The Swedish electro chicks of Icona Pop sing, “I crash my car into a bridge. I don’t care. I love it,” to a floor-smashing dance beat. They are the perfect example of a species that one of their songs terms the ” ’90s Bitch.” Who is this bitch? She’s a…
Doesn’t it suck when emo postpunk nostalgia slaps you in the face and reminds you that (a) you’re getting old and (b) you have accomplished only about 12 percent of what you said you would by now? After reuniting on last year’s self-titled record, original members of Taking Back Sunday…
Do y’all know anything about currency trading? Every financial expert we’ve talked to says it’s probably best to stay away from the forex market because it’s based purely on speculation; currency trading is mad risky. See also – Hip-Hop Artist Eric Biddines Goes Against the Grain- Review: Curren$y – Revolution Live, Fort Lauderdale…
“We have a few ideas planned, but we don’t want to give it away.” Brass Knuckles’ Tony Livadas says of the group’s possible Halloween costumes they’ll be donning for Electrik Haunted Circus. “We might have an appetite for pizza and we might look a little green.” Guessing there’ll be some turtle power…
Saturday night marked yet another Moonfest, Clematis Street’s annual Halloween free-for-all. For the first time in the event’s 20 year history, there was a cover fee, but luckily that resulted in a safety facelift and solid lineup of local acts, not a lack of bodies and boredom. On the hunt…
Starting with 1976’s raucous Dreamboat Annie, sisters Nancy and Ann Wilson — the hard-rockin’ masterminds behind Heart — played a critical role in the history of womankind’s right to rock. The Wilsons, with the help of assorted, equally heavy backup shredders, earned the distinction of being called “the female Zeppelin.”…
New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman offers his insights, opinions, and observations about the local scene. This week: The struggle to keep one’s cool while getting jiggy with it. When you get right down to it, dancing is an awfully peculiar pastime. While some people may appear graceful, most dancers look…
Not sure if you noticed, but it’s a little windy and wet outside. “Sure,” you say, “it’s been raining since July.” Yes, it truly has, and we’ve continued to drink and dance our damp, sad lives happy, even with these downpours. So, why would today or yesterday or tomorrow be any different?…
Since 2002, droves of punk rock fans have converged upon Gainesville each late October. They do this to punish their ear drums and livers collectively for three days of musical alcoholism at the Fest. The event has grown every year via a potent mixture of rare performances by dormant artists…
Last time frontwoman Kalmia Traver and her band Rubblebucket came to South Florida, they all got their wallets stollen. After playing at a LandShark Lager promotional event on South Beach, they decided to take a late night dip in the ocean. Though the others got totally screwed, Traver lucked out,…
Update: The show has been postponed due to Hurricane Sandy. It was with reggae legends the Wailers that Revolution Live first opened its musical doors to downtown Fort Lauderdale. They performed on the back patio, a space now known as America’s Backyard. That was eight years ago. Since, music makers of…
Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman offers his insights, opinions, and observations about the local scene. This week: A cool quartet of home brewed offerings. There’s been a flurry of superb local releases lately, proving that South Florida’s hitting some right notes. Four albums in particular offer cause…
George Clinton for Revolution Live’s Eighth Anniversary October 25
Alejandro Escovedo and the Sensitive Boys at Culture Room October 26
The Goddamn’ Hustle CD-Release Halloween Party at Green Room October 27
Ft. Lauderdale got mad trippy for a Tuesday, mane, and they did it with masks on. It might have been the wrong side of humpday, but downtown turned it out in droves for the psychedelic antics from Shpongle at the Revolution Live. Hippies, ravers, bassheads, and anyone who loves a…
Billy Idol may have wailed about a “Rebel Yell,” but no band embraced that Southern sensibility more defiantly than Lynyrd Skynyrd. One of the most essential Southern bands of the last 40 years, they emerged from their native Jacksonville to become album rock standard bearers, courtesy of such radio staples…
Indie rock was as healthy as a chubby, dewy newborn baby at last night’s Minus the Bear and Cursive show at Revolution. The sweaty, smoky venue was packed to the gills with plaid shirts, beards, and more beards. And despite the sold-out Die Antwoord concert happening around the corner, there…
What’s that funny smelling smoke in the air? Where are all these fractals coming from? Oh, that’s right! Shpongle is heading to Revolution Live, and bringing all the funky goodness from the far reaches of other realities with them tonight. See also- EOTO’s Jason Hann on Their Early Days: “We Were…
Die Antwoord Culture Room, Ft. Lauderdale October 22, 2012 Better Than: 99.9% of live music events. Ostensibly, Die Antwoord is weird. As far as you or I can tell — with our normal (and/or normally-hip) lifestyles — they are a pair of entertainers that are fucked up, strange and/or wholly personify…
Regardless of how one weathers the years, the impact time has on an artist is almost always intriguing. For former Black Crowes frontman Chris Robinson, time has witnessed him mellowing (down easy) into a far more laid back sort of guy — an evolution that began at the latter end of…
Sitting outside Revolution Live before the GWAR concert on Saturday night, I thought to myself: Why am I here? If there are two things I fear at a concert, they are: 1. Wet or sticky substances being thrown on me from the stage, and 2. Angry white men. See also- GWAR…
