Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman offers his insights, opinions and observations about the local scene. This week: Ed Hale speaks. We listen… After catching up with Ed Hale last week in the first part of my interview with the singer/songwriter/guitarist/keyboard player for the former Miami based band Transcendence,…
The postpostpostposthardcore scene has seen a number of bands with names cribbed from famous books. We’ve had an Across Five Aprils, and the Devil Wears Prada is still going. Now there’s Of Mice & Men, a Southern California quintet whose sound sometimes veers into George’s smarts but more often into…
While many heavy bands dubbed “progressive metal” have been forced to toil on the fringes of the rock world at large, Queensrÿche is one of the few acts to come out of that scene and into mainstream success. That’s because, despite any early noodly leanings during its beginning in the…
There are about a million current underground rock microscenes that, at one point, shared an evolutionary branch way back in punk rock. Trends in them are born, copied, and then summarily killed seemingly before anyone can even blog on Tumblr about them. Yet somehow, the national glossy Alternative Press remains…
The Pixies’ victory lap continues widening almost a full two decades after the band last put out a new album. After originating in Boston in the late ’80s and creating a hook-filled rock boilerplate inspiring everyone from Nirvana to Surfer Blood, internal tensions tore them apart. Now, the core of…
Bane with Defeater, Miles Away, Dead End Path, and Hive MindThe Talent Farm, Pembroke Pines Tuesday, November 8, 2011 Better Than: Practicing your mosh moves in front of the mirror. Last night, new-school hardcore fusionists Bane played to a frenzied audience at all-ages, DIY hot-spot institution the Talent Farm. And, in the process,…
Saves the Day with Bayside Revolution, Fort LauderdaleTuesday, November 8, 2011Better Than: Sweating your ass off and being packed in like a bunch of sardines the last time Saves the Day was here. At the ripe age of 15, I had a crush on Chris Conley, but who didn’t? Saves…
You perfectly park your car in the middle of the spot, equidistant from the parallel lines on either side. You lock all of your doors, walk at a moderate pace toward the door, with the price of admission and your I.D. ready in your hand. You stand around and wait…
FishboneWith Downtown Brown and Ketchy ShubyCulture Room, Fort LauderdaleSunday, November 6, 2011Better Than: Succeeding at something only once in eight tries.After funk founders Sly & the Family Stone and James Brown, but before the hip-hop-fused Roots, is the Fishbone era. Unquestionably one of the greatest live bands that fits comfortably…
Radio-Active Records’ Grand Opening PartyWith Little Beard, Luma Junger, and MötherskyRadio-Active Records, Fort LauderdaleSaturday, November 5, 2011Check out a slide show here.Check out video here.Road trippers making their way from Fort Kent, Maine, to Key West will now be able to satisfy their musical needs as they cruise through Broward…
Radiohead’s The King of Limbs deserves a dusting off between now and February 2012, because the gents are doing a tour of the United States. This is not an Occupy Wall Street hoax! The news comes from the band’s publicity firm. Radiohead has indeed published the first nine dates of…
Chris Cornell has fallen on a black day and can’t acoustically shred at the Fillmore Miami tonight. Live Nation reports that laryngitis caused by flu is the reason for the cancellation.This bug has been bothering him for a few days now. Back on November 2, he tweeted, “Caught cold from…
Iyaz hit the scene nice and sweet with his smash hit “Replay” in 2009 when the singer was only 22 years old. Discovered by Sean Kingston via his MySpace page and Caribbean hit “Island Girls,” the British Virgin Islander joined the ranks of a growing legion of island pop stars.Keidran…
Today’s Justin Bieber-drenched climate kind of makes us forget that girls used to swoon over and faint at the sight of guitar-wielding bad boys. Sure, when “Jessie’s Girl” ruled the earth, Rick Springfield was already over 30, and his boyish looks softened the blow of his oft-biting lyrics. Make no…
It’s the late-’90s inside a dingy club, hardcore music echoes throughout the room, and a female-fronted band takes the stage. A chubby-faced girl with scraggly short hair walks onto the stage and picks up the mic. She’s dressed in baggy jeans with an inside-out, over-sized T-shirt and some heavily worn-in…
Shooting the breeze with 28-year-old Fort Lauderdale native Travis Newbill will lead to whimsical conversations about artistic stimuli, meditational transformations, and botched relationships. Delivered with a starry glaze through larger-than-life spectacles and with an eccentric-yet-welcoming style, one can’t help be but wonder: Is he serious? Truth be told, Trav is…..
Nothing about Between the Buried and Me is predictable, starting with the band’s appearance. Although the guys look like laid-back surfer dudes, the band’s sound is a fierce combination of nearly every kind of metal in existence. But where other bands attempting an “experimental” tack wind up with a disjointed…
Spend enough time around South Broward and northern Miami-Dade and with a little luck, you’ll eventually have your own Yngwie Malmsteen sighting. And he’s quite a sight indeed — the Swedish-born, Miami-based shredder usually appears in full metal glory, rocking a sort of gravity-defying mane of long curls and tight…
Over the past two decades, Fishbone has changed markedly. Past members now outnumber current ones, and a few considered part of the classic lineup have quit, rejoined, and then faded away again. However, the important stuff about Fishbone has remained through thick and thin. The band still freely mixes metal,…
Nothing will probably ever match the exhausting, seven-hour Bruise Cruise Kickoff Party at Grand Central in February. County Grind had no voice, no wits, and nothing left to sweat out after that, and yet, it would be ideal to see so many energetic bands and bodies fill that space again.Well,…
Fitz & the TantrumsCulture Room, Fort LauderdaleTuesday, November 1, 2011Better Than: Almost anything that calls itself “soul” these days.Nearly 3,000 miles from their native city of Los Angeles, Fitz & the Tantrums made their Fort Lauderdale debut to a packed house at the Culture Room. Channeling the soulful funkability of…
Anthrax, the thrash-metal legends led by iconically bearded guitarist Scott Ian, has never fallen off. While other heavy-music peers with as much longevity have taken time to get weird or experimental, this act has always stuck to searing, soaring, anti-gravity riffs and melodies with a charging punk fury. Anthrax has…
