Heads-up local musicians and their devoted followers! The masterminds behind Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival have announced the “Destination Okeechobee: Battle of the Bands Competition” today, a fan-voted contest that will give five local bands a chance to join the likes of music legends Robert Plant, Hall & Oates, and…
The story of singer/songwriter and accomplished pianist Leon Russell’s late-career revival is the stuff of film – literally. It’s a truly compelling tale that begins with a fruitful career in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s. Russell started the legendary Shelter Records (along with producer Denny Cordell), the label responsible…
When Dan Hosker passed away on August 11, 2012 after a lengthy battle following a terrible car accident, the South Florida music community mourned the loss of one of its greatest players. Hosker might’ve been best remembered at the time for his work with seminal punkers the Holy Terrors, but…
Subgenres and trends tend to come and go perpetually in heavy metal, but one thing that doesn’t change is how consistently impressive the albums High on Fire puts out are. The group of crust-metal forebears, led by the both famous and enigmatic nomad that is Matt Pike — also heralded…
Oxford-based indie rock outfit Glass Animals came to what should have been sunny South Florida in an attempt to escape their often dreary and rain-soaked stomping grounds of England. Instead, they got more of the same in terms of weather Tuesday night. However, what really made it feel like a…
In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, Keith Richards gave out the ultimate compliment to St. Paul and the Broken Bones when he called the James Brown-channeling soul singer Paul Janeway and his band “interesting to watch.” “He’s a cat that can do an Otis Redding,” Richards told Stone, and if you…
“I think the blues is fresher than ever if you consider the blues to be a broad-based American art form,” says Mike Zito, the St. Louis rocker who co-founded Royal Southern Brotherhood. “If you think that it’s only blues if it sounds like the 1950s, then you’re probably going to be let…
If you all, like us, were still trying to wrap your heads around the mind-melting mashup of artists already topping the bill at Florida’s latest music festival offering, Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival, launching this spring, you might not be prepared for this morning’s third-wave lineup announcement. But here goes:…
No opener. No mistakes. No messing about. The best word to describe Saturday night’s Hall & Oates show is perfect. The 5500 fans attending the sold-out concert saw two masters of their craft show up on time, bang out a fourteen-song setlist (with two encores) containing the very best of…
On the blackest of Fridays, shock-rockers and self-proclaimed “heavy metal holocaust” GWAR brought their hilarious freak show to Revolution Live in Fort Lauderdale. Touring in celebration of their thirtieth anniversary, the band elicited more bloodshed and gratuitous violence than a pair of brawling moms at a Wal-Mart on the day…
Florida might not be known for the blues but boy, is that profile changing with the steadily rising talent that is Selwyn Birchwood. The Orlando-native Tampa resident has been praised by Rolling Stone as a “young, powerhouse guitarist and soulful vocalist” and by the Washington Post as an “indelibly modern…
How does someone over the age of 21 survive a Borgore concert? Pre-game. Hard. Last night at Club Cinema in Fort Lauderdale, Israeli dubstep/gorestep DJ Borgore played to a full house of half-naked teenagers. While his demographic does normally extend into the college age range, this particular concert was 16…
Pioneers of the Philly sound that incorporated funk, R&B, and soul music (which, for better or worse, eventually birthed smooth jazz and quiet storm) as well as new wave and rock, Hall & Oates were and are songwriting geniuses. Both graduates of Temple University, Daryl Hall and John Oates met…
Chili, beer, and cowboy hats — these are the essence of the annual KISS 99.9 Chili Cook Off. Oh yeah, that and good old American country music. This year’s 31st-annual Cook Off will feature headliners Little Big Town, Jake Owen, and Chris Young as the ideal, twangy backdrop to the…
A hazy rock club thick with cigarette smoke is the last place anyone would expect a marathon, but Thursday night, Revolution Live was the site of more cardio workouts than any gym in Fort Lauderdale. A horde of Converse wearing punks and emo kids descended upon the venue for a…
“Support Your Local Ghetto” That’s what DJ Khaled’s shirt read beneath a flashy, jingling gold chain as he strutted and stripped from a red mystery drink onstage at the Revolution Live Wednesday night. He was the guest of honor for FM radio’s 99.1 Jamz’ first-ever Uncensored party. It was all…
This morning, Okeechobee Festival has added a fresh batch of artists to its lineup. Bassnectar, the Avett Brothers, and Odesza round out the top of the bill, joining Mumford & Sons, Kendrick Lamar, Skrillex, Future, Miguel, Fetty Wap, and Big Grams (Big Boi & Phantogram), who were announced last month as part of an eclectic…
To the band that made the following lines famous — “Anywhere you go, I’ll follow you down. I’ll follow you down, but not that far!” — we have a message for you: We, your loving audience, will keep following you, because you’re great. For the countless adults caught in that…
You may think you know DJ Khaled, but he’s changed … a lot! The loud-mouthed catch-phrase aficionado first came into prominence locally as the afternoon DJ on 99 Jamz. I can’t tell you how many times I drove my car down University Drive and shouted at my radio, “I’m trying…
Pop-punk stalwarts the Wonder Years and Motion City Soundtrack have joined forces on what could easily pass as a Vans Warped Tour minireunion. Both bands are out in support of new records in 2015. The Wonder Years’ fifth studio release, No Closer to Heaven, dropped in September, is a concept…
While Miami’s had ample opportunity to move their bodies to the experimental, electro-pop sounds of Afrobeta in the near decade they’ve been a band, it’s not as often that we’re treated to a visit from the funky and unpredictable dance duo on our own turf. If you’ve never heard of…
Here’s a free lesson for aspiring musicians who want to make it big quick: A) Find a band on the verge of success and become a rabid fan; B) Learn said band’s catalogue backward and forward; and C) Pray and hope, and maybe even light some candles to whatever iconographical…
