Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman offers his insights, opinions, and observations about the local scene. This week: The Shack in the Back offers music lovers a different kind of concert. In South Florida, concert venues generally fall into one of three categories, — big box theaters like…
For every Iggy Pop — shirtless, strutting, bleeding, and smearing peanut butter all over the wiggling perspiration-soaked flesh-bag of amphetamines that is (technically) his body — there’s a quiet, cool, composed, contemplative beard-stroking Brian Eno. Adrift the dark-and-murky spectrum between classical composer and rock ‘n’ roll’s avant-garde, these soundsmiths typically defy…
Better than: Having no show at all. If there was every any doubt about South Florida’s raving youth and their commitment to Krewella’s hard and dirty party antics, all nay-sayers were hushed forever by the chanting hundreds who couldn’t even get in the front door. “Let us in, let us…
A few weeks back, we took to the high seas to see what the maiden voyage of the S.S. Coachella would be like. There were still sand and sunburns on this ocean journey, like in Indio, but there also were waves. Our adventure left us musically satisfied.See also- Best and…
Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman offers his insights, opinions, and observations about the local scene. This week: Lissette Gonzalez balances music with meteorology. A singing meteorologist? The premise may seem strange at first, then there’s the obvious jokes, “Singing in the Rain,” “It’s Raining Men.” But Lissette…
With a stage name like Chrome Dick, one might expect noise dude Raphael Alvarez to be sporting leather pants, thick links of chain, and a black skintight gimp-mask with a zipper through which he may dangle his bright pink freak-a-leak tongue. But even when he is surfing eye-watering shrieks of…
Engelbert Humperdinck is a bad motherfucker.Not only did he sing “Lesbian Seagull” for the end credits of Beavis And Butthead Do America, he’s also sold over 180 million records around the world.He was born with the boring name of Arnold Dorsey to a British dad and Indian mom in 1936,…
Tuesday, January 22Looka Looka Looka at Blind Pig TuesdaySpeakeasy Lounge, 129 N Federal Hwy, Lake Worth. Music starts at 8PM and there is no cover. Call the Speakeasy Lounge at (561) 791-6242 and visit the Blind Pig Tuesday Facebook Page. Full article here: Looka Looka Looka at Blind Pig Tuesday; Promises Acoustic…
As musician and performer Emilie Autumn moves into the next phase of her career — taking her act to a London stage — the growth is apparent in her newest tour Fight Like a Girl. More of a theatrical performance than a concert, her show at Revolution this weekend had…
Sometimes we feel like saddlin’ up our nastiest stead, slappin’ a vinegar-laced sneer on our already-ugly mug, and ridin’ off into beyond-the-sunset to live a hardened, sun-baked existence, filled with resourceful survival, dangerous adventure, and booze. A lot of booze. If you share our affinity for the outlaw lifestyle, and…
The essence of blues is rooted in sadness, so, while the concept of a “Sunshine” Blues Festival is a novel one, it is only appropriate that the day was spent beneath the cover of clouds and random torrents of rain.See also- Photos from Sunshine Blues Festival 2013- Derek Trucks of…
Martin Luther King Jr loved South Florida, and visited the region many times throughout his career. He was a contemporary of some of Miami’s most upstanding citizens, like Father Theodore Gibson of Overtown, as well as some of our most venerable party starters, like WMBM disc jockey Milton “Butterball” Smith…
“It’s not really a genre I listen to,” a bearded, crossed-armed and stoic fan admitted during set break, “but given not one, but four or even seven talented musicians like those guys up there, and I’d listen to anything they played. Even bluegrass. Anything would sound good played by the…
Just this past Christmas, Steve Aoki’s label Dim Mak snagged talented West Palm Rapper Will Brennan. We named the best Palm Beach County rapper on a recent list of 10; though not a ranked list necessarily, he definitely stood out to us as an MC with breakout potential. See also-…
Singer, songwriter and guitarist Tommy Castro may not be a household name, but amongst denizens of the blues’ scene Castro is a living legend. In 2008, the California-based musician cemented his reputation as a searing 12-bar axe man when he took home the Blues Music Award for the Entertainer of…
Better Than: Staying home and watching Palladia.In our experience, artists who file with the prefix “classic” before their genre face the inevitable loss of some of “the magic” with age.However, Paul Rodgers’ performance last night at Hollywood’s Seminole Hard Rock Live showed that he’s a man who deems himself above…
Having a massive hit single early on in a career usually results in one of two things. At worst, the artist finds him or herself stuck with the stigma that they’re a one-hit wonder. At best, however, the astute musician uses that success as a stepping stone and an ongoing…
For the past six or seven decades of North American popular culture as we know it, it has been sufficient for creative types to pick a set of motifs, a broad set of thematics, or an aesthetic school of influence, and then charge head first into the fray. But in…
While everyone else in the world are trying to keep their chilly booties toasty, we’re stripping down and cooling off in our mama’s pool. It’s hot, friends, and it’s winter. To even mention global warming, with 80 degree weather dominating December and January, would mean to admit that the polar…
Does anybody actually believe legendary ax man Robert Johnson met the fallen angel of light, Lucifer, at a Southern crossroads and then traded his everlasting soul to that heaven-defying SOB in exchange for the ability to play hot-handed guitar and invent the blues? Because if the story were true, we…
Guitarist Derek Trucks is an amiable guy, armed with a ready laugh. Then again, he’s got plenty of reasons to smile. He’s the nephew of longtime Allman Brothers drummer Butch Trucks. He’s amply employed, both as a regular member of the aforementioned Allman Brothers and as co-leader of the Tedeschi…
Moe., Post Jam Cruise 11Revolution Live, Fort LauderdaleJanuary 12, 2013By C. Townsend Rizzo”My first show,” an audience member said, waving his cane around, shaking his hips, “was in 1968.” Of course, he can’t possibly mean his first moe. show. “You know, Jerry, and Phil,” he continued, bobbing his long white…
