Death in June Head to Respectable Street in West Palm Beach

British neofolk pioneer Douglas Pearce has lived his life steeped in controversy. Protested and picketed against, maligned and otherwise defamed, the singer/songwriter better-known as Douglas P. has been through a lot in his years as the driving force of Death in June. To be fair, Pearce has spent the better…

Rancid Heads to Revolution in Fort Lauderdale This Friday

Tim Armstrong might have found riches producing and writing for big names such as Pink and Gwen Stefani, but his fame and respect came from his time singing and playing guitar for the Berkeley punk group Rancid. Formed out of the ashes of the hardcore Operation Ivy with fellow alumnus…

Dillon Francis’ Top Five Trolls of All Time

Wikipedia defines a “troll” as “a person who sows discord on the Internet by starting arguments or upsetting people… with the deliberate intent of provoking readers into an emotional response or otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion.” Some trolls are less evil than others, though. Some trolls just want to lie…

Thoughts on Hero Worship: Bruce Springsteen and I

Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman offers his insights, opinions, and observations about the local scene. This week: Our modern obsession with musicians. Hero worship involves us entirely, uncritically, and excessively adoring another human being. There are sports heroes, political heroes, teacher heroes (for the nerds), but no…

Five Fun Ladies’ Nights in Broward and Palm Beach Counties

Cyndi Lauper helped the English-speaking world realize that girls do just wanna have fun. Well, that’s not all they want. They also want equal pay, longer maternity leaves, and not to be referred to as “girls” when they’re grown-ass women. We’re not here to lump the ladies into one big…

Top Five Jam Band Jams to Get Clean and Sober To

Historically, jam bands and drugs have been as closely associated as water-filtered, color-changing, pyrex “tobacco” pipes and marijuana. And the marriage has at times been blissful, no doubt. But drug abuse has also contributed to many beautiful lives turning ugly and ending too soon. For many in the jam band…

Cold Cave’s Wesley Eisold on Boyd Rice: “He’s an Original, a Poet”

Cold Cave is Wesley Eisold, the brooding, multifarious former vocalist behind influential hardcore groups Give Up the Ghost (previously American Nightmare) and Some Girls. Since 2007, he’s been churning out a stream of self-produced experimental darkwave synth, occasionally collaborating with friends like Sean Martin of Hatebreed and the late Justin…