David Crosby is the Forrest Gump of rock n’ roll. I’m not saying Mr. Crosby isn’t very bright, nor that he’s very fast or adept at ping pong. But just as you can’t escape Forrest Gump when going through 20th century American history — there Forrest is shaking JFK”s hand,…
A man with thirty number one singles and eleven number one albums who has starred in a handful of hit movies, possesses a pilot’s license, and owns an island in the Bahamas, it’s easy to say that Tim McGraw is so much more than just a one trick “hat act.”…
Last night, we checked the pulse of South Florida’s hardcore scene by attending another one of Breakeven Booking’s excellent show offerings at the Talent Farm in Pembroke Pines. This particular edition of weeknight hardcore featured the live debut of three local bands and two of California’s rising stars of the…
Music is always a little extra-special when it’s being played in the middle of the ocean. For instance, when the Titanic was going down, and the band played on. That was not normal chamber music. Similarly, but in a much, much, much more cheerful way, the music aboard Jam Cruise is…
Backstage In South Florida: Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman shares observations, insights, and updates relating to South Florida’s musical environs. Ex Norwegian returns! Back in the day, the imminent arrival of a new album by the Beatles or the Stones was something of an event, a cause…
Besides a small minority of Lilly Pulitzer lovin’ hipsters and like 30 Japanese chicks, there’s no young person in the world looking to West Palm Beach for fashion advice. Not that they shouldn’t, but it’s not like a night out on Clematis is the same as opening the pages of…
A festival typically known for its laid-back, family-friendly atmosphere, West Palm Beach’s SunFest came to a violent conclusion this Sunday, with one stabbing and two arrests made while popular hip-hop acts Kendrick Lamar and Mac Miller performed. According to the South Florida site GossipExtra.com, an anonymous police source reported the…
You know those days when a well-crafted Hallmark commercial makes you weep like someone just stomped on your pet hamster? Premenstrual ladies? Coke-heads? Ya feel me?! Well, when my eyes kept welling up watching Jimmy Cliff preach the reggae gospel of “peace and love” to a swarm of sweaty SunFesters,…
Sometimes it feels like the whole dubstep craze has blown over. Surely, the kids have moved on from the bass-driven wobbles that Justin Bieber and Taylor Swift have adopted, among others. But then, Borgore comes to play a show at Revolution, and he’s got the kids lining up around the…
The skies cleared for the last day of the 31st annual SunFest, finally allowing the summer-kickoff waterfront jam to live up to its name. The sun was shining, and fiercely, the entire afternoon as Canadian comedic pop rock troupe Barenaked Ladies performed on the festival’s main Ford Stage. For the…
On day four, SunFest festivities in downtown West Palm Beach took a decidedly EDM turn as flocks of teens donning white tanks, neon sweatbands, bikini tops and every possible kind of booty-short flooded the grounds lining the intracoastal waterway. The vibe was a lot less like the “mini Woodstock” my…
What is a reasonable expectation of a merengue concert for a staunch and incorrigible rock and roller? Well, this staunch and incorrigible rock and roller had to dig deep into his past growing up in Latin America to muster up the strength to keep up with his gringa lady friend…
Better than: Hippie bullshit, man. It is occasionally necessary for us to break the proverbial fourth wall when reviewing a show. This adds perspective, tempers the critiques that toe the line of hyperbole, and allows us to shamelessly express glowing opinions that, without preface, would undermine our dedication to unbiased…
From the label that, for better or worse, brought us the “Harlem Shake,” semi-insane internet rapper RiFF RaFF, and the addictive reggae-style of Major Lazer comes an all-day summer block party. Mad Decent is bringing the bass that’s bound to tear up the outside at Revolution Live and give Fort…
Sunfest? More like Spatefest! The rain was out in full force last night for the opening of the 31st annual waterfront West Palm Beach music and arts festival. We were wondering — considering it always starts on the cusp of our rainy season — was calling this five-day-long festival “SunFest,”…
Have you ever seen the movie Wanderlust where a broke New York couple, played by Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd, end up living on a commune with no bathroom doors? One of the main characters is Seth, a crazed, downward dog-doing sociopath performed skillfully by Justin Theroux. Last night at…
Born in New York City and reared in Puerto Rico, Elvis Crespo will forever be known as the baby-faced merengue-pop crooner behind the 1998 international smash hit “Suavemente.” At that burgeoning time of serious powerhouse Latin male vocalists, Crespo suffered from the fading memory of one-hit wonder Gerardo’s “Rico Suave”…
It has been said that no matter what flavor of heavy metal you prefer or what band you’re most attached to, there is a Swedish group out there that does it better. For fans of progressive metal, Stockholm’s Opeth is the reigning king of post-Rush prog. Fleet-fingered guitarist/composer/vocalist Mikael Akerfeldt…
Is it surprising that Borgore, the Israeli-born DJ known as Asaf Borger in real life, was once a member of a death-metal band? If you’re familiar with his most popular party song, “Decisions,” this might cause you to raise a brow. But so many other things about this rising EDM…
The annual Mad Decent Block Party delivers a full day of musical performances and tons of fun activities at outdoor venues across the country each summer. This July, the 2013 Block Party tour will kick off in Calgary and make its way to 13 venues, promising to be bigger and…
Each year, West Palm Beach is granted its fill of national acts thanks to the waterfront concert SunFest. This year, there’s a buttload of big names, like Smashing Pumpkins and Slightly Stoopid, Kendrick Lamar and Black Crowes. But the folks behind the scenes are no dummies; they know that South…
If we are superior at anything at New Times, it is at having opinions. We’re talking like we even have something to say about the kind of toilet paper your mom buys (leaves stuff in our butts!) or the size of raindrops falling from the sky (they’re too skinny). So,…
