“From the heart, we’re punk rock. Some, though, would call us a type of dirty, dirty, dirty, dirty, DIRTY pop punk band,” explains Fort Lauderdale band Jolly Badfellow’s bassist Shaun Meyer. “But when we say pop punk, we mean the good stuff, like old-school Green Day — meaning as far…
Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman offers his insights, opinions, and observations about the local scene. This week: Famous musicians who may be friends and neighbors… The state of Florida, and South Florida in general, has always proved a popular nesting place for musicians, even if it doesn’t…
Stevie Wonder was more than halfway through his secret show at Hard Rock Live in Hollywood, getting amped for another sing-along, when one of his singers brought out a fiery cake with an actual guitar in the place of a candle. “I didn’t see it coming!” Wonder said ironically. And…
Chicago natives Plain White T’s have been making the ladies swoon since their 2007 number-one hit “Hey There Delilah” went platinum and lead singer Tom Higgenson made every guy feel dumb they hadn’t come up with such sweetly simple metaphors for their own gals. Two Grammy nominations and two more…
Gianna Michaels’ story is a typical “girl next door” one that took her from her native Seattle to sunny California, though a series of regular jobs before falling into the career we know her best for, porn. Naturally endowed with some incredible, gravity-defying attributes, we love her best for her…
The word “drums” doesn’t just stand for those round things you hit to make noise in a circle under the full moon, anymore. Not in Fort Lauderdale, at least. Nope. Nowadays, DRUMS indicates “Dancers Raw Underground Music Session,” a free dance class that incorporates percussive elements, worldwide cultural moves and…
Richard Patrick left his post as Nine Inch Nails touring guitarist to form Filter during the Nails’ recording of the Downward Spiral album. His gamble paid off with hits like “Hey Man Nice Shot,” global tours, a 20-plus year recording career, and an industrial rock sound that’s still fresh today…
Fidgeting in her seat outside of Brew Coffee House in Fort Lauderdale, Sophie Sputnik checks her text messages with one hand and holds a Camel light in the other. Her dog Astro, a terrier mix of some kind, paces beneath the table and mimics her energy. Meanwhile, her Killmama band…
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Although it was Jim Morrison who hoarded the spotlight and dominated their image, no single musician contributed more to the Door’s iconic sound than keyboardist and co-writer Ray Manzarek. Manzarek — who died in a German clinic yesterday after succumbing to bile duct cancer — was not only an integral…
It’s 11 p.m. on a pleasant early May evening at Havana Hideout in downtown LDub and Tom Regis and his boys are hitting a slow, bluesy version of “Mercy Mercy Mercy,” the Joe Zawinul tune made famous by Cannonball Adderley. Jon Zeeman’s guitar is easing away for some sly, muted…
The sun beats down on the concrete and lifeless buildings right outside of Las Olas in downtown Fort Lauderdale. The least likely place anyone would suspect to find five strangers who stopped being polite and started getting real. The truth of the matter is that all of those actual strangers…
“Um, where the fuck am I?” It was a rhetorical question. I asked myself this as I stared slack-jawed at the driveway of a mansion I very well knew was in Weston. Out there, by myself, I was hunting down what was supposed would be a wild pool party full…
It was the mid ’60s and the British Invasion was well underway. Aside from a handful of intrepid defenders – the Beach Boys, the Turtles, the Byrds, and the Lovin’ Spoonful in particular – it was lonely on the front lines of the American resistance. Fortunately, there was another band…
Miguel’s “Adorn” not only made number two on our best songs of 2012, but it’s actually like pure soothing sonic sexual bliss. But at the Billboard Music Awards tonight, as the red-skinned crooner belted out the sensual tune, he also belted out a body slam-leg drop on the neck of…
UPDATE: E! is reporting that Beyonce is indeed knocked up! Bey and Jay’s reps aren’t saying, but it’s looking more and more like there’s another baby Carter on the way. Can anybody confirm or deny — definitively and with stern conviction — whether or not Beyoncé Knowles and hubby-slash-rap music…
Mark your calendars, microbrew devotees. The Funky Buddha Brewery is officially opening its Oakland Park doors on Saturday, June 1. The best thing to happen to Florida’s craft beer scene, the Funky Buddha is slated to have SoFla’s largest capacity craft brewery, with the goal of ultimately housing over 30…
Sure Kim Kardashian is a first time mom with the spawn of Satan, um, Kanye. Sorry, brain fart. But you’d think she already knew, with Mason around and, you know, having 10,000 siblings, that there’s no place like home for a newborn. However, according to TMZ, KK is planning on…
“Noise is everyday fucking life,” or at least it is according to the notoriously loud Kenny Millions, of experimental noise duo Death Fuk. And while Broward County is surely brimming with the sounds of “everyday fucking life” as well as contributions from a diverse range of talented and homegrown musicians,…
Steve Martin is a multi-talented legend, in a way that shames even Justin Timberlake. The comic icon has proven himself as a king of the funnies and master of the banjo. His music prowess is so that when talking to friends about his performance at Kravis Center on May 24,…
Most people don’t know this about me, but I was in Rock of Ages. Sure, it’s possible that I am merely a speck in the sea of unpaid extras in the final scene of this movie. But I did my part to make this mediocre movie happen. And then I…
Driven Music Conference Conference 9 a.m. Thursday, May 16, to Sunday, May 19, at Hyatt Regency Pier Sixty-Six, 2301 SE 17th St., Fort Lauderdale. Showcase 1 p.m. Friday, May 17, to Saturday, May 18, at Revolution Live, 100 SW Third Ave., Fort Lauderdale. Tickets cost $29. Call 954-449-1025, or visit…
