Misfits’ bassist and current vocalist Jerry Only (born Gerald Caiafa) has made a career out of playing dress-up. With his ghoulish getups and pointy, trademark Eddie Munster tribute “devilock” ‘do, Only sports one of punk’s most recognizable looks. His band is an innovator of the horror-punk movement, an antiestablishment culture…
See also:The Cost Covers Lemonheads “My Drug Buddy” for 4/20Evan Dando and his Lemonheads’ career trajectory is harder to plot than a ballistic path, without the aid of a TI-82x and hyperbolic formulae. When we first heard of the Lemonheads, they were a poppy alternative to grunge with a cute lady…
If you’ve never seen George Clinton and his musical collective Parliament-Funkadelic perform live, then, friend, sorry to say, but you have never had the funk. This funk is nothing like the stale armpit kinda funk. This funk has soul, scope, and depth. This funk will make you dance till your…
See also: Bleeding Palm’s Eye on BLS954 at Five Points LoungeRapper Bleubird’s Top Five Cat Video PicksThe local creative collective known as Black Locust Society is a household name on the South Florida scene. From their quarterly Swarm warehouse parties (voted Best Nightlife Event by NT) to a monthly happening…
See alsoRick Ross Meets Rick Ross at Pembroke Pines Best BuyRick Ross King of Diamonds Release Party for God Forgives, I Don’t, Very Unofficial Pregame MixtapeHow to Make a Rick Ross Beard with Shit You Have Around the HouseThe Bawse joined forces with Reebok to contribube his very own line…
See alsoChronic Cover Songs for 420: Suede Dudes Sing Nirvana’s “Moist Vagina”Rundown of Suede Dudes Many Side Projects Q&A: Suede Dudes’ Bryan Adams on Their Namesake & Being A Fanboy”I can speak for all of us when I say that Mutant Meat is the best representation of all our collective…
Some recognize the City of Brotherly Love as a jumping off point for an assortment of rappers, including Beanie Sigel, Jedi Mind Tricks, and Freeway, while children of the nineties associate Philadelphia with Will Smith’s days before Bel-Air. Recently joining the ranks of these wordsmiths is Meek Mill, a 25-year…
Don’t you love the B-52’s? Of course you do! You’d be a downright honey badger’s fuckfuck toy if you didn’t! The world’s greatest party band will grace the stage at Hard Rock Live on August 22 with a five-decade-strong repertoire of audience pleasers. It’s not only your booty they wanna…
See also: Foreigner: Changing Players, but Same Stash of HitsMusic vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman offers his insights, opinions, and observations about the local scene. This week: Distinguishing the band from the brand. A friend of mine recently sent me an interesting item about a legal brouhaha that’s simmering…
Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman offers his insights, opinions, and observations about the local scene. This week: Reconnecting with history in Bethel, New York. In the trajectory of time, the only thing that’s certain is the past. As we all know, the present is subject to sudden…
See also: Steve Vai, Professional Guitarist and Amateur Beekeeper, Waxes on Polar Shifting and Limitless CreativityWhen we queried virtuosic guitarist and composer Steve Vai about what to expect from his impending South Florida performance — the kickoff show of his tour — he said that we were “in for some surprises.” Last…
At Black Locust Society’s monthly party debut at the new Five Points Lounge this past May, BLS954 rapper Protoman introduced fellow MC Ricardo “Gaps” Tejeda as the “Hologram of Tupac.” “I just got jumped into the Bloods,” Gaps later confessed, rocking a gold rope around his neck and a red…
Fame doesn’t happen overnight; patience is a key component of success. And few MCs have been as tolerant over the years with the fickle music industry as Yo Gotti. In January, the Memphis-based rapper dropped his major-label debut, Live From the Kitchen, on RCA. It was three years past due…
Yo, beat freaks. It’s almost time to slow it down and heat things up at Grand Central, because another edition of Miami Moombahton Massive is coming this way. D.C. moombah founders Nadastrom will top the bill on Thursday alongside local boys Craze and JWLS. Surely, this is the best support…
Great big Hawaiian dudes have the monopoly on ukuleles no more. These days, the funny lil’ stringed instrument has been usurped by a subdivision of the “hipster” community. This branch has thick bangs and long, flowing hair that falls prettily as they play. Their soft feminine voices caress the jingling notes…
The 2012 Summer Olympics have wrapped. Finally. No longer we will all be imbued with the tales of athletic heroism, dramatic finishes, or shattering defeats that NBC has essentially shoved down our collective throats for the past few weeks. As things in London return to normal and cleaning crews extricate…
Big K.R.I.T.Featuring Big Sant and Tito LopezRevolution Live, Fort LauderdaleSaturday, August 11 Better than: Letting my subs blast Live From The Underground.Mississippi’s Big K.R.I.T. made quite an entrance at his Revolution Live performance this weekend. He let his presence be known by performing “Pull Up” and “My Sub (Pt. 2: The…
See also: Slideshow: Neon Trees at Revolution Live Neon Treeswith 21 Pilots and Walk the Moon Revolution Live, Fort LauderdaleAugust 10 Better than: Spending the night reading Nylon Magazine Hailing from Provo, Utah, Neon Trees are quite possibly one of the most infectious acts of 2012. Two years ago, the…
Christopher VictorioMetallica at San Francisco’s Outside Lands festival.METALLICA @ OUTSIDE LANDS FESTIVAL | 8/11/12 The following is a dispatch from Outside Lands Festival in San Francisco, from our sister paper, SF Weekly. Metallica, headlining Saturday night of the Outside Lands festival in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, proved just about…
Christopher VictorioNeil Young and Crazy Horse at the Outside Lands festival.The following is a dispatch from Outside Lands Festival in San Francisco, from our sister paper, SF Weekly. While he’s putting everything into a solo, Neil Young’s face looks like his electric guitar sounds: flush with feeling, vaguely threatening, and…
Never mind the past breathless media reports of craziness at the annual Gathering of Juggalos festival, which started officially this past Wednesday night. Local guys MAYDAY! hit the stage there late Saturday night/early Sunday morning, and unlike other first-time performers, they’re not scared of a little Faygo-spraying. In fact, they…
Terrence Howard once said, “It’s hard out here for a pimp.” Ask a pimp, he’ll verify this fact.But, it’s even harder for a Mississippi rapper, carrying the weight of a region on his back. The South has its fingers crossed for Big K.R.I.T. It’s hoping he’s the savior of an…
