Sandratz Host Skate Jam at Circus Bowl in Pompano

We here at New Times think you should get an early start on your New Year’s resolutions. Take the Gorilla Biscuits approach and start today! We’ll show you how. Our first resolution (after shaking this nasty cough-syrup addiction we developed over the fall) is to stop hanging out at the…

Power Trip – The Talent Farm, Pembroke Pines – December 20

Last Friday night, the Talent Farm of Pembroke Pines hosted a celebration of the new guard of thrash metal. A virulent display of chugging guitars, screaming vocals, and hectic mosh that served as much as a barometer of the strength of South Florida’s own metal and hardcore scene as it…

Jingle Ball 2013: Miley’s Five New, Ratchet Holiday Traditions

Have you been naughty or nice this year? And no, Miley, no one is asking you. Because it doesn’t take Santa’s omniscience to know you’ve been a very bad girl. This year, we’ve seen your flat booty more times than we’ve seen our mother’s face. So you’re getting a sexy…

Ultra 2014: Phase One Lineup with Diplo, M.I.A., MGMT, Pusha T, Avicii

“It’s lineup day!” For the last 21 hours, Ultra Music Festival has been taunting and teasing international beat freaks with its 2014 Phase One reveal. But now it’s finally here … A 105-act roster packed with big-name DJs (Avicii, Eric Prydz, Diplo, Hardwell, Tiësto) and a killer live contingent (M.I.A.,…

Losin’ It Calls It Quits with Final Mosh at the Talent Farm

Every graduating class of South Florida’s hardcore-punk community has provided at least a band or two that manages to break into the consciousness of the national hardcore scene. Broward-based hardcore group Losin’ It was one such act. It has flown South Florida’s flag on a national scale in recent years,…

Jim Camacho Does It for the Kids in Nutcracker Musical Backstory The Mouse King

For a quarter century, the ever-youthful, heck-no-I-don’t-need-hair-dye singer/guitarist Jim Camacho has rocked South Florida’s stages with a cheerful vigor and a melodic knack. His mother, the ever-present “Momma Camacho” nurtured the Goods — the band Camacho led with his brother, John between 1987 and 1999 — to the point that…

Tortuga Music 2014 Festival Lineup Announced!

Tortuga Music Festival took the salty life to the next level by planting a beer-, boob-, and beach-friendly festival square on the sand in Fort Lauderdale. The inaugural event brought in waves of music lovers in cowboy hats and flip-flops. The lineup was country-heavy, but there was some folk, blues,…

Lovers Key Perform During Art Basel Tonight

Back in March, we introduced you to Christopher Moll’s newest musical exploit. We saw Moll continuing to yearn for yesteryear with his musical inclinations; the Lovers Key, like the Postmarks before them, presents a throwback sound that hints the group’s records are vinyl gems rescued from some studio’s magic vault…

Dan Hosker Music Continuum Celebrates Life and a Legacy

I’m usually jovial enough at gatherings to let certain rye libations behind my wheel and commandeer conversations at social gatherings — in a rather obnoxious manner, I’m usually told — and shanghai any topic into a “me-me-me” scenario. Unfortunately, the beers I’ve had now aren’t enough to muster that kind…