Chris Young enjoyed another bump up the country music hierarchy this year thanks to his duet with Cassadee Pope, “Think of You,” which is up for a CMA award for Musical Event of the Year. And with a Christmas album hitting the shelves, Young says he continues to accomplish things…
Give Le Youth a time machine, and it’s clear where he’ll go. “There was something cool about the ’90s. the California-based, Ohio-born electronic musician, DJ, and producer says. “I think everyone knows what I am talking about.” His bio describes his music as a “?’90s sounds refracted through a thoroughly…
Its press release describes its sound as “New Orleans Big Brass Circus Rock,” but saxophonist Matt Thomas says his band Dirty Bourbon River Show is, more simply, a theatrical party. “We want to pay tribute to New Orleans while doing something artistically satisfying,” Thomas tells New Times as he shows some…
In the blink of an eye, Halloween has passed us by. And if you don’t stop and pay attention, you’re going to miss your last chance to get early bird tickets for the Riptide Music Festival. Now through Sunday, November 6, you can continue to get early bird-priced tickets…
A year ago guitarist Stu Sauce, drummer Cody Orange, and bassist Rod Reiter were strangers. After a few Craig’s List ads and a meeting of the minds at a Starbucks, the Deerfield Beach trio quickly united to form the funk band Xotic Yeyo. Though their influences ranged from jam bands like…
For Bonnie Raitt to be one of the few people to make Rolling Stone’s lists of both the 100 greatest singers and guitar players demonstrates her unique abilities. In the midst of an extensive tour that takes the blues-rock legend to the Broward Center tonight, Raitt spoke with…
“We decide on stage what songs we play.” That is how Go Kurosawa, the drummer of Japanese psychedelic rock band Kikagaku Moyo, explains how his group prepares for a concert. “If the crowd is silent, we’ll play meditative, dreamy songs. If people are more wild, we will play more punk…
Foals, an award-winning indie rock quintet, sold out their first-ever show in Fort Lauderdale at Revolution Live.
Not even old enough to legally drink in America yet, the 20-year-old Irish musician EDEN is already in the second chapter of his musical career. Born as Jonathon Ng in Dublin, Ireland he received classical training in violin at age seven. In the next dozen years he taught himself piano, guitar,…
There’s no figure more polarizing in music right now than Kanye West. Love or hate him, everyone has an opinion on Yeezus. While he hasn’t come out and straight up said it, it’s apparent that Kanye has positive vibrations for South Florida. Mr. Kim Kardashian just revealed his Saint Pablo…
Tortuga might mean turtle in Spanish, but on Fort Lauderdale Beach it means one of the world’s premier country music festivals. Yesterday Tortuga Music Festival announced the line-up for the fifth edition. The three-day festival on the sandy seaside of Fort Lauderdale Beach Park will be held in 2017 on…
“A bunch of us just said, ‘Hey, we have the basic ingredients, let’s pull it together.'” is how Layne Fox, music director at Lake Worth’s CWS Bar + Kitchen, explained how the Damn Glad to Party with You Festival came together for an all day extravaganza October 15. The free all-day, all-night…
Robert Schwartzman has not always been as enthusiastic about Rooney as he is today. “I’ll tell you this,” he says. “I remember being onstage in Rooney years ago and playing these songs and not feeling inspired… I needed to take time away from this project to realize how much I…
It’s just after 10 a.m. and Rick Wakeman’s up early, especially by rock star standards. Then again, he’s got a new project…
Donald Trump is perhaps the most divisive candidate to run for president of the United States. And when YG was planning a new tour, he thought it was the perfect opportunity to let Trump know how he felt about him. “I ain’t a political dude, but I got to speak…
The music festival craze seems to know no bounds as another impressive two day line-up has been announced for South Florida. This time it is the inaugural edition of the Riptide Music Festival, which will be held December 3 and 4 on the beach of Fort Lauderdale.. Put together by Entercom,…
The Dandy Warhols 2000 release Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia was more than just a flawless rock album. On songs like “Bohemian like You,” “Horse Pills” and “Cool Scene” it also foretold the era of the hipster, a label Dandy Warhols’ singer Courtney Taylor-Taylor is proud to carry. “All my…
Take one listen to Pompano Beach’s Peyote Coyote’s self-titled five song debut EP and you’ll know the trio picked the perfect name. The five songs of stoner rock released this past April make you feel like someone smuggled a hard core psychedelic into your ear drums. Guitarist Ryan Huseman, bassist…
Miami’s garage rock savants Jacuzzi Boys spent enough time on dry land to finish their fourth album,”Ping Pong” set for release October 21. It was recorded in Los Angeles last year over the course of four months while the trio of singer/guitarist Gabriel Alcala, drummer Diego Monasteri, and bassist Danny Gonzales listened to a…
Sunshine came softly through our window today. The Sunshine Music Festival announced the line-up for the fifth edition of jamtastic music to be held Sunday, January 15, 2017 at Boca Raton’s Mizner Park Amphitheater. The headliner will be Sunshine Music Festival veterans Tedeschi Trucks Band, the Jacksonville blues rock band made up…
Guitarist John Ceparano was holding some flowers one day when a stranger approached, glanced at the blooms in his hands, and asked if they were stargazer lilies. “We thought that was such a cool name for a band,” Ceparano remembers. “It informed our sound. We thought, What would a band…
Though the seasons are more subtle in South Florida than in other parts of the country, there are signs that Autumn is here. The kids are back in school, the days are getting shorter, and you can’t escape football being on TV. Most importantly the music scene kicks back up…
