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…
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…
It’s 2013. But some people (like New Times) secretly wish the year was still 1969. In private, when the shades are drawn, we bust out the dashikis and love beads, the incense and rainbow-colored hemp teepees, spark up an ol’ fashioned Acapulco Gold doobarino, and prance around without shoes, soaking…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
Things that, as a human being, you need to like include: the existence of the ocean and sea turtles. They both may frighten, sure, but the ocean is a necessity, and it’s really relaxing to watch turtles smoothly duck in and out of the water. Even thinking about it makes…
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…
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…
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 stuff…
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…
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…
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…
Bad news, bros. Oliver Stone isn’t coming to Broward. The “Satire and Controversey: An Evening With Oliver Stone” event, scheduled for Saturday, January 5, was canceled. We know. We were excited too. Broward Center for the Performing Arts, where the appearance was supposed to take place, made the earlier on their Facebook page. There…
Once Miami succumbs to the polar icecaps and the city is under water, only the 305’s ass-clapping booty-bass legacy will float on. Well, maybe DJ Laz too. He’s got a boat. And if homie is lucky, Jesse Perez (AKA Mr. Nice Guy Records label boss) will also be on that…
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…
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…
