursome Phoenix launched a midnight sneak attack on the American indie scene. Like the blue, red, and black bombs on the cover of its new album, Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, the band came screaming from the sky, out of some unseen nowhere, and detonated in a…
Is there a more beloved duo in hip-hop than Method Man and Red? Known for their sharply hilarious contributions to albums like 1999’s Blackout!, they’ve also appeared in deodorant commercials, the stoner cult classic How High, and a short-lived Fox sitcom, Method and Red — tag line: “Puttin’ the urban…
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros with He’s My Brother She’s My SisterCulture Room, Fort LauderdaleTuesday, October 19, 2010The Review:People like to throw around the term “religious experience” a lot to describe concerts. Now, I’m not going to sit here and tell you I saw God last night at the…
Our diligent web guru, Devin Desjarlais, posted last week’s “Four Big Problems With the Miami Music Festival Even the Vivian Girls Can’t Fix” on the Vivian Girls’ Facebook page recently and got a reply that got us worried. As is shown above, the reply mentions playing as part of a…
