Something like 150,000 glow stick-clutching, Molly-munching, neon hat-wearing, EDM-loving beautiful freaks plop down in downtown Miami each year for Ultra Music Festival. They bring us business, like a lot of it, and all kinds. But they also block Biscayne Boulevard, a strip of US 1, and, at times, horrify the…
Better Than: Most of the shows we’ve seen since we saw the Darkness in 2004When New Times spoke with Darkness guitarist Dan Hawkins, he insisted that his band puts on a stadium-sized show literally every time it steps on stage — regardless of the venue, crowd size, or any other…
American folk duo, Tina and her Pony, doesn’t actually consist of any equine creatures. The Asheville to Taos act has been touring Southern Florida from the Keys to Davie, and Saturday night, Tina Collins (songwriter, vocals, guitar, banjo, ukulele) and Quetzal Jordan (songwriter, vocals, guitar, cello) will make their last…
Katie BainThe EDM cruise Holy Ship!! journeyed from Fort Lauderdale to the Bahamas this past weekend, and we’re still recovering. See also- PHOTOS: Best of 2013 Holy Ship EDM Cruise- PHOTOS: Best Fashion Aboard Holy Ship!! 2013- Holy Ship!! Day One: Surprise Guest Skrillex Takes the Stage- Top 12 Fashion…
Last month, Willie Nelson announced a bunch of Florida dates, but Broward and Palm Beach counties sadly weren’t on his mind. But guess sometime in the past month, we got in there somehow, cause the Red Headed Stranger is storming into town in a haze of pot smoke and country…
This week, there’s so much live music happening in Broward and Palm Beach counties, it’s almost oppressive. That’s a slight exaggeration. But there definitely is enough going on to keep your feet tapping or your head banging till next Monday. Luckily, you’ve been saving up for this big moment. A…
Calling all photo students! New Times Broward-Palm Beach is recruiting photography students for its Spring 2013 Photo Intern Program.By “student,” we do not mean “a student of life.” There’s no cash offered with this gig, only credits. Don’t bother applying if this doesn’t suit you.Still interested? Read on!…
Better than: Thomas Pynchon’s last novel and the severity of a misplaced lover. It is easy to forget oneself in this day and age of vanity and laissez faire shenanigans. It is easy to forget the basic building blocks of a scene, and how the better examples of it, not…
An intimate Monday night at Radio-Active Records was spent dodging rain and overzealous homeless dudes. The audience that consisted mainly of the performing bands, staff, a handful of music enthusiasts, and shoppers made for a cozy school night to kick off the South Florida leg of Mr. Clit and the…
Hey everybody, guess who just looooves marijuana. If you answered Cheech, Chong, the states of Colorado and/or Washington, Puff the Magic Dragon, Snoop Dogg Lion, or President Jimmy Carter, you would be right.See also- Justin Bieber Was Allegedly Caught Smoking Weed Before Paparazzo’s Death But in 2013, it seems there’s a new…
The Warhol force was strong in Delray Beach this past weekend. Lake Worth’s Cop City Chill Pillars, with special guest Lars Finberg of the Intelligence, Wounded Lion, and Thee Oh Sees, waited for the man. Delray psych outfit Black Seal sang of shiny leather boots, and Hollywood surf rockers Beach…
Katie BainA-TrakAboard the Holy Ship!! one gets to mix and mingle with the slew of name DJs. “Hey there’s Zedd in line for pasta salad. Oh wow, there’s Dillon Francis in the elevator. Oh damn, Diplo is out on the beach swimming with all the fans. Jackbeats just bought all…
Fans of guitar greatness in South Florida enjoyed a pretty serious string of fantastic shows in 2012: Steve Vai, Eric Johnson, Aerosmith, B.B. King, Brad Paisley, and what feels like countless other pickers and shredders. Hell, even the alternative six-string-sect had the opportunity to experience multiple encounters of the noise kind courtesy…
Katie BainOn Friday afternoon, nearly 3,000 raver chicks, dude guys, scenesters, club kids and DJs assembled at a port in Fort Lauderdale and boarded the MSC Poesia, a.k.a. Holy Ship!! (There are two exclamation points because this is the second edition of the EDM party cruise put on by L.A.’s…
Before Detroit was heavy with techno beats, it was rich with Motown’s rhythm, blues, and soul. Smokey Robinson started singing with the label, heading up the Miracles, with a voice as smooth as melted buttah and those sparking light eyes. Detroit in the 1960s was the milky way of music. Robinson…
Weeks later, and we’re still curled up in a fetal position, nursing a regret-filled, weepy New Year’s hangover, favorite blankies in hand, suckling our thumbs. Just when we thought we’d cried our last tear, it turns out Chris Carrabba is performing a solo acoustic set of Dashboard Confessional songs at the…
You’d think an act named “the Coral Reefer Band” would never get the chance to leave the dark, dank corner of your local old-guy bar. But when that group, even with the dorky pot joke nestled so comfortably amid its letters, is led by Jimmy Buffett, well then, fire up the jets!…
Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman shares observations, insights, and updates relating to South Florida’s musical environs. This week, a radio veteran shares his joy.In the radio business, where a year or two signifies longevity, Joe Johnson is the definition of a true survivor. He’s been a mainstay…
This year’s sold-out Jam Cruise proves that one bad acid trip (i.e., 2011’s pre-embarkation drug raid, which yielded little more than some pot, ‘shrooms, hash oil, and other virtually harmless hippie drugs) can’t spoil a decadelong tradition of patchouli party music at sea. Back for the 11th time, the annual…
It’s 2013. But some people (like New Times) secretly wish the year were still 1969. In private, when the shades are drawn, we bust out the dashikis and love beads, the incense and rainbow-colored hemp teepees, spark up an ol’-fashioned Acapulco Gold doobarino, and prance around without shoes, soaking up…
Wednesdays are great, eh? They’ve got that quirky “hump day” distinction, marking the middle of the workweek with a pseudosexual innuendo, and it’s the day that new episodes of Modern Family premiere on ABC. But at Green Room, Wednesdays are a real riot. In fact, they’re called Riot Wednesdays ’round…
British DJ Alex Sushon, AKA Bok Bok, is best-known for running electronic record label Night Slugs with partner L-Vis 1990. Sushon keeps busy hosting a radio show on RinseFM, producing other artists, and creating all of the graphic designs for the label. Night Slugs is popular for its genre-crossing, undefined sounds, and…
