Two portraits of Robert Plant: One, the most familiar, at least to those who still picture him as the once and always Led Zeppelin front man, a bare-chested banshee with a mop of blond curls, strutting and posturing at the microphone stand as his band wails relentlessly behind him. The…
Today is Deep Purple frontman Ian Gillan’s 66th birthday. One of the most influential, and possibly under-revered members of British rock royalty, Gillan shares a similar story with a great many of his countrymen. Gillan was born to a working class family perpetually on the move between different forms of…
It is with distinct pleasure that we offer you an evening of entertainment put on by our brother from another mother, Miami New Times’ Crossfade blog. The Local does exactly what you think it does and brings out South Florida talent for the reasonable price of free to the friendly…
Consummate Palm Beach County music champion Steve Rullman is taking a stab at the publishing business with a new print publication called Purehoney. The newspaper-style monthly will be an extension of Rullman’s webiste TheHoneycomb.com and his weekly e-mail newsletter of the same name — but with a twist. Rullman is…
What’s up, students? Need some “real world” experience to mix with your pottery classes, beach-combing, and Food Not Bombs meetings? Today, we said farewell to a guy with ice-cold shoes and a serious hatred for the Beatles, Ryan Burk. Now it’s back to square one.Ideally, County Grind is looking for…
Andy Samberg, the star of arguably the best movie ever made, Hot Rod, is turning 33 today. As the leader of comedy/music group the Lonely Island, Samberg’s risen to the top of the charts while singing about creamed jeans, mermaid sex, and letting everyone know that he just had sex…
Richard D. James, best known under the pseudonym Aphex Twin, said back in the early ’90s, “if you lived to a hundred but you didn’t sleep, it’d be like living to two hundred. Originally, it wasn’t for more time to make music, I just thought sleep was a bit of…
Music inspired by tints and tones is a pretty obtuse concept, but the Dear Hunter’s latest outing works surprisingly well in practice. Over the course of nine EPs — and an album that samples the best of the batch — the experimental rock act’s founder, lead singer, songwriter, and all-around…
Funny what a studio owned by a shoe company (owned by another shoe company) can churn out. Although the output of Matt & Kim, Soulja Boy, and Andrew W.K. hadn’t crossed paths before, Converse Rubber Tracks got ’em all in for an ominously titled song, “I’m a Goner.” Unfortunately, there…
It’s inevitable that when singers leave bands with which they started, anything they do in their solo career will inevitably get compared to those earlier efforts. Rod Stewart may have proved an exception, but we’d wager that even such icons as Mick Jagger, Roger Daltrey, and Sting will always find…
When Gilby Clarke stepped into Izzy Stradlin’s snakeskin shoes in 1991, legions of Guns N’ Roses fans were ready to throw him to the lions. But once he got onstage, with only a couple of days to prepare, in the middle of the infamous and almost never-ending “Use Your Illusion”…
Today our music industry is filled with auto-tuned vocals and remixed beats, and it goes without saying that few of the pop artists will ever go on to achieve icon status. But when you have a singer like Madonna who at age 53 is still creating music, does it really…
Hadn’t heard from Gaps the Man Beast in a minute, but it’s with great pleasure to find out that the Fort Lauderdale rapper was toiling away with local intergalactic smashers Astrea Corporation. Not that it would be a stretch to imagine two studious outfits like these combining powers, but the…
Multi-instrumentalist and staple of the local music scene Marcos Marchesani has a new musical outfit called Family Drugs. In a recent interview, he told us about his high expectations and tribulations regarding this band. After a wildly successful first show, it became abundantly clear that Family Drugs is indeed a…
David Courtland Crosby, born 70 years ago today, is arguably one of the most influential musicians of the past 50 years, owing first and foremost to his membership in the Byrds, a band that found him etching the seminal sound of folk-rock, and later — alongside Stephen Stills, Graham Nash,…
It is safe to assume that most young people of the current generation have fond memories of spending long hours indoors in their summer downtime. Although some were sent away to quaint sleepaway camps, others preferred the company of a television, an RF adapter, and our dear old friend Nintendo…
There’s no question that South Florida loves bass. When Sir Mix-A-Lot busted out with “Posse on Broadway” 23 years ago, he fit perfectly into our Miami Booty Bass Jell-O mold. No line captures the spirit of quad tearing frequencies better than “The 808 kick drum makes that girlies get dumb.”…
This Friday marks the third-annual Naked End of Summer Bash organized by amiable nudist club Florida Young Naturists. In our opinion, the Young Naturists have the right idea — probably no better way to revel an end of summer blowout than going au natural. The group has lined up a…
The Mayhem Festival has a rep as a hypercharged day with an energy drink sponsor and core radio-rock acts like Godsmack, Disturbed, and Trivium, but one of the tour’s new additions, Red Fang, is much more like some Pabst Blue Ribbon-guzzling dudes next door. Musically, the Portland band’s recently released…
Bryan Adams has been a part of our senior proms, weddings, funerals, and birthday parties for more than 30 years. Over that time, he’s made us ponder why he wants to run to us, why we should forgive him, and whether we’ve ever really loved a woman. When Adams brings…
Whoever said “Play with fire and you’ll surely get burned” never met Everymen’s Captain Bobo. During the Lake Worth bluegrass-punk troupe’s kinetic sets, the charismatic frontman displays a penchant for carnival-style theatrics — especially of the combustible sort. But Brazilian-born Bobo (real name: Sergio Witis) insists that the blazing balls…
Anyone can play guitar, but not just anyone can make a guitar that anyone can play easily. The man who invented almost everyone’s first electric guitar, the late Leo Fender, would have turned 102 today. He didn’t invent the electric guitar, but he did create the first guitar that was…
