Better Than: Johnny Winter’s performance on the Crossroads Festival DVD There are increasingly fewer artists with a tangible and direct impact on the direction of blues music still working today. We have but one of the three Kings left in B.B., and Buddy Guy is hanging tough and arguably playing as well…
Being gay in South Florida is as common as it gets. Sure, there’s still prejudice, bullying, and occasional hate crimes, but where isn’t there these days? On a map, South Florida is one of the most gay-friendly areas in the country, not to mention the world. Sure, it’s no San…
Amidst the deluge of post-everything microgenres like #CloudRap, and non-musical mediums like Tumblr and holograms rising in prominence within the industry, Ziggy Marley stays relevant by simply being Ziggy Marley.He plays big-hearted, Island-style, trad-pop reggae in the style of his pops. He makes oil out of coconut and hemp, and…
Better than: Having a ferret thrown in the bath with you while some nihilist pisses on your favorite rug.At least three people ordered white Russians, but nobody showed up in a purple jumpsuit or robe and sandals for the first Over The Line, a Big Lebowski-themed monthly rock and roll…
This past Valentine’s Day, Britney Spears was spotted on what appeared to be a romantic rendezvous with some regular ol’ shmucko.See also- Britney Spears Quits X-Factor and Embraces EDM! Next Stop: MDMA Meltdown!!- Britney Spears Does Las Vegas: Five Potential Themes for Her Upcoming Revue- Six Drugs That Britney Spears…
Recently, Lil Wayne got either kicked out of, or asked to leave a Heat-Lakers game, for likely gesturing that he had a gun on him in a threatening gesture toward another fan. This type of bad behavior will also get you arrested on an airplane, locked out of a movie…
Better than: Andrew Dice Clay calling you a “snapperhead.”See also- Jealous Sound’s Blair Shehan on the Return of Melodic Punk: “People Crave Something Substantial”A tour package that had the goods to satisfy fans of any era of emotive rock music lured fans deep into the swamps of western Pembroke Pines…
After a series of “la la las,” “oohs,” and even a quick verse from “Rapper’s Delight,” the indie folk-pop band Paleface was ready to take the stage, or former living room, of the cozy Delray haunt Dada. The three piece band, comprised of singer and acoustic guitarist Paleface (who was…
Remember back in December when electronic veteran DJ Shadow created a stir in our social media feeds after promoters at South Beach’s Mansion nightclub kicked him off the decks at his own headlining show, claiming his music was “too future” for the crowd?The accomplished and unanimously respected DJ never got…
Florida rockers Anberlin rose out of the Christian music ghetto after the success of early albums like Blueprints for the Black Market and Never Take Friendship Personal. Signed to Universal Republic Records, over the past decade, they’ve played the Warped Tour and performed around the world.After years of fighting the…
What’s everybody talkin’ about right now? Baauer’s “Harlem Shake!” Who needs unlimited attention from the whole world? Azealia Banks! What does that result in? Azealia Banks rapping over “Harlem Shake,” the song being pulled from Soundcloud by the original artist, and a Twitter war with the word “faggoot” thrown around…
The weak and the strong, who got it goin’ on?We lived in the dark for so longThe weak and the strong, Darwin got it goin’ on Creationism is dead wrong.”The verse from the hook to rapper Baba Brinkman’s intellectually provocative song “Natural Selection,” demonstrate that the scholarly Canadian lyricist does not…
As reported by our sister blog, Crossfade, rapper 2 Chainz was arrested last night at “a routine traffic stop” for possession of marijuana.This should surprise no one.What’s actually notable about this still-developing story, Chainz was forced to pose for a fan photograph with the officers that locked him up…
For the Jealous Sound, the early aughts were a period of success. The Los Angeles based melodic-punk group found its way to the rosters of larger labels and grew to become a rather influential, though still somewhat underrated contributor to the emotionally-charged rock music of the period. But van life…
Morgan La Rue and her Shimmy Shake Revue are a staple in the ever growing, and always titillating, SoFla burlesque scene. With hundreds of shows under her belt, and dozens of girls participating in her local and nationwide burlesque events, the Shimmy Shake Revue has made a home for itself…
Man, the Odd Future bubble popped with more propulsive force than the 2008 housing market. It seems like these days, the only member of the once-controversial hip-hop troupe is R&B crooner, Frank Ocean.See also- Frank Ocean’s “Forrest Gump” Grammy Performance Was Like a Box of Turds And why is that?…
It was only two years ago when the pop cultural climate had not yet been saturated with swag, and terms like hipster-hop began to allude to the forthcoming zeitgeist.See also:- Robb Bank$: Hip-Hop Artist and Anime Superfan (VIDEO) As we all know, the Internet speeds up the development of micro-genres…
I’ll be honest, I’ve been sitting on this article for more than a month now, deliberating how exactly I’m supposed to map out the essentials of trap music. Even saying the word now kinda irritates me because it’s been thrown around so much, especially with its popular electronic/rave crossover. But…
Lady Gaga’s all tore up from the floor up, and is forced to cancel her 2013 Born This Way tour. See also – Lady Gaga Is Today’s Ani DiFranco; Here’s Why”I’ve been hiding a show injury and chronic pain for sometime now,over the past month it has worsened. I’ve been praying it would…
“I am very excited to perform some of my favorite love songs for a crowd full of couples,” says soulful Miami singer Cat Shell about her show tonight at the second annual Love in the Park event at Huizenga Plaza.See alsoRomance Your Sweetie With Riverwalk’s “Love in the Park” Valentine’s Dinner…
Pythons. The long-awaited follow up to the collection of lo-fi fuzzy gems that made up Astro Coast, is slated for a June 11 release date. It’s been a long time coming for Surfer Blood, who technically self-released Astro Coast three years and some months ago. An impressive debut, it showcased Surfer…
Actual country music, and also what the powers-that-be have named the twang-affected psuedo-rock or fiddle-touched pop music that drips out of Nashville’s never-ceasing production lines each year, holds the largest fan-base in music these days. Modern country artists sell records, they sell massive amounts of tickets, and they’re a hot…
