FusikWith Ketchy ShubyCulture Room, Fort LauderdaleSaturday, June 26, 2010TopSpot USA’s Sean Russell, a local music industry player and subject of a recent New Times Broward-Palm Beach profile, tracks down the latest news and adds insight from the front row of local concerts. On Saturday, Russell attended the CD Release Concert…
Ex NorwegianSketch www.exnorwegian.com Only two albums in, the band that evolved out of the unlikely named Father Bloopy has struck the mother lode with an effort that ranks as a genuinely substantial early accomplishment. In fact, let’s be so bold as to suggest it brings to mind another disc produced…
Fort Lauderdale’s Black Sun Alchemy takes its cues from Werner Herzog films and delivers desperate screams of neo-power-violence over straight vocal cadence. Plus, the requisite juxtapositions of Bush administration follies as detailed in the video for “Into the Storm.” It’s easy to get a strong feel for Satan’s Pimp Records-era…
Local hip-hop label Footwork4Self has amassed an impressive lineup of underground rappers for Saturday night’s State Re-Session show at Propaganda. In a few short months, this West Palm Beach indie label has pounded the pavement for its two signature artists, DJ/MC duo DJ Dee Dubs and Jabrjaw, and ruffian lyricist…
Fusik (pronounced “few-sick”) has its roots in the South Florida break-dancing scene, and the band isn’t shy about bringing hip-hop fundamentals to the masses. Without MCs or Froot Loop-y beats, Fusik digs below the surface of hip-hop.Formed in 2005, the five-piece band’s Latin-tinged, instrumental funk brings to mind Medeski, Martin…
Texas Hippie Coalition’s moniker shortened to an acronym is THC, which is cute and makes sense with hippies. However, these fellas are darlings of major “biker” events and cruise with brute-leather know-how and a rather unhippie musical mentality. The only real tie with the hippie tag: the massive amounts of…
A true nomad and storyteller with a big bushy beard, one-man-band Smokestack and the Foothill Fury’s Jarod Yerkes is an anomaly in these modern times. While the dutiful members of the work-a-day world find it wiser to stay put, place their heads in the sand and make minimum credit card…
File Under “The News Cycle and the Damage Done”: Canadian rocker Neil Young, who taught most of us in the U.S. what Americana should really sound like and owns enough flannel to outfit the entire borough of Brooklyn, will likely play a show at Hard Rock Live in Hollywood this…
A glance at the event’s flyer can afford you a hint about the night’s steez — some cloudy, spacey, picturesque goodness, at least as far as half the night’s acts can provide. Hear Hums’ name makes us think of the actual hum, the phenomena that occurs when a low-frequency humming…
The monthly jam at the Jib Room (2104 E. Oakland Park Boulevard, Fort Lauderdale) has come a long way from its humble beginnings about a year ago, when it was a weekly Sunday open mike called Cut of Your Jib. Back then it was a gathering among a few friends…
Yellowman has been in the reggae world for almost three decades. Having been credited as the creator of “toasting” — a style of singing-rapping that is now modern-day dancehall delivery — as well as being the first to introduce “slackness,” in which the topic of conversation is less about “One…
Truth be told, I came upon this heavy trio on a chance encounter at Churchill’s one night. Ms. Valentine was an engaging young lady who represented in one quick conversation everything that I happen to like about heavy music. She also runs her own photography studio (Terribly Girly) which I…
Coral Springs alt-country outfit Harvey and the Buckets will play a free show Friday at Radio-Active Records in Fort Lauderdale. Local garage-rock-extraordinaire act Dooms de Pop is also scheduled, bringing some added fuzz to the evening.From Radio-Active’s announcement:”Show runs 8-10 p.m., so don’t show up drunk at 10:05 wondering ‘when…
FleesDrink MeIt’s hard to think of another local band that packs the punch that hardcore punk outfit Flees does. From the opening bass line in “You Can’t Break Me” (the first track on the band’s debut Drink Me) to frontwoman Elyse Perez’s grrrly growl to the thrashy chords that dominate…
Texas Hippie Coalition’s moniker shortened to an acronym is THC, which is cute and makes sense with hippies. However, these fellas are darlings of major “biker” events and cruise with brute-leather know-how and a rather unhippie musical mentality. The only real tie with the hippie tag: the massive amounts of…
Fusik (pronounced “few-sick”) has its roots in the South Florida break-dancing scene, and the band isn’t shy about bringing hip-hop fundamentals to the masses. Without MCs or Froot Loop-y beats, Fusik digs below the surface of hip-hop. Formed in 2005, the five-piece band’s Latin-tinged, instrumental funk brings to mind Medeski,…
Local hip-hop label Footwork4Self has amassed an impressive lineup of underground rappers for Saturday night’s State Re-Session show at Propaganda. In a few short months, this West Palm Beach indie label has pounded the pavement for its two signature artists, DJ/MC duo DJ Dee Dubs and Jabrjaw, and ruffian lyricist…
Fort Lauderdale’s Black Sun Alchemy takes its cues from Werner Herzog films and delivers desperate screams of neo-power-violence over straight vocal cadence. Plus, the requisite juxtapositions of Bush administration follies as detailed in the video for “Into the Storm.” It’s easy to get a strong feel for Satan’s Pimp Records-era…
Via the wonderful pipes of Maurice White and Philip Bailey, Earth, Wind & Fire has put an indelible stamp on the month of September with its signature song of the same name. Formed in 1969 with a disco/funk focus, the group has been an accolade-garnering powerhouse ever since. Aside from…
West Palm Beach’s Surfer Blood is giving back to the Florida coastline that in many ways is the band’s identity. Drenched with beach imagery formed on local shores and uplifting indie-rock tropes, Astro Coast earned the band a national following (and New Times’ Best Album of 2010) and significant cachet…
Vampire Weekend, the New York indie rock act that probably should have been soundtracking every aspect of the World Cup, is coming to South Florida on October 13. The gig is down at the Fillmore Miami. With the relaxing, ethereal (I avoid saying chill) vibes of Beach House opening up,…
“Hi fi never sounded so lo fi” — this is the tagline on Last Phone Booth’s MySpace. That tagline is a requisite space to be filled, but if we are speaking literally, it ought to be reversed; Last Phone Booth sounds pretty hi-fi for a band with such lo-fi influences…
