Black Sabbath is undeniably one of the most influential bands of all time. And while many legendary acts often sully their legacy by reuniting and culling an album from the dregs of should-have-been B-sides, Sabbath was spared this fate. The Rick Rubin-produced 13, an album that finally earned Sabbath its…
Florida has been getting a bad rap lately. And though it may seem at times like we’re a lost cause, that assessment isn’t entirely fair. We’re actually a global cultural force that spawned Major Lazer, one of dance music’s most inspiring and original outfits. Members Diplo and Walshy Fire are…
FastForward is a column documenting the nighttime scene in Fort Lauderdale and Palm Beach County. It’s a weeknight stop at your neighborhood dive; it’s a blurry, bass-filled Friday night in the club; it’s that one moment in a conversation you hope you’ll remember the next morning. No one ever said…
What happens when you mix extremely cheap booze, overly aggressive bouncers, and the hot, late summer sun beating down on the Fort Lauderdale Beach boardwalk? If you’ve ever been to Dirty Blondes, chances are you’ve personally witnessed things teeter on the brink of disaster at least once. The quintessential beach…
If there were a festival and place most suited for the rain, it would be the Vans Warped Tour Music Festival at Cruzan Amphitheatre. Florida summertime thunderstorms are refreshing, and while these kids are dressed to impress, that doesn’t meet they’re wearing lasers, electronic gloves, or spiky stilettos. These pop-punkers…
Better than: Dancing in your room to “Love My Way.” For bands whose songs induce nostalgia, past major successes can also limit contemporary relevance. Saturday night’s bill at the Culture Room featured a pairing of bands that maintain beloved legacies, but approach life after hits in two very different ways…
It’s hard to overstate how fantastic the MTV series Daria was or to exaggerate the influence its (anti) heroine had on pop culture’s current crop of droll leading ladies. Some see Napoleon Dynamite, American Pie, or Juno (one of our beloved misanthrope’s many progenies) as definitive millennial fare. Others tie…
A solitary open door on the main drag in downtown Fort Lauderdale shook the heavy July air with the sounds of electronic dance music. There were three lines of people waiting to enter the Technosluts party at Off the Hookah; the streets were clogged with a cocktail of phaser effects,…
Seu Jorge Hollywood ArtsPark, Hollywood July 27 You can’t knock the intentions of the good people of the Rhythm Foundation. Their free series at Hollywood ArtsPark provides the community with an evening of music and culture from distant lands. Last time out, they had 7,500 people present to celebrate the…
The crew at Propaganda better stock up on Red Stripe this week, because the reggae kids will be coming out in droves to catch local acts like Spred the Dub, RunDownTown, and Making Faces at the final installment of the club’s Summer Daze series. But the special treats of the…
It is not easy to write about a person who has passed away, especially when the one you’re writing about is someone you respected and looked up to. It was with a heavy heart that we reported on the Eat’s drummer, Christopher Cottie’s, passing back in 2004, and it is…
5. Second-Annual “Caturday Saturday” at Green Room 10 p.m. Saturday, July 27, at Green Room, 109 SW Second Ave., Fort Lauderdale. Call 954-449-1025, or visit Facebook. This Saturday, Green Room will be bursting with everything feline. The event benefits the amazing Cat Network, which helps spay and neuter gatos as…
Inside your PC tower right now is a city. It’s a grid of lights, chips, and wires. Miami-based artist Alejandro Franco added streets and highways to rejected computer parts to create his art form. His computerscapes, like one called Urban Resemblance that took two and a half years to create,…
Maybe it’s the heat. Maybe it’s the humidity. Maybe it’s the vastness of tempting skin-cloaking options in this city. Whatever the cause, people in South Florida are hot and moist and rarely successfully monogamous. That might explain the abundance of attractive and successful women in their 30s who are single…
It’s time for yer regular Jacuzzi Boys update! The sun might be setting on this summer, but our swampy garage guys are still at it. After a monthlong U.S. tour back in June, the Jacuzzis have conjured up a new weekly party in Little Haiti to wind down the rest…
Of all the unique artists spawned from the now nostalgic, post-Nirvana ’90s, Spacehog may well be the most criminally underrated. A complete oddity in its unabashed referencing of ’70s British glam-rock in an era characterized by the decidedly antiglam climate of grunge, Spacehog enjoyed a massive hit in 1995 with…
Few inanimate objects draw a crowd. The Mona Lisa brings a few people out to Paris, and summers at Sequoia National Park attract onlookers to see the General Sherman Tree, but paintings and trees don’t bring the wide smiles a trophy can. Wednesday night at Whiskey Tango in Hollywood, the…
While fans and pundits debate back and forth about South Florida’s contributions to the national — and, dare we say, international — musical mainstream, there’s little doubt we can take some credit for the ever-burgeoning popularity of Latin fusion. Hialeah-bred combo Electric Piquete is one of the area acts that…
Pop-punk is alive and well. Canadian genre torchbearers Billy Talent are still reppin’ their experimental, melodic-angst punk from the early ’90s (the band started as Pezz and later changed their moniker due to legal issues). Frontman Benjamin Kowalewicz’s pungent shrill, Ian D’Sa’s towering riffs, Jonathan Gallant’s valiant bass-backup vocal combo,…
The reunion of Black Sabbath’s Ozzy Osbourne, guitarist Tony Iommi, and bass guy Geezer Butler — you know, the seminal dark lords of metal — has managed to help keep the heavy-metal masses smiling. With crossed arms, of course. Even without legendary original drummer Bill Ward thundering the skins, Black…
Andrew W.K. is very recognizable in all white, sometimes with blood smearing his mug and T-shirt. He looks like a santero, and though he seems all obviously “party hard,” he’s actually as mysterious as one of these religious men of the saints. A conspiracy theory even circulated on the never-quite-factual…
We recently spoke with South Florida native and current Assistant Professor of English at Fayetteville State University, Dr. Dean Swinford about his opeing salvo into the realm of fiction with the first installment in a trilogy Death Metal Epic I: The Inverted Katabasis. A passionate author and even more passionate…
