Spooky time is upon us once again! Most use Halloween as an excuse to dress like assholes, getting belligerently drunk and howling obscenities into the night. We are no exception. Everyone needs to blow off a little steam. Who are we to judge your slutty bumblebee costume? Or that slutty…
There hasn’t been a show quite so peculiarly memorable as the Goddamn’ Hustle’s …Ruined My Life CD release party in the recent history of the South Florida music scene. Besides dozens of sexy cat (in bread?) costumes, nearly naked men and women, a scooter, there was fan-fucking-tastic live music.See also- Q&A: The Goddamn…
Keller Williams has been a fixture of the post-Dead hippie jam band circuit since the early ’90s. The scene can arguably be traced back to the o.g. wave of 1960s psychedelia. The jam band circuit, as it exists today, fermented in the twin wake of North America’s obsession with festivals,…
Of the myriad musical artists reuniting, playing albums from start-to-finish, and generally milking their previous achievements for every last drippity-drop of nostalgia dough it’s worth, no band better fits into the contemporary rock schema than the Psychedelic Furs. Long before U2, R.E.M., and even the Smiths were cranking out arena-friendly…
New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman offers his insights, opinions, and observations about the local scene. This week: The struggle to keep one’s cool while getting jiggy with it. When you get right down to it, dancing is an awfully peculiar pastime. While some people may appear graceful, most dancers look…
Not sure if you noticed, but it’s a little windy and wet outside. “Sure,” you say, “it’s been raining since July.” Yes, it truly has, and we’ve continued to drink and dance our damp, sad lives happy, even with these downpours. So, why would today or yesterday or tomorrow be any different?…
All too frequently, a musician’s image becomes more integral in the public psyche than his or her music. Can you imagine the Cure’s Robert Smith performing without his shambolic hairdo or smudged lipstick. How about Public Enemy’s Flavor Flav throwing down rhymes on stage sans his customary large neck clock?…
I, like children and crazy people, am obsessed with Halloween. The best thing I bought this year? A big, beautiful green heirloom pumpkin. I brag about it when people come over, make people pet it like a cat. Seriously. It’s that kind of obsession. See also- Halloween Guide 2012: Fort Lauderdale…
Not entirely sure what LOLing about homeless people has to do with getting married but, uh, pop sensation Justin Timberlake and actress Jessica Biel are in hot shit after a video was screened during their wedding reception that did exactly that. According to TMZ, the video’s creators paid homeless people…
Metalcore band Miss May I, started — like most bands — in a basement, just a bunch of high school kids jamming out to cover songs. This fivesome from Troy, Ohio, never expected anything to come from it. But when they caught the attention of the Devil Wears Prada guitarist Chris…
Since 2002, droves of punk rock fans have converged upon Gainesville each late October. They do this to punish their ear drums and livers collectively for three days of musical alcoholism at the Fest. The event has grown every year via a potent mixture of rare performances by dormant artists…
Last time frontwoman Kalmia Traver and her band Rubblebucket came to South Florida, they all got their wallets stollen. After playing at a LandShark Lager promotional event on South Beach, they decided to take a late night dip in the ocean. Though the others got totally screwed, Traver lucked out,…
Nothing in this sunny Southern summer land indicates horror more succinctly and in a pleasurably dark manner than the wild world of Miami’s own IDM master Otto Von Schirach. He’ll lock you under his deep bass and beats and scare the shit out of you, and you’ll love every pee-in-your-panties…
Update: The show has been postponed due to Hurricane Sandy. It was with reggae legends the Wailers that Revolution Live first opened its musical doors to downtown Fort Lauderdale. They performed on the back patio, a space now known as America’s Backyard. That was eight years ago. Since, music makers of…
Music vet and New Times scribe Lee Zimmerman offers his insights, opinions, and observations about the local scene. This week: A cool quartet of home brewed offerings. There’s been a flurry of superb local releases lately, proving that South Florida’s hitting some right notes. Four albums in particular offer cause…
Russell Simmons on President Obama, Politics, and Hip-Hop
George Clinton for Revolution Live’s Eighth Anniversary October 25
Alejandro Escovedo and the Sensitive Boys at Culture Room October 26
The Goddamn’ Hustle CD-Release Halloween Party at Green Room October 27
Ft. Lauderdale got mad trippy for a Tuesday, mane, and they did it with masks on. It might have been the wrong side of humpday, but downtown turned it out in droves for the psychedelic antics from Shpongle at the Revolution Live. Hippies, ravers, bassheads, and anyone who loves a…
It’s been a while since we’ve heard any news from Coral Springs computer music whiz Millionyoung (a.k.a. Mike Diaz) Turns out the young musician has been busy, locked up in the studio working on his next release. His new full-length album will be titled Variable, and is coming out February…
Ever since Matisyahu cut his hair, it’s like things just haven’t been the same with him… Just kidding, he’s the same old reggae rapping hasid you always loved, only now you can just see his face better. And a good face it is.The musician just released a new album with…
