Silversun Pickups With Against Me! and the Henry Clay People Sunset Cove Amphitheater, Boca RatonWednesday, June 16, 2010 Better Than: Anything else that has ever gone on in West Boca.It started out as kidding around with Silversun Pickups’ drummer Christopher Guanlao about the band selling Silversun Pickups’ Off! at its…
In addition to finding out that Silversun Pickups frontman Brian Aubert just wed a fellow musician, Twilight Sleep frontwoman Tracy Marcellion, in Italy, Alex Rendon’s fine feature about the Los Angeles alt-rockers, reveals that the band has moved up in the world since its last visit to South Florida. Only…
The Band in HeavenWith LaguesPropaganda, Lake WorthTuesday, June 15, 2010Male-female duos are easy to like. Tuesday night at Propaganda, the Band in Heaven, now based in West Palm Beach, and husband-wife team making up the Lagues shook the stage with two styles of noisy rock. Small bands require chemistry, and…
Pavement-reminiscent, no-frills rockers the Henry Clay People sound more like they came from the heartland than the rough and tumble, glam streets of L.A. They’ll transform from heavy guitar riffs and a bleeding heart one minute to drunken escapades and a troubadour-like piano sound the next, making a new name…
Keeping this short, because there’s no reason to be long-winded about a well-known rapper like 50 Cent. He needs no introduction, so I won’t bother with one. Remember when he and Kanye West had a pointless retail war on the date that Graduation and Curtis were released a couple of…
Reggae fans excited to see one of the true legends of the movement will have to wait. Bunny Wailer, who along with Bob Marley and Peter Tosh formed The Wailers back in the 60’s, was scheduled to bring his vintage Rasta vibe to Revolution in Fort Lauderdale this coming Thursday…
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: Bob Dylan stumbles, Roger Daltrey fumbles, Keith Moon crumbles… but the band(s) play on!Some of the most memorable concerts I’ve attended are those in which…
At the tail end of their Fishscales tour (this is not a pun), Lagues are playing alongside the equally fuzzed-out the Band in Heaven, though the latter’s namesake is a hint to its distortion being of a softer, prettier variety. Lagues, a husband-and-wife duo from Orlando, plays gritty (awesome) psychedelica…
In anticipation of Maxwell’s performance tonight at American Airlines Arena in Miami with Jill Scott, Miami New Times devoted some space. The neo-soul singer left a huge gap between 2001’s Now and last year’s BLACKsummers’night, but it was well worth the wait — a career statement that shows that the…
Poplife Anniversary Party With Surfer Blood, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, and Hooray for Earth Grand Central, Miami Saturday, June 12, 2010 To be fair, most of the details of this concert worth noting — from hipster couture to Ronettes covers — are over at Crossfade, courtesy of…
While Christian metalcore band Gwen Stacy takes its lyrical work seriously as a means to express its beliefs, the music clearly nods to the more polished version of metal as it conveys elements of hardcore. Posicore? The band named after Peter Parker’s girlfriend hails from Indianapolis and is well-versed on…
As we previously announced, Surfer Blood will indeed play a benefit show in South Florida June 30. The event, presented by TheHoneyComb.com, is going to be in Lake Worth, though, at Propaganda. Area acts the Jameses, the Dewars, and Chill Pillars are on board for the show, dubbed the Oil.Spill.Benefit…
Brooks & DunnWith Jason Aldean and Tyler DickersonCruzan Amphitheatre, West Palm BeachSaturday, June 12, 2010They could have just gone their separate ways, traveling that red dirt road into the sunset.But instead, Brooks & Dunn chose to take fans one more time down memory lane, and a capacity crowd at West…
West Palm’s indie-rock lovelies Surfer Blood, who need little introduction in these pages, are back from their European vacation. They’ve packed two fabulous bands in their suitcases that should make showing up early to the Poplife Anniversary party even easier.First, New York’s the Pains of Being Pure at heart are…
This past April the long awaited release of Mike Mineo’s debut album was celebrated with a big party at the Funky Buddha Lounge in Boca Raton. For the show, Mineo assembled a seven-piece band to rock, waltz, laugh, and groove through all 18 songs, in order, from the wildly eclectic Eccentricity…
Anyone with any doubt about the broad appeal of country music need look only to Brooks & Dunn for proof of its popularity. Aside from the fact that they’re the biggest selling duo in the genre’s history, they’re also credited with outselling every other musical duo overall, competition that includes…
The Resolvers have brought solid reggae music to the people of South Florida for more than three years now. It’s only been very recently, though, that they’ve upped their contribution by adding a horn section and a couple of lovely background singers to the mix; doubling the size of the…
The upcoming To Hell With Poverty at Respectable Street makes for a good trifecta of tributes: to birthday boy Brian (we’d put his last name here for formality’s sake, but it would be creepy), to Lavola, now picked to play at the Silversun Pickups/Against Me!/The Henry Clay People show next…
Drummer Derek Roddy will be the featured artist in the next in the series of the 2010 drum clinics hosted by Jeff Lee of Resurrection Drums. The event will be held at the Bienes Center for the Arts in Fort Lauderdale on June 16. Roddy, known for his contribution to…
Skafest 2010 begins at 2 p.m. at Rocketown in Pompano Beach. What follows is our preview coverage of the event from the print edition. “Ska is one of the only music scenes in which the community is overwhelmingly positive and everyone is friendly,” declares Matt Turner, organizer of SkaFest 2010…
Lake Worth’s daylong celebration of music, Lake Worth-It, has been confirmed for August 7 in the city’s lovely Bryant Park, according to the newly updated website. With Of Montreal’s Kevin Barnes, John Ralston & Invisible Music, the Dewars (with an a), and 18 other local acts on the bill, a…
Neil Young initiated one of the most barbed exchanges in rock ‘n’ roll history with “Southern Man” and “Alabama,” two scathing indictments of segregation and Southern sins. Pride rankled, Lynyrd Skynyrd jumped to its homeland’s defense and responded with “Sweet Home Alabama,” etching a classic-rock standard and ripping Young a…
