Dick Dale Performs in Fort Lauderdale at Culture Room Tomorrow

“When I die, it’s not going to be in some old rocking chair, going back and forth. It’s going to be onstage in one big explosion of body parts,” Dick Dale, the legendary guitarist, admitted to New Times with the conviction of a psychic. The man who created the surf-rock…

Ex Norwegian’s Songs That Remind Them Why They Play Music

Though Ex Norwegian’s last release was called House Music, the Miami Beach band definitely doesn’t make the kind of house music that induces you to pop a molly and sweat. Though you might jump around a bit to their indie pop, their sound is better suited for the live stage…

New Downtown Hollywood Murals Unveiled During ArtWalk (PHOTOS)

It’s officially spring, and the Downtown Hollywood Mural Project is in bloom, adding two new murals and a whole lot of color and life to an already vibrant collection of building facades commissioned by the Hollywood Community Redevelopment Agency. This Saturday, coinciding with Downtown Hollywood’s Third Saturday ArtWalk, the mural by…

Blood Oath Slumber Party Makes Your Walkman Cool Again

New music label, Blood Oath Slumber Party, is mainly all about kicking ass and taking names, but in, they say, a very non-aggressive, unselfish manner. They take South Florida bands to places they’ve only heard of in high school geography, like New England. Label founders Chris Dougnac and Virginia de las…

Top Five South Florida Events for Record Store Day 2013

This Saturday, take a break from 4/20 toking, and head out to revel in another of life’s simplest pleasures: music. In lieu of Record Store Day 2013, a handful of dedicated local record shops are prepared to show you just how passionate they really are about their trade. What follows…

Top 5 Coachella EDM Highlights

Courtesy of Jorge Meza PhotographyThe Sahara Tent at Coachella Amidst the crazy sea of hipsters, hippies, old folks, pre-teens and babies(!), the first weekend of Coachella was also packed with EDM revelers ready to get their fist-pumping music fix over the course of the three-day bacchanal. In fact, it seems…

Block x Blog Music Festival Releases Set Times

By now, you’ve all read or heard about the launch of the Block x Blog music festival, likely a seminal moment in the history of South Florida music. With 30 local acts and DFA’s Holy Ghost! in from New York, this event is blowing the ears off of your 4/20…

Surfer Blood Premiere New Video for “Demon Dance”

Praise for our local boys made good, Surfer Blood. These guys just keeps rolling in. On the cusp of their Warner Brother’s debut, Pythons, the West Palm Beach four-piece graced Rolling Stone’s website yesterday, with exclusive first look at the group’s newest music video for their single “Demon Dance.” Stating…

Jimkata Asks You to “Come Out and Join Us for the Party”

At the end of the opening verse of Jimkata’s recent single, “Night Shade,” lead singer Evan Fridell delivers a telling line: “There never was a Golden Age ’cause it’s what you make of it anyway.” On their latest release, 2012’s Die Digital, the Ithaca-based electro-rock jam outfit sounds like a wealthy…

Five Things a Record Can Do That an MP3 Cannot

Should any instance occur in which your musical taste assists in getting you laid, chances are very slim that an MP3 collection would be the responsible format. MP3s make a vacant effort to fill moments of silence with careless noise. The day has come where Pandora picks the soundtracks to…

Tortuga Music Festival: The Pluses and Minuses

Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman offers his insights, opinions, and observations about the local scene. This week: Looking back at Tortuga Music Festival. Congratulations are in order. The organizers and producers of the inaugural Tortuga Music Festival provided a fine introduction to what might, in the years…

Top Ten Florida Hardcore Bands of All Time

Hardcore punk is an art form as distinctly American as jazz and competitive eating. The legendary scenes of New York, Boston, and California lay claim to the vast majority of bands liable to be referred to as “important” — those whose T-shirts have been deemed worthy for wear by random…

Top Ten Best and Worst Fashions of Tortuga Music Festival

What in the hell does a cowgirl wear to the beach? What about a salty dog out to impress the sandy bitches (don’t pretend you’re offended, you know what we mean). These were the main folk populating Tortuga Music Festival this weekend. They chugged beer and sunbathed to a crisp…

Gary Clark Jr. Broke My Heart at Tortuga Music Festival

The air was balmier than most days. It was officially summer in South Florida, when just being outside makes you sweat profusely. The last day of the Tortuga Music Festival in Fort Lauderdale Beach was gonna be a scorcher! Sure, thousands of Instagramming friends were showing off their awesome duck-face poses…