This week’s cover story is about the Flagler Arts & Technology Village in Fort Lauderdale is a must-read for anyone who sees the promise (and fears the challenges) of building a creative future in South Florida. Stefan Kamph effectively captures the dissonance between a collective of local artists trying to…
New Times has diligently followed the progress of our little “baby metalhead” Harrison Daum Snow. Readers might remember our prenatal celebrity who struck the most rocking pose known to ultrasound? Well since his premature birth in November 1, 2010, the little son of local musician Jeff Snow and his wife…
As the release date for Lady Gaga’s highly anticipated album Born This Way approaches, the pop star has been giving fans a little taste of what they should expect. Two tracks, “Born This Way” and “Judas,” have already hit the airwaves, and on Saturday, Gaga tweeted the cover art for…
By now, Sumsun has a reputation for transforming songs by digging the jewel out of every track remixed and stretching it over the entire length of the new version. When he’s not working on his own stuff (check out the new “Lulla Drone” demo just posted) Judson Rogers has been…
Leave it to Miami’s Lil Daggers to provide one more reason to get off your behind for Saturday’s celebration of recorded and live music, Record Store Day. For the Miami-Dade enthusiasts, the Daggers have a new seven-inch, “Slave Exchange”/”Sweetwater,” and it comes available during the Sweatstock madness hosted at Sweat…
I am often guilty of sticking to punk rock and hardcore acts in my Blast From the Past column, so this is a refreshing change. Today, this isn’t a full BFTP but a warmup with a couple of YouTube tracks from one of South Florida’s most criminally unknown disco/Latin/funk acts…
Decked in a work shirt rolled up to the elbows, suspenders, and a stocking cap, Toby Leaman often looks like he’s just as ready to build a birdhouse as he is to play bass and sing for Philadelphia-bred sunny psychedelic act Dr. Dog. Appropriately, in between tours, he does fix…
Iron Maiden’s a little fixated on death, but that’s part of what gives this British heavy-metal band its grim-reaper-peeking-in-your-window-about-to-chop-you-into-pieces-with-a-very-sharp-object appeal. The albums have titles like Killers (1981), No Prayer for the Dying (1990), Dance of Death (2003), and A Matter of Life and Death (2006). The band’s mascot, Eddie, is…
Mike Sniper is ready to dispense with his reputation as a dark, enigmatic figure. Up to this point, his persona — complete with his face shrouded deep within a hoodie like a Sith Lord during performances — has been as muddled as his lyrics buried unintelligibly into five years’ worth…
Almost exactly a decade ago, heralded Pompano Beach emocore act Further Seems Forever released its debut album, The Moon Is Down. The wildly influential set packed with wry commentary about South Florida tourism (“Snowbirds and Townies”) and love’s lingering pain (“Monachetti”) remains the only full-length document of songs featuring vocalist…
Not to get forceful, but it’s time to grab Beings’ self-titled album. It was already named County Grind’s sixth-best local album of 2010 before ever receiving an official release, and it’s friggin free — for a limited time. The Miami experimental punk trio has decided to offer the album (an…
Seems like there’s always an abundance of compelling live music that gets scheduled right in the thick of Record Store Day madness, and this coming week is no exception. Further heaping the compliments on the estimable Courtney Hambright, we have her lead feature in the music section regarding Blank Dogs…
To Be Hated Live at Churchill’s (Sour Grapes Records) myspace.com/tobehated Most people, i.e., fans, approach live recordings with a certain amount of tepidness and/or acquiescence. This is especially true for punk-rock bands and their usually limited budgets. This recording went down in Churchill’s on January 1, 2010, when To Be…
Last May, now-former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist got legally entangled with now-former Talking Head David Byrne over using the hit “Road to Nowhere” in a campaign ad without permission. On Monday, that rift was settled, and Crist publicly apologized in a rather strange YouTube video embedded below. “The use of…
Exciting! Apparently Nicki Minaj has a better attitude about being a support act for Britney Spears than the ego-tripping Enrique Iglesias. Having recently witnessed the live muscle of Minaj as one of the titillating highlights of Lil Wayne’s I Am Still Music Tour stop last week, this pairing promises spectacle…
Begin today (or any day) with a proper burst of energy courtesy of Tune-Yards’ (we’re going with this more traditional capitalization scheme from here on out) w h o k i l l. “Bizness” has already been a fave for a little while now.Now streaming free over at NPR, the…
Sad news coming out of the Sweat Records camp today. The Little Haiti shop was burglarized sometime overnight on Saturday, and the thieves made off with a computer, cash drawer, and other electronics. This is not the first time the shop has been hit, unfortunately…
On Tuesday, Animal Collective’s Panda Bear, aka Noah Lennox, finally unveils Tomboy, his follow-up to 2007’s watershed moment (to some) Person Pitch. Now it remains to be seen if Lennox can ever put lightning back into the bottle quite the same way, but even if there are aspects of the…
Frantik’s been bombarding South Florida now for some time with some righteous lyrics that are equal parts thought-provoking, tongue-in-cheek, positive and tough. And what makes the seemingly disparate amalgam is predicated by the fact that the toughness is not macho posing, it is inflection and execution that toughens the joint…
Which is more jarring? Pairing a song like Rachel Goodrich’s sweet ukulele number “Light Bulb” with a bunch of gun-toting gangstas for a video, or subtracting the ukulele altogether? Well, the second scenario happens when the ex-Miami songstress gets the remix treatment from South Florida electro-pop specialists ANR.The track loses…
Cavity Crawling/Perseverance seven inch (Bacteria Sour) bacteriasour.com While the two songs on this delicious seven-inch can be found on the incredibly awesome full-length CD release Drowning, there is something special about this little record that commands its own entry to these Blast From the Past columns. There are two versions,…
The Radiators have survived — and thrived — longer than most bands. This New Orleans-based outfit, known for an eclectic blend of rock and blues, features all of its original members — guitarist Dave Malone, vocalist/keyboardist Ed Volker, guitarist/vocalist Camile Baudoin, bassist Reggie Scanlon, and drummer Frank Bua Jr. —…
