SpookyKids.netOn April 28, 1990, a 4-month-old band called Marilyn Manson & the Spooky Kids (they were never separate entities) played its first live show at Churchill’s Pub. In the next few years, the band would, in an act of practicality, drop the Spooky Kids suffix, get signed to a major…
Lee, your jaw looks awfully swollen!Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman shares stories of memorable rock ‘n’ roll encounters that took place in our local environs. This week, Lee gets wired, but it’s definitely a bringdown.I may be the only person in the history of mankind to ever…
Photo by Sayre BermanShakira at BankAtlantic Center, September 25, 2010.Shakira BankAtlantic Center, Sunrise Saturday, September 25, 2010Check out a slideshow from the concert here. Shakira’s last South Florida performance in 2006 meant that fans have had four years, and one successful CD release, to prepare for Saturday night’s concert at…
Photo by Ian WitlenCocoRosiewith Raffa & Rainerat Revolution, Fort LauderdaleFriday, September 24, 2010Check out a slideshow from the concert here.Better than: A drum circle with a beatboxer, a pianist, a woodwind combo, harp, and images of horses and beach scenes. Wait. Does that even exist?The review: Attending a CocoRosie show…
Photo by Antoine VerglasShakira loves her pop music.Shakira is blessed with a treasure of a larynx and is notorious for her physical appearance — and talents for propelling herself through space to inspire a fervid, “loca” following — but she also digs a lot of different types of music outside…
Photo by Ian WitlenRaffa Jo HarrisRaffa Jo Harris is that Miami-based guitarist/vocalist who’s taught untrained ears that it is in fact cool to “rock a little softer.” The 29-year-old sultry songbird often shares the stage with her partner in crime, Rainer Davies, as Raffa & Rainer, and they’re known for…
Neil YoungWith Allen ToussaintHard Rock Live, HollywoodThursday, September 23, 2010 For musical chameleon Neil Young, a solo show at the Hard Rock would have seemed prime to sample his more subdued side, but in truth, he went mellow only in moderation. Young’s well-documented evolution from rock to rockabilly, folk to…
It goes without saying that the Heartbreakers have been one of the most influential rock ‘n’ roll bands on the whole punk thing. They’re right up there with proto acts like the Velvet Underground, the MC5, the Stooges, and Question Mark & the Mysterians. Whether they considered themselves punks or…
More touring ruined by bad behavior for today: A wild night almost two years ago has finally caught up with R&B singer Lyfe Jennings. Back on October 19, 2008, Jennings reportedly got in a spat with manager/baby mama Joy Bounds, fired a few bullets, and was eventually apprehended by police…
C. StilesRob Van Winkle knows a thing or two about a media blitz. As a matter of fact, there had never been anything like the publicity machine behind Vanilla Ice when he exploded all over America 20 years ago. Compared to that, his recent publicity — in anticipation of his…
MySpace.comThe Methodaires pack the stage at Churchills.After three years of gigging up and down South Florida’s coast, Fort Lauderdale ska-revivalists the Methodaires have put the final touches on its debut EP. With lead singer Nia Devine belting out choruses Patti LaBelle-style, the group is also known for its crowd-pleasing rocksteady…
via their MySpace pageMost of us remember Stone Temple Pilots as that mid-’90s rock band that loves art school girls and interstate love songs just about as much as they do creeps and vasoline (sic). Their arena rock stylings influenced many a teen to trade in their vans and JNCOs…
Restless artists are practically like chameleons — changing their style and stance with each new outing to keep their fans guessing. Bowie, Byrne, and Prince are the most obvious examples, but Neil Young ranks as the all-time champ of transformation. He’s so prolific that critics have practically forced themselves to…
Legendary Shack Shakers are not typical Southern-fried fare, no insipid Nashville Muzak served up safe and soft. Think demented Dixieland instead. Imagine vaudevillians, carnies, punks, and Tom Waits producing whiskey-drizzled psychobilly. Bursting with weird flourishes, they trample and resurrect genres with mad glee. While straightforward songs like “No Such Thing”…
Rascal Flatts is everywhere. On Hershey’s commercials. On the Today show. On reality shows like the recent Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution. And next year, the most heralded country act of the decade will get its own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. It’s only appropriate that the band’s 2009…
Miss 1992? Godsmack singer Sully Erna sure does, and he wants you to revisit it with him. Not old enough to intentionally listen to music in 1992? That’s all right; Erna doesn’t require studying up on his influences to rock along with him — just have a love for loud,…
Music trends come and go, but Hawaiian trio Pepper keeps on trucking with a time-tested sound that’s mellower than its namesake spice. Whatever you think a band of surfer dudes from Hawaii would sound like, it’s likely right on point. Pepper’s flavor is based on a heavy blend of dub…
With your anemic attention span fed on endless helpings of Adult Swim, Count Chocula, and hot chronic, maybe a night of partying alongside Brooklyn rap punks Ninjasonik doesn’t sound all that exciting. Well, you need to get off that jaded hipster ish because these three cross-genre scientists are the real…
Things could be a lot worse for Shakira, seeing as she’s a smoking-hot, sweet-natured, crazy-successful, one-woman foreign-exchange program whose international fan base includes fellow Colombian Gabriel García Márquez. It ain’t such a bad gig, even if the veracity of her lower anatomy will always be in question, and like it…
For a couple of unassuming, pixie-ish artsy girls, the sisters Casady have created one of the most divisive acts in indie-ish circles. As CocoRosie, Bianca and (“Coco”) and Sierra (“Rosie) have since 2003 been creating a peculiar — in every sense of the world –and otherworldy mish-mash of folk, downtempo,…
Bobby Lee Rodgers is a well known jammer in the world of twirling hippies, mostly as the guitar whiz in the Codetalkers, a band which also featured the legendary Col. Bruce Hampton. Beginning Thursday, September 23, he will be revisiting his jazz roots with a regular gig at the Green…
Photo courtesy of Lee ZimmermanDuran Duran and company, Lee’s third from the right in the back.Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman shares stories of memorable rock ‘n’ roll encounters that took place in our local environs. This week, Wrestling with radio. People frequently ask me what was involved…
