Better than: A Van Halen reunion with Diamond Dave failing to sing his own parts and Eddie’s son playing bass. No one is having a better time than Sammy Hagar. Period. The singer-songwriter, guitarist, alcohol tycoon, good-guy-to-know has managed to turn his career of late into an excuse for a…
Expect an excess of thrift store flannel, floral Doc Martens, and teenage angst this weekend when South Florida’s premier Nirvana tribute act Smells Like Grunge rolls into Lake Worth’s Speakeasy Lounge. We caught up with the trio a few months back where we gleaned that the act’s drummer, Jay Scott,…
Sammy Hagar might be the nicest guy in rock ‘n’ roll. As a musician, he’s been the voice of Montrose, one of the most underrated rock bands of all time, enjoyed a strong solo career, and led Van Halen during one of the band’s most successful periods. Most recently, he…
Rookie season is looking bright for the Coastline Festival. The one day music, craft beer, food truck, and art oasis is completely stacked with a great lineup on all fronts and a super pumped crowd eager to be a part of the first-ever event. A special treat for West Palm,…
Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman offers his insights, opinions, and observations about the local scene. This week: South Florida’s first festival and a memorable moment with Jimi Hendrix. In May 1968, South Florida had very little to boast about when it came to placing its imprint on…
If there were a touring duo that’d make both your grandma, a newborn, every hipster and mom, even your dog piddle with excitement, it’d be Paul Simon and Sting. And guess what? Prepare to pee your pants, cause these two are heading, not only around the country (and Southern Canada)…
Billing itself as America’s number-one Eagles tribute band, the Long Run is a group of South Florida musicians whose obvious love of all things Eagles is dedicated to the sole purpose of replicating the sound of music’s most successful chart-topping rock outfit of all time. Having made that their mission,…
All right, we get it: Van Hagar was not Van Halen, nor will the band’s work with Sammy Hagar ever hold a candle to the groundbreaking canon the David Roth era produced. However, Sammy Hagar is, in his own right, a real-deal rock star, and while we have to agree…
Whether he’s embodying the presence of artist and musician Dave Brockie or that of Oderus Urungus — the foul-mouthed curmudgeon alien scumdog that fronts the universe’s baddest band of profane rockers, GWAR — this man can talk just about anyone under the table. When we interviewed Brockie last year, he…
Rock star has become an overused descriptor. If you down a can of Four Loko or stay out until the break of dawn, people will say you partied like a rock star. But on Saturday night, Alexis Krauss, singer of Brooklyn based band Sleigh Bells, reminded the packed crowd at…
Michael Bublé BB&T Center, Fort Lauderdale November 2, 2013 Better than: Sinatra, but of course Sinatra’s no longer with us. So consider Bublé the heir apparent. Michael Bublé clearly deserves to be called the best lounge singer of this generation. His mastery of songs, both standards and those that…
Radiant energy, or electromagnetic energy, is a term typically used to describe radiation when it is emitted by a source and absorbed by the surrounding environment. The exchange of photons can materialize in ways that can be visible or invisible to the human eye. And ever since Michael Franti &…
Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman shares observations, insights, and updates relating to South Florida’s musical environs. This week, SOSOS’s Americana indulgence. I’ve mentioned it before in this column, but I suspect I’m slowly losing the argument. “South Florida has never been a haven for genuine Americana.” We…
Better than: Literally and absolutely anything else you might have been doing. Trent Reznor shelved Nine Inch Nails in 2009 and, for a while, it appeared as though the future lacked any recorded output or live performances from the sonic heretic — at least any under the moniker with which…
The Grateful Dead. The Jefferson Airplane. Janis Joplin. Quicksilver Messenger Service. All these names are synonymous with the San Francisco music scene of the late ’60s. Yet, there’s another band that also made an indelible impression, and, at the same time, helped bridge the divide between rock and country in…
Breaking the South Florida record for most flannel shirts under one roof — long held by a K-Mart off of US1 — was not the only impressive feat that took place at Tuesday night’s John Fogerty concert. Even more remarkable was that the 68-year-old singer and guitarist could command the…
Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., and Dean Martin were once considered Kings of Croon, and Michael Bublé is the heir apparent. Unlike Harry Connick Jr. or Josh Groban, Bublé possesses an everyday guy-next-door appeal. Oozing boyish charm and casual charisma, this well-scrubbed entertainer has, over the past decade or so,…
Alice Cooper Hard Rock Live, Hollywood October 27, 2013 Better than: Anything else you were doing on a Sunday night. Supposedly, Alice Cooper is 65 years old. However, for those present last night at the Godfather of Shock Rock’s show at Hollywood’s Seminole Hard Rock Live, Cooper appeared a duality,…
Jessie Ware popped up in the UK scene around 2010 as the lead vocal on SBTRKT’s club tune “Nervous.” The track was a pure London dancefloor anthem, with Ware assigned to club songstress duties. She resurfaced as a guest vocalist here and there for the next couple of years with…
Seattle-based indie rock quintet Minus the Bear emerged back in 2001 with a handful of quirkily-titled tunes — like “Hey, Wanna Throw Up? Get Me Naked,” “Lemurs, Man, Lemurs,” and “Pantsuit… Uggghhh” — but they’ve always been a serious band. They hit the studio before ever playing a show, crafting…
Shai Hulud The Talent Farm, Pembroke Pines Thursday, October 24, 2013 Since the band’s inception in 1995, Shai Hulud has seen more than its fair share of members come and go since it helped define a specific metallic hardcore sound. Over the years, that sound has been consumed, adapted, and…
Born out of the ashes of Buffalo Springfield, the band that first brought Stephen Stills and Neil Young to prominence, Poco can rightly claim the distinction of being among the very first bands to make the crossover from rock to country. The term Americana is bandied about so freely these…
