Flogging Molly’s Frontman Dave King on Humor and Music

Flogging Molly’s sound and sentiments boast the same rebellious streak as the Pogues, Black 47, and the Dropkick Murphys, bands that stir Celtic traditions and add an ample does of insurgency. Their geographical bond stretches across a substantial divide, given that founder and frontman Dave King is a native of…

Human Fluid Rot’s Family Asks Him to “Turn It Down a Little”

Human Fluid Rot, the cochlea-mutilating harsh sound avatar Robert Wilson Brantley III, is a case study in the myriad conditions, settings, and aesthetic decisions that have come to epitomize the classic power electronics school of anti-music. For example: high-contrast, morbid black-and-white imagery; a predilection for bodily functions, deviant sexuality and…

Broadway Calls – The Talent Farm, Pembroke Pines – January 27

Better than: Driving to Gainesville to watch the same bands and remember none of it.”Everyone’s a punk in October.”For those that don’t understand the reference, it points a rather crotchety finger at the droves that flock from around the state to Gainesville around Halloween every year to take in a…

B. Jason, A.K.A. Last, Says Noise Music Is “What Punk Rock Strives to Be”

“For any reference to Last,” the email reads, “use the name B. Jason.” This kind of cloak-and-dagger intrigue is inherent to Broward County’s most raw-and-primitive practitioner of extreme sound. And while he claims he’s “Not trying to be edgy and mysterious” and is just trying to dodge Google searches from his employer,…

Shack in the Back and Ellen Bukstel Redefine Home Entertainment

Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman offers his insights, opinions, and observations about the local scene. This week: The Shack in the Back offers music lovers a different kind of concert.  In South Florida, concert venues generally fall into one of three categories, — big box theaters like…

Who Shot at Rick Ross?

Earlier today, Broward/Palm Beach New Times’ news wing reported that The Teflon Don himself, Rick Ross, was the target of a gangsta-as-fuck drive-by-shooting attempt, reminiscent of the infamous killings from the golden age of rapper assassinations. However, unlike Biggie and Pac, The Bawse – and his shawty, Shateria L. Moragne-el…

Drowning the Virgin Silence Wonders, “Why Do People Still Buy Led Zeppelin Records?”

For every Iggy Pop — shirtless, strutting, bleeding, and smearing peanut butter all over the wiggling perspiration-soaked flesh-bag of amphetamines that is (technically) his body — there’s a quiet, cool, composed, contemplative beard-stroking Brian Eno. Adrift the dark-and-murky spectrum between classical composer and rock ‘n’ roll’s avant-garde, these soundsmiths typically defy…

Krewella – Club Cinema, Pompano Beach – January 25

Better than: Having no show at all. If there was every any doubt about South Florida’s raving youth and their commitment to Krewella’s hard and dirty party antics, all nay-sayers were hushed forever by the chanting hundreds who couldn’t even get in the front door. “Let us in, let us…

Infected Mushroom Likes “to Throw Genres Out of the Window”

Infected Mushroom has been a huge name in dance music since before EDM was a term, let alone en vogue. After more than a decade on the scene, they’ve had to trade in their giant analog studios for laptops on the road, but they’ve also signed to hip L.A. label,…