Walking into SunFest is a bit like thumbing through The Cheesecake Factory’s menu for the first time. Your eyes start to water before you even make it to the pasta section. There’s so many choices your stomach starts to turn at the thought of making a decision. And they haven’t…
It was almost as if by calling it SunFest, the West Palm Beach extravaganza was able to will away the rain and dark clouds that occupied South Florida for much of the day. Because when the gates opened and the music started, it was nothing but clear skies and balmy…
It’s the one part of music festivals we can all agree suck: the bathrooms. Whether you’re squatting in a hot porta-potty, or waiting in a concrete bathroom for 30 minutes for a stall to open up, small bladders and big concerts don’t mix. And while SunFest might not have solved…
Throngs of surprisingly punctual fans arrived on time at Revolution Live to see Of Mice & Men. The crowd ranged from 13-year-olds to folks over 40, and there was a level of intensity already marinating in the air (along with a swell of other undesirable odors) as fans anxiously awaited…
Hawaiian bred and California based, Iration — made up of members Cayson Peterson, Joe Dickens, Micah Pueschel, and Adam Taylor — are bringing their sweet brand of reggae-rock to SunFest this Sunday. This year’s SunFest lineup is possibly the best ever. But it’s not just fans who are excited, Iration…
For a few hours on a balmy Monday evening that felt more like mid-July than late April, Fort Lauderdale partied as if the summer months were indeed upon us. Indie pop quartet, Walk the Moon — the musical equivalent of Pop Rocks and Coke — returned to Revolution Live for…
Counting down the hours until Friday even though it’s only Tuesday? Yeah, we’ve all been there. While you can’t make the next four days disappear as quickly as the #KylieJennerLipChallenge faded into obscurity, there is one thing that will make the next 96 hours fly by: music. But not just…
The Internet is a fetid womb from which perverse and offensive offspring are born into popular culture. Bizarre sexual fetishes that make most normal folk squirm with disgust found a home and a highway through the networks of the web, while countless musicians found fans in similarly derelict corners of…
Few know the ins and outs of Flogging Molly quite like Nathen Maxwell. Before he joined as the band’s bassist in 1996, he was just another fan of the Flogging Molly’s raucous Irish punk. “When I was 17, I used to sneak in the backdoor of the L.A. bar where…
Joey Santiago, the guitarist of the greatest American rock band there ever was and probably ever will be is out running errands. While fans of The Doors and The Beach Boys might take umbrage to that title, nobody from the USA has ever matched the fury, the beauty, the ridiculous…
Formed by pals Tom Hunting and Kirk Hammett in 1980 and named after a Leon Uris novel, Exodus stands proudly as one of the founders of the Bay Area’s longstanding and lauded thrash metal scene. Now on the Dark Roots of Thrash II tour with the equally essential Bay Area thrashers, Testament,…
Formed in 1983 as Legacy in Berkeley, California, and quickly renamed Testament, Eric Peterson’s thrash metal powerhouse has not shared the financial success of their contemporaries Metallica or Anthrax, but the band has certainly earned the respect of fans and other musicians as an uncompromising force that has soldiered on…
Earlier this week, Thomas Fekete — guitarist of local band made good, Surfer Blood — announced that he had cancer and needed financial help for his treatment. Support came flooding in within moments of the announcement. And in only four days, the fundraising campaign has netted over $60,000. But longtime…
Joan Armatrading wants to make one thing perfectly clear. Her current tour will not be her last. Not even close. Once this world tour is completed, she will likely reenter the studio and produce some new music. What she won’t be doing is hitting the road for endless months at…
Great live music and a killer nightlife scene. That’s what motivates us working-class South Floridians to face the daily 9-to-5 grind. And while having to tolerate eight hours of nosy coworkers, cubicle dust, never-ending to-do lists, and brutally long meetings every single day isn’t a simple task, it’s what allows…
We love you, Coachella, but sometimes you bring us down. Here were the biggest bummers of weekend two. The Lack of Enthusiasm at the Entrance Walking into the venue around 2 p.m. on Friday, Coachella staffers were attempting to engage with the strings of attendees filtering through the security gates…
One of the most-talked about art installations at this year’s Coachella has been the Corporate Headquarters, a three-story structure smack-dab in the middle of the festival, with a helicopter perched on top. Inside the structure, actors dressed in office attire and hippo masks work furiously on… well, something. Actually, they…
“We live in a world of technology. Who doesn’t have a cell phone and isn’t always checking their social media?” asked Of Mice & Men’s Phil Manansala. The 27-year-old-guitarist of the Southern California metalcore band was discussing the themes of their hypnotizing new video for “Broken Generation”. In a sort…
It’s time to pull your underpants up your butt and do a handstand. The big daddy of twerkfests is coming back to Revolution Live, and it’s packing more bass thumps and rump shakers than your ass will know what to do with. The Mad Decent Block Party just announced its…
The only inefficient thing about the Ting Tings might be the name. Singer/guitarist Katie White and drummer Jules De Martino powered through thirteen songs at Revolution Live last night in just under an hour, not even going through the charade of leaving the stage and having the crowd chant their…
At a time when metal is perhaps more popular than ever, it is also witnessing more and more artists pushing sounds so derivative that some so-called “revivalist” acts should probably be derided as thinly veiled tribute groups. But Bethesda, Maryland’s Periphery — a band that began as a recording project…
Sierra Blackford really wanted to go to Coachella. But it wasn’t easy. The 23-year-old Hawaiian singer-songwriter juggled three jobs as a waitress, playing gigs at local bars and working in a slipper store to save enough for her concert tickets, heavily discounted airfare (she knows somebody in the industry), camping…
