It’s rare to get a rock star on the phone at 9 a.m. on a Saturday. It’s even rarer when it’s actually an hour earlier where he is. Yet the phone rings, and there’s Toto’s veteran guitarist, singer, and songwriter Steve Lukather himself on the line, eager to dispel any…
Food festivals are always a great excuse to stuff your face, but a new fest on the scene wants to cram your earhole with good stuff, as well. Feast of the Sea is a brand new waterfront seafood blowout kicking off on September 13, in downtown West Palm Beach. The…
South Floridians too often forget that this country has much of its roots in Country. Heck, as last week’s New Times interview made plain, even T-Pain is down with the twang. Of course, the folks who hit the Davie Pro Rodeo stay in the know, as do those who tune-in…
Jason Fitzroy Jeffers has been a Renaissance man of sorts in South Florida. A musician and journalist, he recently changed his focus to filmmaking and his first official production, the short documentary Papa Machete has been steadily picking up momentum. This week it was officially selected for the Toronto International…
Kids who’ve lived in Tallahassee know that town has some awesome house parties, so it makes sense Tallahassee boy and multiplatinum artist T-Pain would theme his latest tour around that house-party vibe. He converted the Revolution stage into a living-room hangout, complete with comfy couches, bottles of liquor, girls in…
Some would say the Kings of Leon never went away; others would argue they are just coming back and now some fans are simply crying in a corner. Yesterday it was announced that the Nashville-based radio-friendly rockers are canceling two weeks of shows so drummer Nathan Followill can recover from…
Punk was once underground. Bands played in grungy, rat-infested clubs, and forget hearing the music on the radio. Twenty years ago, that all changed. The Offspring, Bad Religion, and Pennywise are three Southern California bands signed to the same Epitaph record label that helped bring this subversive sound to the…
Blue-eyed soul veteran Michael McDonald sure likes to hang out with the rich and famous. The St. Louis, Missouri, native got his start playing keyboards and singing backing vocals for Steely Dan, including on their classic 1977 album, Aja. When Doobie Brothers’ singer Tom Johnston got sick, the Rock and…
Thirty Seconds to Mars took the stage a little earlier than scheduled this past Friday night at Cruzan Amphitheatre in West Palm Beach. Fans hungrily lurking about the Carnivores tour’s merch table and those grabbing their second round of beers ran back to their seats to provide Jared Leto and…
Closing out a busy summer of live music before the kids go back to school, Cruzan presented another odd-on-paper pairing of bands and a packed house. At the halfway mark of their U.S. tour, Soundgarden and Nine Inch Nails (NIN) delivered as many goods as they could in their time-limited…
There’s something to be said about a little hard work and how it never hurt anybody. Quite frankly, we think a little hard work can get you everywhere and anything. Jamaican-American rapper Mike Beatz has created a notable production resume in his 25 years that includes T-Pain and Trina as…
Linkin Park has been putting out rock-rap tunes for over a decade and recently returned with an album that promises a return to the heavier shit. The band is currently showcasing their new album The Hunting Party with 30 Seconds to Mars and openers AFI on the Carnivores tour. Before…
Eighteen thousand. That is about the maximum capacity for a little establishment in New York City called Madison Square Garden. Seventy-two thousand is the amount of people you can fit within the NYC institution in four days. Four days is the average number of days in a Phish New Year’s…
One minute it’s a parking lot, the next, poof, it’s a full-on concert, hosting some of South Florida’s top musical acts with cocktails, swag bags, and all the fixings. That’s the concept behind Summer Sountrack’s weekly pop-up series, taking over secret locales in Fort Lauderdale this month. Pop-ups are instant…
Billing itself as the first ever EDM festival in Palm Beach Gardens, Electric Cabo Carnival is raving out on Saturday night at Cabo Flats. It’s all free and sponsored by big booze names like Ketel One, Budweiser, Don Julio, Fireball Cinnamon Whisky, and even Monster energy drink to amp it…
Chester Bennington is kind of a genius. Maybe you don’t agree, but back in 1999, when Linkin Park emerged on the scene, you put your hat on backward and jammed to this nu-metal rap shit. The California-based band’s rap-rock tunes were part of your real emotional life. Hybrid Theory landed…
Boynton Beach Arts District’s acclaimed monthly art walks will live to see many another day! We hit up BBAD’s outspoken leader Rolando Barrero yesterday and found him to be in great spirits about the outcome of his meeting with the City of Boynton Beach on Friday. Barrero met with Boynton…
The last time I saw Yes perform live was a year ago. It also marked the first time I saw this legendary prog-rock group. I then declared myself “won over” by a band I had never paid much attention to despite many years of love for peers like King Crimson,…
Mariel Loveland wants you to know she plays in a band. She doesn’t date the band. Loveland sings and plays guitar for the indie pop-punk group Candy Hearts. The band will be in South Florida this Thursday. And while the trio is here, you probably shouldn’t ask if she’s the…
Pop-rock singer-songwriter Gavin DeGraw has been putting out music since 2003 when his hit “I Don’t Want To Be” became the theme song of primetime soap One Tree Hill. His first album Chariot kept him on the map with various hits like “Follow Through” and “I Don’t Want To Be.”…
Last Saturday was the Mad Decent label’s second annual block party at Revolution Live. Lord have mercy, the thing was packed! This was the first date on a pretty large US tour for the Diplo-headed bass fest. And the photos don’t lie, Florida freaking loves its bass. The lineup included…
Although a couple artists have had disastrous results from when they decide to go solo (Ginger Spice, anyone?), former lead singer of Mayday Parade and Go Radio, Jason Lancaster, seems to be doing just fine. Lancaster recently released his first solo album, As You Are, is expecting a son, and…
