Kid Rock – Seminole Hard Rock Live, Hollywood – December 30

Better Than: Jock Jams: Volume 5.It has been said that a jack-of-all-trades is a master of none. However, while someone like Dave Grohl feeds his children by disproving the aforementioned statement, Kid Rock has managed to spin a career out of what boils down to on-stage vivisections of the term.Last…

Top Five Holy Ship!! Acts You Shouldn’t Miss

Since we landed ashore at the end of the maiden voyage of Holy Ship!! last January, I’ve been wondering: What’ll happen in 2013? Will I meet the dude from Korn again? Will I get stuck on a ship with Riff Raff? Will the Mad Decent crew be giving Skrillex haircuts to…

Gladys Knight – Seminole Hard Rock Live, Hollywood – December 28

Gladys Knight Seminole Hard Rock Live, Hollywood Friday, December 28, 2012 Better than: Wrestling at the Poorhouse afterwards. It’s all about transparency and honesty here at the Grind. For instance, why would renegade rock and roll animal Abel Folgar be given the charge to cover the elusive Empress of Soul’s…

Holy Ship!!: A List of Things You Must Bring on the Cruise

The water’s warm, the air’s cold, and the bass is heavy. Yup! It’s time again to pack for Holy Ship!!Ravers from all over the world are packing their glow sticks, swim trunks, and Dramamine for the second annual HARD fest in the middle of the ocean. This is nothing like the…

Best Concerts of 2012: Passion Pit at SunFest in West Palm Beach

SunFest, the five-day, fall-on-your-face festival, is the Christmas time, the birthday, the “my parents are out of town” of live music for downtown West Palm Beach each year. An excessively diverse lineup, a prime location right on the Intracoastal, and the ease of sneaking a water bottle full of Patrón in…

B.B. King Performs on New Year’s Eve in Fort Lauderdale

Harry Truman was president of the 48 United States of America when legendary bluesman B.B. King released his first two singles, “Miss Martha King” and “Got the Blues,” in 1949. Now fast-forward six decades and add a couple of states: Notice anything different? Not really, right? Because at 87 years old,…

DJ Sets December 28 at the Miami Beach Convention Center

Sure, DJ sets at clubs are fun. But DJ sets inside convention centers are more fun. Especially when you’re covered in someone else’s sweat and buckets of nontoxic paint while rolling face with your absolute favorite mix-masters. This Friday, Benny friggin’ Benassi, Diplo, and motherflippin’ R3hab will bring the noise,…

Bright Light Social Hour December 30 at Culture Room

What’s the proper cutoff for a promotional tour? A year? Two years? Two hundred shows? For Austin, Texas, band Bright Light Social Hour, the answer is clearly none of the above. But we’re not complaining. “You answer a lot of questions about the writing process, I think, by performing new…

Spec’s Music in Coral Gables Shuts Its Doors Forever

Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman shares observations, insights, and updates relating to South Florida’s musical environs. This week: The last of South Florida’s home-grown record-store chains comes to the end of its line. South Florida’s roster of physical record stores has been dealt another stunning blow with…

Holy Ship!!: Gina Turner Does Yoga With Diplo in Australia

While you were still recovering from a NYE filled with booze and bad choices, Gina Turner kicked off her 2012 by spinning music at sunrise and teaching househeads asanas on the decks of Holy Ship!!. Catchy moniker aside, Turner is one of the bigger female names in popular electronic music. Upcoming, she…

Yonder Mountain String Band Explains Their “Great Musical Coup”

A foremost proponent of the so-called “Nu-Grass” phenomenon — a genre that merges the best of bluegrass with jam band sensibilities — Colorado’s Yonder Mountain String Band has attracted a fervent following that spans both sides of the Great Divide. Extolling the populist philosophy first championed by bands like the…

Miguel – Club Cinema, Pompano Beach – December 21

Club Cinema is located in strip mall heaven. It’s hidden amidst streams of car dealerships and theme restaurants. Miguel was slated to go on at 2, so I showed up at 1, ready to unwind from a drive’s worth of the normally spineless Piers Morgan going tough on guns. After…

Heavy Pets – Culture Room, Fort Lauderdale – December 21

So, the world didn’t exactly come to an end on Friday. But something major definitely went down at Culture Room, where Greenhouse Lounge and the Heavy Pets, with special guest Roosevelt Collier, jammed out an epic end-of-the world party. If any sort of an apocalypse was gonna happen, this was where…

Cassadee Pope’s Album Out Now on iTunes

We’ve been writing quite a bit about West Palm Beach’s Cassadee Pope lately. You know, because we already knew she’d be winning season three of NBC’s The Voice. For those who think SoFla’s got no talent, suck on that. Yeah, you’re embarrassed her winning performance of “Cry” choked you up, but come…

SkaPacolypse at the Talent Farm December 21

Everybody is gearing up for the end. And naturally, we’re treating this issue of New Times as our last. Because when December 21, 2012, is circled in blood-red ink on a Mayan’s calendar, it’s pretty much guaranteed that’s all she wrote. And by she, we mean Mother Earth, which will…

Carrie Underwood at BB&T Center December 22

The Carrie Underwood poster that hangs above our bed isn’t there only because New Times is a sucker for pop country tunes about digging your keys into a cheating lover’s “pretty little souped-up four-wheel drive” and then slashing said pickup’s tires after going all Gary Sheffield on the headlights. The…