German six-piece Rammstein was among the great bogeymen of the late ’90s, right up there with Marilyn Manson and Tool as bands you could blast in your room to disturb conservative parents. Indeed, much of the band’s shtick, from its gut-churning, throbbing industrial take on metal to its deliberately provocative…
Last September, erudite Englishman, ex-punk, and eyewear enthusiast Elvis Costello was forced to postpone his globe-spanning “Spectacular Spinning Songbook” tour, including a South Florida show, “due to matters pertaining to the very serious illness of a close family member.” At the time, Costello’s camp was secretive about the identity of…
Thursday, Mizner Park Amphitheater will play host to the young rap anomaly Mac Miller on his extensive college tour down the East Coast. Rolling off the release of a number-one Billboard record last November, Mac is bringing the steady buzz of his new mixtape, Macadelic, to South Florida’s bassheads. Although not…
The annual Hukilau extravaganza, a unique event that’s part fandom convention, part history-buff gathering, part retro-tastic spring break, returns on Thursday, April 19, to South Florida, this time at the Best Western Oceanside at Fort Lauderdale Beach. The four-day event as a whole celebrates tiki culture, a retro-loving scene based…
“Filter was a special band I alway respected because of Richard Patrick’s gift of melody and interesting lyrics,” says singer/songwriter Fernando Perdomo, whose Dreaming in Stereo act will open for Filter this Thursday at Revolution Live. Turns out, he’s a big fan of the band. “One minute the band would be…
The world asked yesterday: Why did Tupac come back from the dead in hologram form at Coachella? More important, we want to know, where was hologram Biggie?You know the story. During Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg’s performance at this West Coast music festival, “Tupac” crashed the stage as a hologram. “Tupac”…
See also: *”What My Spirit Hood Means To Me”: Coachella-Goers Explain *Coachella: The Black Lips’ Cole Alexander Goes Full Monty, Plays Guitar With His Ding-Dong – Ben WesthoffAt Coachella, folks come from all over the world to lose themselves in the music. They’ll employ almost anything in this quest — but mostly drugs…
Attention, all craft brewheads, musicaholics, and those who casually fall into both categories: Delray Beach is offering some impressive, libation-infused music events for you this 4/20 weekend. The first incarnation of the Old School Beerfest will be held Saturday at Old School Square on Atlantic Avenue and is set to…
Supervillains Culture Room Friday, April 13, 2012Better than: Smoking weed on your couch, imagining that you’re hanging out with Bradley Noel. There’s plenty of philosophical discussion about whether any given performer’s work has artistic merit. All that will be said in that vein, in response to the Supervillains performance at Culture Room…
Charles Bradley and His Extraordinaires Budos BandRevolution LiveSaturday, April 14, 2012For the full slideshow, click here.Better than: Being raptured by the Holy Ghost.”Can I go to church?!? I said… Can. I. Go. To. Church?!?” Charles Bradley yelled to the intimate audience at Revolution on Saturday night. Sure, it wasn’t the Lord’s…
Christopher Victorio/OC Weekly See also: *The Best Of Coachella: Day One *”What My Spirit Hood Means To Me”: Coachella-Goers Explain *Coachella Preview 2012: Everything You Need to Know About the Performers*Radiohead, Weekend 1: No Alarms, No SurprisesLink to original article. Radiohead certainly had the most prefestival buzz for Saturday, but…
Andrew Youssef/OC Weekly RadioheadCoachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, IndioApril 14, 2012- Adam LovinusRadiohead might have a problem. The band is so consistently great that an elite performance, such as the one turned in Saturday night at Coachella, could be seen as missing that element of surprise that comes with…
Andrew Youssef/OC WeeklyCoachella! Yeah!Day one of The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival brought something more unusual than ironic outfits or that poor guy who couldn’t get his flip flops on for the life of him: this year there was rain. The festival held in the Southern California desert is known for…
Gabrielle CanonSee also: *Spirit Hoods: The Weirdest Fashion Startup Ever *Expected Fashion Trends at Coachella Spirit Hoods are back! At Coachella this year these fuzzy animal-themed head gears resembling furs (but not!) have returned with a vengeance; one’s instinct remains, as always, to mock them, but this year, with heavy winds and thick…
There is nothing South Florida likes (read: loves) more than contests. Be it moronically closely watched dangling chads versus dimpled keypunches, Cubans versus Ozzie Guillen’s big mouth, or which douchey nightclub charges more for lackluster VIP setups, ours is a competition-driven society. Rock ‘n’ roll is a beast created by rebellion…
Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman shares observations, insights and updates relating to South Florida’s musical environs. This week, a Facebook chain recaptures my past. I recently got sucked into one of those Facebook chains where it seems everybody and their sister gets tagged on a subject that…
Stuart-based trio Aquaphonics dubs its sound “electro-soul,” and indeed, it often uses a funky interplay between the electronic and the organic. As the group’s watery name might indicate, there’s a lot of bubbling percussion and cresting and receding waves of guitar and keyboard. And besides the “electro” and “soul” parts,…
The Speakeasy in Lake Worth is quickly becoming Palm Beach County’s new epicenter of punk, hardcore, and all related subgenres. That’s mostly thanks to local duo On Fire Booking, whose promotional power in scoring big-name touring acts now rivals that of bookers at bigger clubs. Case in point: this show…
In 2012, Yanni is often an easy punch line; anytime someone needs a quick quip about the New Age and easy-listening cultural moments of the early ’90s, Yanni’s the guy. The Greek composer particularly didn’t help himself much on the latter front with his famous, overblown, 1994 Live at the…
Van Halenwith Kool and the GangBankAtlantic Center April 11, 2012Better than: VH with Sammy Hagar, even though he’s a fellow Arab-American (sorry, brother).Somewhere between “I’ll Wait” and “Hot for Teacher,” Diamond Dave had a diva moment. It was one of those times when you watch something happen and then wonder to yourself, Wait, that…
If you’ve been noticing a certain uptick in Lake Worth bookings along the hardcore, punk, and related spectrum, it’s not just you. The rosters at the Speakeasy Lounge and Propaganda are packed in coming weeks with performances by big-name touring acts like Set Your Goals and Chelsea Grin. They’re all…
Numonics, the local hip-hop producer born Jonathan Rosenfeld, is on a hot streak. In the past couple of months, he’s released a handful of new albums — two with local artists, Knowledge Medina and J. NICs, and two with out-of-towners, Co$$ (repping Los Angeles) and REKS (from Lawrence, Massachusetts). At…
