A few weeks back, we embarked on a journey to augment our sister paper LA Weekly’s listing of the top punk bands of all time. While we concluded that such a grandiose scheme was bound to rattle some cages, we decided to tackle the beast in increments, since the genre…
One after another, boats pass along the bay behind hip-hop producer Numonics’s apartment taking advantage of partly cloudy weather. While he’s dressed for the 90-plus degree weather in sunglasses, a red LeBron Heat jersey, shorts, and Jordans, his sometime partner in sound SIN is somehow able to pull of wearing…
Whether you got to know Louie Anderson from Life with Louie or Family Feud, chances are you watched with a smile on your face and two, possibly three, cheeks planted firmly on the couch. Now that lovely resting device is exactly what he is trying to get you off of…
Donald Fagan and Walter Becker, the duo that make up the classic rock band Steely Dan, have a reputation for being a tough interview. When I took part in a teleconference with a dozen other reporters where Steely Dan was promoting their Summer/Fall tour Mood Swings 2013: 8 Miles To…
If you were on the rag or expecting to be last July 12, and you were bold enough to bring tampons or pads along with you to the Texas capitol that day, you got quite a surprise. The state Senate was voting, and Gov. Rick Perry signing off on some…
Florida is the death-metal capital of the world, and South Florida loves its death metal more than just about anywhere in the entire universe. Being so, we have a wealth of gore-mongers churning out fresh metal filth all the time. The Glorious Death, a band of Colombian ex-patriots that shreds…
Russell Mofsky isn’t asking much out of you. Just $15,000. Even if you’re not a local music freak, you might know Mofsky’s act, Gold Dust Lounge. For folks into the art scene, it’s the trio that has performed outside the Harold Golen Gallery in Miami on countless occasions. Fans of…
Throughout the 21st century, a common complaint for Miami Dolphins fans is that their team would too often settle for a field goal, with its near certain three points, rather than go for a touchdown and its far less certain seven points. With the Dolphins wallowing in mediocrity for much…
In a wonderful coincidence, two of the top leading ladies of song of the twentieth century in Loretta Lynn and Diana Ross will be performing at Hard Rock Live in the coming weeks. Their musical styles couldn’t be more different. Lynn is known as a plain-spoken, country-singing woman of the…
Summer Jam offered a pleasant surprise this past Saturday. In in a world of “maybe,” they came through with a yes. The West Palm Beach festival successfully brought local acts of varying genres out into the open air. What made the lineup so intriguing, and even somewhat unfamiliar to the…
Holopaw is named after a Central Florida town not very far from the Gainesville band’s main stomping ground. Wikipedia claims the name “derives from Indian term for ‘place where something is hauled’,” But if the Seminole word for haul is “hol” or something, we’ll eat a shoe. Either way, there’s…
Rolando Chang Barrero, the inspired eccentric and mastermind of ActivistArtistA — the gallery at the heart of the Boynton Beach Art District — had a great idea. Some time ago, he got in touch with organizers of Burning Man, the annual alternative festival/freak show/transitory community in the Nevada desert, and…
Cherie Currie has truly earned her place in the annals of rock history. The legend of the Runaways should require no further introduction at this point, however, Currie’s own legend is one still being penned. Last night, Currie came out swinging with a reminder that the spirit of rock ‘n’…
America may be one of the hardest working countries in the world. But in South Florida, we’re known to party even harder than we even work. So it only makes perfect sense that we celebrate Labor Day by spending our hard-earned cash on parties, music, booze, and general debauchery. After…
We all remember those unforgivably awful words uttered by John Mayer, the ones that made tasteful folks around the planet cringe: “I wanna run through the halls of my high school, I wanna scream at the top of my lungs!” Oh, and then there were those other horrifying words printed…
In some ways, Dumpstaphunk revives the notion of what entails a supergroup: a few exiles from various big name bands in a new amalgam, and suddenly you’re garnering headlines. On the other hand, Dumpstaphunk is the product of a very distinctive bloodline, one which flows from the first family of…
You know intimately what a cassette is. You remember the delicate surgery of unraveling the magnetic tape from your brown, boxy Fisher Price player. You can taste those tears you shed when the procedure didn’t go so well. Those many failed attempts to salvage the mix you recorded off of…
Dear women of the world, exactly how starved for attention are you? Would you say, hungry enough to twerk off in front of thousands of people at a music festival? If you answered “yes,” our next question is: Are you already heading to Electric Zoo in New York City? OMG,…
Maitejosune Urrechaga is a South Florida artist working in so many creative areas, that there’s too many to mention in this intro: comic books, films, novels. She is perhaps best known as the “better half” of Miami’s Pocket of Lollipops, a husband and wife outfit where she plays bass and…
For the fourth year in a row, Lake Worth Playhouse’s Stonzek Theater in late September will be home to the L-Dub Film Festival. This year there will be a strong international presence as well as guest appearances by two veterans of cinema visiting town to share of their knowledge with…
You know what’s better than chicken soup or fresh squeezed orange juice when you’re horizontal and coughing in a puddle of your own mucus? Someone passing along the second webisode of RuPaul Drives — a new web series hosted by the fabulous queen of queens. The most current installment features…
For the former lead singer of the Runaways, Cherie Currie, life has been an intense ride. While a portion of the Runaways’ story has finally been told thanks to a 2010 biopic starring Dakota Fanning as Cherie and Kristen Stewart in the role of guitarist and foil Joan Jett, the…
