One year ago, we parked our car along a side street off Himmarshee in downtown Fort Lauderdale and followed the sound. It led us to Original Fat Cat’s where, on a cool Monday night, deep, slow-wobbling vibrations oozed like molasses over an otherwise motionless city block. By midnight, the dark…
Art Garfunkel Amaturo Theater, Broward Center for the Performing Arts February 21, 2014 Better than: Simon and Garfunkel? Predictably no. Art Garfunkel in his prime? Again, no. Art Garfunkel, three years prior when he was robbed of his voice? Decidedly yes. Three years ago, a mysterious malady robbed Art Garfunkel…
Former Broken Talent bassist Malcom Tent has come a long way since escaping South Florida in 1986 for the cold climes of Danbury, Connecticut. For 20 years, he ran Trash American Style, an amazing record shop which was perhaps the only place on Earth where one could purchase Mexican wrestling…
Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman shares observations, insights, and updates relating to South Florida’s musical environs. This week, Lee’s weirder encounters… In the world of music journalism, an otherwise run-of-the mill meeting with a rock star can suddenly become awkward. Take these scenarios as examples… Those old…
As exciting as electronic music can be, it can also get repetitive as shit. However, Dirtyphonics, the bass-heavy, Dim Mak-signed trio from Paris, embraces the unpredictable side of the genre. And it was pretty apparent when we interviewed crew member Charly that he and his mates are not about it…
“Our mission is to resurrect the bass gods and have coochies popping worldwide,” says Da $wap $hop Kid of his new project Death Jam Posse. Three dudes you may recognize as Bleubird, Jabrjaw, and Protoman have taken on entirely new personas: Young Lauderdale, Mr. Belvedere, and Da $wap $hop Kid…
Tonight, friends from all walks of life will gather at Flaunt, the long standing Respectable Street indie dance party in West Palm Beach, to commemorate the life and music of the late Ray Pachter. Montage, the band he lovingly crafted with his brother Ben, will be performing along with Alarmists…
The Wayans family is to comedy what the sun is to the Earth. They’ve been such a consistent force in that, sometimes, you can forget they’re there. Then all of the sudden, you turn your head and you’re blinded. Everything they’ve done for comedy comes flooding at you at once…
There was a time when Sam Beam, the creative force behind Iron & Wine, was more famous as a film professor than a musician. His main gig was teaching students at a South Florida post-secondary institution about film history and cinematography. “Now it’s like the Art Institute of Everywhere,” Beam…
Hello! Who could this be?” The voice — that voice — at the other end of the line sounds remarkably reassuring, especially considering the fact that it belongs to one of the greatest singers and most revered musical icons of the past 50 years. “It’s Lee,” I respond. “And who…
Black Fridays may be gone and Roxanne’s is a thing of the past, but the Fetish Factory hopes to keep dark alternative culture in Fort Lauderdale thriving with its newest night, Circle. Tonight is Circle’s kick-off party and although it’s brought to you by the folks over at the den…
South Florida gets a bad rap as a barren wasteland when it comes to guitar music and guitar culture. However, lurking in the shadows strewn by the area’s neon festooned dance clubs thrives a community of inspiring guitarists, all with their own unique philosophies and approaches to the instrument and…
Despite being in his mid-twenties, it seems musician Evan Mui has been a perennial member of Lake Worth’s music scene for ages. With stints in Palm Beach County favorites like Guy Harvey and the Dewars, Mui has more than cut his teeth. His newest project Wake Up has given Mui…
Bitch-slapped by the 100-year flood of last January, the intrepid artists and entrepreneurs of the Boynton Beach Art District are back on their feet again and ready to roll. To celebrate, they’re hosting an art walk tomorrow night including live music, live painting and fire dance. See also: – Best…
Most of the time it’s hard to believe that the old adage, “Change is good” is true; sometimes it’s hard to deny the proof. In late November, Feelgoods Rock Bar and Grill announced it would be shuttering its doors to make way for a West Palm version of former downtown…
In an area like South Florida, so chock-full of talented musicians, it’s really hard to stick out. But Boca Raton’s Mike Mineo has made a name for himself, not only with his deft songwriting skills, but more importantly, with a drive and determination we don’t see too often in local…
There is a way of speaking and writing that maintains an air of dignity and reverence about that subject that toes the line between eulogia and the elegiac. Thankfully, I as an orator and man of letters have failed with thunderous aplomb in all three scenarios. Don’t let me sing…
Along with the terms “twerk” and “bougie,” the word “ratchet” falls into the hoodrat category and spans across all genres of music and subject matter. In case you don’t know what this means, please allow us to explain: It’s the trashy sense of fashion that some people think is classy…
Johnny Cash might be known as the “Man in Black,” but Richard Lewis could definitely take over that same title. Now famous for being Larry David’s beloved frenemey on Curb Your Enthusiasm, the monochromatic comic has been deep in the comedy biz since the ’70s. After a recent five month…
The Internet is so many things: A glorious tool for the transfer of information and ideas? Certainly. The greatest facilitator of communication humanity has ever created? Maybe. But so often, the Internet becomes a digitized version of the ooze river from Ghost Busters II — a flowing concentration of humanity’s…
When you’re talking about funk, you’re talking about Bernie Worrell. His keyboard playing in Parliament-Funkadelic was a foundation of the P-Funk sound. He later found himself a member of the Talking Heads, most famously in their concert film Stop Making Sense. Worrell continues his legacy of funk with The Bernie…
You might know Jim Breuer as Goat Boy from Saturday Night Live, or Brian from Half Baked, but if that’s all you know Jim Breuer from, you’re missing out. Because the man has done — and is doing — a lot. Breuer’s been in movies, made a movie, wrote a…
