With a moniker as abrasive as Fucked Up, it would be easy to prejudge the Toronto indie-hardcore punk outfit as either ridiculous or talentless. But its measure of success (winning the Canadian version of the Grammy, the Polaris Music Prize, in 2009 for The Chemistry of Common Life and rave…
Freddie looking a lot dreamier than he does offstage.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: Even in the music biz, actions can be deceiving. An artist’s onstage persona is often dramatically different…
Snoop DoggWith the Spazmatics and Fourth DimensionRoxy’s Pub, West Palm BeachSunday, September 5, 2010Snoop Dogg is a master party performer — which is to say that his cool is contagious. For the duration of his hour-plus set Sunday evening, the fenced-off parking lot behind Roxy’s Pub looked like a sweaty…
Photo by Andrew SouthamToby Keith With Trace Adkins Cruzan Amphitheatre, West Palm Beach Saturday, September 4, 2010 The review: All the fireworks, the patriotic flag-waving, and the macho chest-thumping that typically define a Toby Keith show were present and accounted for at the Cruzan Amphitheatre on Saturday night. There was…
In a June 29, 2000, article about Delray Beach restaurant/performance space Dada (or “DaDa” for some) in this very paper titled “Get Yer Dada Out,” John Ferri describes the Salvador Dali-inspired bulbous black ants on the walls of the 1924 Tarrimore House and how it was inspired by the famous…
jhnmyr.tumblr.com”Goodbye, fanbase!”Speaking as a decided nonfan of John Mayer’s music, it was semicompelling to read recently that his creative tides might be turning. He starts out this posting on his Tumblr asserting that he’s not trying to please everybody — and his overpolished guitar tone, crumpled face, and croon-by-numbers love…
The name Arlo immediately conjures up images of the great “Alice’s Restaurant” songwriter Arlo Guthrie, son of Woody. Columbus, Ohio,’s Arlo & the Otter’s multifaceted folk band core isn’t a far cry from Guthrie — a lot’s going on here. The story goes that the group started as Our Cat…
Electronic dance music is rarely the genre summoning words like emotional impact and subtlety. Pulsing beats, flashing lights, and sweaty club kids are the aspects of dance culture projected on the mainstream consciousness. John Digweed, one of the most recognizable names in the worlds of progressive house and trance, takes…
West Palm Beach hip-hop team Jabrjaw & DJ Dee Dubbs’ infectious collaboration “Songs Like These” outlines their musical methods succinctly. Over a bit of vintage soul chopped up and layered with impressive scratching by Dubbs, Jabrjaw proclaims: “We make it happen, causing action on the scene/So relax, take a rest…
No one should hate Metallica more than ’80s Bay Area thrash icons Exodus. Even the 335,435 fans Metallica tattled on for sharing their music on Napster are probably less bitter. First, Kirk Hammett, named as the 11th greatest guitarist of all time by Rolling Stone, left Exodus for Metallica in…
If you need an argument against the idea that smoking marijuana will rob you of your ambition, you need look only as far as Snoop Dogg. The continually blunted West Coast rap superstar is less a business-savvy artist than a gigantic marketing steamroller, appearing in movies and reality shows, designing…
Anyone who considers South Florida’s hardcore scene to be in decline should head out to see 15-year hardcore vets Bane, hailing from Worcester, Massachusetts, and the more recent mosh brutality of Trapped Under Ice on Monday. The show affirms a solid local support network that has withstood its fair share…
Has anybody noticed the abundance of old-school outfits coming to South Florida lately? Is there a rekindling of local interest in electronic and industrial music afoot? Regardless, Apoptygma Berzerk, AKA Apop to the fans, has 21 years on its side, and founder Stephan Groth seems to know what he’s doing…
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, Tricky Dickie and Lester the Lunatic. Now that the primaries are past, it’s time to get serious about the midterm elections! (Pause for collective yawns…
If there’s one man who typifies today’s homogenized and sterilized corporate country music, it’s Toby Keith. But it’s not his music that makes Toby Keith as fun to hate as your neighbor’s barking coon dog. No, it’s the guy behind the guitar, that loud-mouthed, semipro football washup. So before he…
Hank III and AssjackCulture Room, Fort Lauderdale Tuesday, August 31, 2010 The review: “Not everybody likes us, but we drive some folks wild.” So sang Hank III Tuesday night at Culture Room. His voice alternated between a drawn-out country twang reminiscent of his granddaddy’s and a fierce punk-rock growl. He…
Tears for Fears The Rene Au Theater at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts Tuesday, August 31, 2010 Judging by Tears for Fears’ performance last night at the Broward Center, Curt Smith and Roland Orzabal continue to mine a collaboration that they remarked has spanned 31 years — with…
We’ll proudly admit that we enjoy a little Matt & Kim when we’re feeling down. Sure, we’re not from Brooklyn, and we don’t make it a habit of stripping down naked in the middle of the street. But that doesn’t mean we can’t enjoy their pop-infused sugar-high indie anthems that…
GroundationWith The Beautiful Girls and Stampede MovementCulture Room, Fort LauderdaleSunday, August 29, 2010The Review:With a young local group, and a couple of well-established groups from distant lands, Sunday’s encounter with Groundation at the Culture Room was a reminder of the local artists and SoFla community at large of how high reggae can get…
In a post last week we reported that Roxy’s would be giving away ten free tickets to their upcoming Labor Day Bash featuring Snoop Dogg (Sunday, September 5) to the person who uploads the best bong hit video to the Facebook event page. Since then our minds have been completely blown!…
It started with the most hilarious news story about an attempted rape ever. Then came the ultra-viral Auto-Tune remix, dubbed simply, “Bed Intruder Song.” (If you haven’t heard it, you need new friends, ones who show you such entertaining viral memes.)This week, the Internet lords brought us the next step…
If the Miami Poetry Collective can get all of its culture behind an all-girls jai-alai operation, why can’t Palm Beach get behind the veritable behinds of a derby girl hijinx? Or I guess it can. There’s nothing better now-a-days than a bunch of broads beating up on each other atop…
