Photo and styling by Jessie GilmartinThe 1921 club (1921 S. Federal Highway, Fort Lauderdale) decor might remind some of an opium den, but we’re just gonna call the spot a den of social stimulants — a place where so much is happening that blinking is a highly risky behavior. Come…
Photo by Sarah LawThese United States’ Jesse Elliott is the guy with the second-least amount of facial hairSunFest 2010 — AKA a five-day injection of live music, food, art, and maybe a few beverages — begins today at the West Palm Beach waterfront. New Times will be there all week,…
Photo by Aleksandra MarcotteHave you seen this castle?We’ll give you a moment to process that headline. Are you back with us? Great. Yes, the Overthrow staged a hostile take over — via a real estate agent and signed lease — of a castle located in Wynwood. Where is this castle…
Photo by Mikayla DavisNew City Lions interviewed by TopSpot USA’s Frankie “Famous” Nobile (with microphone) and Sean RussellTopSpot 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…
via myspace.com/coheedandcambriaCoheed and CambriaFor this concert review, Sammy Gonzalez, bassist of Miami’s Jacobs Ladder, weighs in on a show this past Sunday by some of his favorite bands. Local musicians, if you’d like to contribute a review of a show by some of your favorites or influences, e-mail me. Torche, Circa Survive,…
Ontario prog-punks Alexisonfire leads an aggressive bill at West Palm Beach’s Ground Control (122 N. Military Trail) this evening. According to On Fire Booking, the doors open at 5 p.m.Also on the bill: Sacramento’s hardcore pummelers Trash Talk, aggro-punks La Dispute from Grand Rapids, Michigan, Boston post-hardcore outfit Therefore I…
photo by the CobrasnakeYes, Jared Leto has been a certified heartthrob for more than 15 years now. But unlike many actors who moonlight in vanity acts, Leto makes serious work of his decade-plus-running band, 30 Seconds to Mars. In fact, it was as an aspiring musician that he first headed…
A cappella music is a strange thing. It conjures up either images of old-man barbershop quartets, or, more likely, the specter of those over-eager, overly animated dudes on your freshman dorm floor. Yes, these days, single-sex a cappella groups are largely confined to campus life, but every so often, a…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnseb/ / CC BY 2.0Live on wax.”The hate you gave little infants f**ks everybody” is the breakdown of the THUG LIFE acronym Tupac Shakur had tatted on his belly. Before exploding metal cylinders sent his body to the pavement and his soul to Heaven’s ghetto, he’d already survived five bullet…
Judging by how many vehement Danny Gokey supporters spoke out when they found out that his Culture Room show was nixed, hopefully we can bring some American Idol-fueled joy into the world with the following: Jordin Sparks will perform at Revolution on June 22. That’s right. Idol season six winner…
Photo by Jered ScottThe Rocket Summer has better hair than you doBest to show up early at Culture Room in Fort Lauderdale tonight to catch two local acts prior to Dallas/Fort Worth product the Rocket Summer’s headlining set. Aside from the fact that a gaggle of fans will already be…
Pulling off the whole big-room commercial house music thing without falling into the lowest common denominator is no easy feat (I’m looking at you, David Guetta,) but The Shapeshifters have managed to find that difficult balance between mainstream appeal and true musical quality fairly successfully. The West London DJ/production duo…
Steve Winwood (front), joint not picturedMusic vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman shares stories of memorable rock ‘n’ roll encounters that took place in our local environs. This week: Candid conversations and the naked truth.I relish asking my musical heroes all the obscure questions that the fan in me…
Nocturnal, the other major superclub on NE Eleventh Street, has suffered its ups and downs, surviving through its fare share of closing and re-opening rumors over the years. But that’s just par for the course in nightlife, where longevity is rare and a fifth birthday, which the dance warehouse celebrates…
Jacob KatelAny given Saturday in Miami the bass, sweat, sex, liquor, music, and dancing flood the concrete tropics like a hurricane on South Beach. This year a bigger, better Swamp Stomp shook the wooden floorboards at The Bayside Hut to their core with more local soul than the Miami section…
The local super-indie label Destroyio Records made it all the way to the finals of Miami New Times’ recent Mastermind Awards contest this past winter. That was not a small feat, considering the artsy-fartsy, more “establishment”-type entries in the pool. The one-man operation deserves plenty of credit for keeping proper…
Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo, after knocking out Chris Cornell in four roundsNow Crossfade isn’t taking any steps to become Sunfade for the week, but there’s going to be a lot of SunFest coverage. The lineup, which includes Weezer, the Flaming Lips, Nas, among many others, is strong to say the least…
Our giveaway of tickets for the screening of Animal Collective’s visual album ODDSAC, this Sunday at Grand Central in Miami, is now closed. Congratulations to the winner!For everybody else, advance tickets are still available for $15 at this link. A pretty good deal — just a few dollars over the…
Friday’s closing bell is only hours away, and there’s a whole weekend’s worth of angst yet to spend. On Saturday evening, one option worth risking a black eye for is a run of seven local hardcore acts at Brogues on the Avenue Irish Pub in Lake Worth (621 Lake Avenue).Dubbed…
via residentadvisor.netJon Cowan deserves a lot of credit in recent years for keeping alive some hope of quality dance music on the Beach. Back in the ’90s, he was known for spinning around town and co-promoting the Bliss parties at Groove Jet, which were responsible for beginning the tidal wave…
via myspace.com/llamabeats Lurking in the trenches of obscurity, tomorrow’s super producers toil in darkened studios surrounded by empty malt liquor bottles and ashtrays full of blunt roaches.Or maybe they’re up and grinding at The Setai. Either way, Llamabeats Crew bring a sample heavy musicality to live guitar, bass, and key…
Julieta VenegasWednesday, April 21, 2010Dolce Ultra Lounge, Miami Beach(Even) Better than: The last time I saw her, at the Gibson Showroom in 2008, actually.Julieta Venegas is something of a shape shifter. Her sound has remained in a state of perpetual motion throughout her career. Hers has been a constant evolution…
